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Introduction to Political Science

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Introduction to Political ScienceIndex
Table of contents
  1. Preface
  2. Introduction to Political Science
    1. 1 What Is Politics and What Is Political Science?
      1. Introduction
      2. 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?
      3. 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
      4. 1.3 Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics
      5. 1.4 Normative Political Science
      6. 1.5 Empirical Political Science
      7. 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
      8. Summary
      9. Key Terms
      10. Review Questions
      11. Suggested Readings
  3. Individuals
    1. 2 Political Behavior Is Human Behavior
      1. Introduction
      2. 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
      3. 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?
      4. 2.3 Human Behavior Is Partially Predictable
      5. 2.4 The Importance of Context for Political Decisions
      6. Summary
      7. Key Terms
      8. Review Questions
      9. Suggested Readings
    2. 3 Political Ideology
      1. Introduction
      2. 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
      3. 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
      4. 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
      5. 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
      6. 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
      7. 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
      8. 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
      9. 3.8 Political Ideologies That Reject Political Ideology: Scientific Socialism, Burkeanism, and Religious Extremism
      10. Summary
      11. Key Terms
      12. Review Questions
      13. Suggested Readings
    3. 4 Civil Liberties
      1. Introduction
      2. 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
      3. 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
      4. 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
      5. 4.4 Freedom of Movement
      6. 4.5 The Rights of the Accused
      7. 4.6 The Right to a Healthy Environment
      8. Summary
      9. Key Terms
      10. Review Questions
      11. Suggested Readings
    4. 5 Political Participation and Public Opinion
      1. Introduction
      2. 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
      3. 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
      4. 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
      5. 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
      6. 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
      7. 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?
      8. Summary
      9. Key Terms
      10. Review Questions
      11. Suggested Readings
  4. Groups
    1. 6 The Fundamentals of Group Political Activity
      1. Introduction
      2. 6.1 Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political
      3. 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity
      4. 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions
      5. 6.4 Collective Action Problems: The Problem of Incentives
      6. 6.5 Resolving Collective Action Problems
      7. Summary
      8. Key Terms
      9. Review Questions
      10. Suggested Readings
    2. 7 Civil Rights
      1. Introduction
      2. 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
      3. 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
      4. 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
      5. 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
      6. 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
      7. Summary
      8. Key Terms
      9. Review Questions
      10. Suggested Readings
    3. 8 Interest Groups, Political Parties, and Elections
      1. Introduction
      2. 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
      3. 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
      4. 8.3 Political Parties
      5. 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
      6. 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
      7. 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
      8. Summary
      9. Key Terms
      10. Review Questions
      11. Suggested Readings
  5. Institutions
    1. 9 Legislatures
      1. Introduction
      2. 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
      3. 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
      4. 9.3 What Is the Difference between Unicameral and Bicameral Systems?
      5. 9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence
      6. Summary
      7. Key Terms
      8. Review Questions
      9. Suggested Readings
    2. 10 Executives, Cabinets, and Bureaucracies
      1. Introduction
      2. 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
      3. 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
      4. 10.3 The Executive in Parliamentary Regimes
      5. 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
      6. 10.5 Semi-Presidential Regimes
      7. 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
      8. 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
      9. Summary
      10. Key Terms
      11. Review Questions
      12. Suggested Readings
    3. 11 Courts and Law
      1. Introduction
      2. 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
      3. 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
      4. 11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World
      5. 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
      6. 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
      7. 11.6 Judicial Review versus Executive Sovereignty
      8. Summary
      9. Key Terms
      10. Review Questions
      11. Suggested Readings
    4. 12 The Media
      1. Introduction
      2. 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
      3. 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
      4. 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
      5. 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
      6. 12.5 Declining Global Trust in the Media
      7. Summary
      8. Key Terms
      9. Review Questions
      10. Suggested Readings
  6. States and International Relations
    1. 13 Governing Regimes
      1. Introduction
      2. 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
      3. 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
      4. 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
      5. Summary
      6. Key Terms
      7. Review Questions
      8. Suggested Readings
    2. 14 International Relations
      1. Introduction
      2. 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
      3. 14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System
      4. 14.3 Sovereignty and Anarchy
      5. 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
      6. 14.5 The Realist Worldview
      7. 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
      8. 14.7 Critical Worldviews
      9. Summary
      10. Key Terms
      11. Review Questions
      12. Suggested Readings
    3. 15 International Law and International Organizations
      1. Introduction
      2. 15.1 The Problem of Global Governance
      3. 15.2 International Law
      4. 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
      5. 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
      6. 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
      7. 15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
      8. Summary
      9. Key Terms
      10. Review Questions
      11. Suggested Readings
    4. 16 International Political Economy
      1. Introduction
      2. 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy
      3. 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
      4. 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
      5. 16.4 The Post–Cold War Period and Modernization Theory
      6. 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
      7. 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
      8. Summary
      9. Key Terms
      10. Review Questions
      11. Suggested Readings
  7. References
  8. Index
Symbols
13th Amendment 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses, 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
14th Amendment 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?, 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
15th Amendment 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism, 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
19th Amendment 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism, 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism, 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
1st Amendment 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism, 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
2008 financial crisis 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
24th Amendment 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
26th Amendment 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) Introduction
4th Amendment 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
8th Amendment 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
9/11 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
A
AARP 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Abe 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
abortion 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
absentee voting 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
absolute poverty 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
absolutism 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy
Acemoglu 16.4 The Post–Cold War Period and Modernization Theory
ACT UP 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
adverse selection 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
Affordable Care Act 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?
