The book builds upon what students have already learned and emphasizes connections between topics as well as between theory and applications.
American Government: Institutions and Policies
American Government: Origins, Institutions, and Public Policy
American Government: The Essentials
Introduction to American Government
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 ...
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.
Contains two hundred alphabetically arranged articles discussing subjects important to American government.
1 (January 1998): 39–43; Lee D. Bawden and John L. Palmer, “Social Policy: Challenging the Welfare State,” in Palmer and Isabel V. Sawhill, The Reagan Record (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1984), 364–76, second quote at 367. 60.
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.