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

This new issue-debate reader encourages critical thinking by adopting a point/counterpoint approach. Each chapter presents opposing perspectives on contemporary political issues such as the USA PATRIOT Act, affirmative action in higher education, the president's role in creating foreign policy, ballot initiatives, tax cuts, and nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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.

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