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Perspectives on American Politics
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5th
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9780618719150
ISBN10:
0618719156
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Pub. Date:
1/1/2007
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Cengage High School
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Summary
A thematically rich reader,Perspectives on American Politicsorganizes up-to-date selections into four categories--Foundations, American Politics Today, Controversies,andView from the Inside.This range of perspectives expands students' understanding and knowledge of how the American system works. The text's thirteen chapters correspond with the most frequently assigned chapters of American Government textbooks, making it an ideal supplement to any core text. New!Controversies perspective in each chapter provides students with different points of view on critical issues in American politics, using either a pro/con set of articles or one balanced article to illustrate the articles. Both the text and the Instructor's Resource Manual include ideas on how to use these articles to structure class debates. With the addition of this feature, the fifth Edition presents a greater number of readings directly related to the introductory American Government course. (Articles on international topics are interspersed throughout the other sections as appropriate.)
Table of Contents
| The Constitution | |
| Foundations | |
| Federalist No. 10, James Madison | |
| Federalist No. 47, James Madison | |
| Federalist No. 48, James Madison | |
| Federalist No. 51, James Madison | |
| The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania to Their Constituents | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Second Thoughts on the Second Amendment, Wendy Kaminer | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| Is the Constitution Democratic? | |
| View from the Inside | |
| A Brilliant Solution | |
| Federalism | |
| Foundations | |
| What the Antifederalists Were For | |
| Federalist No. 45 | |
| American Politics Today | |
| The State of American Federalism | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| The End of the Federalism Revolution | |
| Reclaiming Federalism | |
| View from the Inside | |
| How Did Intergovernmental Relations Fail in the USA After Hurricane Katrina? | |
| Civil Liberties | |
| Foundations | |
| On Liberty | |
| American Politics Today | |
| The Day After Roe | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| Terrorism and the Limits of Law | |
| View from the Inside | |
| Is the Criminal Trial a Search for Truth? | |
| Civil Rights | |
| Foundations | |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | |
| Brown v. Board of Education | |
| Bolling v. Sharpe | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Affirmative Action--Don't Mend or End It--Bend It | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| Border War | |
| View from the Inside 4.6 "We Do," | |
| Political Culture and Public Opinion | |
| Foundations | |
| Democracy in America | |
| American Politics Today | |
| One Nation, Slightly Divisible | |
| The Twelve Tribes of American Politics | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| Polling and Democracy | |
| View from the Inside | |
| The Other War Room | |
| Interest Groups | |
| Foundations | |
| The Scope and Bias of the Pressure System | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Interest Group Connections in Changing Political Environments | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| Potholes on K Street, Bara Vaida | |
| View from the Inside | |
| High Tech Learns to Play the Washington Game | |
| The Media | |
| Foundations | |
| New York Times Co. v. United States | |
| American Politics Today | |
| The New Media | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| Bias | |
| Victim Politics | |
| View from the Inside | |
| My Plame Problem--and Yours | |
| Parties and Elections | |
| Foundations | |
| Why Parties? | |
| American Politics Today | |
| How the Democrats Won | |
| Purple Mountains | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| In Defense of the Electoral College | |
| View from the Inside | |
| Lesson Learned: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Election Night Coverage | |
| The Congress | |
| Foundations | |
| Federalist No. 55 | |
| Federalist No. 57 | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Congress and American Democracy: Assessing Performance | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| Slaying the Dinosaur: The Case for Reforming the Senate Filibuster | |
| Defending the Dinosaur: The Case for Not Fixing the Filibuster | |
| View from the Inside | |
| Great Expectations | |
| The Presidency | |
| Foundations | |
| Federalist No.70 | |
| Presidential Power | |
| American Politics Today | |
| The Two Constitutional Presidencies | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| The Tension Between Presidential Signing Statements and the Rule of Law | |
| Presidential Signing Statements Maintain the Balance of Power | |
| View from the Inside | |
| September 11, 2001 | |
| The Bureaucracy | |
| Foundations | |
| Bureaucracy | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| The 9-11 Commission Report, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States | |
| View from the Inside | |
| Taking the Initiative, or Risk Taking Inside Government | |
| The Judiciary | |
| Foundations | |
| Federalist No. 78 | |
| Marbury v. Madison | |
| American Politics Today | |
| From Rehnquist to Roberts | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| Should the Constitution Be Interpreted According to Its Original Meaning? | |
| Justice John Paul Stevens | |
| View from the Inside | |
| A Novice Confronts the Supreme Court | |
| Public Policy | |
| Foundations | |
| Domestic Policy Making | |
| American Politics Today | |
| Why Spending Has Got to Give | |
| Issue and Controversy | |
| The Two World Orders | |
| View from the Inside | |
| Policy Entrepreneurship in Congress | |
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