The Fifth Edition of American Politics Today is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features--from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page graphics that illustrate key political processes--show students how politics works and why it matters. All components of the learning package--textbook, InQuizitive adaptive learning tool, and coursepack--are organized around specific chapter learning goals to ensure that students learn the nuts and bolts of American government.
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Study Guide for Bardes, Shelley, and Schmidt's American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials
Challenging conventional textbook wisdoms, the collection provides new interpretations on American government institutions, public policies and popular culture from jazz and rap to The Simpsons and South Park.
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Mickey. Mouse. politics. During the summer of 1998, Michael D. Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Corporation, faced a major problem. The expiration of Disney's 75-year copyright on Mickey Mouse was looming and the company was ...
This thoroughly updated edition of Schmidt, Shelley, and Bardes' popular text offers balanced, unbiased, comprehensive, and up-to-date coverage of constitutional, governmental, political, social, and economic structures and processes.
... sabotage (work to undermine the policy). In trying to ensure that agencies work rather than shirk or sabotage, their ... working, shirking, or sabotaging a particular policy (Brehm and Gates 1997). adverse selection A principal's lack of ...
American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials