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Introduction to American Government

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Introduction to American Government

Fifth Edition   Bresler, et al., © 2009, 512 pages

Introduction to American Government provides students with a comprehensive, readable, and balanced study of the context, structure, and process of American politics. The text highlights the importance of economics and ideology in the context of American government.

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About the Authors

Robert Bresler person
Robert J. Bresler received his AB degree from Earlham College and his PhD from Princeton University. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, the University of Delaware, and Penn State University–Harrisburg, where he completed a thirty-two-year career. During his time at Penn State, Professor Bresler served for some years as the director of the School of Public Affairs. He has been a visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College and the Franklin & Marshall College and a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He was the recipient of the James A. Jordan Award for Teaching Excellence and the Outstanding Civilian Award from the Department of the Army. Professor Bresler is the National Affairs Editor of USA Today: The Magazine of the American Scene, where he writes a regular column on American politics. His books include Us vs. Them: American Political and Cultural Conflict from WWII to Watergate and Freedom of Association: Civil Rights and Liberties Under the Law. His articles have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Politics and Society, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Commonweal, Inquiry, The Nation, Intellect, and Telos.
Robert Friedrich person
Robert J. Friedrich is an associate professor in the Department of Government at Franklin & Marshall College, where he teaches courses in American government, public opinion and mass political behavior, political ideology, and research methods. His research interests are in electoral politics and electoral institutions, particularly the relationship between seats and votes in legislative elections, and in political values and ideology. He has reviewed manuscripts for the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics, for which he also served on the editorial board. Dr. Friedrich received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado and his master’s and doctor of philosophy degrees from the University ofMichigan.
Joseph Karlesky person
Joseph J. Karlesky is the Honorable and Mrs. John C. Kunkel Professor of Government. He received his Bachelor’s degree from La Salle College and his PhD in public law and government from Columbia University. He is co-author of The State of Academic Science: The Universities in the Nation’s Research Effort and of American Government, an American government textbook. He has also authored the monograph “Thinking About Environmental Policy.” He has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and has served as a consultant for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on home rule for municipalities and on academic science policy for the state of Montana. He has served as associate dean for academic affairs at Franklin & Marshall and as codirector of the University of Pennsylvania Master of Governmental Administration Program in Harrisburg. His teaching and research interests focus on public policy, particularly the interrelationships between public policy and science and technology and the consequences of these interrelationships for policies in energy and health. He is currently doing research on decision-making models and dry cask storage of spent nuclear fuel. He regularly teaches courses in American government, understanding public policy, public policy implementation, and a seminar on health policy.
Charles Turner person
Charles C. Turner is a professor of political science at California State University, Chico. His PhD is from Claremont Graduate University. He has taught at Chico State since 2000 and has served as department chair and as president of the Chico chapter of the California Faculty Association. Turner’s published research focuses on the political behavior of Congress and the Supreme Court, as well as on the scholarship of teaching and learning.

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THIS EDITION WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR THE FALL 2011 SEMESTER

The need persists for widespread mastery of the political system John Quincy Adams once described as 'the most complicated on the face of the globe'.

Adams was writing about 200 years ago, and things certainly haven't gotten less complicated since then. In the early 2000s we have already experienced a number of political complications. We have faced three close and controversial presidential elections that have geographically and ideologically divided our nation into "red" and "blue" states. We have suffered a devastating terrorist attack on our own soil, plunging the nation into an open-ended and contentious "war on terror.

We have become embroiled in a long-lasting and divisive war with Iraq. We have seen the national economy reach great heights and disturbing lows, causing unemployment, bankruptcy, and home foreclosures in the private sector and a return of enormous deficit spending in the public sector. How do we make sense of all of these ups and downs of economics, ideology, and politics? We think the best approach is to take seriously our understanding of the political system in which all of these events take place. To that end, we offer today's students a comprehensive, readable, and balanced study of the context, structure, and process of American politics.

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