The Struggle for Democracy - Couverture souple

Greenberg, Edward S.; Page, Benjamin I.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0321155297 ISBN 13 : 9780321155290

Editeur : Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

This exciting introduction to American government asks students to critically evaluate the quality of democracy in America today and to consider how underlying structural factors―such as the economy, society, and cultural values―affect and are affected by our political system.

The Sixth Edition of this bestselling text has been completely updated through September 11, 2001, the war on terrorism, and the 2002 midterm elections. Continuing to offer a lively, critical thinking approach to the course, The Struggle for Democracy is organized around two themes: “Using the Democracy Standard” and “Using the Framework.” The first theme, woven throughout the narrative, asks students to evaluate the health and vitality of American democracy today against a carefully defined democratic ideal. The text's second theme, “Using the Framework,” asks students to look at the structures underlying our political system―the economy, society, cultural values, technology―and examine how these structures affect, and are affected by, our political system.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward S. Greenberg is Professor (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1967) of Political Science at the University of Colorado. He has served as the Chair of the Department, and is presently Director of the Research Program on Political and Economic Change at the Institute of Behavioral Science. Greenberg's research and teaching interests include American politics, political economy, and democratic theory and practice, with a special emphasis on workplace issues. He is the author of many articles in professional journals in these specialties. He also is the author of several books including: The American Political System (5th edition, 1989), Capitalism and the American Political Ideal (1985), Workplace Democracy (1986), and Serving the Few (1974); and the editor of Black Politics (1971), Political Socialization (1972), State Change (1990), and War and Its Consequences (1994). Greenberg has been the recipient of three major grants from the National Science Foundation and two from the National Institutes of Health. He is now engaged in a research project funded by the NIH that examines the impact of corporate restructuring on employees, including their social and political lives.

Benjamin I. Page (Ph D, Stanford University; JD, Harvard Law School) is Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making and Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Page¿s interests include public opinion and policy making, the mass media, empirical democratic theory, political economy, policy formation, the presidency, and American foreign policy. He is author of a number of articles, including "Effects of Public Opinion on Policy" and "What Moves Public Opinion," both in the American Political Science Review, and of seven books, including The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans¿' Policy Preferences (with Robert Shapiro, University of Chicago Press, 1992), Who Deliberates? Mass Media in Modern Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality (with James Simmons, University of Chicago Press, 2000). He is currently studying the mass media, the role of international law in American foreign policy, and public policy and inequality in the context of globalization.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0321155297
• ISBN 13: 9780321155290
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 6
• Nombre de pages: 600
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie