Keeping the Republic: Power and Citizenship in American Politics - Brief Edition

Seventh Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-5063-4995-4
Verlag: CQ PR

Buch, Englisch, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Readers are pushed to consider how and why institutions and rules determine who wins and who loses in American politics and to be sceptical of received wisdom. Every element of the text is crafted to provide the tools students need to be thoughtful, savvy consumers of political information and to teach them to think more deeply about what they see, read, and hear. Carefully condensed from the full version by authors Christine Barbour and Gerald Wright, Keeping the Republic, Brief Edition gives students all the continuity and crucial content, in a more concise, value-oriented package.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barbour, Christine

Wright, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
To the Student
1 POWER AND CITIZENSHIP IN AMERICAN POLITICS
What Is Politics?
Political Systems and the Concept of Citizenship
Democracy in America
Who Is a Citizen and Who Is Not?
What Do American Citizens Believe?
How to Use the Themes and Features in This Book
Citizenship and Politics
2 THE POLITICS OF THE AMERICAN FOUNDING
The Split From England
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitutional Convention
The Constitution
Ratification
Citizenship and the Founding
3 FEDERALISM
What Is Federalism?
American Federalism Over Time
Federalism Today
Citizenship and Federalism
4 FUNDAMENTAL AMERICAN LIBERTIES
Rights in a Democracy
The Bill of Rights and the States
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Expression
The Right to Bear Arms
The Rights of Criminal Defendants
The Right to Privacy
Citizenship and Civil Liberties
5 THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
The Meaning of Political Inequality
Rights Denied on the Basis of Race
Rights Denied on the Basis of Race and Ethnicity
Rights Denied on the Basis of Gender
Rights Denied on Other Bases
Citizenship and Civil Rights Today
6 CONGRESS
Understanding Congress
Congressional Powers and Responsibilities
Congressional Elections
Congressional Organization
How Congress Works
Citizenship and Congress
7 THE PRESIDENCY
The Presidential Job Description
The Evolution of the American Presidency
Presidential Politics
Managing the Presidential Establishment
The Presidential Personality
Citizenship and the Presidency
8 THE BUREAUCRACY
What Is Bureaucracy?
The American Federal Bureaucracy
Politics Inside the Bureaucracy
External Bureaucratic Politics
Citizenship and the Bureaucracy
9 THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM AND THE COURTS
Law and the American Legal System
Constitutional Provisions and the Development of Judicial Review
Federalism and the American Courts
The Supreme Court
Citizenship and the Courts
10 PUBLIC OPINION
The Role of Public Opinion in a Democracy
Citizen Values
What Influences Our Opinions About Politics?
Measuring and Tracking Public Opinion
Citizenship and Public Opinion
11 PARTIES AND INTEREST GROUPS
What Are Political Parties?
The American Party System
The Roles, Formation, and Types of Interest Groups
Interest Group Politics
Interest Group Resources
Citizenship and Political Groups
12 VOTING, CAMPAIGNS, AND ELECTIONS
Exercising the Right to Vote in America
How America Decides
Presidential Campaigns
Citizenship and Elections
13 MEDIA, POWER, AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
Where Do We Get Our Information?
How Does Media Ownership Affect Control of the Narrative?
Who Are the Journalists?
Spinning Political Narratives
Politics as Public Relations
Citizenship and the Media
14 DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY
Making Public Policy
Social Policy
Economic Policy
Foreign Policy
Citizenship and Policy
Appendix Material
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United States
Notes
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barbour, Christine
Christine Barbour teaches in the Political Science Department and the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University, where she has become increasingly interested in how teachers of large classes can maximize what their students learn. She is working with online course designers to create an online version of her Intro to American Politics class. At Indiana, Professor Barbour has been a Lilly Fellow, working on a project to increase student retention in large introductory courses, and a member of the Freshman Learning Project, a university-wide effort to improve the first-year undergraduate experience. She has served on the New York Times College Advisory Board, working with other educators to develop ways to integrate newspaper reading into the undergraduate curriculum. She has won several teaching honors, but the two awarded by her students mean the most to her: the Indiana University Student Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty and the Indiana University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award. When not teaching or writing textbooks, Professor Barbour enjoys playing with her dogs, traveling with her coauthor, and writing about food. She is the food editor for Bloom Magazine of Bloomington and is a coauthor of Indiana Cooks!(2005) and Home Grown Indiana (2008). She also makes jewelry from precious metals and rough gemstones and if she ever retires, she will open a jewelry shop in a renovated air-stream on the beach in Apalachicola, Florida, where she plans to write another cookbook and a book about the local politics, development, and fishing industry.

Wright, Gerald
Gerald C. Wright has taught political science at Indiana University since 1981, and he is currently the chair of the political science department. An accomplished scholar of American politics, and the 2010 winner of the State Politics and Policy Association’s Career Achievement Award, his books include Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States (1993), coauthored with Robert S. Erikson and John P. McIver, and he has published more than fifty articles on elections, public opinion, and state politics. Professor Wright has long studied the relationship among citizens, their preferences, and public policy.

He is currently conducting research funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation on the factors that influence the equality of policy representation in the states and in Congress. He is also writing a book about representation in U.S. legislatures. He has been a consultant for Project Vote Smart in the past several elections. Professor Wright is a member of Indiana University’s Freshman Learning Project, a university-wide effort to improve the first-year undergraduate experience by focusing on how today’s college students learn and how teachers can adapt their pedagogical methods to best teach them. In his nonworking hours, Professor Wright also likes to spend time with his dogs, travel, eat good food, fish, and play golf.