Table Of Contents

List of Selected Features
Preface
About the Authors

Chapter 1  Introducing Government in America

PART 1: CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 2  The Constitution
Chapter 3  Federalism
Chapter 4  Civil Liberties and Public Policy
Chapter 5  Civil Rights and Public Policy

PART II: PEOPLE AND POLITICS

Chapter 6  Public Opinion and Political Action
Chapter 7  The Mass Media and the Political Agenda
Chapter 8  Political Parties
Chapter 9  Nominations and Campaigns
Chapter 10  Elections and Voting Behavior
Chapter 11  Interest Groups

PART III: THE POLICYMAKERS

Chapter 12  Congress
Chapter 13  The Presidency
Chapter 14  The Congress, the President, and the Budget:
                      The Politics of Taxing and Spending
Chapter 15  The Federal Bureaucracy
Chapter 16  The Federal Courts

PART IV: POLICIES

Chapter 17  Economic Policymaking
Chapter 18  Social Welfare Policymaking
Chapter 19  Policymaking for Health, Energy, and the Environment
Chapter 20  Foreign and Defense Policymaking
Chapter 21  The New Importance of State and Local Government

Appendixes
The Declaration of Independence
The Federalist No. 10
The Federalist No. 51
The Constitution of the United States
Presidents of the United States
Party Control of the Presidency, Senate, and House of
Representatives in the Twentieth Century
Supreme Court Justices Serving in the Twentieth Century
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index