Looks at the functional approach of political theory - examining system, process and policy to understand government. This analytic structure allows the reader to move logically from institution to institution and process to process - without losing the essential connection and meaning.
Russell J. Dalton is Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine. He has received a Fulbright Professorship at the University of Mannheim, a Barbra Streisand Center fellowship, German Marshall Research Fellowship and a POSCO Fellowship at the East/West Center. His scholarly interests include comparative political behavior, political parties, social movements, and empirical democratic theory.