This brief but inclusive narrative textbook focuses on the comparison of the theoretical promise of democracy with its actual performance. Readily accessible to undergraduates, the text is anchored in and motivated by political science scholarship. This new edition has been completely revised and updated and incorporates the results of the 2000 presidential and congressional elections. With thorough coverage of the successes and failures of the workings of democracy in today's United States, PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY provides students with tools they can use to understand politics, evaluate the functioning of democracy, and make educated voting decisions.

Promise and Performance of American Democracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Watson, Richard Abernathy

Politics & Government

John Wiley&Sons

Grounded in basic political science research, yet readily accessible to undergraduates, PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE uses the title's theme as an organizing framework for studying American Politics. The promise of democracy is analyzed using four core values: Popular Sovereignty, Political Freedom, Political Equality and Majority Rule/Minority Rights and is further explored in several new features including "Living the Promise" and "Promise and Policy" boxes. The performance part of the theme is then integrated with an assessment at the end of every chapter along with a concluding policy chapter. Solid scholarship and writing makes this an ideal text not just for reading and learning, but also as an example of how political science is researched and written by the practitioners in academia.

Promise and Performance of American Democracy, State and Local Edition

In the most up-to-date core text on the presidency, Pika and Maltese once again deliver a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging analysis of the increasingly political nature of the office, while artfully balancing its historical foundations. This revised seventh edition features a new chapter on the first 100 days of the Obama administration and discussion of: the precedent-setting campaign and election, Obama s transition to the White House, new cabinet members and high-level advisers, the legislative agenda and executive legislative relations, and the outlook on foreign policy.

The politics of the presidency

wiley

The Presidential Contest: With a Guide to the 1980 Race

Promise and Performance of American Democracy, with an In-Depth Analysis of the 1980 Presidential Co

The author explains the successive moves and countermoves in the presidential contest, beginning long before election year and culminating in the vote in early November.

The Presidential Contest: With a Guide to the 1984 Race

The Politics of the Bench and the Bar: Judicial Selection Under the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan

Rules & Procedures

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Promise and Performance of American Democracy

Promise and Performance of American Democracy, State and Local Edition

The politics of the presidency

The Presidential Contest: With a Guide to the 1980 Race

Promise and Performance of American Democracy, with an In-Depth Analysis of the 1980 Presidential Co

Promise and Performance of American Democracy, with an In-Depth Analysis of the 1980 Presidential Co

The Presidential Contest: With a Guide to the 1984 Race

Promise and Performance of American Democracy

Promise and Performance of American Democracy

The Politics of the Bench and the Bar: Judicial Selection Under the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan