Power & Choice: An Introduction to Political Science, 11/e
W. Phillips Shively,
UNIV OF MINNESOTA-MINNEAPOLIS
ISBN: 0073403911 Copyright year: 2008
New to this Edition
Expanded treatment of the “choice” side of “power and choice” in Chapter 1, including a new section “Politics as the Exercise of Choice”.
Expanded treatment of religion and politics, with a new section in Chapter 2, “Religion and Politics”.
Chapter 5 now includes an in-depth example of corruption.
Monarchies and theocracies has been added to the author's treatment of autocracy, with a new
section in Chapter 7. A new end-of-chapter section on Theocracy in Iran is included.
Discussion of Religion and Politics has been bolstered to include a section on "Terrorism" in Chapter 18 and treatment of the Iraq constitution in Chapter 9.
New sections: on constraints and conditions for public policy (Chapter 4), constitutions and guarantees of rights (Chapter 9), voting turnout as a function of voters' information and the electoral system (Chapter 10).
A new end-of-chapter section on the Chinese Communist Party has been added to Chapter 11.
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