Afghanistan 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
African Union 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
agenda-setting theory 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
agricultural groups 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
AIDS 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity, 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
Al Jazeera Introduction
al Maliki 10.3 The Executive in Parliamentary Regimes
algorithms 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
All Voting Is Local 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
altruistic democracy 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Amazon 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
American Medical Association (AMA) 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
American Revolution 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
Americans with Disabilities Act 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
amicus curiae 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Amnesty International 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
anarchy 14.3 Sovereignty and Anarchy, 14.5 The Realist Worldview, 15.1 The Problem of Global Governance, 15.2 International Law
Anderson 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
Ansolabehere 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
anthropocentrism 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
anti-Semitism 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
apartheid 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
appeal 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
appropriations process 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
Arab League 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
Arab Spring 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 7.4 Civil Rights Movements, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
Ardanaz 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Ardern 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity
aristocracy 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
Aristotle 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?, 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
Arms Trade Treaty 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
arraignment 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
Article III 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
Article III courts 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
Articles of Confederation 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
Assad 14.3 Sovereignty and Anarchy
Assembly of First Nations 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Associated Press Introduction
Association of Southeast Asian Nations 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
asynchronous content 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
authoritarian 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
authoritarian-populist judiciary 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
authoritarianism 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
authority 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power, 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes, 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
autocracy 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
automatic voter registration 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
B
Babiš 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
bail 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
balance of payment 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
balance of payments 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
balance of power 14.5 The Realist Worldview
balance of trade 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
ballot initiatives 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Bandaranaike 14.7 Critical Worldviews
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Barelson 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
bargaining 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
Barr 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
barriers to entry 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Bartels 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?
basic laws 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
BBC Introduction
Belarus 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Bell 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
Benenson 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Beramendi 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
Berenstain 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Bernanke 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Berners-Lee 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Bernstein 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Berry 8.3 Political Parties
Bezos 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
bicameral 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 9.3 What Is the Difference between Unicameral and Bicameral Systems?
bicameral legislature 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Bickel 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
Biden 1.5 Empirical Political Science, 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left, 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?, 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?, 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?, 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes, 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes, 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?, 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?, 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Biezen 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
Bill of Rights 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual, 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
bin Laden 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Binder 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
Binstock 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
bipolar system 14.5 The Realist Worldview
Black Lives Matter 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?, 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?, Introduction, Introduction, 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity, 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
Blair 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
blasphemy 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
Bloom 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
Bolívar 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Bolivarian socialism 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
Bolsonaro 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power, 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right, 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes, 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
Bono 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Bormann 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
bots 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Bouazizi 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
bourgeoisie 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Bradley 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
Bradley effect 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
Brady 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
Brandeis 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas, 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
Breitbart 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Brennan 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
Brennan Center 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
Bretton Woods 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Brexit 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 8.3 Political Parties, 11.6 Judicial Review versus Executive Sovereignty, 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
broad legitimacy 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
Brown v. Board of Education 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?, 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
Bryan 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
Bryce 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
bully pulpit 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes, 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Bundesrat 9.3 What Is the Difference between Unicameral and Bicameral Systems?
Bundestag 9.3 What Is the Difference between Unicameral and Bicameral Systems?
burden sharing 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
bureaucracies 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
bureaucracy 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?, 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
Burke 3.8 Political Ideologies That Reject Political Ideology: Scientific Socialism, Burkeanism, and Religious Extremism, 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
Burstein 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?
Bush 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?, 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?, 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes, 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
business group 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Buttigieg 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract, 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
C
cabinets 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
Cambridge Analytica 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
Cameron 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Camp David Accords Introduction
campaign finance 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Campbell 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
candidate-centered campaign 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
capital crimes 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
capital flight 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
capital mobility 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
capital punishment 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
capitalism 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism, 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left, 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Capitol Hill riots 8.3 Political Parties
carbon tax 6.5 Resolving Collective Action Problems
Carlyle 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Carter Introduction
Castells 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
castle doctrine 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Cato Institute 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
Cato’s letters 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Center for Countering Digital Hate 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
center left 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
center right 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
ceteris paribus 1.5 Empirical Political Science, 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?
