American Democracy, Election Edition (Text)
, by Thomas E. Patterson
- ISBN: 9780072485011 | 0072485019
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- Copyright: 4/1/2001
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS I Chapter 1 The American Heritage: Seeking a More Perfect Union Political Culture: The Core Principles of American GovernmentPolitics: The Process of Deciding upon Society’s GoalsWho Governs America?The Concept of a Political System and the Book’s OrganizationChapter 2 Constitutional Democracy: Promoting Liberty and Self-GovernmentBefore the Constitution: The Colonial and Revolutionary ExperiencesNegotiating Toward a ConstitutionProviding for a Limited GovernmentProviding for Self-GovernmentCongressional Democracy TodayChapter 3 Federal Government: Forging a NationFederalism: National and State SovereigntyFederalism in Historical PerspectiveFederalism TodayThe Public’s Influence: Setting the Boundaries of Federal-State PowerChapter 4 Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual RightsFreedom of ExpressionFreedom of ReligionThe Right of PrivacyRights of Persons Accused of CrimesThe Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Political Culture: The Core Principles of American GovernmentPolitics: The Process of Deciding upon Society’s GoalsWho Governs America?The Concept of a Political System and the Book’s OrganizationChapter 2 Constitutional Democracy: Promoting Liberty and Self-GovernmentBefore the Constitution: The Colonial and Revolutionary ExperiencesNegotiating Toward a ConstitutionProviding for a Limited GovernmentProviding for Self-GovernmentCongressional Democracy TodayChapter 3 Federal Government: Forging a NationFederalism: National and State SovereigntyFederalism in Historical PerspectiveFederalism TodayThe Public’s Influence: Setting the Boundaries of Federal-State PowerChapter 4 Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual RightsFreedom of ExpressionFreedom of ReligionThe Right of PrivacyRights of Persons Accused of CrimesThe Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Who Governs America?The Concept of a Political System and the Book’s OrganizationChapter 2 Constitutional Democracy: Promoting Liberty and Self-GovernmentBefore the Constitution: The Colonial and Revolutionary ExperiencesNegotiating Toward a ConstitutionProviding for a Limited GovernmentProviding for Self-GovernmentCongressional Democracy TodayChapter 3 Federal Government: Forging a NationFederalism: National and State SovereigntyFederalism in Historical PerspectiveFederalism TodayThe Public’s Influence: Setting the Boundaries of Federal-State PowerChapter 4 Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual RightsFreedom of ExpressionFreedom of ReligionThe Right of PrivacyRights of Persons Accused of CrimesThe Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Chapter 2 Constitutional Democracy: Promoting Liberty and Self-GovernmentBefore the Constitution: The Colonial and Revolutionary ExperiencesNegotiating Toward a ConstitutionProviding for a Limited GovernmentProviding for Self-GovernmentCongressional Democracy TodayChapter 3 Federal Government: Forging a NationFederalism: National and State SovereigntyFederalism in Historical PerspectiveFederalism TodayThe Public’s Influence: Setting the Boundaries of Federal-State PowerChapter 4 Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual RightsFreedom of ExpressionFreedom of ReligionThe Right of PrivacyRights of Persons Accused of CrimesThe Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Negotiating Toward a ConstitutionProviding for a Limited GovernmentProviding for Self-GovernmentCongressional Democracy TodayChapter 3 Federal Government: Forging a NationFederalism: National and State SovereigntyFederalism in Historical PerspectiveFederalism TodayThe Public’s Influence: Setting the Boundaries of Federal-State PowerChapter 4 Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual RightsFreedom of ExpressionFreedom of ReligionThe Right of PrivacyRights of Persons Accused of CrimesThe Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Providing for Self-GovernmentCongressional Democracy TodayChapter 3 Federal Government: Forging a NationFederalism: National and State SovereigntyFederalism in Historical PerspectiveFederalism TodayThe Public’s Influence: Setting the Boundaries of Federal-State PowerChapter 4 Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual RightsFreedom of ExpressionFreedom of ReligionThe Right of PrivacyRights of Persons Accused of CrimesThe Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Chapter 3 Federal Government: Forging a NationFederalism: National and State SovereigntyFederalism in Historical PerspectiveFederalism TodayThe Public’s Influence: Setting the Boundaries of Federal-State PowerChapter 4 Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual RightsFreedom of ExpressionFreedom of ReligionThe Right of PrivacyRights of Persons Accused of CrimesThe Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Federalism in Historical PerspectiveFederalism TodayThe Public’s Influence: Setting the Boundaries of Federal-State PowerChapter 4 Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual RightsFreedom of ExpressionFreedom of ReligionThe Right of PrivacyRights of Persons Accused of CrimesThe Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Public’s Influence: Setting the Boundaries of Federal-State PowerChapter 4 Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual RightsFreedom of ExpressionFreedom of ReligionThe Right of PrivacyRights of Persons Accused of CrimesThe Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Freedom of ExpressionFreedom of ReligionThe Right of PrivacyRights of Persons Accused of CrimesThe Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Right of PrivacyRights of Persons Accused of CrimesThe Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Courts and a Free SocietyChapter 5 Equal Rights: Struggling Toward FairnessThe Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Struggle for EqualityEquality Under the LawEquality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Equality of ResultPersistent Discrimination:Superficial Differences, Deep DivisionsPART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
