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Why does the American political system work the way it does? Find the answers in The Logic of American Politics. This best-selling text arms you with a toolkit of institutional design concepts—command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, and delegation—that help you recognize how the American political system was designed and why it works the way it does. The authors build your critical thinking through a simple yet powerful idea: politics is about solving collective action problems. Thoroughly updated to account for the most recent events and data, the Ninth Edition explores the increase in political polarization, the growing emotional involvement people have to politics, Americans’ reactions to changing demographics, the partisan politics of judicial selection, and the changing nature of presidential leadership. Revised to include the 2018 election results and analysis, this edition provides you with the tools you need to make sense of today’s government.
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This textbook describes the forces involved in American politics, focusing on the primacy of institutions and how they structure the choices available to voters and political leaders. It emphasizes the concepts of solving collective action problems and the importance of institutional design, and it covers the foundational elements of American politics, including the Constitution, federalism, civil rights, and civil liberties; the major formal institutions of national government, including Congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy, and the federal judiciary and how the politics and logic of their development have shaped their current organizational features, practices, and relations with each other; and the institutions that connect citizens with government officials, in terms of their historical development, political logic, and current operations, including voting, campaigns, collections, public opinion, political parties, interest groups, and the news media. The book ends with an evaluation of American policymaking from the perspective of the collective action framework. Updated to reflect recent events, this edition includes discussion of the increase in political polarization, the growing emotional involvement people have with politics, Americans' reactions to changing demographics, the partisan politics of judicial selection, and the changing nature of presidential leadership, as well as the 2016 and 2018 election results and analysis and other changes. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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