charismatic legitimacy 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Chatterjee 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
Chauvin Introduction
Chávez Introduction, 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left, 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
Chavismo 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
Chin-Fook 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Chinese Communist Party 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 8.3 Political Parties
Chomsky 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Christian Right 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
Christianity 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
Churchill 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
Chyi 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
civic engagement 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
civil disobedience 7.4 Civil Rights Movements, 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Civil Human Rights Front 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
civil law 11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World, 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws, 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
civil law system 11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World
civil liberties 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual, 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
civil religion 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
civil rights 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual, Introduction, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
Civil Rights Act 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas, 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
civil rights groups 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
civil rights movement 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses, 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
civil society 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
class consciousness 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
classical liberalism 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
climate change 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power, 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left, 4.6 The Right to a Healthy Environment, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?, Introduction, 6.4 Collective Action Problems: The Problem of Incentives, 15.2 International Law, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Clinton 1.5 Empirical Political Science, 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?, 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?, 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?, 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?, 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes, 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Clooney 15.2 International Law
cloture motion 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
Cluster Munition Coalition 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
cluster sampling 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
CNN 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, Introduction
coalition government 10.3 The Executive in Parliamentary Regimes, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
coalitions 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
Coen 14.7 Critical Worldviews
Cohen 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Cold War 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict, 14.5 The Realist Worldview, 14.5 The Realist Worldview, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.4 The Post–Cold War Period and Modernization Theory, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
collective action Introduction, 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?, 8.3 Political Parties
collective action problems 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions, 6.4 Collective Action Problems: The Problem of Incentives, 6.5 Resolving Collective Action Problems
collective dilemma 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions, 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions
collective dilemmas 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
collective goods 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?, 15.1 The Problem of Global Governance
collective security 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview, 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
Comité des Citoyens (Committee of Citizens) 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
command economy 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
Committee of Religious NGOs at the UN (RUN) 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Common Ground Committee 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
common law 11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World
common law system 11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World
communism 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Communist Party 8.3 Political Parties
communitarian 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
community 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
community responsibilities 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
comparative advantage 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract, 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?, 14.5 The Realist Worldview, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Comparative Constitutions Project 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
competitive devaluations 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
complex interdependence 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
compromise 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
compulsory voting 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
Concert of Europe 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
conditionalities 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
confidence vote 10.3 The Executive in Parliamentary Regimes
conflict 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
conformity costs 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions, 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions, 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions
Confucianism 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Congress of Racial Equality 7.4 Civil Rights Movements, 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
Congress of Vienna 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
congressional district method 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
conservative 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
Conservative Party (Tories) 8.3 Political Parties
conservative populism 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
constituents 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?, Introduction
constitution 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?, 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
constitutionalism 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
constructivism 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
convenience sample 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
Convention against Torture 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Convention on Cluster Munitions 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 15.2 International Law
Converse 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
conversion rate 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
cookies 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Cooper 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
coordination problems 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions
core countries 14.7 Critical Worldviews
core-periphery model 14.7 Critical Worldviews
Corn Laws 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
cosmopolitanism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
cost-benefit analysis 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
Council of the European Union 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
country 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
court case 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
courts 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
COVID-19 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, Introduction, Introduction, 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?, 8.3 Political Parties, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?, Introduction, 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, Introduction, 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Cox 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Crenshaw 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
criminal law 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?, 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws, 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws, 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
critical race and gender theory 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
critical thinking 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
cruel and unusual 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws, 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
Cruz 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
Cuban Missile Crisis 2.3 Human Behavior Is Partially Predictable, 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict, 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
cultural Marxism 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
Cultural Revolution 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Cusak 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
customary law 11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World, 15.2 International Law
customary law system 11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World
cyber data 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
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dark money 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Dassonneville 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
de facto 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?, 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
de jure 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?, 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
de Tocqueville 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
de Zúñiga 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
Dean 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
death penalty 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws, 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws, 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws, 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
debate 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
debt crises 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Declaration of Independence 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism, 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism, 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
defensive realism 14.5 The Realist Worldview
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) 9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence
degrowth 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
delegate 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
Democractic Socialists of America 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
democracy 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?, 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies, 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
democratic liberalism 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
Democratic National Committee (DNC) 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
democratic socialism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Democratic Socialists 8.3 Political Parties
demographics 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
Deng 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
dependency theory 14.7 Critical Worldviews
descriptive representation 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
desegregation 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
deterministic 1.3 Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics
deterrents 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
Deukmejian 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
DeVos 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
Diamond Sutra 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
dictatorship Introduction
dictatorship of the proletariat 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Diet 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
digital surveillance 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
diplomacy 14.5 The Realist Worldview
direct democracy 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
disturbance theory 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
diversity 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
Djupe 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
Dodd 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
Don’t ask, don’t tell 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
double jeopardy 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
Dowding 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
Downton Abbey 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Dred Scott v. Sandford 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
Drug Policy Alliance 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Du Bois 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
due process 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
due process clause 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
Dunant 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Duverger’s law 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?, 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
Duverger’s Law 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
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echo chambers 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
economic bias 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Economic Community of West African States 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
economic groups 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
economic migration 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
Edmund Burke 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?, 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
Edwards 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
Eisenhower 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right, 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
Eleanor Roosevelt 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
election 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
