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CQ Press Lecture Spark Designed to save you time and ignite student engagement, these free weekly lecture launchers focus on current event topics tied to key concepts in American government. Consistently praised for its engaging narrative, Logic hooks students with great storytelling while arming them with a "toolkit" of institutional design concepts--command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, and delegation.
Students are exposed to real political science in the introductory course and learn to recognize a rationale for how the American political system was designed and why it works the way it does.
More than tables, figures, and maps offer visual context to an array of political data and analysis, while over carefully chosen photographs enhance the book's examples and insights. Bolded key terms, a glossary, annotated reading lists, review questions, and a companion website help students read, think, and study.
The Eight Edition is thoroughly updated and includes the dramatic election results and a thorough analysis of those results. It continues to delve into partisan differences among voters and in government and highlight the increasingly partisan nature of campaigns. By exploring issues such as the Affordable Care Act's troubled implementation, the increasing legalization of marijuana and same-sex marriage in the states, and the debate over immigration, the book illustrates how the institutional structures of government, federalism, and even campaigns can help voters make sense of their choices.
The concluding chapter on policymaking examines the noticeable logic that guides American policy, as shown through policies like health care reform, global climate change, and the federal budget. Students glean insights into the sources of policy problems, identify possible solutions, and realize why agreement on those solutions is often so hard to achieve.
This is a shrink-wrapped, discounted packaged for the introduction to American government course. This bundle includes Samuel H. Kernell's Principles and Practice of American Politics 7e. For example, why do so many citizens fail to exercise their cherished right to vote?
Or, why don't we do more to stop pollution from cars, since we all agree on what causes it and that it is harmful? The Logic of American Politics covers all the important topics from constitutional development to governmental institutions to political processes. The full syllabus for the course can be found above. Class logistics, the theoritical framework for the course, and course readings can be found below.
Under each meeting header, you will find:. Gary C. Jacobson is a distinguished professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since Jacobson specializes in the study of U. It arms students with a modified introduction to an institutional style that makes concepts such as command, veto, agenda control, voting guidelines, and delegation much more comfortable for college students to master and use, so they plainly see how the American political system was devised and why it works the way it does.
The tenth edition examines the compelling and contentious debate over society's most pressing ethical controversies. Combining timeless readings with cutting-edge, current selections, Kernell and Smith bring judicious editing and important context for students learning the ropes of American government.
This collection effectively examines the strategic behavior of key players in American politics, showing that political actors, though motivated by their own interests, are governed by the Constitution, the law, and institutional rules, as well as influenced by the strategies of others. The 5th edition features 17 new readings, including 5 pieces written specifically for this volume. Tracking trends in American public opinion, this study examines moods of public policy over time.
It argues that public opinion is decisive in American politics and identifies the citizens who produce influential change as a relatively small subset of the American electorate. To what extent has federal policy contributed to growth in income inequality? Why have the parties become so polarized and how has polarization influenced economic policy?
This book provides an introduction to the contemporary political economy of the United States. It examines the politics of economic policymaking, the influence of federal policies and programs on the economy, and the co-evolution of politics and the economy over the past five decades.
The book is divided into two parts. The second half explains "how we got here" with a review of major political and economic developments since the s, all the way up to the early years of the Trump Administration. Novices to the study of politics find the American political system complicated, even mystifying or infuriating.
They may have strongly held opinions on a number of political issues, but no systematic way—no logic—for thinking about how and why the system works the way it does. And new to the discipline, they have no clear sense of how political scientists approach the study of government.
Distinguished scholars Samuel Kernell and Gary C. A Logical Approach that Simplifies Conveying how the American political system is both extraordinary and complex, the authors explain in a simple and straightforward way that there is a rationale embedded in the U. This underlying logic helps students see why political institutions are structured the way they are, and why the politicians who occupy them, and the citizens who monitor and respond to their actions, behave as they do.
Why were the Framers able to create the Constitution and compromise on a system of checks and balances? Institutions evolve and new political actors emerge, but the logic of the political system remains.
In choosing and maintaining a democratic form of government, a nation as large and diverse as the United States faces enormous challenges. Kernell and Jacobson analyze political institutions and practices as imperfect solutions to problems facing people who need to act collectively. Throughout the text, the authors highlight these collective action problems, including the conflict over values and interests and the costs associated with finding and agreeing on a course of action.
They describe how the choices made to resolve problems at one moment affect politics in the future, long after the original issues have faded. The logic that Kernell and Jacobson explain and use as their touchstone in every section of the text gives students an intuitive way to view all of American institutional development. Encouraging them to move beyond memorization of facts, The Logic of American Politics gets students to think through both the limits and possibilities of American politics.
A Writing Style that Engages In The Logic of American Politics, Kernell and Jacobson employ a narrative style, drawing on the rich story line of American history to explain how and why our political system has developed the way it has. Core concepts are introduced in clear-cut yet engaging prose and applied to a wealth of political and real-world examples. Witty at times and fully up to date, the text features plentiful and colorful stories that illuminate and animate the subject.
The authors are always aware that their audience is new to the study of political science, but believe that the American government course is the ideal time to expose students to exemplary research and writing. Features that Count The intelligible logic of American politics is analyzed further in three sets of thematic boxes that appear throughout the text: Logic of Politics boxes dissect the design of various political institutions in light of the objectives they were intended to achieve.
In the Civil Liberties chapter, for example, a box examines how governments crack down on dissent in wartime. Strategy and Choice boxes show how officeholders and those seeking to influence them employ institutions to advance their goals. For example, a box in the Bureaucracy chapter describes how defense contractor Rockwell maintained support for the B-1 bomber by subcontracting the work across hundreds of congressional districts. Additional Pedagogy that Aids in Critical Thinking Thematic questions at the beginning of each chapter serve both to preview important themes and to get students thinking critically.
A few examples include: Congressional incumbents rarely lose elections. Why then are they obsessed with the electoral implications of nearly everything they do? Or, why does a nation as diverse as the United States sustain only two major political parties?
Abundant graphics—tables, figures, charts, photographs, illustrations, and cartoons—thoroughly updated for the third edition, illustrate and expand textual material while elegantly displaying an array of important data. Richly written by the authors, captions exemplify both points of discussion and thematic concepts. Key terms are defined in boldface on first use, summarized at chapter end with page numbers , and defined in a glossary at the back of the book.
Useful review aids, many new to this edition, conclude each chapter. Annotated suggested reading lists, ideas for relevant films and novels relating to chapter material, and a sampling of learning and study features that can be used on the accompanying Logic website such as review questions and exercises, give students many ways to review and study.
Revisions that Enhance All chapters include new material that updates and thoroughly freshens up content and coverage. Readers will appreciate crisp and pointed treatment of policy changes and political developments of the Bush Administration as well as analysis of the recent campaigns and elections of In addition to comprehensive updating, the authors have reorganized sections to improve flow and include new headings to offer students additional signposts that further highlight key ideas and themes.
The authors walk students through a greater number of political examples to ensure that students can comfortably apply collective action themes to topical chapters. As well, they discuss at greater length how concepts link to one another so students can see how each concept is a distinct and important part of this systematic way of thinking.
Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. Students are exposed to real political science in the introductory course and learn to recognize a rationale for how the American.
The Eight Edition is thoroughly updated and includes the dramatic election results and a thorough analysis of those results. It continues to delve into partisan differences among voters and in government and highlight the increasingly partisan nature of campaigns. By exploring issues such as the Affordable Care Act's troubled.
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