1. What Is Political Science? 2. The State 3. What Is Democracy? 4. Direct and Indirect Democracy 5. Dictatorship 6. Shortcomings of Political Democracy 7. Ideology 8. Socialism 9. Soviet-Style Communism 10. The Islamic State 11. Statehood 12. Political Institutions 13. Federal and Unitary Systems 14. Legislatures 15. Executives 16. Humanitarian Intervention and the Logic of War