American Government and Politics Today The Essentials, 2002-2003 Edition (with InfoTrac)

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

• ISBN13: 9780534586539
• ISBN10: 0534586538
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-15
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Part One The American System	1	(106)
Forces of Change in the Twenty-First Century	3	(26)
The Constitution	29	(50)
Federalism	79	(28)
Part Two Civil Rights and Liberties	107	(84)
Civil Liberties	109	(34)
Civil Rights: Equal Protection	143	(48)
Part Three People and Politics	191	(138)
Public Opinion and Political Socialization	193	(28)
Interest Groups	221	(26)
Political Parties	247	(30)
Campaigns, Nominations, and Elections	277	(52)
Part Four Political Institutions	329	(128)
The Congress	331	(34)
The Presidency	365	(34)
The Bureaucracy	399	(28)
The Judiciary	427	(30)
Part Five Public Policy	457	(64)
Domestic and Economic Policy	459	(30)
Foreign and Defense Policy	489	(32)
Appendix A The Declaration of Independence	521	(2)
Appendix B How to Read Case Citations and Find Court Decisions	523	(1)
Appendix C Presidents of the United States	524	(3)
Appendix D Federalist Papers No. 10, No. 51, and No. 78	527	(10)
Appendix E Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1900	537	(4)
Appendix F Party Control of Congress since 1900	541	(2)
Appendix G Spanish Equivalents for Important Terms in American Government	543	(6)
Glossary	549	(10)
Index	559