A Brief Introduction to US PoliticsRoutledge, 22. 7. 2014 - Počet stran: 214 A Brief Introduction to American Politicsprovides a coherent and succinct account of how contemporary American politics blends enduring principles with the realities and demands of the present day. Beginning with a brief overview of American society today, the book introduces the constitutional framework of American politics and the fluid concept and practice of federalism. It also covers the major features of the representative process, looking at both elections and main players such as parties, interest groups, and the media. Chapters on the major institutions of the federal government - the presidency, the Congress, and the Supreme Court – examines how they are simultaneously independent and constrained by each other. Chapters on domestic and foreign policy demonstrate how government and politics work in connection with the system’s main outputs. A Brief Introduction to American Politicsis a shorter version of Politics USA and is intended for students who need an introduction to the essential features of the American political system. |
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... Supreme Court and judicial politics Judicial review Stages of judicial review Judicial reasoning and politics Judicial activism and judicial self-restraint, 1789–1954 The Supreme Court since 1954 Supreme Court decisions: implementation and ...
... Supreme Court. These embody the constitutional principle of the separation of powers, but we explain how these three institutions are simultaneously independent yet constrained by each other. We pay particular attention to the evolution ...
... judicial wrangle followed, and in the end the United States Supreme Court stepped in and in effect awarded the state – and the presidency – to Bush. The 2000 election only added to the bitterness of the 2 Introduction: American ...
... Supreme Court who had ruled in his favour. President Bush won again in 2004. Although no one challenged the legitimacy of that election, the margin of victory was narrow. It demonstrated once again that the country was sharply and ...
... Supreme Court, the more democratically-minded delegates carried the day on the House of Representatives. This was to ... judicial branches of government came quite naturally. The problem at Philadelphia was how to turn the separation of ...
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Chapter 2 Federalism | 18 |
Chapter 3 Elections and the electorate | 34 |
Chapter 4 Political parties interest groups and money | 56 |
Chapter 5 The mass media and politics | 79 |
Chapter 6 The presidency and the executive branch | 93 |
Chapter 7 The Congress | 112 |
Chapter 8 The Supreme Court and judicial politics | 136 |
Chapter 9 US government and domestic policy | 158 |
Chapter 10 Foreign policy | 171 |
Index | 195 |
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A Brief Introduction to US Politics Robert J. McKeever,Philip Davies Náhled není k dispozici. - 2006 |