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Test Bank for A Novel Approach to Politics 5th Edition Belle
Test Bank for A Novel Approach to Politics Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture 5th Edition By Douglas A. Van Belle, ISBN: 9781506368658, ISBN: 9781544323244, ISBN: 9781544323251
Table Of Content
Classical Theory, Modern Reality, and Stuff
You’re Just a Mime Trapped in an Invisible Box
Fiction as a Tool for Exploring Politics
Utopias in Fiction and Politics
Ideologies
What Is Politics?
What Is Political Science?
Security Trumps Anarchy, Rock Smashes Scissors, But Will Someone Please Explain How Paper Beats Rock?
A Model for the Emergence of Cooperation: Bobsville
Collective Action
Security
Power
Anarchy
The Context of Hierarchy
Alliances
Groups and Group Identities
Leadership Benefits
The Panopticon
Collective Action, Revolution, and the Use of Force
Legitimacy and Government Control
Government All Up In Your Business, Yo
The Tragedy of the Commons
Karl Marx—Student of Capitalism?
Socialism
The Yin and Yang of Capitalism and Socialism
Modern Stuff
Conclusionoscopy
Structures or Institutions?
Human Nature and Political Institutions
The Reality of Political Institutions
Civilization
Oh Captain, My Captain
The Scorpion King on Grandpa’s Farm
Kings and Presidents
The Democratic Executive
Boring History Stuff
A Dreary Discussion of Democratic Legislatures
A Redundant Repetition of the Theme: Contrasting Legislatures in Parliamentary and Presidential Systems
A Tired Attempt to Make Coalition Politics Interesting with a Lame Example
A Dreary Bleakness in the Authoritarian Gloom: They Endure Legislative Institutions, Too
Bureaucracy, It Goes to Eleven
So … What Is a Bureaucracy?
There Be Flaws in Yonder Bureaucracy, Obviously
Law and Politics
The Political Functions of Courts
Trial and Appellate Courts
Legal Systems
Jurisprudence
Types of Law
Constitutional Review
Arrow’s Theorem
Democracy and the Liberal Ideal
An Economic Theory of Democracy
The Real versus the Ideal, Again
Reality and Beyond
The Whole China Charade
Your New Brain and the Creation of Reality
News Media and Politics
A Vast Conspiracy?
Understanding the Distortions Is the Key
Chapter 12: International Politics: Apocalypse Now and Then
Causes of War
Back to Anarchy
World War I Was Unpleasant
Realism and War
Challenging the Realist Paradigm
Political Culture
Applying Political Culture
Back to the Question of “What Is Culture?”
Here’s Where the Story Ends
The Study of Politics
The Applied Subfields