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ISBN: 9780321155283 | 0321155289
Edition: 6th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 12/1/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
This exciting, best selling introduction to American government asks students to critically evaluate the quality of democracy in America today and to consider how underlying structural factors, such as the economy and cultural values, affect, and are affected by, our political system. Outstanding features include a new "By the Numbers" feature, "How Democratic Are We?" boxes, a unique analytical framework, "Using the Framework" boxes, "Web Exploration" exercises, and superior diversity coverage throughout.
List of Features
xxi
Prefacexxv
Part One Introduction: Main Themes
1(24)
... MOREDemocracy and American Politics
2(23)
Robert Moses and the Struggle for African-American Voting Rights
3(1)
Democracy
4(11)
The Democratic Idea
6(1)
Direct Versus Representative Democracy
6(1)
Fundamental Principles of Representative Democracy
6(2)
By the Numbers Is Voting Turnout Declining in the United States?
8(5)
Objections to Majoritarian Representative Democracy
13(2)
Democracy as an Evaluative Standard: How Democratic Are We?
15(1)
A Framework for Understanding How American Politics Works
15(10)
Organizing the Main Factors of Political Life
16(1)
Connecting the Main Factors of Political Life
17(2)
Understanding American Politics Holistically
19(1)
Using The Framework The Voting Rights Art
20(5)
Part Two Structure
25(90)
The Constitution
26(28)
Shays's Rebellion
27(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
28(1)
The Political Theory of the Revolutionary Era
29(3)
The Declaration of Independence
30(2)
The Articles of Coonfederation: The First Constitution
32(1)
Provisions of the Articles
32(1)
Shortcomings of the Articles
33(1)
Factors Leading to the Constitutional Convention
33(3)
The Republican Beliefs of the Founders
33(2)
Why the Founders Were Worried
35(1)
The Constitutional Convention
36(10)
Who Were the Framers?
36(1)
Consensus and Conflict at the Convention
37(3)
What the Framers Created
40(1)
Using the Framework Slavery in the Constitution
41(5)
The Struggle to Ratify the Constitution
46(2)
The Changing Constitution, Democracy, and American Politics
48(6)
How Democratic Are We? A Republic or a Democracy?
49(5)
Federalism: States and Nation
54(30)
Welfare Reform and the States
55(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
56(1)
Federalism as a System of Government
56(3)
The Nature of Federalism
56(1)
The Roots of Federalism
57(2)
Federalism in the Constitution
59(4)
Independent State Powers
59(1)
The States' Roles in National Government
59(1)
By the Numbers How Do We Know How Many People There Are in Each of the States?
60(1)
Relations Among the States
61(2)
The Evolution of American Federalism
63(9)
The Perpetual Debate About the Nature of American Federalism
63(2)
Federalism Before the Civil War
65(2)
The Civil War and the Expansion of National Power
67(1)
Expanded National Activity Since the Civil War
67(2)
Resurgence of the States in the 1990s
69(2)
Terrorism and the Resurgence of the Federal Government
71(1)
Changing American Federalism
71(1)
National Grants-in-Aid to the States
72(4)
Origin and Growth of Grants
72(1)
Categorical Grants
73(1)
Block Grants and Revenue Sharing
74(1)
Debates About Federal Money and Control
75(1)
U.S. Federalism: Pro and Con
76(8)
Using The Framework Federalism and Out-of-State Tuitition
77(2)
What Sort of Federalism?
79(1)
How Democratic Are We? Federalism, Majority Rule, and Political Equality
80(4)
The Structural Foundations of American Government and Politics
84(31)
``B-1 Bob'' Learns About His District
85(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
86(1)
American Society: How It has Changed and Why It Matters
86(14)
Growing Diversity
86(4)
Changing Location
90(1)
Changing Jobs and Occupations
91(2)
The Aging of the American Population
93(1)
By the Numbers Does Population Movement and Change Affect the Electoral Fortunes of the Parties?
94(1)
Income, Wealth, and Poverty
94(4)
Using the Framework The Persistence of Poverty
98(2)
The American Economy
100(4)
The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the Corporation
100(1)
The Post-World War II Boom
100(1)
The Temporary Fall from Grace
101(1)
Globalization and the American Economy
102(1)
Will Globalization Slow?
