Conceptualizing Politics

PART I
What is politics? 
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  1  Politics and power 
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1  A first definition of politics  4
2  Power and political power  9
3  Operating areas, instruments and modus operandi of political 
power 11
4  Political power and the others  13
5  Objections and consequences  14
6  Politics and power, a fatal connection?  17
  2  The subjective side of politics: legitimacy, identity, obligation 
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1  Legitimacy and legitimation  25
2  Political identity  28
3  Political obligation  33
 
Excursus 1: What is political philosophy? 
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PART II
How politics works 
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  3  Order, institutions, models 
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1  What does order mean in politics?  47
2  Rules, institutions and the regulation of fear  49
3  Historic models of political order  52
  4  The state 
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1  The state and sovereignty  57
2  The rise of the modern state in Europe  59
3  State and society  64
4  State and nation  67
5  The state and the law  70
6  State and values  72
  5  Government and democracy 
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1  Democracy one and two  81
2  From representation to national democracy  83
3  Democratic government  86
4  How is democracy possible? Does it have alternatives?  95
5  Democracy and capitalism  98