海伍德《政治学》英文版第五版
CONTENTS
List of Illustrative Material Preface to the Fifth Edition Using This Book
Guide to Key Features Guide to Website
1.     WHAT IS POLITICS?
Preview Key issues
DEFINING POLITICS
Politics as the art of government Politics as public affairs
Politics as compromise and consensus Politics as power
STUDYING POLITICS
Approaches to the study of politics Concepts, models and theories POLITICS IN A GLOBAL AGE
Beyond the domestic/international divide? Questions for discussion
Further reading
2.     POLITICAL IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES
Preview Key issues
WHAT IS POLITICAL IDEOLOGY? CLASSICAL IDEOLOGICAL TRADITIONS
Liberalism Conservatism Socialism
OTHER IDEOLOGICAL TRADITIONS
Anarchism Fascism Feminism Green ideology
Cosmopolitanism Religious fundamentalism Populism
Questions for discussion Further reading
3.     POLITICS AND THE STATE

Preview Key issues
DEFINING THE STATE
Origins and development of the state Approaches to the state
DEBATING THE STATE
Rival theories of the state The role of the state ECLIPSE OF THE STATE?
Decline and fall of the state Return of the state?
Questions for discussion Further reading
4.     DEMOCRACY AND LEGITIMACY
Preview Key issues
LEGITIMACY AND POLITICAL STABILITY
Legitimizing power
Legitimation crises and revolutions
DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY
Is democracy failing to deliver? Non-democratic legitimacy DEMOCRACY
Understanding democracy Models of democracy
Democracy in practice: rival views Towards cosmopolitan democracy? Questions for discussion
Further reading
5.     REGIMES OF THE MODERN WORLD
Preview Key issues
TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS OF REGIME CLASSIFICATION
Why classify political regimes? Classical typologies
The ‘three worlds’ typology
MODERN SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL RULE
Western liberal democracies Illiberal democracies
East Asian regimes

Islamic regimes Military regimes
Questions for discussion Further reading
6.     NATIONS AND NATIONALISM
Preview Key issues
WHAT IS A NATION?
Nations as cultural communities Nations as political communities VARIETIES OF NATIONALISM
Liberal nationalism Conservative nationalism Expansionist nationalism
Anti-colonial and postcolonial nationalism
THE FUTURE OF NATIONALISM
A world of nation-states Beyond nationalism?
Questions for discussion Further reading
7.     POLITICAL ECONOMY AND GLOBALIZATION
Preview Key issues
POLITICAL ECONOMY
Approaches to political economy
VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM
Enterprise capitalism Social capitalism State capitalism
Managed or unmanaged capitalism?
GLOBALIZATION
Understanding globalization
The 2007–09 crisis and its legacy Backlash against globalization Questions for discussion
Further reading
8.     POLITICS, SOCIETY AND IDENTITY
Preview Key issues
POLITICS AND SOCIETY
From industrialism to postindustrialism Decline of class politics
New technology and the ‘information society’ No such thing as society?
IDENTITY POLITICS
Rise of identity politics Race and ethnicity Cultural diversity Gender and identity Religion and
politics Questions for discussion Further reading
9.     POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE MEDIA
Preview Key issues
POLITICAL CULTURE
Approaches to political culture Political culture in crisis
THE MEDIA AND POLITICS
Theories of the media
Impact of the traditional media Social media and politics POST-TRUTH POLITICS?
Politics and truth
The drift towards anti-intellectualism Questions for discussion
Further reading
10.     REPRESENTATION, ELECTIONS AND VOTING
Preview Key issues
REPRESENTATION
Theories of representation
ELECTIONS
Functions of elections
Electoral systems: debates and controversies What do elections mean?
VOTING BEHAVIOUR
Theories of voting Questions for discussion Further reading

11.     PARTIES AND PARTY SYSTEMS
Preview Key issues
PARTY POLITICS
Types of party Functions of parties
Party organization: where does power lie?
PARTY SYSTEMS
One-party systems Two-party systems
Dominant-party systems Multiparty systems
A CRISIS OF PARTY POLITICS?
Questions for discussion Further reading
12.     GROUPS, INTERESTS AND MOVEMENTS
Preview Key issues
GROUP POLITICS
Types of group
Models of group politics Patterns of group politics SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
New social movements Questions for discussion Further reading
13.     CONSTITUTIONS, LAW AND JUDGES
Preview Key issues
CONSTITUTIONS
Constitutions: their nature and origins Classifying constitutions
The purpose of a constitution Do constitutions matter?
THE LAW
Law, morality and politics
The question of international law
THE JUDICIARY
Are judges political?
Do judges make policy?
Questions for discussion Further reading
14.     POLITICAL EXECUTIVES AND LEADERSHIP
Preview Key issues
ROLE OF THE EXECUTIVE
Who’s who in the executive? Functions of political executives
POWER IN THE EXECUTIVE: WHO LEADS?
Presidents Prime ministers Cabinets
LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP
Leadership: its fall and rise? Theories of leadership Styles of leadership Populism and leadership
Questions for discussion Further reading
15.     ASSEMBLIES
Preview Key issues
ROLE OF ASSEMBLIES
Parliamentary, presidential and semi-presidential systems Functions of assemblies
STRUCTURE OF ASSEMBLIES
Unicameralism or bicameralism? Committee systems PERFORMANCE OF ASSEMBLIES
Do assemblies make policy? Assemblies in decline
The rise of assemblies? Questions for discussion Further reading
16.     PUBLIC POLICY AND THE BUREAUCRACY
Preview Key issues
THE POLICY PROCESS
Theories of decision-making Stages in the policy process
ROLE OF THE BUREAUCRACY
Functions of the bureaucracy Organization of the bureaucracy
BUREAUCRATIC POWER: OUT OF CONTROL?
Sources of bureaucratic power
How can bureaucrats be controlled? Questions for discussion
Further reading
17.     MULTILEVEL POLITICS
Preview Key issues
POLITICS, TERRITORY AND MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE SUBNATIONAL POLITICS
Federal systems Unitary systems
TRANSNATIONAL REGIONALISM
Regionalism: its nature and growth European regionalism
Questions for discussion Further reading
18.     SECURITY: DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL
Preview Key issues
SECURITY BEYOND BOUNDARIES? DOMESTIC SECURITY
The police and politics
The military and domestic politics
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Approaches to international politics New security challenges
Human security Questions for discussion Further reading
19.     WORLD ORDER AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Preview Key issues
TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY WORLD ORDER
The ‘new world order’ and its fate The ‘war on terror’ and beyond From unipolarity to
multipolarity?
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Rise of global governance Global economic governance The United Nations Questions for discussion
Further reading
20.     IS POLITICS BROKEN?
Preview Key issues
A CRISIS OF ‘ANTI-POLITICS’?
Declining political engagement? The politics of ‘anti-politics’ WHY WE HATE POLITICS
Uninspiring party politics Declining capacity to deliver The ‘wrong’ politicians Media negativity
Growth of consumerist politics
MENDING POLITICS?
More democracy Scaling down politics Reviving citizenship Rebuilding equality Questions for
discussion Further reading
Bibliography Index