Election Assistance Commission 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Election Day 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Election Day holiday 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
elections 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?, 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
Electoral College 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?, 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes, 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
electoral districts 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
electoral poll 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Elgie 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
eligible voters 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
elite 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
elite culture 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity
elite opinion 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
EMILY’s List Introduction
empirical Introduction, 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?, 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?, 2.3 Human Behavior Is Partially Predictable
empirical political science 1.3 Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics, 1.5 Empirical Political Science
Engels 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Enlightenment 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract, 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Entman 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
enumerated rights 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
environmental regulations Introduction
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
environmentalism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
epistemology 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Equal Protection Clause 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
equal treatment 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
equity 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left, 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
Erdoğan 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
Erickson 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
ethnocentrism 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
European Commission 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
European Convention on Human Rights 4.5 The Rights of the Accused, 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws, 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
European Council 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
European Federation of Journalists 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
European Parliament Introduction, 9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
European Transparency Initiative (ETI) 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
European Union 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 15.2 International Law, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
Euroskeptic 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
evangelical Christianity 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
Everson v. Board of Education 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
evidence 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
ex post facto laws 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
exchange rate 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
ExComm 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
executive dominance 9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence, 9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence
executive order 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
executive orders 9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence
executive sovereignty system 11.6 Judicial Review versus Executive Sovereignty
executives 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
Extinction Rebellion 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
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Facebook 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right, 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape, 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, Introduction
fact 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?, 1.5 Empirical Political Science
factionalism 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
factors of production 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?, 14.7 Critical Worldviews
failed state 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
fake news 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
Falwell 8.3 Political Parties
fascism 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape, 12.5 Declining Global Trust in the Media
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
Federal Election Commission 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Federal Housing Administration 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
Federal Radio Commission 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Federal Reserve System 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
federalism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left, 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
Federalist Papers 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
felonies 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
Feminine Mystique 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
feminism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left, 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Feminist 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
Feminist movements 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
feminist theory 14.7 Critical Worldviews
fiat 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
fiat currency 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
Fidesz 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right, 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
FIFA World Cup 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
Fifth Amendment 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
filibuster 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
financial integration 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
First Amendment 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?, 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
First Nations 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
first-past-the-post 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
first-wave feminism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Fisher 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
Fishkin 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
FiveThirtyEight 12.5 Declining Global Trust in the Media
fixed (pegged) exchange rate 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
floating (flexible) exchange rate 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Floyd 8.3 Political Parties, 8.3 Political Parties, Introduction
Folketing 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
For the People Act 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
Ford 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
foreign direct investment 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
formal executive power 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
formal powers 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
formalized rules 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
Fourth Amendment 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
fourth estate 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?, 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Fox News 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
fragile state 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
framing theory 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Francis 15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
Franklin 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism, 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
Free Establishment Clause 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
free market 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
free media 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
free press 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?, 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
free ride Introduction
free rider problem 6.4 Collective Action Problems: The Problem of Incentives, 6.5 Resolving Collective Action Problems, 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
free riding 15.1 The Problem of Global Governance
free-market 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Freedom House Introduction
French Revolution 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
Friedan 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
functionalism 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
fundamental liberty 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
fundamental right 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
fusionism 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
Future of Freedom Foundation 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
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Gallemore 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
game 2.4 The Importance of Context for Political Decisions
game theory 14.5 The Realist Worldview
Gandhi 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Gans 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Garfield 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
Garret 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Garretson 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
gatekeeping 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Gates 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Gay Men’s Health Project 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Geddes 16.4 The Post–Cold War Period and Modernization Theory
Gen Z 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
gender gap 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
gender identification 6.1 Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
General Assembly 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
general will 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
Geneva Conventions 15.2 International Law
genocide 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 15.2 International Law
George H. W. Bush 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
German Basic Law 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
German Bundestag 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
German Trade Union Confederation (DGB - Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund) 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
gerrymandering 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?, 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
Ghonim 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Ginsberg 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Ginsburg 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
global governance 15.1 The Problem of Global Governance
global warming 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
globalism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
globalization Introduction, 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Goebbels 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes, 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
gold standard 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
golden parachutes 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Golder 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
Google 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Gordon 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
governing regimes Introduction
government 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power, 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Graber 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Gramsci 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
grand jury 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
Grant 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
grassroots Introduction
grassroots lobbying 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Great Depression 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Great Society 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
Green Party 2.3 Human Behavior Is Partially Predictable, 8.3 Political Parties
Green Revolution 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
greenhouse gases 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Greenpeace International 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Greenspan 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
gridlock 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?, 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
Grillot 14.5 The Realist Worldview
Griswold v. Connecticut 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
gross domestic product (GDP) 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Gross National Happiness 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
gross national income Introduction
Guardino 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
guilt beyond a reasonable doubt 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
Guinness 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
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Hamilton 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?, 12.5 Declining Global Trust in the Media
Hammarskjöld 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
Hancock 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
hard authoritarianism 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
hard power 14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System
Harding 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
harm principle 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
Harris 1.5 Empirical Political Science, 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Hart 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
Havana Conference 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Havana Letter 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Hawkins 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Hayek 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
head of government 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes, 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
head of state 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
hearings 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
Hearst 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
hegemon 14.5 The Realist Worldview, 14.5 The Realist Worldview
hegemony 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Herman 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Hernando de Soto Bridge 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
heuristics 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?
hierarchical authority 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
Hindu nationalism 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
Hitler 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Hobbes 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract, 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
Holladay 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
Holocaust 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
Holy See 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
Home Box Office (HBO) 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
horse-race coverage 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
Huckfeldt 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
Huffington Post 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
human rights 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
human rights law 15.2 International Law
Human Rights Watch Introduction
Hume 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
Hungary 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
Hussein 15.2 International Law
hybrid system 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
hypothesis 1.3 Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics
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Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
ideological group 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
ideology 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
immigration 4.4 Freedom of Movement, 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
Immigration and Nationality Act 4.4 Freedom of Movement
impeachment 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
impersonality 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
impunity 15.2 International Law
inalienable 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual, 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
income inequality 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
incumbent 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?
Independence Party (UKIP) 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
India 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
Indian Citizenship Act 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
indictment 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
Indigenism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Indigenous 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
indirect lobbying 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
individualist 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
Industrial Revolution 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
informal executive power 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
informal powers 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
inside lobbying 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Instagram 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, Introduction
institution 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
institutional racism Introduction, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
institutionalism 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
institutions 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
interest group 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
interest group liberalism 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
interest groups 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity, 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?, 8.3 Political Parties
intergovernmental organizations 14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System, 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
International Atomic Energy Agency 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
International Campaign to Ban Landmines 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
International Civil Aviation Organization 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) 6.5 Resolving Collective Action Problems
International Committee of the Red Cross 15.2 International Law
International Court of Justice 15.2 International Law, 15.2 International Law
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
International Criminal Court 15.2 International Law
international financial institutions 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
International Hydrographic Organization 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
international law 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 15.2 International Law
international liquidity 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
International Monetary Fund 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left, 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?, 14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
international organizations 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
international political economy 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, Introduction
international relations Introduction
International Trade Organization (ITO) 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Internet 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
intersectionality 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
interviewer bias 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
Inuit 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
Iran 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
Iran Nuclear Deal 14.3 Sovereignty and Anarchy
Irish Farmers Association 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
iron triangle 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
irrational 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?
irredenta 15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
irredentism 15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
ISIS 15.2 International Law
Islam 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
issue networks 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
issue publics 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
issues 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
Iversen 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Iyengar 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
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Jackman 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
Jackson 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
Jagger 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
James 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
James II 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
Janša 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
January 6, 2021, riots 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
Japan Medical Association 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Japan Rice Millers Association 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Japanese American Citizens League 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
Jefferson 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract, 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
Jim Crow 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
Jim Crow laws 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?, 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
Jinping 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?
job specialization 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
Jobs 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Johnson 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?, Introduction, 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Jong-un 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
Juche 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
judgment 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
judgments about legitimacy 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
judicial branch 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
judicial independence 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
judicial review 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?, 11.6 Judicial Review versus Executive Sovereignty, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
judicial system 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
judiciary 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
Juliana v. United States 4.6 The Right to a Healthy Environment
Jung 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
jurisdiction 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?, 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
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Kaczyński 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
Kahneman 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?
Karzai 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Katz 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
Katzenstein 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Kellner 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
Kennedy 2.3 Human Behavior Is Partially Predictable, 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas, 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity, 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?, Introduction, 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict, 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
Kent v. Dulles 4.4 Freedom of Movement
Kerry 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
Key 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
Keynes 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Khanna 15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
Khomeini 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Khrushchev 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
Ki-moon 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
Kim Jong Un 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?, 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
King 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Kings Bay Plowshares 7 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
kitchen cabinet 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
Knesset 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
knowledge institution 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Kohl 8.3 Political Parties
Konrath 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
Korematsu v. United States 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
Kowal 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
Krosnick 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
Kruschev 2.3 Human Behavior Is Partially Predictable
Kull 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?
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La Due Lake 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
La Quadrature du Net 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
labor groups 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
labor unions Introduction
Labour Party 8.3 Political Parties, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
laissez-faire 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
Lasswell 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?
