America's democratic republic, 3d ed.

9780205646814

America's democratic republic, 3d ed.

Greenberg, Edward S. and Benjamin I. Page.

Pearson / Longman

2009

691 pages

$46.67

Paperback

Penguin academics

JK276

Political scientists Greenberg (U. of Colorado-Boulder) and Page (Northwestern U.) once more update their textbook--this time in light of the 2008 presidential election--explaining how the current political system in the US is a hybrid between popular democracy and 18th-century republican constitutional foundations. They discuss how it works on a day-to-day basis, how it came to be as it, and its impact of the quality of life for the people who live in it. They also have a larger, more conventional textbook out; this one is for instructors who like a little twist, and who like to assign additional readings.

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