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Introduction to Political Science

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Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University

Masaki Hidaka, American University

Rachel Bzostek Walker, Collin College

Copyright Year: 2022

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Language: English

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Reviewed by S. Jason Giannaros, Assistant Professor, The University of the District of Columbia on 4/22/24

This book does a good job covering all the important sub-fields and foundational issues relating to an Intro to Political Science course, both domestically and internationally. read more

Comprehensiveness rating: 5 see less

This book does a good job covering all the important sub-fields and foundational issues relating to an Intro to Political Science course, both domestically and internationally.

Content Accuracy rating: 5

I found that this book was highly accurate in the information it presented. The authors provide plenty of background and contextual information as well, which is helpful (as are the video links).

Relevance/Longevity rating: 5

Overall it is highly relevant to almost every audience, and does a good job of bringing current/recent events into the discussion.

Clarity rating: 5

The book does a good job of balancing the need to use some political science jargon with not overwhelming the reader with confusing terms. It is very readable prose. Though a couple students commented on the length of the chapters, I found them to be approrpriate.

Consistency rating: 5

I found that the terminology and framework of the book as a whole was very conducive both to learning and teaching the material.

Modularity rating: 5

For the more complicated chapters, I just made one weekly module for each of them. For some of the less-intensive chapters (particularly earlier on), you can double up on chapters (one per meeting instead of one per week). Thus, it is very easy to split this text up into modules as appropriate for the course itself.

Organization/Structure/Flow rating: 4

The book is very logically organized - the one exception would be splitting up the chapters on civil liberties and civil rights. Some students found it difficult to parse these two terms, so in the future I will teach them as one unit.

Interface rating: 5

The text has no interface issue that I saw, and it is easy to connect to the video supplements as well.

Grammatical Errors rating: 5

I found no grammatical errors in the text at all.

Cultural Relevance rating: 4

It is not culturally insensitive at all. The one thing I would have liked to see a little more of is discussion of indigenous political issues, both domestically and globally.

Overall this is a very well-written book with little that needs changing. I might consider re-organizing the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties sections, but other than that it is well-organized and flows well, in a way that is not difficult for students to absorb. It also strikes a good balance of covering American political issues that will be highly relevant to students, but not making it an "American Politics" textbook.

Reviewed by Michelle Payne, Associate Professor, Political Science, Texas Wesleyan University on 2/29/24

Selected key terms are both relevant and clearly defined read more

Selected key terms are both relevant and clearly defined

The book is packed with both cumulative, foundational knowledge and associated current event references, and as far as I have read, both reflect superior accuracy

The book is packed with both cumulative, foundational knowledge and associated current event references, which tie together theory, concept, and relevancy is an easy to understand format.

Form an Instructor viewpoint, very clearly written- particularly the review questions. The text to video connections are also concisely and clearly stated.

This is one of the reasons I would like to use the text- the terminology, structure and general outlay of the material are logically connected and lend to a smooth integration and adaptation.

I set out a tentative outline for moving context around, and had no transitional issues- I also tentatively integrated my material into the mix and it reads well, with no loss of integrity to the material.

Organization/Structure/Flow rating: 5

Very straightforward- easy to adapt if need to.

Didn't see any issues- I will say that the links to government websites were placed discreetly yet noticeably in the text and I see that ease of accessibility as an added bonus for students

I haven't found any

Cultural Relevance rating: 5

The diverse pictures, stories, illustrations and video links cover this aspect well.

I am excited to find a text that is so packed with info, yet approachable for students, even in a dual enrollment course.

Reviewed by Larry Carter, Distinguished Senior Lecturere, University of Texas at Arlington on 4/4/23

Covers all areas needed for American intro course. read more

Covers all areas needed for American intro course.

Content is accurate and unbiased.

Should hold up well.

Good clarity.

Layout and content consistent

Easily and readily divisible.

Good flow. Layout good.

Free of interface questions.

No grammatical errors

Not culturally insensitive

Good layout and content.

Reviewed by Katrina Heimark, Lecturer, Century College on 3/7/23

Introduction to Political Science covers all the major topics and has a global focus, using examples from around the world. My only observation on content that was not covered in-depth was regarding regime change and the factors that cause... read more

Comprehensiveness rating: 4 see less

Introduction to Political Science covers all the major topics and has a global focus, using examples from around the world. My only observation on content that was not covered in-depth was regarding regime change and the factors that cause democracies to fail or authoritarian regimes to rise. This is an important part of the comparative political science literature that could have been focused on in more detail.

I have found the content to be accurate, unbiased, and with citation of sources.

Students are so impressed with the real-world examples of this text book, and the fact that it was published in 2022 makes it a great resources for them. The content is relevant today, but should also be relevant for the next 5-10 years. Updates/more relevant examples should be easy to find once this text is a bit older.

