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Living Democracy, Basic Edition
ISBN: 9780136132103 | 0136132103
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007
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For undergraduate courses in American Government.This is the book that gets students to participate.Living Democracy gets students to participate in learning, in the classroom, and in change. The book's young and energetic author team cares deeply about student learning and student engagement. Lead author Dan Shea founded the Center for Political Participation and his experiences working with students in the classroom and in the center inspired him to team up with co-authors Joanne Connor Green (Texas Christian University) and Christopher E. Sm... MORE
| Foundations of American Government | |
| Preface/Walkthrough | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| About the Authors | |
| American Government: Democracy in Action | |
| American Democracy and the Individual Citizen | |
| The Unique Democracy of the United States | |
| Themes of This Book | |
| Citizen Participation in Democratic Government | |
| Pathways of Acti... MORE | |
| Pathways of Action: Active Students and Local Air Pollution Laws | |
| Pathways Profile: A. Philip Randolph | |
| Diversity in American Society | |
| Citizen Participation and Pathways: The Example of Abortion | |
| Change and Stability in American Government | |
| Sources of Stability | |
| Pathways Profile: The Political Culture of Our Neighbor to the North | |
| Conclusion | |
| Early Governance and the Constitutional Framework | |
| The Cry for Liberty, Equality, . . . and Slavery? | |
| The Nature of Government and Politics | |
| Types of Governments | |
| Economic Systems | |
| Early Governance in America | |
| Pathways of Action: The Sons of Liberty | |
| The American Revolution | |
| Pathways Profile: Thomas Paine and the "Common Sense" of Democracy | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| The Colonial Experience and the Pathways of Change | |
| Pathways Past and Present: Tiimothy McVeigh's Revolution? | |
| The Articles of Confederation | |
| Limitations of the Articles of Confederation | |
| Shays's Rebellion: An Alternative Look | |
| The Constitutional Convention | |
| The Great Compromise | |
| The Three-Fifths Compromise | |
| The Sectional Compromise | |
| The U.S. Constitution | |
| The Struggle over Ratification | |
| The Federalist Papers | |
| The Anti-Federalists' Response | |
| Other Challenges Faced by the New Nation | |
| A Second Revolution Jacksonian Democracy | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Institutions of American Government | |
| Federalism No Child Left Behind and the Ongoing Debate over Authority Why Divide Authority in the First Place? | |
| The Evolution of Federalism in the United States Before the Civil War | |
| Pathways Profile: John Marshall | |
| Pathways of Action: The Civil War and the Failure of American Politics Federalism after the Civil War | |
| Federal Power: The Supreme Court and the New Deal Recent Trends in Federalism | |
| The New Deal and Cooperative Federalism | |
| The Great Society and Creative Federalism | |
| The Changing Nature of Federal Grants | |
| Pathways of Action: Mandates to Prompt Change New Federalism | |
| Pathways Past and | |
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