Politics student resources

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Key thinkers: Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Key thinkers: John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

Key thinkers: John Locke (1632-1704)

Key thinkers: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

Key thinkers: Karl Marx (1818-83)

Key thinkers: John Stuart Mill (1806-73)

Key thinkers: Plato (428/427 BC–348/347 BC)

Key thinkers: John Rawls (1921-2002)

Key thinkers: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78)

Key thinkers: Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950)

Key thinkers: Adam Smith (1723-90)

Key thinkers: Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Key thinkers: Max Weber (1864-1920)

Key thinkers: Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)

Key thinkers: Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

Key thinkers: Robert Alan Dahl (1915–2014)

Key thinkers: Michel Foucault (1926-84)

Key thinkers: Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937)

Key thinkers: Jürgen Habermas (1929-)

Key thinkers: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Key thinkers: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Chapter 1 Self-test questions

Introduction: the nature of politics and political analysis

Chapter 2 Self-test questions

Politics and the State

Chapter 3 Self-test questions

Political Power, Authority, and the State

Chapter 4 Self-test questions

Democracy

Chapter 5 Self-test questions

Democracies, Democratization, and Authoritarian Regimes

Chapter 6 Self-test questions

Nations and Nationalism

Chapter 7 Self-test questions

The Ideal State

Chapter 8 Self-test questions

Ideologies

Chapter 9 Self-test questions

Political Economy: National and Global Perspectives

Chapter 10 Self-test questions

Institutions and States

Chapter 11 Self-test questions

Laws, Constitutions, and Federalism

Chapter 12 Self-test questions

Votes, elections, legislatures, and legislators

Chapter 13 Self-test questions

Political Parties

Chapter 14 Self-test questions

Executives, Bureaucracies, Policy Studies, and Governance

Chapter 15 Self-test questions

The Media and Politics

Chapter 16 Self-test questions

Civil Society, Interest Groups, and Populism

Chapter 17 Self-test questions

Security and Insecurity

Chapter 18 Self-test questions

Governance and Organizations in Global Politics

Chapter 19 Self-test questions

Conclusion

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