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Table of Contents

    • About the Author
    • Acknowledgments
    • Dedication
    • Preface
    • 1Politics and the Economy
      • 1.1All Life Is Politics
      • 1.2Do We Need a Government?
      • 1.3A (Very) Brief History of Government
    • 2Ideologies and Isms: The Foundations of Politics

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      • 2.1What Is and Ought to Be: Three Versions of Politics 

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      • 2.2From Antiquity to Modernity

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      • 2.3From Modernity to the Present

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      • 2.4Alternatives to Liberalism

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      • 2.5Postmodern Ideas about Politics

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    • 3Types of Governments: A Republic or a Democracy?

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      • 3.1Direct Democracy

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      • 3.2Indirect Democracy

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      • 3.3Constitutions

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      • 3.4Divisions of Power

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    • 4Citizens and Politics

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      • 4.1Political Culture

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      • 4.2Media

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      • 4.3Interest Groups

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      • 4.4Public Opinion

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    • 5Voting and Elections

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      • 5.1Voting

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      • 5.2Political Parties

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      • 5.3Electoral Systems

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    • 6The Building Blocks of Government

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      • 6.1Legislatures

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      • 6.2Executives

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      • 6.3Courts

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      • 6.4Subnational Governments

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      • 6.5Bureaucracy

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    • 7Economics, Economic Systems, and Economic Policy

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      • 7.1Different Economic Systems

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      • 7.2Basic Economics

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      • 7.3How Politics and Markets Intersect

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      • 7.4Measuring the Economy: GDP and Inflation

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      • 7.5Government and the Economy

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      • 7.6Fiscal and Monetary Policy 

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    • 8International Relations

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      • 8.1The Challenges of the State System

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      • 8.2Theories of International Relations

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      • 8.3The Problem of Morality

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      • 8.4Post–Cold War International Relations

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      • 8.5The Nuclear Question, Revisited

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    • 9Applying What You’ve Learned: Three Issues

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      • 9.1Trade

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      • 9.2Debt and Deficits

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      • 9.3The Environment

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