Power & Choice

David Schultz is Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Environmental Studies, and Legal Studies at Hamline University. He is also an adjunct professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and at the University of St. Thomas, and an affiliate faculty member at the Lithuanian Military Academy in Vilnius, Lithuania. A four-time Fulbright scholar who has taught extensively in Europe and Asia, and the winner of the Leslie A. Whittington national award for excellence in public affairs teaching, David is the author of more than 45 books and 200+ articles on various aspects of American politics, election law, and the media and politics, and he is regularly interviewed and quoted in the local, national, and international media on these subjects including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Economist, and National Public Radio. W. Phillips Shively is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Craft of Political Research, 10th edition (2017), as well as numerous articles on elections and methods of analysis.

"Power & Choice offers a rigorous and passionate analysis of politics from a comparative and global perspective. It provides clear explanations of major theories and key findings in political science. The authors also continually remind us that politics is the art of the possible. Simply the best undergraduate textbook on politics."

• PART I THE IDEA OF POLITICS1 Politics: Setting the Stage2 Modern Ideologies and Political PhilosophyPART II THE STATE AND PUBLIC POLICY3 The Modern State4 Policies of the State5 Economic Policy of the State6 What Lies Behind Policy: Questions of Justice and EffectivenessPART III THE CITIZEN AND THE REGIME7 Democracies and Authoritarian Systems8 Political Culture and Political SocializationPART IV THE APPARATUS OF GOVERNANCE9 Constitutions and the Design of Government10 Elections11 Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics12 Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and Politics13 Social Movements and Contentious Politics14 National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary Government15 National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential Government16 Bureaucracy and the Public Sector17 Law and the CourtsPART V INTERNATIONAL POLITICS18 Global Politics: Politics among States (and Others)Appendix: Principles of Political Analysis