This brief, affordable American Government text brings together the best of print and technology, creating the most integrated teaching and learning package available for this course. The authors cover all of the topics usually included in the American Government course, and organize each chapter around the main themes of citizenship and participation. All chapters were written from the ground up, ensuring that the text is fully integrated with the available Web material. Web resources are available on either WebCT or Blackboard. In addition to providing rich online content, these powerful and easy-to-use platforms provide tools for communication, participation, progress tracking, and assessment. These tools can be modified to reflect the customized content and goals of any American Government course. Both the book and its Web components have been designed for flexibility. Instructors can control the extent to which interactive and Web materials are used. Moreover, the text can easily be used on its own, with another American government text, or as the basis for any technology-driven political science course.

Product Description: Make your American Government course more dynamic with this brief, basic, affordable text that combines the best of print and technology into an innovative, interactive teaching tool. This first truly interactive introduction to American Politics is a hybrid text-media product that involves and excites students with interactive and inclusive participation activities, simulations, weblinks, MicroCase exercises, readings, video, and an end-of-chapter study tool built right into the text itself! Technology eliminates students' passivity-the student is challenged to PARTICIPATE in the material and encouraged to PARTICIPATE in government and politics...read more