Government and Politics of the United States

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrative Material
List of Abbreviations
Preface to the Third Edition and Acknowledgements
Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Chapter 1
Beliefs and Values in American
Society
		Values and American society
		The diversity of American society
		The core values within American political culture
		Conflict and consensus within American society
		Conclusion
	Chapter 2 The Constitution: Creating the Rules of the Game
		Why the Constitution matters
		The creation of a new republic
		The Constitutional Convention: the great compromise
		The core principles of the Federal Constitution
		The core structural features of the Constitutional settlement: horizontal and vertical separation
		The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
		Changing the Constitution through judicial interpretation
		Conclusion
	Chapter 3 Political Parties: The Politics of Aggregation and Disaggregation
		The nature of American parties
		The development of the American two-party system
		Parties as organizations
		Parties in the electorate
		Parties in government
		The resurgence of parties
		Conclusion
	Chapter 4 Elections and the Politics of Participation
		Who votes and who does not
		How Americans run for election
		How Americans vote
		Who wins and why
		Conclusion
	Chapter 5 The Presidency and the Politics of Leadership
		Presidential leadership
		The powers of the presidency
		The presidency and the mass media
		The vice-presidency
		Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and the modern presidency
		The obligation to bargain
		The presidency and the executive branch
		The presidency and Congress
		Conclusion
	Chapter 6 Congress and the Politics of Legislative Competition
		Procedural and structural dimensions
		The bicameral dimension
		The institutional dimension
		The individual dimension
		The specialized and fissiparous dimension
		The aggregative and collective dimension
		Party organization in the House
		Party organization in the Senate
		Party and voting
		Caucuses
		The procedural dimension
		Legislation in the House
		Legislation in the Senate
		Conclusion
	Chapter 7 The Supreme Court and the Politics of Adjudication
		The organization and role of the judiciary
		The Supreme Court’s jurisdiction
		Procedure
		Judicial review
		The Supreme Court and the elected branches
		Chief justices and leadership of the Court
		Conclusion
	Chapter 8 Interest Groups
		Interest groups: opportunities and constraints
		Interest groups and access to government
		Participants in the interest industry
		Classifying interest groups
		Evaluating interest groups
		Conclusion
	Chapter 9 Bureaucracy: The Fourth Branch of Government
		The institutional setting of the Fourth Branch
		The federal civil service
		Reforming the civil service
		The growth of federal regulation
		Bureaucratic structure and organization
		Administrative law
		Congressional control of the bureaucracy
		Presidential control and the problems of bureaucracy
		Conclusion
	Chapter 10 Federalism and Intergovernmental Policy- Making
		Federalism: theory and structure
		The development of the constitutional law of federalism
		Federalism: structure and process of intergovernmental fiscal and policy relations
		Cooperative federalism
		Nixon, Reagan and the new federalisms
		Conclusion
	Chapter 11 Domestic Economic Policy
		The economic policy process
		Participants in economy policy-making
		Monetary policy: the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Banks
		Objects and processes of economic policy-making
		Processes of economic policy-making: an assessment
		Conclusion
	Chapter 12 Foreign and Defence Policy
		Foreign policy, defence policy and the national interest
		Institutional participants in foreign and defence policy
		Processes of foreign and defence policy-making
		Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix 1 The Constitution of the United States, Bill of Rights and Later Amendments
Appendix 2 Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Appendix 3 Constitutional Allocation of Powers over Foreign and Defence Policy
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index