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| American Government and Civic Engagement |
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| What is Government? | |||
| Who Governs? Elitism, Pluralism, and Tradeoffs | |||
| Engagement in a Democracy | |||
| The Constitution and Its Origins |
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| The Pre-Revolutionary Period and the Roots of the American Political Tradition | |||
| The Articles of Confederation | |||
| The Development of the Constitution | |||
| The Ratification of the Constitution | |||
| Constitutional Change | |||
| American Federalism |
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| The Division of Powers | |||
| The Evolution of American Federalism | |||
| Intergovernmental Relationships | |||
| Competitive Federalism Today | |||
| Advantages and Disadvantages of Federalism | |||
| Civil Liberties |
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| What Are Civil Liberties? | |||
| Securing Basic Freedoms | |||
| The Rights of Suspects | |||
| Interpreting the Bill of Rights | |||
| Civil Rights |
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| What Are Civil Rights and How Do We Identify Them? | |||
| The African American Struggle for Equality | |||
| The Fight for Women’s Rights | |||
| Civil Rights for Indigenous Groups: Native Americans, Alaskans, and Hawaiians | |||
| Equal Protection for Other Groups | |||
| The Politics of Public Opinion |
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| The Nature of Public Opinion | |||
| How Is Public Opinion Measured? | |||
| What Does the Public Think? | |||
| The Effects of Public Opinion | |||
| Voting and Elections |
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| Voter Registration | |||
| Voter Turnout | |||
| Elections | |||
| Campaigns and Voting | |||
| Direct Democracy | |||
| The Media |
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| What Is the Media? | |||
| The Evolution of the Media | |||
| Regulating the Media | |||
| The Impact of the Media | |||
| Political Parties |
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| What Are Parties and How Did They Form? | |||
| The Two-Party System | |||
| The Shape of Modern Political Parties | |||
| Divided Government and Partisan Polarization | |||
| Interest Groups and Lobbying |
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| Interest Groups Defined | |||
| Collective Action and Interest Group Formation | |||
| Interest Groups as Political Participation | |||
| Pathways of Interest Group Influence | |||
| Free Speech and the Regulation of Interest Groups | |||
| Congress |
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| The Institutional Design of Congress | |||
| Congressional Elections | |||
| Congressional Representation | |||
| House and Senate Organizations | |||
| The Legislative Process | |||
| The Presidency |
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| The Design and Evolution of the Presidency | |||
| The Presidential Election Process | |||
| Organizing to Govern | |||
| The Public Presidency | |||
| Presidential Governance: Direct Presidential Action | |||
| The Courts |
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| Guardians of the Constitution and Individual Rights | |||
| The Dual Court System | |||
| The Federal Court System | |||
| The Supreme Court | |||
| Judicial Decision-Making and Implementation by the Supreme Court | |||
| State and Local Government |
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| State Power and Delegation | |||
| State Political Culture | |||
| Governors and State Legislatures | |||
| State Legislative Term Limits | |||
| County and City Government | |||
| The Bureaucracy |
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| Bureaucracy and the Evolution of Public Administration | |||
| Toward a Merit-Based Civil Service | |||
| Understanding Bureaucracies and their Types | |||
| Controlling the Bureaucracy | |||
| Domestic Policy |
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| What Is Public Policy? | |||
| Categorizing Public Policy | |||
| Policy Arenas | |||
| Policymakers | |||
| Budgeting and Tax Policy | |||
| Foreign Policy |
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| Defining Foreign Policy | |||
| Foreign Policy Instruments | |||
| Institutional Relations in Foreign Policy | |||
| Approaches to Foreign Policy | |||