103(1)
The United States in the International System
104(3)
The United States as a Superpower I
104(2)
The United States as a Superpower II
106(1)
The Foundational Beliefs of American Political Culture
107(3)
Competitive Individualism
107(1)
Limited Government
108(1)
Free Enterprise
108(1)
Citizenship and the Nature of the Political Order
109(1)
Populism
110(1)
Structural Influences on American Politics
110(5)
How Democratic Are We? Is Real Democracy Possible in the United States?
111(4)
Part Three Political Linkage
115(190)
Public Opinion
116(34)
The Vietnam War and The Public
117(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
118(1)
Democracy and Public Opinion
119(1)
Measuring What People Think
120(5)
Individuals' Ignorance
121(1)
By The Numbers Do Americans Support Stem Cell Research? How Do We Know Which Survey to Believe?
122(2)
Collective Knowledge and Stability
124(1)
How People Feel About Politics
125(9)
The System in General
125(2)
Government Performance
127(1)
Party Identification
128(1)
Government's Role
129(1)
Policy Preferences
130(3)
Using the Framework Why No Gun Control?
133(1)
How People Differ
134(7)
Race and Ethnicity
134(2)
Religion
136(2)
Region
138(1)
Social Class
138(2)
Education
140(1)
Gender
140(1)
Age
141(1)
Does Public Opinion Strongly Influence What Government Does?
141(9)
``Yes, It Does''
141(1)
``No, It Doesn't''
142(2)
How Democratic Are We? The Influence of Public Opinion on American Government
144(6)
The News Media
150(34)
Vernon Jordan Meets the Press
151(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
152(1)
Roles of the News Media in Democracy
152(2)
Watchdog Over Government
152(1)
Clarifying Electrocal Choices
153(1)
Providing Policy Information
153(1)
The Media Landscape
154(4)
Newspapers
154(1)
Magazines
155(1)
Radio
155(1)
Television
156(1)
The Internet
156(2)
How the Media Work
158(12)
Organization of the News Media
158(2)
Political Newsmaking
160(4)
Interpreting
164(1)
Is the News Biased?
165(1)
By the Numbers How Much Serious Crime Is There in the United States?
166(2)
Prevailing Themes in Political News
168(2)
Effects of the News Media on Politics
170(4)
Using the Framework Monica All the Time
171(1)
Agenda Setting
172(1)
Framing and Effects on Policy Preferences
172(1)
Impact on Policymaking
173(1)
Cynicism
173(1)
Government Regulation of the Media
174(10)
Print Media
174(1)
The Electronic Media
175(2)
The Internet
177(1)
How Democratic Are We? The Media and Democratic Citizenship
178(6)
Interest Groups and Business Corporations
184(30)
Lobbying for China
185(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
186(1)
Interest Groups in a Democratic Society: Contrasting Views
186(3)
The Evils of Factions
187(1)
Interest Group Democracy: The Pluralist Argument
188(1)
Interest Group Formation: Structural, Political Linkage, and Governmental Factors
189(2)
Diverse Interests
189(1)
Rules of the Game
189(1)
The Growth in Government
190(1)
Distrbances
190(1)
Incentives
190(1)
What Interests Are Represented
191(3)
Private Interest Groups
191(2)
Public Interest Groups
193(1)
What Interest Groups Do
194(5)
The Inside Game
194(2)
Using The Framework Airline Passenger Bill of Rights
196(1)
The Outside Game
197(2)
Possible Flaws in the Pluralist Heaven
199(5)
By The Numbers How Can We Evaluate Our Congressional Representatives?
200(1)
Representational Inequalities
200(1)
Resource Inequalities
200(3)
Access Inequality
203(1)
The Special Place of Business Corporations
204(3)
Curing the Mischief of Factions
207(7)
How Democrative Are We? Interest Groups and American Politics
208(6)
Social Movements
214(24)
Women Win the Right to Vote
215(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
216(1)
What Are Social Movements?
217(1)
Major Social Movements in the United States
218(3)
Social Movements in a Majoritarian Democracy
221(2)
Encouraging Participation
221(1)
Overcoming Political Inequality
221(1)
Creating New Majorities
221(1)
Overcoming Cridlock
221(2)
Factors That Encourage the Creation of Social Movements
223(4)
The Existence of Social Distress
223(1)
Availability of Resources for Mobilization
224(1)
A Supportive Environment
225(1)
A Sense of Efficacy Among Participants
226(1)
A Spark to Set Off the Flames
226(1)
Tactics of Social Movements
227(2)
Why Some Social Movements Succeed and Others Do Not
229(9)
Low-Impact Social Movements
229(1)
Repressed Social Movements
230(1)
Partially Successful Social Movements
230(1)
Using The Framework ``Don't Ask, Don't Tell''
231(1)
Successful Social Movements
232(2)
How Democratic Are We? Social Movements and American Politican Politics
234(4)
Political Parties
238(28)
The Rise of the Campaign Party Machine
239(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
240(1)
The Role of Political Parties in a Democracy
240(2)
History of the Two-Party System
242(4)
The First Party System: Federalists Versus Democratic Republicans
243(1)
The Second Party System: Democrats Versus Whigs
244(1)
From the Civil War to 1896: Republicans and Democrats in Balance
244(1)
The Party System of 1896: Republican Dominance
244(1)
The New Deal Party System: Democratic Party Dominance
245(1)
The Sixth Party System: Dealignment and Divided Government
246(1)
Why a Two-Party System?
246(4)
Electral Rules
246(2)
Restrictions on Minor Parties
248(1)
Absence of a Strong Labor Movement
248(2)
The Role of Minor Parties in the Two-Party System
250(1)
The Parties as Organizations
250(8)
The Ambiguous Nature of American Political Parties
250(1)
The Organization of American Political Parties
251(3)
The Primacy of Candidates
254(1)
Ideology and Program
255(3)
The Parties in Government and in the Electrate
258(1)
The Problem of Divided Government
258(3)
Using The Framework Gridlock
260(1)
Parties in the Electorate
261(5)
How Democratic Are We? Political Parties and Responsive Government
261(5)
Participation, Voting, and Elections
266(39)
The Contested 2000 Presidential Election
267(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
268(1)
Elections and Democracy
269(4)
The Prospective (or Responsible Party) Voting Model
269(1)
The Electoral Competition Voting Model
270(1)
The Retrospective (or Reward and Punishment) Voting Model
271(2)
Imperfect Electoral Democracy
273(1)
The Nature of American Elections
273(3)
Using The Framework Elections Bring the New Deal
274(2)
Political Participation
276(5)
Expansion of the Franchise
276(2)
Low Voting Turnout
278(3)
Who Participates?
281(3)
Income and Education
281(1)
Race and Ethnicity
281(2)
Age
283(1)
Gender
283(1)
Does It Matter Who Votes?
283(1)
Campaigning for Office
284(9)
Contending for the Party Presidential Nomination
284(5)
The Autumn Campaign
289(2)
Money and Elections
291(2)
Election Outcomes
293(12)
How Voters Decide
293(3)
The Electoral College
296(1)
How Democatic Are We? Do Elections Matter?
297(1)
By The Numbers Did George W. Bush Really Win the 200 Presidential Vote in Florida?
298(7)
Part Four Government and Governing
305(142)
Congress
306(44)
The 2002 Elections and the Return of Unified Government
307(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
308(1)
Constitutional Foundations of the Modern Congress
309(2)
Empowering Congress
309(1)
Constraining Congress
309(1)
Bicameralism and Representation
309(1)
Federalism
310(1)
Representation and Democracy
311(15)
Styles of Representation
311(1)
Race, Gender, and Occupation in Congress
312(3)
The Electoral Connection
315(5)
By The Numbers How Are Congressional Districts Drawn to Include Equal Numbers of Voters?
320(2)
Using The Framework Campaign Finance Reform
322(4)
How Congress Works
326(17)
Political Parties in Congress
326(3)
Congressional Leadership
329(4)
Congressional Committees
333(3)
Rules and Norms in the House and Senate
336(2)
Legislative Responsibilities: How a Bill Becomes a Law
338(3)
Legislative Oversight of the Executive Branch
341(2)
Congress, Public Policy, and the American People
343(7)
Congress as Policymaker
343(1)
Congress and the American People
343(1)
How Democratic Are We? Is Congress Out of Touch?
