"American Politics and Government Today teaches students exactly what they need to know to succeed in the course and become informed citizens. The part structure and chapter organization clearly maps to the five AP® U.S. Government and Politics units, for close alignment with the course framework. In each chapter, integrated policy coverage allows students to see how social, economic, or foreign policy relates to real-life situations, while AP®-style multiple-choice questions and the full range of free response questions offer students practice opportunities at the end of each chapter"--
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Written for all students of politics coming to the subject for the first time, this textbook provides a lively and accessible introduction and guide to all the main features and characteristics of one of the most distinctive and complex ...
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.
Cut through the noise to understand how politics really works
American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials
Organized to follow the structure of a standard introduction to American politics text, this unique reader highlights the role of diversity in U.S. politics through exploration of engaging, contemporary...
This is because American political behavior has become substantially more nationalized.
Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.
The book builds upon what students have already learned and emphasizes connections between topics as well as between theory and applications.
Koenig, 1996, p.181 Koenig hasin mindthat total presidential control of the bureaucracy could and sometimes does lead to presidential abuse ofthatpower. President Nixon,for example, put pressure upon the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ...