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Part 1: Introduction. 1: Politics: Setting the Stage. 2: Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy. Part 2: The State and Public Policy. 3: The Modern State. 4: Policies of the State. 5: Political Economy of the State. 6: Political Choices: The Problems of Fairness and Efficiency. Part 3: The Citizen and the Regime. 7: Authority and Legitimacy: The State and the Citizen. 8: Democracy and Its Recent Surge in the World. 9: Autocratic Government. Part 4. The Apparatus of Governance. 10 Constitutions and the Design of Government. 11: Elections. 12 Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics. 13: Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and Politics. 14: National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary Government. 15: National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential Government. 16: Bureaucracy and the Public Sector. 17: Law and the Courts. Part 5: International Politics. 18: Global Politics: Politics Among States (and Others). Appendix: Principles of Political Analysis.