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About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Preface
1
Introduction: Principles of American Government and Politics
1.1
The Land, the People, and the Economy
1.2
The Idea of Popular Sovereignty
1.3
The Impact of Government on Daily Life
1.4
What Is Politics?
1.5
What Is Democracy?
1.6
Understanding American Politics: The Analytical Framework
1.7
What Can I Do?
1.8
What's the Alternative?
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The Founding and the Constitution: Creating a Nation
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2.1
Constitutional Engineering
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2.2
Politics in the Colonies
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The Articles of Confederation
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The Constitutional Convention
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2.5
What the Framers Framed
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2.6
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
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2.7
The Living Constitution
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2.9
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Federalism: Two Governments in the Same Area
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3.1
Why Federalism?
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3.2
Federalism and The Constitution
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3.3
The Slow Growth of The National Government’s Power
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3.4
The Policy Effects of Federalism
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Federalism
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3.7
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Civil Liberties: Necessary for Democracy to Exist
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4.1
Civil Liberties vs. Civil Rights
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4.2
Civil Liberties as a National Discourse
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First Amendment Rights
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The Second Amendment and Right to Bear Arms
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Rights of the Accused
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Right to Privacy
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Government Responsibility vs. Individual Freedoms
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Civil Rights: Necessary for Equal Treatment
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5.1
Inequality and the Law
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5.2
The Struggle for Racial Equality
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The Struggle for Gender Equality
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The Struggle for Ethnic and Cultural Equality
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The Struggle for Marginalized Groups
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5.6
Slow But Steady Progress
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Public Opinion: Even the Busiest American Has One
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A Mob or a Whole Greater Than Its Parts?
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6.2
Measuring Public Opinion
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Where Do Public Opinions Come From?
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Effects of Social Background on Public Opinion
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6.5
Does Public Opinion Matter?
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Citizen Participation and Voting: America Checks the Fluids
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7.1
The Logic of Political Participation
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7.2
The Framers’ Understanding of the Problem of Moral Hazard
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7.3
Regulating the Electoral Process
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7.4
Is Voting Rational?
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Deciding How to Vote: The Problem of Adverse Selection
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Does It Matter Who Participates?
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Political Parties: Making Politics Cost Effective
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8.1
Political Parties and Popular Participation
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Parties and Collective Action in Government
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Party Identification Among the Voters
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Parties as Service Institutions
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Why Are There Only Two Major Parties?
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Are the Parties Becoming More Radical?
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8.7
Building and Rebuilding National Majorities
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Interest Groups: Effective Participation with an Upper-Class Bias
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9.1
Federalist 10 and the Rise of Interest Groups
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Democracy and Group Participation
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The Upper Class and Business Biases of the Interest Group System
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Interest Group Formation, Mobilization, and Maintenance
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Change in the Interest Group System
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Lobbying: How Interest Groups Influence Policy
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Media: Biased or a Business?
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10.1
Mass Media Today
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10.2
The Evolution of the Mass Media
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The Role of Media
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Media as the Fourth Branch of Government
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Understanding the Relationship Between Media, Government, and the American Public
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The US Congress: We Love Our Representative, but Not the Institution
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District Representation, National Representation, and the Electoral Connection
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Congress and the Constitution
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Getting to Congress and Staying There
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Congress Works in Committees
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Party Leadership in the House and the Senate: The Forces of Centralization
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The President: Hoping for a Hero
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12.1
The Constitution and The Presidency: An Invitation to Struggle
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Modern Presidential Government
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What Makes a President Popular?
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Presidential Success and Timing
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Bureaucracy: Who Is Really Doing the Work?
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What Is Bureaucracy?
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The Development of the Bureaucracy
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Major Elements and Roles of the Federal Bureaucracy
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Roles of the Federal Bureaucracy
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Understanding Bureaucracies
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Policy Implementation and the Principal-Agent Problem
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Who Does the Bureaucracy Work For?
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The Federal Courts: Unelected but Powerful
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The American Judicial System
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The Development of the Federal Courts
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Federalism and the American Courts
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The Supreme Court in Action
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Judicial Selection
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Democracy and the Courts
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The Politics of the Apolitical Branch
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Domestic Policy: Taking Care of Things at Home
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15.1
Making and Evaluating Public Policy
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Generic Policy Solutions
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Economic Policy
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Social Policy
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Trade-Offs Between Economic and Social Welfare
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Foreign Policy: Engaging in the Global Community
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Foreign Policy Explored
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Key Ideas and Players in U.S. Foreign Policy
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Setting the Foreign Policy Agenda
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Tools of Statecraft
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Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy
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