Description:Politics: An Introduction has been carefully designed to meet the needs of students taking introductory courses in politics. It is accessible and exciting, and by taking the widest possible definition of what is political it offers unrivalled coverage of the subject. Specially designed as an interactive text, it includes think points, exercises and extracts as well as a range of illustrative material to stimulate responses from the reader. The authors emphasize the role of the individual in politics, and the interplay between the personal, the national and the global. They introduce topical issues that bring the subject to life.