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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 |