Lavender Hill Mob 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
law of the parties 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
law of the sea 15.2 International Law
Lawrence v. Texas 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
laws of nature 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
Lazarsfeld 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
League of Nations 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
Lebovic 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Legal Information Institute 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
legislative committees 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
legislative deference 9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence
legislative delegation 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
legislative sovereignty system 11.6 Judicial Review versus Executive Sovereignty
legislature 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, Introduction
legitimacy 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes, 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
legitimate 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
lender of last resort 14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System
Lenin 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
levels of analysis 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict, 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview, 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
Leviathan 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
Levine 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Lewis 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
LGBTQ+ 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
Lhotshampa 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
liberal 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
Liberal Democrats 8.3 Political Parties
liberalism Introduction, 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview, 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
libertarianism 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
Lijphart 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?, 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?, 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
Likud Party 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
Limongi 16.4 The Post–Cold War Period and Modernization Theory
Linde 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
Linz 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
Lippmann 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
Lipset 16.4 The Post–Cold War Period and Modernization Theory
literacy tests 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?, 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
living wage 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
lobbying 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Locke 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract, 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract, 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism, 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
Löfven 10.3 The Executive in Parliamentary Regimes
logrolling 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
Lok Sabha 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
Long 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
Lotz 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Loving Day 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
Loving v. Virginia 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
Lowi 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Lukashenko 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Luneburg 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
lynching 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
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Maastricht Treaty 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
Madison 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?, 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?, 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Maduro Introduction, 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Magna Carta 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
mail-in ballots 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Mair 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
Majlis al-Nuwab 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
Majlis al-Shura 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
Major 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
majoritarianism 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations, 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
majority 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
majority coalition 8.3 Political Parties
majority government 10.3 The Executive in Parliamentary Regimes
majority opinion 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
majority party 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
majority rule 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
Mandela 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
Mann Act 4.4 Freedom of Movement
manufactured consent 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Mao Zedong 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Maoism 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Maori 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
March on Washington 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
Marcos 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Marcuse 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
Marcy 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
marijuana 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
Marijuana Policy Project 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
market economy 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
Marshall Plan 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Martin Introduction
Martin Luther King Jr. 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
Marx 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 3.8 Political Ideologies That Reject Political Ideology: Scientific Socialism, Burkeanism, and Religious Extremism, 14.7 Critical Worldviews, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Marxism 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 14.7 Critical Worldviews
Marxist 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
mass culture 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity
Mayhew 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
McCarran-Walter Act 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
McCombs 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
McElwee 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
McGillivray 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
McNamara 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
McPhee 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
Me Too Introduction, 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
means of production 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
measurement error 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
media 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?, Introduction
media concentration 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
mediated information 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Medicaid 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
Medicare 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
members of Parliament (MPs) 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR) 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
mercantilism 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy, 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
mercantilist 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
mercenaries 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy
MERCOSUR 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
merit system 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
Merkel 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
Métis 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
middle class 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
migration 4.4 Freedom of Movement
Mikulski Introduction
military 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
Mill 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism, 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left, 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
Millennium Development Goals 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Mine Ban Treaty 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
minimum wage 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
minority cultures 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity
minority party 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
Miranda rights 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
misdemeanors 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
misinformation 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Missouri Plan 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
mixed system 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
Moa 6.5 Resolving Collective Action Problems, 6.5 Resolving Collective Action Problems
modernization theory 16.4 The Post–Cold War Period and Modernization Theory
Modi 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
monarchy 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
monopoly on the right to use violence 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Montgomery Bus Boycott 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
moral hazard 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
Morales 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?
Morocco 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
Morsi 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Mossadegh 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
motivated reasoning 1.5 Empirical Political Science, 2.3 Human Behavior Is Partially Predictable
Moustafa 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
movable type 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
MSNBC 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Mubarak 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
muckraker 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
multiculturalism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
multilateral exchange rate 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
multimember districts 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
multinational corporations 15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
multiparty system 8.3 Political Parties
multipolar system 14.5 The Realist Worldview
Murillo 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Muslim Brotherhood 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Mussolini 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
mutually assured destruction 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
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NAACP 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
Napoleonic Wars 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
Naruhito 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
nation 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power, 14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System
nation-state 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 7.4 Civil Rights Movements, 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
National Farmers Union 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
national identity groups 15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
nationalism 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
NATO 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
natural laws 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
natural rights 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
Nazi 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
Nazism 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
negative rights 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
neoliberalism Introduction, 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
neorealism 14.5 The Realist Worldview
Neustadt 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes, 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
neutral competence 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
New Deal 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
New Left 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
New Right 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
Newport 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?
