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Power & Choice, 8/e
W. Phillips Shively, University of Minnesota---Minneapolis
Politics: Setting the Stage

Chapter Outline


I. What do political scientists study

II. Politics: what is it?

III. Politics as the making of common decisions

IV. Politics as an exercise of power

V. Implicit and manifest power
  1. Example of the difficulty of analyzing power

VI. Politics and power

VII. Power and choice

VIII. Politics of the state

IX. Political science (interpretive/qualitative vs. behavioralist/quantitative)








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