Understanding Politics: Ideas, Institutions, and Issues - Third Edition

Magstadt, Thomas & Peter Schotten

ISBN 10: 0312050186 / ISBN 13: 9780312050184

Published by St. Martin's Pr., 1993

About this Item

xviii + 603 pages including index; 9.25" tall; laminated color il'd cover; b/w map endpages; b/w ils, maps, & charts; tiny scrape to front cover.

Seller Inventory # 194354

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Politics: Ideas, Institutions, and Issues - Third Edition
• Publisher: St. Martin's Pr.
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312050186
• ISBN 13: 9780312050184
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: vg
• Dust Jacket Condition: --
• Book Type: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poli Sci / Gov't / Current Affairs

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Synopsis

Premised on the authors' passionate belief that politics matters, the new edition of this best-selling introductory text examines the complexities of politics and government in fascinating detail. UNDERSTANDING POLITICS draws on the disciplines of political science, history, and philosophy to present a nuanced view of the political and economic forces that shape our world.

About the Author

Thomas Magstadt earned his doctorate at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is the author NATIONS AND GOVERNMENTS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS IN REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE, Sixth Edition, (Wadsworth Publishing, 2011), and AN EMPIRE IF YOU CAN KEEP IT: POWER AND PRINCIPLE IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY (CQ Press, 2004). He has also published numerous journal articles, policy papers, and op-ed pieces, and is a regular contributor to Nation of Change, an on-line daily newspaper. He has chaired political science departments at Augustana College (Sioux Falls) and the University of Nebraska (Kearney), and has taught at the Thunderbird School, the Air War College, and the University of Missouri--Kansas City. In the 1980s, he served for a time as a foreign intelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic from 1994 to 1996. From 2007 to 2010, he lectured on the European Union at the University of Kansas.