Keeping the Republic: Power and Citizenship in American Politics: The Essentials - Brossura

Barbour, Christine; Wright, Gerald C.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1452240035 ISBN 13: 9781452240039

Casa editrice: Cq Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Artfully weaving in the analytic theme of "power" and the evaluative theme of "citizenship," Christine Barbour and Gerald C. Wright deftly draw students into thinking critically about how and why institutions and rules determine who wins and who loses in American politics. Every section and feature in the book has one goal in mind: to get students to think analytically and be skeptical of received wisdom.

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L'autore:

Christine Barbour teaches in the Political Science Department and the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University, where she has become increasingly interested in how teachers of large classes can maximize what their students learn. She is working with online course designers to create an online version of her Intro to American Politics class. At Indiana, Professor Barbour has been a Lilly Fellow, working on a project to increase student retention in large introductory courses, and a member of the Freshman Learning Project, a university-wide effort to improve the first-year undergraduate experience. She has served on the New York Times College Advisory Board, working with other educators to develop ways to integrate newspaper reading into the undergraduate curriculum. She has won several teaching honors, but the two awarded by her students mean the most to her: the Indiana University Student Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty and the Indiana University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award. When not teaching or writing textbooks, Professor Barbour enjoys playing with her dogs, traveling with her coauthor, and writing about food. She is the food editor for Bloom Magazine of Bloomington and is a coauthor of Indiana Cooks!(2005) and Home Grown Indiana (2008). She also makes jewelry from precious metals and rough gemstones and if she ever retires, she will open a jewelry shop in a renovated air-stream on the beach in Apalachicola, Florida, where she plans to write another cookbook and a book about the local politics, development, and fishing industry.

Contenuti:

Contents
Preface
To the Student
1. Politics: Who Gets What, and How?
2. American Citizens and Political Culture
3. Politics of the American Founding
4. Federalism and the U.S. Constitution
5. Fundamental American Liberties
6. The Struggle for Equal Rights
7. Congress
8. The Presidency
9. The Bureaucracy
10. The American Legal System and the Courts
11. Public Opinion
12. Political Parties
13. Interest Groups
14. Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
15. The Media
16. State and Local Politics in a Federal System
17. Social and Environmental Policy
18. Economic Policy
19. Foreign Policy
Appendix Material
Notes
Glossary
Index
Profile Sources
Illustration Credits

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cq Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1452240035
• ISBN 13: 9781452240039
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 6
• Numero di pagine: 591