Newsom 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?, 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
Newton 1.3 Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics
Nieto 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?, 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
Ninth Amendment 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
Nixon 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity, Introduction, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Noam 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
non-tariff trade barriers 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
noneconomic groups 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
nongovernmental organizations 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) 14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System, 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
nonpartisan elections 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
nonprofessional legislatures 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
norm 14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System
normative Introduction
normative political science 1.3 Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics, 1.5 Empirical Political Science, 1.5 Empirical Political Science
NORML 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 14.5 The Realist Worldview, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
North Korea 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?, 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?, 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
NPR 12.5 Declining Global Trust in the Media
NRA 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
nullification 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
Nussbaum 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
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O’Neill 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
Oakeshott 3.8 Political Ideologies That Reject Political Ideology: Scientific Socialism, Burkeanism, and Religious Extremism
Obama 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?, 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?, 9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence, 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?, 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 14.3 Sovereignty and Anarchy, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Obamacare 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
Obergefell v. Hodges 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations, 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
Ocasio-Cortez 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
offensive realism 14.5 The Realist Worldview
offshoring 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
oil shocks 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Okin 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
oligarchy 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
oligopoly 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Olmstead v. United States 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
Olson 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Olympic Games 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
On Liberty 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
One Fair Wage 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
one-child policy 6.1 Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political
one-drop rule 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
open borders 4.4 Freedom of Movement
Operation Desert Storm 15.2 International Law
opinion leaders 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
Orbán 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right, 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) 12.5 Declining Global Trust in the Media
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
Organization of American States 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
original jurisdiction 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
Ostrom 6.5 Resolving Collective Action Problems
outside lobbying 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
oversight 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?, 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
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Pacific Alliance 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
pack journalism 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Page 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?
Pahlavi 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority, 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
paid media 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?, 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
Pakistan 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
Palach 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
paradox of tolerance 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
Paris Climate Accord 6.4 Collective Action Problems: The Problem of Incentives, 15.2 International Law
Parks 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
Parliament 8.3 Political Parties
parliamentary 8.3 Political Parties, 9.3 What Is the Difference between Unicameral and Bicameral Systems?
parliamentary procedures 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
parliamentary regimes 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
parliamentary sovereignty system 11.6 Judicial Review versus Executive Sovereignty
parliamentary system 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
partisan elections 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
partisan representation 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
party ID 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
patriarchy 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Patriot Act 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
patronage 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?, 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
Patterson 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?, 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
Peace Palace 15.2 International Law
Pelosi 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 8.3 Political Parties
Pendleton Act 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
Pentagon Papers 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
periphery countries 14.7 Critical Worldviews
Permanent Five (P5) 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
Perot 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?, 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
Perry 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
Pickering 15.2 International Law
Pierce v. Society of Sisters 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
Piketty 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
Pinto 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Plato 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
Plessy v. Ferguson 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
pluralism 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
pluralist theory 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
plurality 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?, 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
plurality rule 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
plurality voting 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
plurilateral agreements 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
polarization 9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence, 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
polarization feedback loop 12.5 Declining Global Trust in the Media
police state 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
political action committee (PAC) 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
political culture 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity, 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
political elite 6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity
political elites 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
political factors 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy
political freedom 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
political ideologies Introduction
political ideology 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 8.3 Political Parties
political minority 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
political participation 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, Introduction, 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
political parties 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 8.3 Political Parties, 8.3 Political Parties, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
political polarization 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 12.5 Declining Global Trust in the Media
political psychology 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
political science 1.3 Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics
political secularism 3.8 Political Ideologies That Reject Political Ideology: Scientific Socialism, Burkeanism, and Religious Extremism
political socialization 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 6.1 Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political, 6.1 Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political, 6.1 Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political, 6.1 Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
politico 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
politics 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?
poll taxes 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?, 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
Pomper 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
Ponce 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
popular vote 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
populism 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right, 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?, 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
populist 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
positive rights 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
poverty 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
poverty line 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
power 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority, 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
power to persuade 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
precedent 11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World
president 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
presidential 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
presidential regimes 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
presidential system 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
Press Freedom Day 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
primary 8.3 Political Parties, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
prime minister 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?, 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
Print 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
prior restraint 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
prisoner’s dilemma 6.4 Collective Action Problems: The Problem of Incentives
privacy 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
privatization 6.5 Resolving Collective Action Problems
probabilistic 1.3 Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics
probability sample 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
probability sampling 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
probable cause 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
procedural due process 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
professional groups 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
professional legislature 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
Progressive Era 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
proletariat 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
propaganda 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority, 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
proportional representation 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?, 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
protectionism 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
protectionist policies 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy
protests 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
proxy wars 14.5 The Realist Worldview
Przeworski 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.4 The Post–Cold War Period and Modernization Theory
public approval rating 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
public goods 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
public interest 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
public interest advocacy groups 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
public interest group 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
public interest litigation (PIL) 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
public laws 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
public opinion 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?, 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?, 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?
public opinion poll 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
public policy 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
Putin 9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence, 10.5 Semi-Presidential Regimes, 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?, 14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
Putnam 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
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Queen Elizabeth II 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
question wording effects 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
quorum 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions
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Radio Act of 1927 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Raina 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
random digit dialing 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?, 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
Randon Hershey 8.3 Political Parties
ranked-choice 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Rasinki 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
rational 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?, 2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?, 2.3 Human Behavior Is Partially Predictable
rational-legal legitimacy 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
rationalism 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
Rawls 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Rawls’s theory of justice 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
Reagan 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
realism 14.5 The Realist Worldview
reality 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?, 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?
