Luther Harmon Zeigler's Books

This introduction to political systems focuses on the politics of everyday life and adopts a comparative approach, examining the major political systems - democracy, authoritarianism, totalitarianism and Marxism. Each chapter ends with questions and a list of suggested further reading.

This introductory political science textbook covers many of the same standard topics as typical--mass communications, political parties and ideologies, elections, interest groups, the presidency, the bureaucracy, the Congress, the courts, federalism, civil rights, and national security--but it is "uncommon" in that it is guided throughout by the theoretical understanding that the elites, not the masses, govern the United States (just like all societies). In addition to describing how elite theory explains the institutions and dynamics of American politics, they contrast their perspective with classic democratic theory and modern pluralist theory throughout the text.

Comparing the role of interest groups in three different political settings, the author addresses two main questions: Why do people join organizations? and, Does it matter how a government regulates conflict? In his discussion of Asian corporatism, he takes note of the upheavals in South Korea.

Book's by Luther Harmon Zeigler

The Political Community

The Political Community

The Irony of Democracy

The Irony of Democracy

The Political Community

The Political Community

Pluralism, Corporatism, and Confucianism

Pluralism, Corporatism, and Confucianism

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