Larry Berman, Bruce Murphy, Nadia Brown, Sarah Gershon

Approaching Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

American Government in Times of Challenge

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For students of American government, this book covers the foundations, institutions, and processes of "the great American experiment" with a clear and resonant theme: that we are still "approaching" democracy and not emobodying it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 874
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000856293
• Artikelnr.: 68333657

Autorenporträt

Larry Berman is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, and former Founding Dean of the Honors College at Georgia State University.

Bruce Allen Murphy is the Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights in the Department of Government and Law at Lafayette College.

Nadia E. Brown is a Professor of Government, director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and affiliate in the African American Studies program at Georgetown University.

Sarah Allen Gershon is Associate Professor of Political Science and holds the Ray and John Uttenhove WomenLead professorship at Georgia State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I - FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
 1. Approaching Democracy
 2. The Founding and the Constitution
  The Constitution of the United States
 3. Federalism
 
PART II - INSTITUTIONS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
 4. Congress
 5. The Presidency
 6. The Judiciary
 7. The Bureaucracy
 
PART III - PROCESSES OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
 8. Public Opinion
 9. Political Parties
 10. Participation, Voting, and Elections
 11. Interest Groups
 12. The Media
 
PART IV - LIBERTIES AND RIGHTS IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES
 13. Civil Liberties
 14. Civil Rights and Political Equality
 
PART V - POLICY MAKING IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
 15. Domestic and Economic Policy
 16. Foreign Policy
 
Appendix I - Introducing the Concept of Approaching Democracy
Appendix II - Presidents and Congresses, 1789-2009
Appendix III - Supreme Court Justices
Appendix IV - The Declaration of Independence
Appendix V - The Federalist, No. 10, James Madison
Appendix VI - The Federalist, No. 51, James Mdison