This edition features the exact same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole- punched, loose-leaf version. Books à la Carte also offer a great value for your students–this format costs significantly less than a new textbook. Updated in a new 2011 edition, American Government: Roots and Reform provides the historical context students need to understand our government and the most crucial and controversial issues affecting the nation in the 21st century. This bestselling book has been extensively revised to provide in-depth coverage of President Barack Obama's first two years in office and the 111th Congress, the 2010 congressional elections, continued concerns related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and domestic concerns related to health care reform and the economy.
American Government 3e
American Government: Origins, Institutions, and Public Policy
American Government: The Essentials
Introduction to American Government
HOW THINGS WORK Congressional Calendars House Union Calendar Bills to raise revenue or spend money Example : an appropriations bill House Calendar Nonmoney bills of major importance Example : a civil rights bill Private Calendar Private ...
The book provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of American Government and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them.
How and why has government gotten bigger? “Should be a compulsory assignment for any seminar on modern political culture.” —The Journal of American History American government has evolved over the generations since the mid-nineteenth ...
Contains two hundred alphabetically arranged articles discussing subjects important to American government.
Hogan, Cross of Iron, 12–18; Blanche Wiesen Cook, The Declassified Eisenhower (New York: Penguin, 1981), 345–46. 7. Melvin Leffler, Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford, ...
Introduction to American Government encourages students to think critically about current issues in politics and policy and to question how and why America has achieved its current position politically.