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Opening Credits
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Preface
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UNIT 1: STUDENTS AND THE SYSTEM
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Chapter 1: American Government and Civic Engagement
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1.1 What is Government?
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1.2 Who Governs? Elitism, Pluralism, and Tradeoffs
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1.3 Engagement in a Democracy
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Key Terms
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Summary
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Chapter 2: The Constitution and Its Origins
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2.1 The Pre-Revolutionary Period and the Roots of the American Political Tradition
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2.2 The Articles of Confederation
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2.3 The Development of the Constitution
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2.4 The Ratification of the Constitution
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2.5 Constitutional Change
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Chapter 3: American Federalism
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Key Terms
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3.1 The Division of Powers
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Summary
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3.2 The Evolution of American Federalism
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3.3 Intergovernmental Relationships
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3.4 Competitive Federalism Today
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3.5 Advantages and Disadvantages of Federalism
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UNIT 2: INDIVIDUAL AGENCY AND ACTION
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Chapter 4: Civil Liberties
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4.1 What Are Civil Liberties?
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4.2 Securing Basic Freedoms
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4.3 The Rights of Suspects
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4.4 Interpreting the Bill of Rights
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Chapter 5: Civil Rights
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5.1 What Are Civil Rights and How Do We Identify Them?
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5.2 The African American Struggle for Equality
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5.3 The Fight for Women’s Rights
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5.4 Civil Rights for Indigenous Groups: Native Americans, Alaskans, and Hawaiians
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5.5 Equal Protection for Other Groups
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Chapter 6: The Politics of Public Opinion
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6.1 The Nature of Public Opinion
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6.2 How Is Public Opinion Measured?
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6.3 What Does the Public Think?
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6.4 The Effects of Public Opinion
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Chapter 7: Voting and Elections
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7.1 Voter Registration
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7.2 Voter Turnout
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7.3 Elections
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7.4 Campaigns and Voting
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7.5 Direct Democracy
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UNIT 3: TOWARD COLLECTIVE ACTION: MEDIATING INSTITUTIONS
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Chapter 8: The Media
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8.1 What Is the Media?
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8.2 The Evolution of the Media
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8.3 Regulating the Media
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8.4 The Impact of the Media
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Chapter 9: Political Parties
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9.1 What Are Parties and How Did They Form?
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9.2 The Two-Party System
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9.3 The Shape of Modern Political Parties
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9.4 Divided Government and Partisan Polarization
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Chapter 10: Interest Groups and Lobbying
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10.1 Interest Groups Defined
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10.2 Collective Action and Interest Group Formation
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10.3 Interest Groups as Political Participation
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10.4 Pathways of Interest Group Influence
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10.5 Free Speech and the Regulation of Interest Groups
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UNIT 4: DELIVERING COLLECTIVE ACTION: FORMAL INSTITUTIONS
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Chapter 11: Congress
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11.1 The Institutional Design of Congress
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11.2 Congressional Elections
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11.3 Congressional Representation
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11.4 House and Senate Organizations
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11.5 The Legislative Process
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Chapter 12: The Presidency
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12.1 The Design and Evolution of the Presidency
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12.2 The Presidential Election Process
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12.3 Organizing to Govern
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12.4 The Public Presidency
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12.5 Presidential Governance: Direct Presidential Action
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Chapter 13: The Courts
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13.1 Guardians of the Constitution and Individual Rights
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13.2 The Dual Court System
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13.3 The Federal Court System
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13.4 The Supreme Court
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13.5 Judicial Decision-Making and Implementation by the Supreme Court
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Chapter 14: State and Local Government
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14.1 State Power and Delegation
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14.2 State Political Culture
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14.3 Governors and State Legislatures
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14.4 State Legislative Term Limits
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14.5 County and City Government
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UNIT 5: THE OUTPUTS OF GOVERNMENT
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Chapter 15: The Bureaucracy
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15.1 Bureaucracy and the Evolution of Public Administration
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15.2 Toward a Merit-Based Civil Service
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15.3 Understanding Bureaucracies and their Types
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15.4 Controlling the Bureaucracy
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Chapter 16: Domestic Policy
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16.1 What Is Public Policy?
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16.2 Categorizing Public Policy
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16.3 Policy Arenas
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16.4 Policymakers
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16.5 Budgeting and Tax Policy
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Chapter 17: Foreign Policy
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17.1 Defining Foreign Policy
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17.2 Foreign Policy Instruments
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17.3 Institutional Relations in Foreign Policy
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17.4 Approaches to Foreign Policy
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Appendix A Declaration of Independence
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Appendix B The Constitution of the United States
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Appendix C Federalist Papers #10 and #51
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Appendix E Selected Supreme Court Cases
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Closing Credits
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