This is a great intro text for any student who has no experience or exposure to political science. It is straightforward and complex terms are explained in such a way that it is easy for all audiences to understand.

I have found this text to be consistent in terms of its organization, terminology, and framework.

The online version of this text is fantastic in terms of the layout and accessibility of the different content modules. The modules are broken up in a way that makes sense, is logical, and also can stand alone.

The book has a great mix of video, text, and images and is clearly organized both within chapters, sub-chapters, and as a textbook as a whole.

The interface is easy to use, particularly the online textbook. Allows for highlighting in different colors and also creation of notes.

No grammatical errors.

This book has excellent examples from across different country and cultural contexts. While designed for a US audience, the textbook does a fantastic job of using examples from different regions, cultures, and countries to illustrate the different political examples. One region is not overly represented, nor is one region used exclusively for negative examples. I found this book to be incredibly fair, accurate, and presenting an amazing culturally diverse content across subject areas.

This book has been great for an introductory political science course that I have taught to first year college students. I find it to be at the perfect level for these students--clear, relevant, and also challenges them to see the world through multiple perspectives.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1.1  Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?
• 1.2  Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
• 1.3  Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics
• 1.4  Normative Political Science
• 1.5  Empirical Political Science
• 1.6  Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
• Review Questions
• Suggested Readings
• 2.1  What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
• 2.2  Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?
• 2.3  Human Behavior Is Partially Predictable
• 2.4  The Importance of Context for Political Decisions
• 3.1  The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
• 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
• 3.6  Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
• 3.7  Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
• 3.8  Political Ideologies That Reject Political Ideology: Scientific Socialism, Burkeanism, and Religious Extremism
• 4.1  The Freedom of the Individual
• 4.2  Constitutions and Individual Liberties
• 4.3  The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
• 4.4  Freedom of Movement
• 4.5  The Rights of the Accused
• 4.6  The Right to a Healthy Environment
• 5.1  What Is Political Participation?
• 5.2  What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
• 5.3  How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
• 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?
• 6.1  Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political
• 6.2  Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity
• 6.3  Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions
• 6.4  Collective Action Problems: The Problem of Incentives
• 6.5  Resolving Collective Action Problems
• 7.1  Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
• 7.2  Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
• 7.3  Civil Rights Abuses
• 7.4  Civil Rights Movements
• 7.5  How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
• 8.1  What Is an Interest Group?
• 8.2  What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
• 8.3  Political Parties
• 8.4  What Are the Limits of Parties?
• 8.5  What Are Elections and Who Participates?
• 8.6  How Do People Participate in Elections?
• 9.1  What Do Legislatures Do?
• 9.2  What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
• 9.3  What Is the Difference between Unicameral and Bicameral Systems?
• 9.4  The Decline of Legislative Influence
• 10.1  Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
• 10.2  The Executive in Presidential Regimes
• 10.3  The Executive in Parliamentary Regimes
• 10.4  Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
• 10.5  Semi-Presidential Regimes
• 10.6  How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
• 10.7  What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
• 11.1  What Is the Judiciary?
• 11.2  How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
• 11.3  Types of Legal Systems around the World
• 11.4  Criminal versus Civil Laws
• 11.5  Due Process and Judicial Fairness
• 11.6  Judicial Review versus Executive Sovereignty
• 12.1  The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
• 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
• 12.5  Declining Global Trust in the Media
• 13.1  Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
• 13.2  Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
• 13.3  Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
• 14.1  What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
• 14.2  Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System
• 14.3  Sovereignty and Anarchy
• 14.4  Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
• 14.5  The Realist Worldview
• 14.6  The Liberal and Social Worldview
• 14.7  Critical Worldviews
• 15.1  The Problem of Global Governance
• 15.2  International Law
• 15.3  The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
• 15.4  How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
• 15.5  Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
• 15.6  Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
• 16.1  The Origins of International Political Economy
• 16.2  The Advent of the Liberal Economy
• 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
• 16.6  Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis

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Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, OpenStax  Introduction to Political Science  provides a strong foundation in global political systems, exploring  how  and  why  political realities unfold. Rich with examples of individual and national social action, this text emphasizes students’ role in the political sphere and equips them to be active and informed participants in civil society. Learn more about what this free, openly-licensed textbook has to offer you and your students.

About the Contributors

Dr. Mark Carl Rom is an associate professor of government and public policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Department of Government. His recent research has focused on assessing student participation, improving grading accuracy, reducing grading bias, and improving data visualizations. Previously, Rom has explored critiques and conversations within the realm of political science through symposia on academic conferences, ideology in the classroom, and ideology within the discipline. He continues to fuel his commitment to educational equity by serving on the AP Higher Education Advisory Committee, the executive board of the Political Science Education section (ASPA), and the editorial board of the Journal of Political Science Education. Prior to joining McCourt, Rom served as a legislative assistant to the Honorable John Paul Hammerschmidt of the US House of Representatives, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, a senior evaluator at the US General Accounting Office, and a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, “The Thrift Tragedy: Are Politicians and Bureaucrats to Blame?,” was the cowinner of the 1993 Harold Lasswell Award from the American Political Science Association for best dissertation in the public policy field. Rom received his BA from the University of Arkansas and his MA and PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992.

