Principles and practice of American politics : classic and contemporary readings / edited by Samuel Kernell, Steven S. Smith.

Contributor Kernell, Samuel, 1945-

Edition Statement:2nd ed.

Imprint:Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2004.

Descriptionxiv, 642 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:from The logic of collective action: public goods and the theory of groups / Mancur Olson Jr. - The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin. - Arkansas rice farmers run dry, and U.S. rememdy sets off debate / Douglas Jehl. - The prosperous community: social capital and public life / Robert D. Putnam. - Will 9/11 and the War on Terror revitalize American civic democracy? / Theda Skocpol. - The founding fathers: a reform caucus in action / John P. Roche. - Federalist No. 10 / James Madison. - Federalist No. 51 / James Madison. - Showdown: the election of 1800 / James MacGregor Burns. - Federalism as an ideal political order and an objective for constitutional reform / James M. Buchanan. - Federalism: battles on the fromt lines of public policy / Donald F. Keetl. - Clean-air battlefield / Matthew L. Wald. - Minority rights in direct democracy / Zoltan L. Hajnal and Elisabeth R. Gerber. - American diversity and the 2000 census / Nathan Glazer. - Women and the constitution: where we are at the end of the century / Martha Craig Daughtrey. - The real world of constitutional rights: the Supreme Court and the implementation of the abortion decisions / Gerald N. Rosenberg. - Competing views of civil liberties and the war against terrorism / Michael Scardaville and Robert A. Levy. - Miranda v. Arizona. - Roe v. Wade. - The Senate in bicameral perspective / Richard F. Fenno Jr. - from Congress: The Electoral Connection / David R. Mayhew. - Congressional trends / Steven S. Smith. - from Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan / Richard E. Neustadt. - from Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership / Samuel Kernell. - How 3 weeks of war in Iraq looked from the Oval Office / Elisabeth Bumiller, David E. Sanger, and Richard W. Stevenson. - from Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It / James Q. Wilson. - The politics of bureaucratic structure / Terry M. Moe. - Assessing the Department of Homeland Security / Ivo H. Daalder, et al. - from The Choices Justices Make / Lee Epstein and Jack Knight. - The Most Dangerous Branch? / Simon Lazarus. - Federalist No. 78 / Alexander Hamilton. - The power of the fourth / Deborah Sontag. - Analyzing and interpreting polls / Herbert Asher. - Deynamic representation / James A. Stimson, Michael B. MacKuen, and Robert S. Erikson. - The people's craving for unselfish government / John R. Hibbing. - from The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns / Samuel L. Popkin. - Promises and persuasion / L. Sandy Maisel. - Party polarization in national politics: the electoral connection / Gary C. Jacobson. - from Why Parties": The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America / John H. Aldrich. - Partisanship and voting behavior, 1952-1996 / Larry M. Bartels. - American political parties: still central to a functioning democracy? / L. Sandy Maisel. - The scope and bias of the pressure system / E. E. Schattschneider. - The evolution of interest groups / John R. Wright. - What corporations really want from government / R. Kenneth Godwin and Barry J. Seldon. - Is journalism hopelessly cynical? / Michael Schudson. - The people and the press: whose views shape the news? / Thomas B. Edsall. - American news consumption during times of national crisis / Scott L. Althaus. - Constitution of the United States.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.

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