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Opening Credits
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Preface
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UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE
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Chapter 1: What Is Politics and What Is Political Science?
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1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?
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1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
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1.3 Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics
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1.4 Normative Political Science
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1.5 Empirical Political Science
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1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
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Summary
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Key Terms
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UNIT 2: INDIVIDUALS
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Chapter 2: Political Behavior Is Human Behavior
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2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
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2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?
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2.3 Human Behavior Is Partially Predictable
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Summary
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2.4 The Importance of Context for Political Decisions
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Key Terms
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Chapter 3: Political Ideology
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3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
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3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
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3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
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3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
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3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
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3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
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3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
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3.8 Political Ideologies That Reject Political Ideology: Scientific Socialism, Burkeanism, and Religious Extremism
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Chapter 4: Civil Liberties
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4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
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4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
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4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
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4.4 Freedom of Movement
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4.5 The Rights of the Accused
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4.6 The Right to a Healthy Environment
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Chapter 5: Political Participation and Public Opinion
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5.1 What Is Political Participation?
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5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
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5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
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5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
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5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
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5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?
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UNIT 3: GROUPS
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Chapter 6: The Fundamentals of Group Political Activity
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6.1 Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political
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6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity
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6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions
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6.4 Collective Action Problems: The Problem of Incentives
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6.5 Resolving Collective Action Problems
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Chapter 7: Civil Rights
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7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
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7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
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7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
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7.4 Civil Rights Movements
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7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
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Chapter 8: Interest Groups, Political Parties, and Elections
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8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
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8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
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8.3 Political Parties
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8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
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8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
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8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
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UNIT 4: INSTITUTIONS
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Chapter 9: Legislatures
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9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
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9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
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9.3 What Is the Difference between Unicameral and Bicameral Systems?
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9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence
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Chapter 10: Executives, Cabinets, and Bureaucracies
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10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
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10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
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10.3 The Executive in Parliamentary Regimes
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10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
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10.5 Semi-Presidential Regimes
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10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
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10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
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Chapter 11: Courts and Law
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11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
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11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
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11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World
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11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
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11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
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11.6 Judicial Review versus Executive Sovereignty
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Chapter 12: The Media
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12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
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12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
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12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
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12.4 The Internet and Social Media
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12.5 Declining Global Trust in the Media
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Chapter 13: Governing Regimes
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13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
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13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
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13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
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Chapter 14: International Relations
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14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
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14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System
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14.3 Sovereignty and Anarchy
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14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
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14.5 The Realist Worldview
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14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
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14.7 Critical Worldviews
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Chapter 15: International Law and International Organizations
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15.1 The Problem of Global Governance
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15.2 International Law
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15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
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15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
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15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
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15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
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Chapter 16: International Political Economy
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16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy
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16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
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16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
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16.4 The Post–Cold War Period and Modernization Theory
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16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
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16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
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Closing Credits
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