Always authoritative. More contemporary than ever. The text that professors trust to get students thinking analytically about American government has been extensively revised by co-author Stephen Ansolabehere and updated with new "Analyzing the Evidence" sections written by top researchers.

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This text presents a historical and institutional approach in discussing the American government. The seventh edition of "American Government: Power and Purpose" includes: increased attention to the analytic narrative; emphasis on fundamental, underlying principles of politics; and a critical examination of institutional reform. With meaningful pedagogy throughout the text and a multimedia instructional package, this text aims to lead students to analyze the core principles of politics and to understand how these principles influence American political devlopment. The text is available with chapters of policy (the Seventh Edition) and without (the Core Seventh Edition).

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Making and Breaking Governments offers a theoretical argument about how parliamentary democracy works. The authors formulate a theoretical model of how parties create new governments and either maintain them in office or, after a resignation or no-confidence vote, replace them. The theory involves strategic interaction, derives consequences, formulates empirical hypotheses on the basis of these, and tests the hypotheses with data drawn from the postwar European experience with parliamentary democracy. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: One of the key constitutional features of a parliamentary democracy is that the political executive, or cabinet, derives its mandate from - and is politically responsible to - the legislature. What makes a parliamentary democracy democratic is that, once a legislative election has been held, the new legislature has the power to dismiss the incumbent executive and replace it with a new one...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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