Politics: setting the stage -- Modern ideologies and political philosophy -- Modern state -- Policies of the state -- Political economy of the state -- Political choices: the problems of fairness and efficiency -- Authority and legitimacy: the state and the citizen -- Democracy and its recent surge in the world -- Autocratic government -- Constitutions and the design of government -- Elections -- Parties: a linking and leading mechanism in politics -- Structured conflict: interest groups and politics -- National decision-making institutions: parliamentary government -- National decision-making institutions: presidential government -- Bureaucracy and the public sector -- Law and the courts -- Global politics: politics among states (and others) -- Principles of political analysis

1. Political science