Product Description: Show students how politics really works through a focus on conflict and compromise. This newly updated fourth edition of American Politics Today helps students understand the conflicts and compromises inherent in politics and allows them to practice applying that understanding to the debates and controversies they encounter in the news...read more

Product Description: This brief, debate-style reader engages students in today’s political debates. In each chapter, two or more readings present opposing perspectives on contemporary political issues. About half of the readings are new, and most address current issues such as immigration policy and income inequality...read more

All the tools students need to understand American politics―in a briefer text.American Politics Today helps students understand the debates and controversies that they encounter in the news by emphasizing conflict and compromise as natural parts of politics. The Essentials Edition includes all the learning tools from the full book―including highly visual “How It Works” infographics and an approach organized around Chapter Goals―in a text that is 30% shorter.

Product Description: All the tools students need to understand American politics―in a briefer text.American Politics Today helps students understand the debates and controversies that they encounter in the news by emphasizing conflict and compromise as natural parts of politics...read more

Presents a history of congressional committee membership from 1789 to 1946, including members' party affiliations, senority rank, and appointment dates, and brief histories of each committee.

Presents a history of congressional committee membership from 1789 to 1946, including members' party affiliations, senority rank, and appointment dates, and brief histories of each committee.

Presents a history of congressional committee membership from 1789 to 1946, including members' party affiliations, senority rank, and appointment dates, and brief histories of each committee.

Presents a history of congressional committee membership from 1789 to 1946, including members' party affiliations, senority rank, and appointment dates, and brief histories of each committee.

Presents a history of congressional committee membership from 1789 to 1946, including members' party affiliations, senority rank, and appointment dates, and brief histories of each committee.

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Product Description: Congress is in trouble. The public doubts its capacity to solve our nation's problems and the current majority party is attempting to shift the balance of institutional power away from Congress and toward the President. In The Dysfunctional Congress? , David Canon and Kenneth Mayer maintain that Congress's difficulties are the result of two fundamental flaws in the system: a misunderstanding of Congress's institutional role within our governmental process, and an ongoing conflict within Congress between actions that are individually rational for members of Congress, but are not in the collective interest of society more broadly...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The U.S. Congress is typically seen as an institution filled with career politicians who have been seasoned by experience in lower levels of political office. In fact, political amateurs have comprised roughly one quarter of the House of Representatives since 1930...read more