An introduction to American government, this work is organized around two themes. The first theme asks students to evaluate the vitality of American democracy against a defined democratic ideal. The second one, asks students to look at the structures underlying the political system, and examine how these structures affect, and are affected by, it.
An undergraduate text in American government and politics, asking students to critically assess the quality of democracy in the US against an evaluative standard provided by the authors, and presenting a simple analytical framework to help ...
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REVEL™ for The Struggle for Democracy offers students the tools they need to critically analyze our political system and make judgments about how well our government works.
This book argues that any serious study of these changes has to engage with complex questions about the role of education in a modern liberal democracy.
Liberation Technology brings together cutting-edge scholarship from scholars and practitioners at the forefront of this burgeoning field of study.
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