PART TWO: MASS POLITICSChapter 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization: Shaping the People’s VoiceThe Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Nature of Public OpinionThe Measurement of Public OpinionPolitical Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Political Socialization: How Americans Learn Their PoliticsFrames of Reference: How Americans Think PoliticallyThe Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Influence of Public Opinion on PolicyChapter 7 Political Participation and Voting: Expressing the Popular WillVoter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Voter ParticipationConventional Forms of Participation Other Than VotingUnconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Unconventional Activism: Social Movements and Protest PoliticsParticipation and the Potential for InfluenceChapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Chapter 8 Elections and the Two-Party-System: Defining the Voters’ ChoiceParty Competition and Majority RuleElectoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Electoral and Party SystemsPolicies and Coalitions in the Two-Party SystemPopular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Popular Influence and America’s Two-Party SystemChapter 9 Political Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns: Contesting ElectionsThe Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Weakening of Party ControlThe Structure and Role of Party OrganizationsThe Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Candidate-Centered CampaignParties, Candidates, and the Public’s InfluenceChapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Chapter 10 Interest Groups: Organizing for InfluenceThe Interest-Group SystemInside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Inside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Official ContactsOutside Lobbying: Seeking Influence Through Public PressureThe Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Group System: Indispensable But BiasedChapter 11 The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesThe Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Development of the News Media: from Partisanshp To Objective JournalismFreedom and Conformity in the U.S. News MediaThe News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The News Media as Link: Roles the Press Can and Cannot PerformPART THREE: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONSChapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Chapter 12 Congressional Election and Organization: Sharing the PowerCongress as a Career: Election To CongressCongressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Congressional LeadershipThe Committee SystemInstitutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Institutional Support for the Work of CongressChapter 13 Congressional Policymaking:Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsThe Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Lawmaking Function of CongressThe Representation Function of CongressThe Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Oversight Function of CongressCongress: Too Much Pluralism?Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Chapter 14 Presidential Office and Election: Leading the NationFoundations of the Modern PresidencyClosing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Closing the PresidentStaffing the PresidencyThe Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Problem of ControlChapter 15 Presidential Policymaking: Eliciting SupportFactors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Factors in Presidential LeadershipRelations with CongressNurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Nurturing Public SupportThe Televised Presidency and the Illusion of Presidential GovernmentChapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Chapter 16 The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the GovernmentFederal Administration: Form, Personnel, and ActivitiesDevelopment of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Development of the Federal Bureaucracy: Politics and AdministrationThe Bureaucracy’s Power ImperativeBureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Bureaucratic AccountabilityReinventing GovernmentChapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Chapter 17 The Federal Judicial System: Applying the LawThe Federal Judicial SystemFederal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Federal Court AppointeesThe Nature of Judicial Decision MakingPolitical Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Political Influences on Judicial DecisionsJudicial Power and Democratic GovernmentPART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
PART FOUR: PUBLIC POLICYChapter 18 Economic Policy: Contributing To ProsperityGovernment as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Government as Regulator of the EconomyGovernment as Protector of the EnvironmentGovernment as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Government as Promoter of Economic InterestsFiscal Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IMonetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Monetary Policy: Government as Manager of Economy, IIChapter 19 Social Welfare Policy: Providing for Personal Security and NeedPoverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Poverty in America: The Nature of the ProblemThe Politics and Policies of Social WelfareIndividual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Individual-Benefit ProgramsEducation as Equality of Opportunity: The American WayCulture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Culture, Politics, and Social WelfareChapter 20 Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting the American WayThe Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Roots of U.S. Foreign and Defense PolicyThe Process of Foreign and Military PolicymakingThe Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Military Dimension of National Security PolicyThe Economic Dimension of National Security PolicyPart 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
Part 5 State and Local GovernmentsChapter 21 State and Local Politics: Maintaining Our DifferencesThe Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Structure of State GovernmentsThe Structure of Local GovernmentsState and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
State and Local FinanceState and Local PolicyAppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
AppendixesThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
The Constitution of the United StatesFederalist Essay No. 10Federalist Essay No. 51GlossaryNotesCreditsIndexes
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