Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process with input from more than 200 students and faculty, "Govt3, California" is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners. Focusing on the current and historical conflicts and controversies that define America as a nation, "Govt3, California" is a streamlined and extremely current text for the American and California Government course. Its motivating debate theme and appealing magazine-like format speak directly to today's student. "2010 Elections" boxes throughout analyze the results of the most recent elections. Ten additional chapters by Larry Gerston and Terry Christensen cover California politics, including updated content on the current economy.
| ISBN | 1111343071 | | Weight (grammes) | 1451 | | ISBN13 | 9781111343071
(What's this?) | | Published in | Belmont, CA | | Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc | | Height (mm) | 246 | | Imprint | Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc | | Width (mm) | 189 | | Format | Multimedia Item | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | Publication date | 02 Feb 2011 | | Academic level | Tertiary education | | Pages | 640 | |
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PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR AMERICAN SYSTEM. 1. America in the Twenty-First Century. 2. The Constitution. 3. Federalism. PART II: OUR LIBERTIES AND RIGHTS. 4. Civil Liberties. 5. Civil Rights. PART III: THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRACY. 6. Interest Groups. 7. Political Parties. 8. Public Opinion and Voting. 9. Campaigns and Elections. 10. Politics and the Media. PART IV: INSTITUTIONS. 11. Congress. 12. The Presidency. 13. The Bureaucracy. 14. The Judiciary. PART V: PUBLIC POLICY. 15. Domestic Policy. 16. Foreign Policy. PART VI: CALIFORNIA POLITICS. 17. California's People, Economy, and Politics. 18. California's Political Parties and Direct Democracy. 19. California Elections, Campaigns, and the Media. 20. California Interest Groups. 21. The Legislature: The Perils of Policymaking. 22. California Law: Courts, Judges, and Politics. 23. The Executive Branch: Coping with Fragmented Authority. 24. Taxing and Spending: Budgetary Politics and Policies. 25. Local Government in California. 26. State-Federal Relations: Conflict, Cooperation, and Chaos.
"For me, the clear strength of GOVT is the organization and structure around the learning objectives in each chapter. Students are always asking what they should study and struggling to figure out what from each chapter is important and what is just interesting color that I've added to make the class more interesting. Your learning objectives give them a concrete way to distill out what is important, and the fact that they come on detachable study cards is a great bonus! . . . Students will like the format and the price, as well as the cutting edge flavor of both the photos and the issues raised in the 'America at Odds' boxes. These are a great way to launch a lecture, but they'll fall flat if the issues are no longer hot. In that regard, this book delivers! . . . I also really like how the technology for this book is not an afterthought. Students today expect technology to actually enhance their class experience, not just add to the cost of the text. The array of book-specific materia
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