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Table of Contents

    • About the Authors
    • Acknowledgements
    • Preface
    • 1Introduction: Principles of American Government and Politics
      • 1.1The Land, the People, and the Economy
      • 1.2The Idea of Popular Sovereignty
      • 1.3The Impact of Government on Daily Life
      • 1.4What Is Politics?
      • 1.5What Is Democracy?
      • 1.6Understanding American Politics: The Analytical Framework
      • 1.7What Can I Do?
      • 1.8What's the Alternative?
    • 2The Founding and the Constitution: Creating a Nation

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      • 2.1Constitutional Engineering

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      • 2.2Politics in the Colonies

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      • 2.3The Articles of Confederation

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      • 2.4The Constitutional Convention

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      • 2.5What the Framers Framed

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      • 2.6Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists

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      • 2.7The Living Constitution

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      • 2.8What Can I Do?

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      • 2.9What's the Alternative?

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    • 3Federalism: Two Governments in the Same Area

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      • 3.1Why Federalism?

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      • 3.2Federalism and The Constitution

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      • 3.3The Slow Growth of The National Government’s Power

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      • 3.4The Policy Effects of Federalism

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      • 3.5The Advantages and Disadvantages of Federalism

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      • 3.6What Can I Do?

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      • 3.7What's the Alternative?

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    • 4Civil Liberties: Necessary for Democracy to Exist

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      • 4.1Civil Liberties vs. Civil Rights

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      • 4.2Civil Liberties as a National Discourse

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      • 4.3First Amendment Rights

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      • 4.4The Second Amendment and Right to Bear Arms

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      • 4.5Rights of the Accused

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      • 4.6Right to Privacy

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      • 4.7Government Responsibility vs. Individual Freedoms

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      • 4.8What Can I Do?

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      • 4.9What's the Alternative?

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    • 5Civil Rights: Necessary for Equal Treatment

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      • 5.1Inequality and the Law

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      • 5.2The Struggle for Racial Equality

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      • 5.3The Struggle for Gender Equality

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      • 5.4The Struggle for Ethnic and Cultural Equality

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      • 5.5The Struggle for Marginalized Groups

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      • 5.6Slow But Steady Progress

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      • 5.7What Can I Do?

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      • 5.8What’s the Alternative?

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    • 6Public Opinion: Even the Busiest American Has One

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      • 6.1A Mob or a Whole Greater Than Its Parts?

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      • 6.2Measuring Public Opinion

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      • 6.3Where Do Public Opinions Come From?

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      • 6.4Effects of Social Background on Public Opinion

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      • 6.5Does Public Opinion Matter?

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      • 6.6What Can I Do?

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      • 6.7What's the Alternative?

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    • 7Citizen Participation and Voting: America Checks the Fluids

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      • 7.1The Logic of Political Participation

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      • 7.2The Framers’ Understanding of the Problem of Moral Hazard

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      • 7.3Regulating the Electoral Process

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      • 7.4Is Voting Rational?

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      • 7.5Deciding How to Vote: The Problem of Adverse Selection

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      • 7.6Does It Matter Who Participates?

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      • 7.7What Can I Do?

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      • 7.8What's the Alternative?

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    • 8Political Parties: Making Politics Cost Effective

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      • 8.1Political Parties and Popular Participation

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      • 8.2Parties and Collective Action in Government

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      • 8.3Party Identification Among the Voters

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      • 8.4Parties as Service Institutions

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      • 8.5Why Are There Only Two Major Parties?

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      • 8.6Are the Parties Becoming More Radical?

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      • 8.7Building and Rebuilding National Majorities

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      • 8.8What Can I Do?

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      • 8.9What's the Alternative?

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    • 9Interest Groups: Effective Participation with an Upper-Class Bias

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      • 9.1Federalist 10 and the Rise of Interest Groups

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      • 9.2Democracy and Group Participation

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      • 9.3The Upper Class and Business Biases of the Interest Group System

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      • 9.4Interest Group Formation, Mobilization, and Maintenance

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      • 9.5Change in the Interest Group System

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      • 9.6Lobbying: How Interest Groups Influence Policy

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      • 9.7What Can I Do?

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      • 9.8What's the Alternative?

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    • 10Media: Biased or a Business?

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      • 10.1Mass Media Today

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      • 10.2The Evolution of the Mass Media

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      • 10.3The Role of Media

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      • 10.4Media as the Fourth Branch of Government

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      • 10.5Understanding the Relationship Between Media, Government, and the American Public

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      • 10.6What Can I Do?

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      • 10.7What's the Alternative?

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    • 11The US Congress: We Love Our Representative, but Not the Institution

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      • 11.1District Representation, National Representation, and the Electoral Connection

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      • 11.2Congress and the Constitution

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      • 11.3Getting to Congress and Staying There

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      • 11.4Congress Works in Committees

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      • 11.5Party Leadership in the House and the Senate: The Forces of Centralization

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      • 11.7What's the Alternative?

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    • 12The President: Hoping for a Hero

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      • 12.1The Constitution and The Presidency: An Invitation to Struggle

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      • 12.2Modern Presidential Government

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      • 12.3What Makes a President Popular?

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      • 12.4Presidential Success and Timing

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      • 12.6What's the Alternative?

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    • 13Bureaucracy: Who Is Really Doing the Work?

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      • 13.1What Is Bureaucracy?

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      • 13.2The Development of the Bureaucracy

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      • 13.3Major Elements and Roles of the Federal Bureaucracy

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      • 13.4Roles of the Federal Bureaucracy

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      • 13.5Understanding Bureaucracies

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      • 13.6Policy Implementation and the Principal-Agent Problem

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      • 13.7Who Does the Bureaucracy Work For?

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    • 14The Federal Courts: Unelected but Powerful

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      • 14.1The American Judicial System

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      • 14.2The Development of the Federal Courts

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      • 14.3Federalism and the American Courts

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      • 14.4The Supreme Court in Action

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      • 14.5Judicial Selection

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      • 14.6Democracy and the Courts

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      • 14.7The Politics of the Apolitical Branch

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      • 14.9What's the Alternative?

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    • 15Domestic Policy: Taking Care of Things at Home

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      • 15.1Making and Evaluating Public Policy

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      • 15.2Generic Policy Solutions

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      • 15.3Economic Policy

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      • 15.4Social Policy

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      • 15.5Trade-Offs Between Economic and Social Welfare

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    • 16Foreign Policy: Engaging in the Global Community

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      • 16.1Foreign Policy Explored

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      • 16.2Key Ideas and Players in U.S. Foreign Policy

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      • 16.3Setting the Foreign Policy Agenda

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      • 16.4Tools of Statecraft

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      • 16.5Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy

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      • 16.6What Can I Do?

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      • 16.7What's the Alternative?

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