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Tenth Edition


March 2021 | CQ Press
ISBN: 978-1-0718-2141-1

About The Logic of American Politics, Tenth Edition

Why does the American political system work the way it does?

Find the answers in The Logic of American Politics. This bestselling text arms students with a "toolkit" of institutional design concepts—command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, and delegation—to help them comprehend how the American political system was designed and why it works the way it does. The authors build students' critical thinking through a simple yet powerful idea: politics is about solving collective action problems. This thoroughly updated Tenth Edition considers the most recent events and data, including rising political polarization, the country’s reaction to changing demographics, and Americans’ growing emotional involvement in politics. With a fresh analysis of the 2020 election results, this bestseller provides students the tools they need to make sense of the government they have.

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The Logic of American Politics
arms students with a "toolkit" of institutional design concepts—command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, and delegation—to help them comprehend how the American political system was designed and why it works the way it does. The Logic of American Politics - Vantage Digital Option, Tenth Edition delivers the trusted content from Kernell, Jacobson, Kousser, Vavreck, and Johnson's text on SAGE Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that features auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools—including assignable video—all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. It offers easy course setup and enables students to better prepare for class. For a personalized demo, please contact your SAGE representative.


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The Logic of American Politics
 
The Constitution
 
Federalism
 
Civil Rights
 
Civil Liberties
 
Congress
 
The Presidency
 
The Bureaucracy
 
The Federal Judiciary
 
Public Opinion
 
Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
 
Political Parties
 
Interest Groups
 
Media
 
Is There a Logic to American Policy?

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KEY FEATURES OF THE LOGIC OF AMERICAN POLITICS, TENTH EDITION

  • Chapter-opening vignettes draw in students while effectively pointing to a chapter’s main themes.
  • A set of feature boxes strengthens the book’s analytic approach:
    • Logic of Politics boxes examine the design of various political institutions in light of the objectives they were intended to achieve.
    • Strategy and Choice boxes show how officeholders and those seeking to influence them employ institutions to advance their goals.
    • Politics to Policy boxes highlight how public policies reflect the institutions that produce them and evaluate institutional capacity to solve the nation’s problems.
  • The concluding chapter on policymaking examines the noticeable logic that guides American policy. Students glean insights into the sources of policy problems, identify possible solutions, and realize why agreement on those solutions is often so hard to achieve.
  • Robust pedagogical features strengthen the text’s analytical approach: boxed features, maps, tables, and figures make for a rich experience as students learn to analyze data; new learning objectives provide measurable takeaways; and more than 200 carefully chosen photographs bring historical and contemporary details to life.

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