Includes glossary, bibliography and index.

"This book attempts to teach students to better understand the world environment in which government operates; to acquire a theoretical and analytical structure in which to approach questions about government; to relate Western political democracy to other governmental alternatives; to clarify the verbiage of political discourse; to examine the problems of achieving political democracy in the last quarter of the twentieth century; and to gain a historical perspective with regard to the age-old dilemma of achieving order without servitude."

English.