344(6)
The President
350(34)
George W. Bush's War Presidency
351(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
352(1)
The Expanding Presidency
353(5)
The Earliest and Latest Presidencies Compared
353(1)
The Founders' Conception of the Presidency
353(1)
The Dormant Presidency
354(1)
The Twentieth-Century Transformation
355(2)
How Important Are Individual Presidents?
357(1)
The Many Roles of the President
358(3)
Chief of State
358(1)
Commander in Chief
358(1)
Legislator
359(1)
Manager of the Economy
359(1)
Chief Diplomat
360(1)
Head of the Political Party
360(1)
The President's Staff and Cabinet
361(4)
The White House Staff
361(1)
The Executive Office of the President
362(1)
The Vice-Presidency
363(1)
The Cabinet
364(1)
The President and the Bureaucracy
365(2)
Giving Orders
365(1)
Persuasion
366(1)
The President and Congress: Perpetual Tug-of-War
367(4)
Conflict by Constitutional Design
367(1)
What Makes a President Successful with Congress?
368(3)
The President and the People: An Evolving Relationship
371(5)
Getting Closer to the People
371(1)
Leading Public Opinion
372(1)
Responding to the Public
373(2)
The Role of Presidential Popularity
375(1)
Interest Groups, Political Parties, and Social Movements
376(1)
Interest Groups
376(1)
Political Parties
376(1)
Social Movements
377(1)
Structural Influences on the Presidency
377(7)
The International System
377(1)
Using The Framework Clinton and Free Trade
378(1)
How Democratic Are We? Presidents and the American People
379(1)
The Economy
379(5)
The Federal Bureaucracy
384(34)
The Federal Bureaucracy After Nine-Eleven
385(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
386(1)
A Comparative View of the American Bureaucracy
386(2)
Hostile Political Culture
387(1)
Incoherent Organization
387(1)
Divided Control
388(1)
Transformation of the Bureaucracy
388(4)
A Brief Administrative History of the United States
388(4)
How the Executive Branch Is Organized
392(2)
By The Numbers How Big Is the Federal Government? Is It Really Shrinking, as People Say?
394(1)
What Do Bureaucrats Do?
394(4)
Executing the Law
394(2)
Regulating (Rule Making)
396(1)
Using the Framework Bureaucratic Rule-Making
397(1)
Adjudicating
398(1)
Who Are the Bureaucrats?
398(4)
The Merit Services
398(2)
Political Appointees
400(2)
Political and Governmental Influences on Bureaucratic Behavior
402(4)
The Public
402(1)
The President
403(2)
Congress
405(1)
Common Criticisms of the Federal Bureaucracy
406(3)
``The Federal Bureaucracy Is Always Expanding''
407(1)
``The Federal Bureaucracy Is Ineffective''
407(1)
``The Federal Bureaucracy Is Wasteful and Inefficient''
407(1)
``The Federal Bureaucracy Is Mired in Red Tape''
408(1)
Reforming the Federal Bureaucracy
409(9)
Scaling Back the Size of the Bureaucracy
409(1)
Reinventing Government
410(1)
Protecting Against Bureaucratic Abuses of Power
411(1)
How Democratic Are We? The Bureaucracy and Democracy
412(1)
Increasing Popular Participation
413(1)
Increasing Presidential Control
413(5)
The Courts
418(29)
The Supreme Court Stops the Florida Recount
419(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
420(1)
The Structural Context of Court Behavior
421(2)
Constitutional Powers
421(1)
The Power of Judicial Review
421(2)
The U.S. Court System: Organization and Jurisdiction
423(4)
Constitutional Provisions
423(1)
Federal District Courts
424(1)
U.S. Courts of Appeal
425(1)
The Supreme Court
426(1)
Appointment to the Federal Bench
427(3)
Who Are the Appointees?
