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| Preface | |
| Preface to the Second Edition | |
| Permissions Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Politics: Setting the Stage | p. 3 |
| The State and Public Policy | |
| The Modern State | p. 21 |
| Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy | p. 46 |
| Policies of the State | p. 66 |
| Political Choices: The Problems of Fairness and Efficiency | ... MORE |
| The Citizen and the Regime | |
| Authority and Legitimacy: The State and the Citizen | p. 111 |
| Democracy, and Its Recent Surge in the World | p. 131 |
| Nondemocratic Government | p. 144 |
| The Apparatus of Governance | |
| Constitutions and the Design of Government | p. 163 |
| Elections | p. 183 |
| Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics | p. 204 |
| Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and Politics | p. 229 |
| National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary Government | p. 251 |
| National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential Government | p. 271 |
| Bureaucracy and the Public Sector | p. 292 |
| Law and the Courts | p. 310 |
| International Politics | |
| Politics among States | p. 327 |
| Appendix: Principles of Political Analysis | p. 345 |
| Glossary | p. 353 |
| Bibliography | p. 361 |
| Index | p. 372 |
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