Masaki Hidaka has a master of public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she wrote her thesis on media coverage of gaming ventures on Native American tribal lands. She completed her PhD at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where her dissertation examined the relationship between issue publics and the Internet. She is currently a professorial lecturer at the School of Public Affairs at the American University in Washington, DC, but has taught in numerous institutions, including the National University of Singapore, University College London, and Syracuse University in London. She also worked as a press aide for former San Francisco mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. (and she definitely left her heart in San Francisco).

A native of Fort Worth, Rachel Bzostek Walker is the associate dean of academic affairs at Collin College Technical Campus in Allen, Texas. She earned her PhD in political science from Louisiana State University and has a master’s in Israeli politics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation focused on the preemptive or preventive use of force, and she continues to research in this area as well as exploring the use of active learning in the classroom. She taught full-time for over 15 years at colleges and universities in Missouri, California, and Texas, teaching a wide variety of classes on subjects including international relations, American foreign policy, and Middle Eastern politics, as well as introductory classes in American and Texas government.

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If you own a smartphone, you are involved with politics and it’s involved with you. Wherever you live, the political decisions your government makes are likely to affect what is on your phone and how you can use it. China has banned apps like Facebook and Google. Before the 2021 Ugandan election, the government simply shut down the internet entirely. 1 In India, the government distributes benefits directly to citizens through their phones. 2 In the United States, government regulations—one type of rules that are created through political action—touch virtually every aspect of your phone’s production, sale, and communications. 3

Your phone also enables you to engage in political action. You can use your phone to talk about politics or to call your local representative to express your views. You can organize a campaign through WhatsApp, share videos of police brutality or of peaceful protest, or Venmo contributions to your favorite political cause. 4 You can use your phone to learn about politics, political engagement, and what politicians are doing at home and around the world.

The political decisions of local and national governments and international organizations can affect the water you drink, the food you eat, the clothes you wear, and the dwelling you call home. Politics and policy can play a role in the most intimate details of your life, including your reproductive rights, marriage rights, and even how your body will be treated after you die.

Politics is everywhere. Whether or not you care about politics, politics has an interest in you.

When you develop a competent understanding of politics and political science, you are a better-prepared citizen, political actor, and job seeker.

With a more sophisticated understanding of politics and political science, you can better understand questions of who gets what, when, how, and perhaps most important, why. The quality of our politics depends to a large degree on the quality of citizen engagement. Want a better government, with politicians who possess greater integrity and policies that more closely reflect the public interest? These things will not happen automatically or on their own. They will happen if informed citizens work together to make them happen.

When you think like a political scientist, you seek evidence and carefully scrutinize that evidence—in politics as well as in other areas of your life. Doing so helps to inoculate you from misinformation and manipulation. When you are asked “Why did [this political event] happen?” or “What do you think will happen?” you are able to respond “The evidence suggests . . .” or “Research indicates . . .” or even “I do not know. But in similar circumstances. . . .” Scientific thinking enables you to navigate the complex political world.

This chapter will introduce you to the world of politics and the systematic study of political science. You will learn some of the fundamental principles of politics as well as core concepts.

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Assignments, problem sets.

Seven problem sets will be given throughout the semester. Problem sets will contain analytical questions and mathematical proofs. Each problem set will be graded on the scale of (+, ✔, −) and contribute equally toward the calculation of the final grade. The following instructions will apply to all problem sets unless otherwise noted.

• Late submission will not be accepted unless you ask for special permission from the instructor in advance. (Permission may be granted or not granted, with or without penalty, depending on the specific circumstances.)
• Working in groups is encouraged, but each student must submit their own write-up of the solutions. We also ask you to write down the names of the other students you worked with on the first sheet of your solutions.
• For analytical questions, you should include your intermediate steps, as well as comments on those steps when appropriate. All results should be presented so that they can be easily understood.
• Students are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX to write up their solutions; handwritten solutions must be clearly legible.

The problem sets are worth 50% of the course grade.

Problem Set 1 (PDF)

Problem Set 2 (PDF)

Problem Set 3 (PDF)

Problem Set 4 (PDF)

Problem Set 5 (PDF)

Problem Set 6 (PDF)

Problem Set 7 (PDF)

Final Problem Set

The final assignment of the term will be a special problem set, which will be weighted more heavily toward the calculation of the final grade. You will not be allowed to collaborate with anybody on the final problem set. This is to check if you have developed sufficient experience to work through problems on your own. The assignment will be due on the last day of class.

The final problem set is worth 40% of the course grade.

Final problem set (PDF)

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