- Contents : Part 1: Regimes -- 1. Who rules in the modern state -- Regimes, movements, and ideologies -- Three views of the power structure -- Social stratification and political power -- Crisis strata -- Structural variants of the modern state -- 2. Parliamentarism and presidentialism -- Constitutionalism -- Parliamentarism -- Presidentialism -- The collegial executive : Switzerland -- 3. The administrative state -- Max Weber and modern bureaucracy -- Pathologies of bureaucracy -- Politicians and bureaucrats -- Government by committee? -- 4. Authoritarian dictatorship -- Praetorian regimes -- Single-party regimes -- 5. Totalitarian dictatorship -- The classic totalitarian syndrome -- General criticisms of the concept of totalitariansim -- The Soviet Union under Stalin -- Hitler's Germany -- The dictator and totalitariansim; Part 2: Movements -- 6. Social movements and revolution -- Collective behavior and social movements -- Varieties of social movements -- Revolutions -- 7. Competitive parties and party systems -- Parties in competitive systems -- Factionalism in political parties -- Party systems -- 8. Interest groups -- Nature and types of interest groups -- Direct access to the political system -- Interest groups and political parties -- Interest groups and public opinion -- Corporatism and functional representation; Part 3. Ideologies -- 9. Ideology and political culture -- Ideology -- Political culture -- 10. Crosscutting themes in modern ideologies -- Progress and utopia -- Democracy -- Freedom -- Socialism -- Nationalism -- 11. The left-right ideological spectrum -- Anarchism -- Communism -- Social democracy -- Christian democracy -- Liberalism -- Conservatism -- Poujadism -- Fascism -- Racism.