ANDREW HEYWOOD POLITY
FOR SSC, RAILWAYS, UPSC, NDA, CDS & STATE LEVEL EXAMINATIONS.
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Preface
THIS book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the study of politics. It is designed to be of use to students taking courses in any field of the discipline, as well as general readers with an interest in the subject. Politics stubbornly (and splendidly) refuses to stand still. The idea that history is 'speeding up' was not just a symptom of fin de siècle anxiety; in a sense, history is speeding up. For instance, the final decades of the twentieth century saw the collapse of communism, the end of the Cold War, the emergence of a global economy, a technological revolution in production and communications and the rise of political Islam. Indeed, we appear to be living in a kind of 'post-world'; ideas such as postmodernism, postmaterialism, post Fordism, post-socialism and post industrialism vie with one another to demonstrate how much and which bits of the familiar world have now disappeared.And yet not all is flux and confusion. The pace of change may have increased, but certain aspects of social existence and important features of the political landscape have proved to be remarkably resilient to change.
Therefore, while this book gives full weight to modern developments such as globalization, the growth of feminism and green politics, the upsurge of ethnic nationalism and the emergence of new social movements, conventional approaches to the discipline are not neglected, and the contribution of classical thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Marx and Mill is not ignored. This second edition features wider discussion of a number of topics as well as additional boxed material and diagrams. These topics include the nature of globalization, the impact of the mass media and the advent of new forms of political communication, the 'third way' as an ideological project, regionalization, democratization, and the shift from government to governance.
The book nevertheless continues to adopt a holistic approach that tries to bring out what is distinctive about political analysis as a whole, and also highlights concerns that are shared by all who are interested in the subject. In an attempt to bridge the political philosophy/political science divide, links are drawn between normative and empirical theory, and a genuinely international perspective is adopted in preference to a country-by-country or system-by-system one.
The book is organized around five central themes. Part 1 on the theories of politics examines the conceptual and methodological issues that underpin the study of politics, and thus serves as an introduction to theories and ideas that are addressed throughout the book. Part 2 on nations and globalization discusses the role and significance of the nation-state, particularly in the light of internationalization and the emergence of global politics. Part 3 on political interaction looks at links between the political and nonpolitical worlds and at channels of communication between government and the governed. Part 4 on the machinery of government considers the institutional and political processes that affect both the nature of government and its style of operation. Part 5 on policy and performance analyses how policy affect.
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This book is one of the standard books for the preparation of UPSC, STATE PCS, SSC-CGL Exam. It is equally useful for preparing, SSC CGL, & OTHER EXAMS. This book consists of all type of problems specially designed for union public service Commission, SSC Combined Graduate Level exam & OTHER EXAMS.
The author has clearly explained the concepts. The entire book is written in a systematic manner. The whole material is classified into type wise according to the level of difficulty of the questions. It contains different - different varieties of question too.
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