American Government and Politics: A Concise IntroductionSAGE, 14. nov. 2002 - 342 sider American Government and Politics is a completely new introductory textbook designed and written for all students of politics coming to the subject for the first time. It provides a lively and accessible introduction and guide to all the main features and characteristics of one of the most distinctive and complex contemporary political systems in the world. From the impeachment of Bill Clinton, to the controversy surrounding the 2000 presidential election, and the Bush administration′s responses to September 11, students will gain a balanced and critical understanding of all the key issues and debates in contemporary American government and politics today. A number of key underlying themes include: - the nature of American values and identity - the influence of the constitution on political development - the ways in which key governing institutions function to produce domestic and foreign policy. Key features include: - comprehensive glossary of key terms - discussion and summary boxes - web links and guides to further reading Robert Singh is a lecturer in politics at Birkbeck College, London.
American Government and Politics: A Concise Introduction is the foundation companion text to Contemporary American Politics: Issues and Controversies also published by SAGE. `Rob Singh has written a finely organized and informative textbook that combines to an unusually high degree analytical clarity, accessibility of style and form, and an enlightened scepticism about received wisdom. This is an admirable book′ - Nigel Bowles, St Anne′s College, Oxford `Full of topical information and written with sparkling clarity, this book is a short-cut to excellence for the discriminating student′ - Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh `In American Government and Politics Robert Singh provides an excellent introduction to the subject. His approach is wide ranging, his examples well selected and his style is accessible. It will make an ideal book for introductory and more advanced university courses on US government. I strongly recommend the book to teachers and students′ - Desmond King, Mellon Professor of American Government, University of Oxford `This is a well written and lively book that is an important addition to the ranks of textbooks on American politics. One of its many virtues is its recognition that the textbook today is useful to a student only if it links to the world of web-based resources. Highly recommended′ - Alan Ware, Worcester College, Oxford |
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... conflict - regional, racial, ethnic, class-based and religious - has nevertheless existed through American history, deriving in large part from the conflicting values within the Creed. Americans often differ on how to apply those ...
... conflict exists than in nations with fewer, less divisive, and less crosscutting social cleavages. America's being ... conflicts of the later eighteenth and early twentieth century to the civil rights struggles of the 19505 and 1960s ...
... conflict has occurred within the bounds of a 'liberal consensus' so pervasive as to make most Americans conceive of themselves as a nonideological people: not as self-conscious exponents of classical liberalism but simply adherents to a ...
... conflicts. Americans have taken immense and justifiable pride in their nation being — with the notable exceptions of Native Americans and African Americans — a land of voluntary immigrants. But over American history, certain categories ...
... conflicts. Many Europeans are baffled about why Americans disagree so heatedly when the differences between them appear comparatively minor. But it is partly because Americans adhere to notions of Americanism that anyone who departs ...
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Chapter 4 Elections and Voting Behaviour | 74 |
Chapter 5 Presidential Selection | 103 |
Chapter 6 The Presidency | 127 |
Chapter 7 Congress | 153 |
Chapter 8 The Supreme Court | 177 |
Chapter 10 The Federal Bureaucracy | 219 |
Chapter 11 Domestic Policy | 237 |
Chapter 12 Foreign Policy | 262 |
Chapter 13 Conclusion | 285 |
Glossary | 288 |
The Constitution of the United States of America | 312 |
Bibliography | 329 |
Index | 333 |