This book was written with the instructor?s pedagogical needs and the students learning needs in mind. It presents a comprehensive treatment of the subject, emphasizes critical learning skills, and connects theory to practice, while talking to (rather than past) the student in a conversational manner using modular text and interactive features that address how students learn. It offers a comprehensive teaching and learning experience at an affordable price that will facilitate the teaching process while permitting instructors the flexibility to customize the book to how they teach the course. In five parts encompassing sixteen chapters, American Government: Your Voice, Your Future maps out a route designed to take you from understanding your place in the political system to how people connect with government, how the political system works and what it does, and finally-to come full circle-how responsive it is to your demands and desires.

American Government: Your Voice, Your Future

Politics & Social Sciences

Kerbel, Matthew

Politics & Government

Atomic Dog

Party On!

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson laid the foundations for today's political debates between Democrats and Republicans. Hamilton believed that freedom must be married with a strong central government and especially an energetic president, while Jefferson believed freedom derived from local civic virtues. Throughout history, Democrats and Republicans have chosen sides in this eternal debate―and sometimes even changed sides. Today, those debates have become sharper and more polarized, as the two parties square off on major issues such as healthcare, taxes, regulation, the role of the federal government, and what discretion should be given to local authorities. The debate can be loud and shrill, even as the public yearns for some accommodation between these two schools of thought. People may generally desire an active government to deal with acute problems, but localism still has widespread appeal, and political dysfunction often results when these outcomes are presented as polar opposites and elections are reduced to zero sum contests. Social media adds to the polarization, as Americans gravitate to websites that often ratify their preexisting points of view. The parties struggle to function in this environment as they try to adapt to the political realities of the social media age and the Trump era.

Party On!: Political Parties from Hamilton and Jefferson to Trump

WHITE, John

Routledge

Next Generation Netroots

From the early demise of Trent Lott at the hands of bloggers to the agonized scream of Howard Dean; from Daily Kos and the blogosphere to the rise of Twitter and Facebook, politics and new media have co-existed and evolved in rapid succession. Here, an academic and practitioner team up to consider how new and old media technologies mix with combustible politics to determine, in real time, the shape of the emerging political order. Our political moment shares with other realigning periods the sense that political parties are failing to address the public interest. In an era defined by the collapse of the political center, extreme income inequality, rapidly changing demography, and new methods of communicating and organizing, a second-generation online progressive movement fueled by email and social media is coming into its own. In this highly readable text, the authors – one a scholar of Internet politics, the other a leading voice of the first generation netroots – draw on unique data and on-the-ground experience to answer key questions at the core of our tumultuous politics: How has Internet activism changed in form and function? How have the left and right changed with it? How does this affect American political power?

Bowers, Christopher J.

Sociology

From the early demise of Trent Lott at the hands of bloggers to the agonized scream of Howard Dean; from Daily Kos and the blogosphere to the rise of Twitter and Facebook, politics and new media have co-existed and evolved in rapid succession. Here, an academic and practitioner team up to consider how new and old media technologies mix with combustible politics to determine, in real time, the shape of the emerging political order. Our political moment shares with other realigning periods the sense that political parties are failing to address the public interest. In an era defined by the collapse of the political center, extreme income inequality, rapidly changing demography, and new methods of communicating and organizing, a second-generation online progressive movement fueled by email and social media is coming into its own. In this highly readable text, the authors – one a scholar of Internet politics, the other a leading voice of the first generation netroots – draw on unique data and on-the-ground experience to answer key questions at the core of our tumultuous politics: How has Internet activism changed in form and function? How have the left and right changed with it? How does this affect American political power?

This American Government textbook presents all of the nuts and bolts of government and politics while challenging students to define their own political beliefs and examine the impact of their own actions in the political sphere. Written in a conversational tone, American Government, Your Voice, Your Future makes use of creative interactivity and examples to engage students in a dialogue about the past, present, and future of politics and government in America. Special boxes on policy allow students to choose their own positions on hot issues and find out where they and their classmates fall into the nation-wide spectrum of belief.

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American Government: Your Voice, Your Future

Party On!: Political Parties from Hamilton and Jefferson to Trump

Next Generation Netroots

Next Generation Netroots

American Government: Your Voice, Your Future