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Living Democracy, National Edition

by: Shea, Daniel M.; Green, Joanne Connor; Smith, Christopher E.

ISBN: 9780130497062 | 0130497061

Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007

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Summary Table of Contents

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. ... MORESmith (Michigan State) to write an American Government text that truly inspires students and helps them experience the impact of government in their daily lives. Everything about the book the writing, design, examples, photos, activities, and every page of the text is designed to get students to participate in their own learning, in the classroom, and in American politics. In a recent survey of American Government instructors, 80% namedstudent apathy as the number one problem in their course. Students are simply not engaged in the course material or in local politics. They do not believe the government can affect change and enrich their lives. Written with the belief that introductory courses in American Government are critically important for our students as well as for the long-term stability of the democratic process Living Democracy is designed to help students draw connections between topics and to find a role for themselves in politics and government. The text's innovative approach to American government presents the dynamic nature of our country's democratic process more accurately than any other book currently on the market, while offering all of the material found in a comprehensive, traditionally organized government text within an active framework.

Living Democracygets students to participate in learning, in the classroom, and in change. The bookrs"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. Smith (Michigan State) to write an American Government text that truly inspires students and helps them experience the impact of government in their daily lives. Everything about the book-the writing, design, examples, photos, activities, and every page of the text-is designed to get students to participate in their class and in American politics.

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... MOREon �
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 ldquo;Common Senserdquo; of Democracy
The Declaration of Independence
The Colonial Experience and the Pathways of Change �
Pathways Past and Present: Tiimothy McVeighrsquo;s Revolution?
The Articles of Confederation Limitations of the Articles of Confederation
Shaysrsquo;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
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