Politics: setting the stage ; Modern ideologies and political philosophy -- State and public policy: Policies of the state ; Political economy of the State ; Political choices -- Citizen and the regime ; Authority and legitimacy ; Democracy and its recent surge in the world ; Autocratic government -- Apparatus of governance: Constitutions and the design of government ; Elections ; Parties -- Structured conflict ; National decision-making institutions ; Bureaucracy and the public sector ; Law and the courts -- International politics ; Global politics: politics among states

1. Political science