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1. What is Politics?
2. Political Ideas and Ideologies
3. Politics and the State
4. Democracy and Legitimacy
5. Regimes of the Modern World
6. Nations and Nationalism
7. Political Economy and Globalization
8. Politics, Society and Identity
9. Political Culture and the Media
10. Representation, Elections and Voting
11. Parties and Party Systems
12. Groups, Interests and Movements
13. Constitutions, Law and Judges
14. Political Executives and Leadership
15. Assemblies
16. Bureaucracies
17. Multilevel Politics
18. Security: Domestic and International
19. World Order and Global Governance
20. Is Politics Broken?

The fifth edition of this seminal textbook by best-selling author Andrew Heywood continues to lead the way in providing a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to politics. Renowned for its engaging and accessible style, this book helps students to understand the discipline’s foundational concepts and theories and use these to make sense of its key subfields, from elections and voting to security and global governance. Systematically revised and updated throughout, it also uses a range of tried-and-tested pedagogical features to draw links between different standpoints and help make contemporary institutions, events and developments come to life.

Drawing on a wide range of international examples, this text is the ideal choice for lecturers around the world. Carefully designed and written to map onto the way the subject is introduced at degree level, it remains the go-to text for undergraduate introductory and comparative politics courses. Furthermore, it can also be used as pre-course reading or as a point of reference throughout politics degrees, majors or minors.


Stimulating, succinct and accessible, the fully revised and updated fourth edition of this highly successful text offers a truly comprehensive introduction to the study of politics, written from an international perspective.