{"product_id":"politics-by-andrew-heywood-9781352005455","title":"Politics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew to this Edition:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRestructured and revised to reflect the decline of democracy and the rise of populism and authoritarianism in different parts of the world\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNew Politics in Action features reflect the latest political developments – including ‘Trump's triumph: politics as polarization’; ‘South Africa: a one-party state?’; and ‘North Korea: a rogue nuclear power?’\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the transformation of the media landscape, assessing the advent and impact of social media and ‘fake news’\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNew and improved text design reflecting the book’s contemporary and engaging coverage\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAccompanied by a brand new website, featuring a flashcard glossary, additional cases, interactive simulations and weblinks for students, PowerPoint slides for lecturers, a testbank and a guide to using the book.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAccompanying online resources for \u003cem\u003ePolitics\u003c\/em\u003e can be found at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/bloomsburyonlineresources.com\/politics-5e\"\u003ebloomsburyonlineresources.com\/politics-5e\u003c\/a\u003e. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461281726700,"sku":"9781352005455","price":100.95,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781352005455-politics.jpg?v=1774963981","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/politics-by-andrew-heywood-9781352005455","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}