Product Description: The best text for teaching students to think analytically about American politics.In this major revision, new co-author Stephen Ansolabehere sharpens the contemporary analytical perspective in the political behavior chapters, and a new primer on “Analyzing Evidence” in Chapter 1 sets the stage for sections in every chapter that highlight the political science behind the findings reported in the text...read more

Product Description: Politics is relevant.The best book for engaging students in American politics is also the most effective for helping students study and learn. We the People emphasizes the ways that government and politics matter and the ways that people can get involved in politics and influence government...read more

Product Description: Fifteen years in the making, Hyperpolitics is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline’s most distinguished scholars, its purpose is to provide its readers with fresh critical insights about what informs these political concepts, as well as a method by which readers—and especially students—can unpack and reconstruct them on their own...read more

Product Description: This widely read book has become a modern classic of political science.The main argument which Lowi develops through this book is that the liberal state grew to its immense size and presence without self-examination and without recognizing that its pattern of growth had problematic consequences...read more

Product Description: Arenas of Power represents the first time that Theodore J. Lowi's model of policy analysis has been presented together with key applications and case studies drawn from his long history of scholarship all in one place. Lowi's signature four-fold typology is shown as conceived and then as extended to include that most relevant of contemporary phenomena social regulatory policy...read more

Product Description: The new Essentials Edition incorporates popular features from the Full Edition, including the What Government Does and Why It Matters chapter introductions and the new Get Involved units, in a significantly briefer format.With two chapters on domestic and foreign policy, and a built-in study guide at the end of every chapter, the Essentials Edition is the perfect choice for courses where a concise but comprehensive text is wanted...read more

Product Description: Emphasizing the relevance of politics and government in everyday life, We the People, Seventh Edition, continues to provide tools to help students think critically about American government and politics...read more

Product Description: Emphasizing the relevance of politics and government in everyday life, We the People, Seventh Edition, continues to provide tools to help students think critically about American government and politics.The Seventh Edition has been thoroughly updated to include extensive coverage of the pivotal 2008 elections and important recent events and issues...read more

Product Description: American Government does more than any other text to get students to think analytically about American politics and government.The successful Five Principles of Politics framework integrated throughout the full and core versions helps students make sense of the material they encounter in the course, and the political information they encounter in their daily lives...read more

Product Description: Arenas of Power represents the first time that Theodore J. Lowi’s model of policy analysis has been presented together with key applications and case studies drawn from his long history of scholarship—all in one place. Lowi’s signature four-fold typology is shown as conceived and then as extended to include that most relevant of contemporary phenomena—“social regulatory policy...read more

Product Description: In the Ninth Edition, American Government: Power and Purpose maintains the analytical rigor, focused pedagogy, and judicious use of relevant history that have distinguished it as the authoritative text for American government courses...read more

Product Description: Always authoritative. More contemporary than ever.The text that professors trust to get students thinking analytically about American government has been extensively revised by co-author Stephen Ansolabehere and updated with new "Analyzing the Evidence" sections written by top researchers...read more

Product Description: Foreword by Theodore J. LowiA national map of legalized gambling from 1963 would show one state, Nevada, with casino gambling, and no states with lotteries. Today's map shows eleven commercial casino states, most of them along the Mississippi River, forty-two states with state-owned lotteries, and racetrack betting, slot-machine parlors, charitable bingo, and Native American gambling halls flourishing throughout the nation...read more

Product Description: In The End of the Republican Era, Theodore J. Lowi predicts not only a collapse of the Republican coalition but also the potential collapse of the United States’ republican experiment at large. Professing that the ideologies of dominant political coalitions contain the seeds of their own destruction, Lowi suggests that the efforts of a new conservative Right to enforce a national, religion-based morality has brought about the demise of the Republican era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This brief text combines concise coverage of the central topics in American government with compelling critical analysis, including coverage of the 2004 elections. With new in-text learning tools American Government, Brief Edition, uses a refined pedagogical apparatus to help students approach politics and government analytic...read more

In the Ninth Edition, American Government: Power and Purpose maintains the analytical rigor, focused pedagogy, and judicious use of relevant history that have distinguished it as the authoritative text for American government courses. Retaining the analytical framework that first appeared in the Seventh Edition, the Ninth Edition emphasizes five core "Principles of Politics":1. All political behavior has a purpose2. All politics is collective action3. Institutions matter4. Political outcomes are the products of individuals' preferences and institutional procedures5. History mattersBy drawing on these principles throughout the text, the authors expose students to repeated applications of core ideas in their discussion of political concepts and history. The result is a refined, accessible portrait of America's government institutions and political life that encourages students to think critically and analytically.

Product Description: This useful learning resource to the Fifth Edition of We the People includes chapter overviews, exercises for reviewing key terms, and questions for practice and review. We the People is widely recognized as the classroom standard for introductory American government courses...read more

This Shorter Fifth Edition of We the People without policy chapters is available for classes requiring a more concise text.We the People is widely recognized as the classroom standard for introductory American government courses. Maintaining a central emphasis on the relevance of American government and politics to students and continuing to highlight the importance of political participation, the Fifth Edition has been meticulously revised and updated through the 2004 presidential elections, including in-depth analysis of the Iraq War and the "War on Terrorism."

Product Description: Emphasizing the relevance of politics and government in everyday life, We the People, Seventh Edition, continues to provide tools to help students think critically about American government and politics.The Seventh Edition has been thoroughly updated to include extensive coverage of the pivotal 2008 elections and important recent events and issues...read more

Product Description: We the People is widely recognized as the classroom standard for introductory American government courses. Maintaining a central emphasis on the relevance of American government and politics to students and continuing to highlight the importance of political participation, the Fifth Edition has been meticulously revised and updated through the 2004 presidential elections, including in-depth analysis of the Iraq War and the "War on Terrorism...read more

Product Description: In the Eighth Edition, American Government: Power and Purpose maintains the analytical rigor, focused pedagogy, and judicious use of relevant history that have distinguished it as the authoritative text for American government courses...read more

Product Description: In the Eighth Edition, American Government: Power and Purpose maintains the analytical rigor, focused pedagogy, and judicious use of relevant history that have distinguished it as the authoritative text for American government courses...read more