The text's highly lauded politics matters focus has been expanded to include new ways students can connect to their government the news media and the Internet. Empahsizes public policy to show students the impact government has on their daily lives. New "Issues of the Times" feature presents articles about current issues from The New York Times. New "Get Connected" exercises asks students to investigate isseus on the Web. Other engaging features: "Making a Difference" boxes, "How You Can Make a Difference" boxes, and "Career Profiles."
American Government 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you learn.
This text introduces the main features of American politics and asks “how should we govern?” and “what should government do?” Government in America helps students see that politics drives what government can–or cannot do–for the ...
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.
This popular brief edition text for the one-semester or one-quarter American Government course maintains the framework of Wilson's comprehensive text, emphasizing the historical development of the American political system, who governs, and ...
Study Guide, the Challenge of Democracy: Government in America
Leib takes special pains to show how this new branch would be integrated with the already existing governmental and political institutions of our society, including administrative agencies and political parties, and would thus complement ...
The Challenge of Democracy: Government in America
State and Local Government in America
This version of Government in America, 2012 Election Edition includes all thirteen chapters from Gibson/Robison's Government and Politics in the Lone Star State, 8/e at a lower price point than the two books packaged together.
Wolfson Archives. After Miami-Dade mayor Chuck Hall sent the first wrecking ball to destroy an African American neighborhood, buildings were demolished to make way for I-95, as children look on. Top photo: Wolfson Archives.