Includes appendix, glossary and index. Shively, W. P. (2008). Power nd choice: an introduction to political science (11th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Part 1: The Idea of Politics -- Chapter 1: Politics: Setting the Stage -- Chapter 2: Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy -- Part II: The State and Public Policy -- Chapter 3: The Modern State -- Chapter 4: Policies of the State -- Chapter 5: Economic Policy of the State -- Chapter 6: What Lies Behind Policy: Questions of Justice and Effectiveness -- Part III: The Citizen and the Regime -- Chapter 7: Democracy and Autocracy -- Chapter 8: How Individuals Relate to the State, and the State to the Individual -- Part IV: The Apparatus of Governance -- Chapter 10: Elections -- Chapter 11: Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics -- Chapter 12: Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and Politics -- Chapter 13: Social Movements and Contentions Politics -- Chapter 14: National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary Government -- Chapter 15: National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential Government -- Chapter 16: Bureaucracy and the Public Sector -- Chapter 17: Law and the Courts -- Part V: International Politics -- Chapter 18: Global Politics among States (and Others) -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Index

"The extensively revised eleventh edition of W. Phillips Shively s Power and Choice: An Introduction to Political Science maintains the author s goal since the text s inception: to provide a general, comparative introduction to the major concepts and themes of political science by engaging students with concrete examples of analysis without overwhelming them with excessive detail."-- From the Publisher.