Appropriate for introduction to political science or politics courses, INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE covers both normative and empirical issues while examining major political ideologies, institutions, and processes. This text introduces students to the enduring, normative questions of politics and to the different schools of thought concerning these issues. It also provides students with information about political systems and issues in a global context, relating comparative and international issues to everyday life. Finally, it teaches them to think critically about politics, applying logic and empirical analysis to political questions. The social choice framework provides a conceptual model that students can understand, apply, and critique.
- ISBN10 0155053892
- ISBN13 9780155053892
- Publish Date 2 November 1997 (first published 11 October 1996)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Not Avail
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 467
- Language English