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Perspectives on American Politics
by Lasser, WilliamEdition:
3rd
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9780395961025
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0395961025
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Pub. Date:
7/28/1999
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Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
Comprehensive and thematically rich, the Fourth Edition is designed for instructors who want an American politics reader that can supplement any text. This comprehensive volume includes up-to-date readings that correspond to the most frequently assigned chapters of American government texts and expand students' understanding and knowledge of how the American system works. Selections fall into four categories¿classical/constitutional, historical, comparative, and contemporary¿providing a range of perspectives that expand student understanding and knowledge of the U.S. governmental system.
Table of Contents
| The Constitution | |
| Foundations | |
| Federalist No. 10 | |
| Federalist No. 47 | |
| Federalist No. 48 | |
| Federalist No. 51 | |
| The Address and Reason of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania to Their Constituents | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Second Thoughts on the Second Amendment | |
| The International Context | |
| How Ideas Travel: Rights at Home and Abroad | |
| View from the Inside | |
| The Founding Fathers: A Reform Caucus in Action | |
| Federalism | |
| Foundations | |
| What the Antifederalists Were For, Herbert Storing | |
| Federalist No. 39 | |
| Federalist No. 45 | |
| American Politics Today | |
| American Federalism on the Horizon | |
| The International Context | |
| If You Sincerely Want to Be a United States..., The Economist | |
| View from the Inside | |
| The Man Behind the Mayor | |
| The Out-of-Towners | |
| Civil Liberties | |
| Foundations | |
| On Liberty | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Terrorism and the Limits of Law | |
| The International Context | |
| The Universal Declaration and the U.S. Constitution | |
| View from the Inside | |
| Speaking Our Minds | |
| Civil Rights | |
| Foundations | |
| Plessy v. Ferguson, Justice Henry B. Brown, Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting | |
| Brown v. Board of Education, Chief Justice | |
| Boiling v. Sharpe, Chief Justice | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Affirmative Action--Don't Mend or End It--Bend It | |
| The International Context | |
| Multicultural Citizenship | |
| View from the Inside | |
| Women in the Barracks | |
| Political Culture and Public Opinion | |
| Foundations | |
| Democracy in America | |
| American Politics Today | |
| One Nation, Slightly Divisible | |
| The International Context | |
| American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword | |
| View from the Inside | |
| The Other War Room | |
| Interest Groups | |
| Foundations | |
| The Scope and Bias of the Pressure System | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Always Involved, Rarely Central: Organized Interests in American Politics | |
| The International Context | |
| Lobbying, Euro-Style | |
| View from the Inside | |
| A New Form of Lobbying Puts Public Face on Private Interest | |
| The Media | |
| Foundations | |
| New York Times Co. v. United States | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Bias | |
| Victim Politics | |
| The International Context | |
| Inside Al Jazeera | |
| View from the Inside | |
| Keeper of Secrets | |
| Parties and Elections | |
| Foundations | |
| Towards a More Responsible Two-Party System, The APSA Committee on Political Parties | |
| American Politics Today | |
| The Crabgrass Wars | |
| Why There's Nothing the Democrats Could | |
| The International Context | |
| Breaking the Two-Party Monopoly, Douglas J. Amy IV. View from the Inside | |
| Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow! Jeff Greenfield | |
| The Congress | |
| Foundations | |
| Federalist No. 55 | |
| Federalist No. 57 | |
| American Politics Today | |
| What the American Public Wants Congress to Be | |
| The International Context | |
| Changing Perceptions of the British System | |
| View from the Inside | |
| Dr. Feelgood | |
| The Presidency | |
| Foundations | |
| Federalist No. 68 | |
| Federalist No. 70 | |
| Presidential Power | |
| American Politics Today | |
| The Changing Leadership | |
| The International Context | |
| Presidents and Prime Ministers | |
| View from the Inside | |
| September 11, 2001 | |
| The Bureaucracy | |
| Foundations | |
| Bureaucracy | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It | |
| The International Context | |
| The Distinctive Nature of American Public Administration | |
| View from the Inside | |
| Descent into Evil | |
| The Judiciary | |
| Foundations | |
| Federalist No. 78 | |
| Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Beyond Bush v. Gore | |
| The International Context | |
| Judicial Activism in Canada and the United States | |
| View from the Inside | |
| The "Accidental President," | |
| Public Policy | |
| Foundations | |
| Domestic Policy Making | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Nine Misconceptions About Social Security | |
| The International Context | |
| America and the World | |
| View from the Inside | |
| Taking the Initiative, or Risk Taking Inside Government | |
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