American Government and Politics Today 1997-98 Edition

by Schmidt, Steffen; Shelley, Mack C.; Bardes, Barbara A.

• ISBN13: 9780314204950
• ISBN10: 0314204954
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-20
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

PART ONE The American System	1	(100)
CHAPTER 1 American Government and Politics: Stability and Change	3	(28)
CHAPTER 2 The Constitution	31	(36)
CHAPTER 3 Federalism	67	(34)
PART TWO Civil Rights and Liberties	101	(108)
CHAPTER 4 Civil Liberties	103	(38)
CHAPTER 5 Civil Rights	141	(38)
CHAPTER 6 Striving for Equality	179	(30)
PART THREE People and Politics	209	(178)
CHAPTER 7 Public Opinion	211	(34)
CHAPTER 8 Interest Groups	245	(34)
CHAPTER 9 Political Parties	279	(34)
CHAPTER 10 Campaigns, Candidates, and Elections	313	(44)
CHAPTER 11 The Media	357	(30)
PART FOUR Political Institutions	387	(148)
CHAPTER 12 The Congress	389	(44)
CHAPTER 13 The Presidency	433	(38)
CHAPTER 14 The Bureaucracy	471	(30)
CHAPTER 15 The Judiciary	501	(34)
PART FIVE Public Policy	535	(94)
CHAPTER 16 Domestic Policy	537	(34)
CHAPTER 17 Economic Policy	571	(24)
CHAPTER 18 Foreign and Defense Policy	595	(34)
PART SIX State and Local Politics	629	(32)
CHAPTER 19 State and Local Government	631	(30)
APPENDIX A The Declaration of Independence	661	(2)
APPENDIX B The Constitution of the United States of America	663	(19)
APPENDIX C Presidents of the United States	682	(3)
APPENDIX D Federalist Papers No. 10, No. 51, and No. 78	685	(10)
APPENDIX E How to Do Research in Political Science	695	(6)
APPENDIX F Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Twentieth Century	701	(4)
APPENDIX G Party Control of Congress in the Twentieth Century	705	(2)
APPENDIX H Spanish Equivalents for Important Terms in American Government	707	(6)
APPENDIX I A Citizen's Survival Guide	713
GLOSSARY	G-1
INDEX	I-1