recall 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
recidivism 11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
reciprocity 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
Red Crescent 14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System
Red Cross 14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System, 15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Red Guards 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
referendum 8.3 Political Parties, 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
Reform UK 8.3 Political Parties
refugees 4.4 Freedom of Movement
regional autonomy 15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
regional economic organizations (REOs) 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
registered voters 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
Rehabilitation Act 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
religious extremism Introduction, 3.8 Political Ideologies That Reject Political Ideology: Scientific Socialism, Burkeanism, and Religious Extremism
religious law system 11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World
religious non-state actors (RNAs) 15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
reparations 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
Reporters Without Borders 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?, 12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
representative democracies 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
Republican National Committee 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
reserves 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
response bias 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
Responsibility to Protect (R2P) 15.2 International Law
responsive communitarianism 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
retention 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
retention election 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
reverse and remand 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
reverse and render 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
revolving door bans 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Reynolds v. Sims (1964) 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
Right to Life 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
rightfulness 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Robert’s Rules of Order 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?
Robinson 16.4 The Post–Cold War Period and Modernization Theory
Roe v. Wade 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
Rohingya 3.8 Political Ideologies That Reject Political Ideology: Scientific Socialism, Burkeanism, and Religious Extremism
Roman Empire 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
Roosevelt 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism, 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes, 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
Roth v. United States 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
Rousseau 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract, 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism, 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Rudd 10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
rule by law 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?, 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
rule of law 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies, 3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right, 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?, 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?, 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
rules 1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?, 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
run-off election 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
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Sachs 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Saha 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
Salazar 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
same-sex marriage 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions, 7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations, 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
sample 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
sampling errors 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
San Francisco Democratic Party 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
Sanders 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
Sandy Hook Elementary School 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
Schattschneider 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Schengen Area 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
Scheppele 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Scheve 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Schlozman 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
school segregation 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Schraufnagel 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
Schuldt 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
Schumer 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
Schwarz 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
scientific method 1.3 Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics, 1.5 Empirical Political Science
scientific socialism 3.8 Political Ideologies That Reject Political Ideology: Scientific Socialism, Burkeanism, and Religious Extremism
scientism 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
Scottish National Party (SNP) 8.3 Political Parties
Seawright 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
secession 15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
second-wave feminism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Secretariat 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
Secretary-General 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
Security Council 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
security dilemma 14.5 The Realist Worldview
security pact 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
security state 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
selection bias 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
selectors 14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
self-governance 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
self-government 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
Seligman 8.3 Political Parties
semi-presidential regimes 10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
semi-presidential system 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?, 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
Sen 14.7 Critical Worldviews
separate but equal 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
separation of powers 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
sexism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
sexual harassment 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
shadow government 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Shapiro 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?, 8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
sharia law 11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World, 11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World
Shaw 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Shelby County v. Holder 7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
shell corporations 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Sheng 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Shepsle 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Shirky 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
Sierra Club 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Sierra Club v. Trump 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Simmonds 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
simple majority 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions
Sinclair 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
Sinclair Broadcasting Group 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
Singer 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
single-issue groups 8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
single-member districts 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?, 9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?, 10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
single-party system 8.3 Political Parties
Sisi 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Slaughter 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
Smith 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract, 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?, 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy, 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
snap elections 8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
Snyder 12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
social capital 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?, 8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
social conservatism 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
social contract 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract, 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
social desirability bias 5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
social justice 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?, 2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
social media 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 6.1 Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political, 12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media, 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
social movement 1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
social movements 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?, 5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
social ownership of the means of production 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
social relations of production 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Social Security Administration 3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
socialism 3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism, 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
Socialist Unity Party of Germany 8.3 Political Parties
socialization 5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?, 6.1 Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political
Socrates 3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
soft authoritarianism 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
soft power 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?, 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
Solana 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
Somalia 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
Sotomayor 7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
South African Bill of Rights 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
Southern African Development Community 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?, 15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
Southern Border Communities Coalition 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
sovereign 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power, 5.1 What Is Political Participation?
sovereignty 4.1 The Freedom of the Individual, 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?, 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?, 14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?, 14.3 Sovereignty and Anarchy, 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
special drawing rights (SDR) 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
specialization 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
spoils system 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
sponsor 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
Stalin 3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
standard operating procedures 10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
standardized testing 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
standing 11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
Stanton 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
state 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power, 14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System
state of nature 3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
state sovereignty Introduction
states of emergency 13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
status quo 1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power, 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions, 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions, 14.5 The Realist Worldview
stereotyping 1.5 Empirical Political Science
Stiglitz 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
Stinson 5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?
Stone 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
structural racism 3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left, 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
structural realism 14.5 The Realist Worldview
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee 7.4 Civil Rights Movements
Sturgeon 8.3 Political Parties
subsidies Introduction, 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy, 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
substantive due process 4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties, 11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
substantive representation 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
suffrage 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 5.1 What Is Political Participation?, 7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
Sunstein 12.4 The Internet and Social Media
super PACs 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?, 8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
supermajority 6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions, 9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
supply and demand 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) 11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
Supreme Leader 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
surveillance 4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
sustainable development 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
Sustainable Development Goals 15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions, 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
systemic racism