Comparison of Political Science Books Poli

Political science is a large field of study, embracing the whole range of experience and behavior relating to the human capacity for living in communities whose cohesion is supported by power or authority, with institutions that supply that power or authority. Within this large field is therefore room for a wide variety of works, exploring, analysing, and interpreting various aspects of human political activity and experience. These works may range from the broad in scope, seeking to touch on the field in all its variety, to the narrowly specific, treating some particular aspect of political science in depth.

As in most academic fields, a large proportion of modern original work appears in the form of scholarly journal articles, a few pages to a few dozen pages in length. The audience for journal articles is confined almost entirely to academic professionals, who have readier access to the journals in which they appear, and who can be presumed to be conversant with the ongoing scholarly dialogue, of which individual journal articles are components.

Journal articles are supplemented by longer works, published as books. While less numerous than articles, books dealing with political science have an even wider variety, ranging from monographs, specialized works resembling enlarged journal articles, to books aimed at the interested layperson, dealing with some aspect or aspects of political life and thought, to broad intr

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An Introduction begins with a section called "The Bases of Politics," with several chapters. Political science is defined and its significance argued; the history of political theory is outlined, followed by discussion of states and government, constitutions, and democracy, totalitarianism, and authoritarianism. Following sections deal with political attitudes, interactions (e.g., interest groups and parties), and institutions. The final section, "What Political Systems Do," deals with economics, conflict, and the global system. The book is published by an American firm, primarily for an audience of American students. The emphasis in examples and illustrations is thus unsurprisingly on the United States. The purpose of the book, however, is to introduce the field as a whole, so for example it discusses parliamentary systems. The discussion of these systems begins by contrasting them to (strong) presidential systems (Roskin et al. 247-49). This section begins with a thumbnail description of the latter, then moves on to parliamentary systems. The authors clearly assume that their readers will have at least a casual familiarity with the American system, and may have only a vague sense of how parliamentary systems operate,
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