428(2)
The Appointment Process
430(1)
The Supreme Court in Action
430(4)
Norms of Operation
430(1)
Controlling the Agenda
430(2)
Deciding Cases
432(2)
The Supreme Courts as a National Policymaker
434(6)
Structural Change and Constitutional Interpretation
434(4)
Using The Framework Japanese-American Internment
438(1)
The Debate Over Judical Activism
439(1)
Outside Influences on the Court
440(7)
Governmental Factors
440(1)
Political Linkage Factors
441(2)
How Democratic Are We? Is the Supreme Court a Democratic or Nondemocratic Institution?
443(4)
Part Five What Government Does
447
Freedom: The Struggle for Civil Liberties
448(28)
Campus Speech Codes and Free Speech
449(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
450(1)
Civil Liberties in the Constitution
450(2)
Rights And Liberties in the Nineteenth Century
452(1)
Economic Liberty in the Early Republic
452(1)
Economic Liberty After the Civil War
453(1)
Nationalization of the Bill of Rights
453(23)
Selective Incorporation
453(1)
Standards for Incorporation
454(1)
Freedom of Speech
455(4)
Freedom of the Press
459(2)
Free Exercise of Religion
461(1)
Establishment of Religion
461(3)
Privacy
464(1)
Rights of the Accused
465(5)
Using The Framework The Death Penalty
470(1)
Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism
471(2)
How Democratic Are We? Civil Liberties and Democracy
473(3)
Civil Rights: The Struggle for Political Equality
476(26)
From Martin Luther King to Louis Farrakhan
477(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
478(1)
Civil Rights Before the Twentieth Century
478(4)
An Initial Absence of Civil Rights
478(2)
The Civil War Amendments
480(2)
The Contemporary Status of Civil Rights
482(20)
Civil Rights for Racial Minorities
483(6)
Using The Framework Affirmative Action
489(1)
Civil Rights for Women
490(4)
Enlarging the Civil Rights Umbrella
494(3)
How Democratic Are We? Civil Rights in the United States
497(5)
Domestic Policy: The Economy and Social Welfare
502(36)
Whatever Happened to the Budget Surplus?
503(1)
Thinking Critically Abut This Chapter
504(1)
Why Government Is Involved in the Economy and Social Welfare
505(1)
Economic Management
505(1)
Social Welfare
506(1)
Economic Policy
506(4)
The Goals of Economic Policy
506(2)
The Tools of Macroeconomic Policy
508(2)
The Federal Budget and Fiscal Policy
510(9)
Spending, Texas, and Debt
510(4)
Regulation
514(4)
Making Economic Policy: The Main Players
518(1)
Social Welfare
519(19)
Outline of the American Welfare State
519(1)
Social Security and Other Social Insurance Programs
520(3)
Means-Tested Programs (Welfare)
523(1)
By The Numbers How Many Americans Are Poor?
524(4)
Using The Framework Welfare Reform
528(1)
How the American Welfare State Compares with Others
529(1)
Why the American Welfare State Is Different
530(2)
How Democratic Are We? Economic and Social Policy and the American People
532(6)
Foreign Policy and National Defense
538
The Triumph of Unilateralism?
539(1)
Thinking Critically About This Chapter
540(1)
Foreign Policy and Democracy: A Contradiction in Terms?
540(1)
The United States as a Superpower: History and Structure
541(7)
The Cold War
542(2)
The End of the Cold War
544(1)
The Structural Bases of American Superpower Status
545(3)
Problems of the Post-Cold War World
548(9)
New Security Issues
549(2)
Economic and Social Dilemmas
551(6)
Who Makes Foreign Policy?
557
The President and the Executive Branch
558(1)
Congres
559(1)
Public Opinion and the News Media
560(1)
Corporations, Interest, Groups, and Social Movements
561(1)
Using the Framework Air War in Kosovo
562(1)
How Democratic Are We? The American Public and the Making of Foreig Policy
563
Appendix
The Declaration of Independence
2(2)
The Constitution of the United States
4(9)
The Federalist Papers, Nos. 10,51, and 78
13(7)
Presidents and Congresses, 1789-2005
20(4)
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, 1789-2003
24
Glossary1(1)
Credits1(1)
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