Bowles / McMahon Government and Politics of the United States

3rd Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-40598-2
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: Comparative Government and Politics

This extensively revised new edition offers a broad-ranging, systematic and sophisticated introduction contemplating the institutions and processes of government in the US set in a clear historical context.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowles, Nigel

McMahon, Robert K

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Beliefs and Values in American Society.- 3. The Constitution Creating the Rules of the Game.- 4. Political Parties The Politics of Aggregation and Disaggregation.- 5. Elections and the Politics of Participation.- 6. The Presidency and the Politics of Leadership.- 7. Congress and the Politics of Legislative Competition.- 8. The Supreme Court and the Politics of Adjudication.- 9. Interest Groups.- 10. Bureaucracy -The Fourth Branch of Government.- 11. Federalism and Intergovernmental Policy-Making.- 12. Economic and Domestic Policy.- 13. Foreign and Defence Policy.- 14. Conclusion.- Appendix 1: The Constitution of the United States.- Further Reading.- Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Nigel Bowles is Director of the Rothermere American Institute, and Professorial Fellow, at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK.Robert McMahon is the Head of the Politics Department at Radley College, Abingdon, UK.