Part II:  The State and Public Policy

  3.  The Modern State
  4.  Policies of the State

  5.  Economic Policy of the State
       *  Presidential Popularity, Truman to G. W. Bush
  6.  What Lies Behind Policy:  Questions of Justice & Efficiency

Part III:  The Citizen and the Regime

  7.  Democracy & Autocracy
  8.  Authority & Legitimacy: The State & the Citizen

  9.  Constitutions & the Design of Government
10.  Elections
11.  Parties:  A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics

12.  Structured Conflict:  Interest Groups & Politics
13.  Social [Political] Movements & Contentious Politics

14.  Parliamentary Government
15.  Presidential Government

16.  Bureaucracy & the Public Sector
17.  Law & the Courts

Part V:  International Politics

18.  Global Politics:  Politics among States (and Others)

Appendix:  Principles of Political Analysis
Glossary