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. This bundle includes Samuel H. Kernell's Principles and Practice of American Politics 7e. Why does the American political system work the way it does? This bestselling text arms students with a "toolkit" of institutional design concepts—command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, and delegation—to help them comprehend how the American political system was designed and why it works the way it does.
With a fresh analysis of the election results, this bestseller provides students the tools they need to make sense of the government they have. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your SAGE representative to request a demo.
Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video available with SAGE Vantage is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life.
Watch a sample video now. You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. 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.
Logic now with a free supplement analyzing the midterm elections. Coming in December, this valuable supplement will provide an insider's guide to the midterm elections. Are those snickers from your students as they deride the phrase an oxymoron? By helping them see that political institutions and practices are imperfect solutions to collective action problems, distinguished scholars Samuel Kernell and Gary C.
Jacobson-and new coauthor Thad Kousser-reveal a rationale to the U. Known for its engaging narrative, the book's new edition continues to weave historical context, current politics, and analytic concepts into a text that gently strengthens students' theoretical understanding while hooking them with great storytelling. In order to make the argument fully accessible to a student audience, the new edition highlights passages that apply the collective action and institutional design themes presented in the introduction.
The fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout, and will include full coverage of the elections. Two major developments in the new edition deserve special note: a new section in the first chapter introduces students to a "toolkit" of institutional design concepts-command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, delegation-and examples of how they work. With this toolkit, students learn the concepts for exploring America's governmental system in later chapters.
Tables, figures, photographs, cartoons, bolded key terms, a glossary, annotated reading lists, review questions, and exercises help illustrate core ideas and aid in review and study.
A series of thematic boxes further the book's analytic framework: Logic of Politics examines the design of various political institutions in light of the objectives they were intended to achieve. Strategy and Choice shows how officeholders and those seeking to influence them employ institutions to advance their goals.
Politics to Policy highlights how public policies reflect the institutions that produce them and evaluate institutional capacity to solve the nation's problems. Principles and Practice of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 4th Edition 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.
For more information about Principles and Practice of American Politics, click here. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities.
These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. Skip to content. The Logic of American Politics 6th Edition.
The Logic of American Politics. Author : Samuel Kernell,Gary C. Jacobson,Steven S. Golden Rule. SAGE Premium Video boosts comprehension and bolsters analysis— featuring animations of basic American government concepts and recent news clips connected to key topics in the book.
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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. Although the role big money plays in defining political outcomes has long been obvious to ordinary Americans, most pundits and scholars have virtually dismissed this assumption. Even in light of skyrocketing campaign costs, the belief that major financial interests primarily determine who parties nominate and where they stand on the issues—that, in effect, Democrats and Republicans are merely the left and right wings of the "Property Party"—has been ignored by most political scientists.
Offering evidence ranging from the nineteenth century to the mid-term elections, Golden Rule shows that voters are "right on the money. In its place he outlines an "investment approach," in which powerful investors, not unorganized voters, dominate campaigns and elections. Because businesses "invest" in political parties and their candidates, changes in industrial structures—between large firms and sectors—can alter the agenda of party politics and the shape of public policy.
Golden Rule presents revised versions of widely read essays in which Ferguson advanced and tested his theory, including his seminal study of the role played by capital intensive multinationals and international financiers in the New Deal. The chapter "Studies in Money Driven Politics" brings this aspect of American politics into better focus, along with other studies of Federal Reserve policy making and campaign finance in the election.
Ferguson analyzes how a changing world economy and other social developments broke up the New Deal system in our own time, through careful studies of the and elections. The essay on contains an extended analysis of the emergence of the Clinton coalition and Ross Perot's dramatic independent insurgency. A postscript on the elections demonstrates the controlling impact of money on several key campaigns.
This controversial work by a theorist of money and politics in the U. 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. This bundle includes Samuel H. Kernell's Principles and Practice of American Politics 7e. Why does the American political system work the way it does? This bestselling text arms students with a "toolkit" of institutional design concepts—command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, and delegation—to help them comprehend how the American political system was designed and why it works the way it does.
With a fresh analysis of the election results, this bestseller provides students the tools they need to make sense of the government they have. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your SAGE representative to request a demo. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class.
Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video available with SAGE Vantage is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video now.
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