Unit 1. Politics: Setting the Stage
- What is politics?
- What is it that makes an act political?
- Politics as Making Common Decisions
- Politics as the exercise of power
- Power and Choice
- Politics, policy, polity
- Political Science
Unit 2. The State and Modern Policy
- The Modern State
- Policies of the State
- Economic Policy
- Justice and Effectiveness of public policies
Unit 3. The Citizens and the Regime
- Democracies and non-Democracies
- The coming and going of Democracy
- Democracy and Freedom
- Democracy and Capitalism
- Authoritarian Systems
- Military Governments
- One-party States
- Monarchies and Theocracies
Unit 4. Political Culture and Political Behaviour
- Analysing Political Cultures
- Religion and Political Culture
- Political Socialization
- Media as Agents of Political Socialization
- Social Media and Political Socialization
Unit 5. Political Institutions
- Government
- Parliaments
- Political parties
- Elections
- Interest Groups and Politics
- Social Movements
Unit 6. Globalisation and International Politics
- State-Nation sovereignty
- International Institutions
- The European Union
- UN, NATO, WB, IMF, G-8
- Globalization
Unit 7. Principles of Political Analysis
- Falsifiability
- What makes a statement interesting?
- Causation and Explanation
- Historical explanation
- Empirical analysis