Principles and Practice of American Politics

by Kernell, Samuel; Smith, Steven S.; Kernell, Samuel; Smith, Steven S.

• ISBN13: 9781568027937
• ISBN10: 1568027931
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Designing Institutions	p. 1
from The Logic of Collective Action	p. 2
from Analyzing Politics	p. 15
Everything Must Go!	p. 26
The Tragedy of the Commons	p. 31
Quotas Might Save both Fish and Fishers	p. 45
The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life	p. 49
The Constitutional Framework	p. 59
James Madison Explains the Constitution to Thomas Jefferson	p. 60
Trading Votes at the Constitutional Convention	p. 72
Federalism	p. 84
The Rediscovery of American Federalism	p. 85
Federalism as an Ideal Political Order and an Objective for Constitutional Reform	p. 110
Beyond the Welfare Clock	p. 120
The Federalization of Criminal Laws	p. 128
Civil Rights	p. 134
Understanding Whites' Resistance to Affirmative Action	p. 135
Desegregation Is Dead	p. 153
High Court Upholds Minority Districts	p. 165
Civil Liberties	p. 167
The Mysterious Case of Establishment Clause Litigation: How Organized Litigants Foiled Legal Change	p. 168
The Real World of Constitutional Rights: The Supreme Court and the Implementation of the Abortion Decisions	p. 201
Privacy, Please: Thinking about a Troublesome Concept	p. 235
Congress	p. 244
The Senate in Bicameral Perspective	p. 245
from Congress: The Electoral Connection	p. 272
Party Leaders and the New Legislative Process	p. 282
Toward More Accountable Members	p. 302
The Presidency	p. 334
from Presidential Power	p. 335
from Going Public	p. 359
What Seemed Like a Good Idea Haunts the GOP Establishment	p. 378
The Bureaucracy	p. 385
from Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It	p. 386
The Politics of Bureaucratic Structure	p. 412
from The True Size of Government	p. 429
The Judiciary	p. 454
from The Choices Justices Make	p. 455
from The Supreme Court	p. 469
Why It's Getting Harder to Appoint Judges	p. 498
Public Opinion	p. 502
Analyzing and Interpreting Polls	p. 503
Gender and Public Opinion	p. 535
Disconnected Politics: Public Opinion and Presidents	p. 556
Dynamic Representation	p. 578
Poll Positions: Leaders' Over-Dependence on Public Opinion	p. 595
Voting, Campaigns, and Elections	p. 598
from The Reasoning Voter	p. 599
Rules of the Game	p. 607
Should Election Day Be a Holiday?	p. 616
Political Parties	p. 623
from Why Parties?	p. 624
National Party Organizations at the Century's End	p. 638
Of Political Parties Great and Small	p. 671
Interest Groups	p. 684
The Scope and Bias of the Pressure System	p. 685
The Evolution of Interest Groups	p. 695
From Big Bird to Bill Gates: Organized Interests and the Emergence of Hyperpolitics	p. 704
The Money Culture	p. 718
The News Media	p. 741
Is Journalism Hopelessly Cynical?	p. 742
Market Research and the Audience for Political News	p. 752
Beaten: Washington Bureaus Have Largely Abandoned Agencies	p. 774
Low Score	p. 783
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