“Learning about World Political Institutions”

Do you want to know what the world you live in is like? How are countries in the world classified, organized, and operated? Why is the constitution the most important legal document of a country? Why does the president play an important role in some countries while in others that role is less important? What are the functions and duties of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches? How can you distinguish a political party from an interest group? How important is the electoral system to the political institutions of countries…?All these questions and many others will be answered briefly, concisely, and clearly in the book "Understanding the world's political institutions" by Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Quang Minh, Faculty of International Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, recently published by the Political-Administrative Publishing House. The special point is that the book is presented in a question-and-answer format, so it is very focused and goes straight to the issues that readers are interested in. The book consists of 54 questions, organized into 10 lessons, of which the first two lessons: "Introduction to political institutions" and "Classification of states" have methodological and methodological significance, laying the foundation for specific issues with general, basic questions such as what is politics, what is a political institution, how to classify states? The next eight articles of the book respectively address specific issues such as types of parliamentary and presidential democratic institutions, functions and characteristics of legislative, executive and judicial bodies, the position, functions and roles of political parties, the relationship between elections and institutions, the importance of public opinion and the media. The book “Understanding World Political Institutions” is a useful reference for all those interested in politics, especially students studying social sciences and humanities.