The great issues of politics : an introduction to political science.

The Seventh Edition of THE GREAT ISSUES OF POLITICS
has been fully updated by incorporating a discussion
of major events and trends of the last five years
into the analysis of the five great issues.
Leslie Lipson interprets politics as consisting
of five basic issues which are universal and unchanging
in that the same problems recur at all times and places
where governments exist. The author shows that
different types of government are the result of the various
ways in which these issues are resolved through considering
alternative solutions and choices.
New sections in this edition include the conservative
economic programs recently adopted in the United States
and Britain; the promotion of Chernenko to be Number One
in the U.S.S.R.; the rise and then repression of Poland's
independent trade union, Solidarity; the revisions of Mao
in China; race relations; and the problem of maintaining
world peace as the arms race escalates.