Politics /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is politics? -- Political ideas and ideologies -- Politics and the state -- Democracy and legitimacy -- Regimes of the modern world -- Nations and nationalism -- Political economy and globalization -- Politics, society and identity -- Political culture and the media -- Representation, elections and voting -- Parties and party systems -- Groups, interests and movements -- Constitutions, law and judges -- Political executives and leaership -- Assemblies -- Public policy and bureaucracy -- Multilevel politics -- Security: domestic and international --World order and global governance -- Is political broken? -- Bibliography -- Index.

The fifth edition of this seminal textbook by best-selling author Andrew Heywood continues to lead the way in providing a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to politics. Renowned for its engaging and accessible style, this book helps students to understand the discipline's foundational concepts and theories and use these to make sense of its key subfields, from elections and voting to security and global governance. Systematically revised and updated throughout, it also uses a range of tried-and-tested pedagogical features to draw links between different standpoints and help make contemporary institutions, events and developments come to life. -- Back cover