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Introduction to Political Science: Reason, Reflection, and Analysis (Book Only)

Education & Teaching

Godwin, R. Kenneth

Schools & Teaching

Cengage Learning'

Appropriate for introduction to political science or politics courses, INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE covers both normative and empirical issues while examining major political ideologies, institutions, and processes. This text introduces students to the enduring, normative questions of politics and to the different schools of thought concerning these issues. It also provides students with information about political systems and issues in a global context, relating comparative and international issues to everyday life. Finally, it teaches them to think critically about politics, applying logic and empirical analysis to political questions. The social choice framework provides a conceptual model that students can understand, apply, and critique.

Introduction to Political Science: Reason, Reflection, and Analysis

Educational policy in a democracy goes beyond teaching literacy and numeracy. It also supports teaching moral reasoning, political tolerance, respect for diversity, and citizenship. Education policy should encourage liberty and equality of opportunity, hold educational institutions accountable, and be efficient. School Choice Tradeoffs examines the tradeoffs among these goals when government affords parents the means to select the schools their children attend.Godwin and Kemerer compare current policy that uses family residence to assign students to schools with alternative policies that range from expanding public choice options to school vouchers. They identify the benefits and costs of each policy approach through a review of past empirical literature, the presentation of new empirical work, and legal and philosophic analysis.The authors offer a balanced perspective that goes beyond rhetoric and ideology to offer policymakers and the public insight into the complex tradeoffs that are inherent in the design and implementation of school choice policies. While all policies create winners and losers, the key questions concern who these individuals are and how much they gain or lose. By placing school choice within a broader context, this book will stimulate reflective thought in all readers.

School Choice Tradeoffs: Liberty, Equity, and Diversity

Kemerer, Frank R.

University of Texas Press

Educational policy in a democracy goes beyond teaching literacy and numeracy. It also supports teaching moral reasoning, political tolerance, respect for diversity, and citizenship. Education policy should encourage liberty and equality of opportunity, hold educational institutions accountable, and be efficient. School Choice Tradeoffs examines the tradeoffs among these goals when government affords parents the means to select the schools their children attend.
Godwin and Kemerer compare current policy that uses family residence to assign students to schools with alternative policies that range from expanding public choice options to school vouchers. They identify the benefits and costs of each policy approach through a review of past empirical literature, the presentation of new empirical work, and legal and philosophic analysis.
The authors offer a balanced perspective that goes beyond rhetoric and ideology to offer policymakers and the public insight into the complex tradeoffs that are inherent in the design and implementation of school choice policies. While all policies create winners and losers, the key questions concern who these individuals are and how much they gain or lose. By placing school choice within a broader context, this book will stimulate reflective thought in all readers.

One Billion Dollars of Influence: The Direct Marketing of Politics (Chatham House Series on Change in American Politics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Chatham House Pub

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Introduction to Political Science: Reason, Reflection, and Analysis (Book Only)

Introduction to Political Science: Reason, Reflection, and Analysis

School Choice Tradeoffs: Liberty, Equity, and Diversity

School Choice Tradeoffs: Liberty, Equity, and Diversity

One Billion Dollars of Influence: The Direct Marketing of Politics (Chatham House Series on Change in American Politics)