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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... example , that there are few government limits on political or artistic expression . The Supreme Court gradually applied other restrictions on the federal government to the state governments , giving rise to the concept of the ...
... example of how judicial interpretation of the Constitution can change to fit the emergence of new societal values and conceptions of liberty . Even more controversially , the ' due process ' clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth ...
... example , Michael Heale's The Making of American Politics , 1750-1850 ( London : Longman , 1977 ) and Jack P. Greene's Understanding the American Revolution : Issues and Actors ( Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 1995 ) ...
... example, colonised. The early immigrant communities congregated in geographically defined areas , often settling where the experience of the first migrants of that nationality Figure 2.2 Whether gay marriage should be formally recognised ...
... example, traditional heavy industries developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries around areas where raw materials could be extracted; similarly, oil extraction has prompted related business in Alaska and in the southern states ...
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Elections and the electorate | |
Political parties interest groups and money | |
The mass media and politics | |
The presidency and the executive branch | |
The Congress | |
The Supreme Court and judicial politics | |
US government and domestic policy | |
Foreign policy | |
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A Brief Introduction to US Politics Robert J. McKeever,Philip Davies Náhled není k dispozici. - 2006 |