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A history of the U.S. political system : ideas, interests, and institutions / Richard A. Harris and Daniel J. Tichenor, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (3 volumes (1467 pages)) : illustrations
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of the most active and revealing approaches to research into the American political system is one that focuses on political development, an approach that combines the tools of the political scientist and the historian. The U.S. Political System: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions is the first comprehensive resource that uses this approach to explore the evolution of the American political system from the adoption of the Constitution to the present.||The U.S. Political System is a three-volume collection of original essays and primary documents that examines the ideas, institutions, and pol
- Contents:
- v. 1. Foundations : liberalism, republicanism, and reform in American political thought
- Religion and American politics
- Cities, states, and American federalism
- The Congress
- The presidency
- The federal bureaucracy
- The courts
- v. 2. Political parties
- Elections
- Interest groups
- Social movements
- The media and public opinion
- The policy-making process
- Domestic policy
- Making foreign policy
- v. 3. The early republic
- The age of Jackson and the antebellum period
- The Civil War and Reconstruction
- The gilded age and the rise of populism
- The progressive era, World War I, and the 1920s
- The New Deal
- World War II and postwar America
- The 1960s
- The 1970s and the Reagan revolution
- Contemporary American politics.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-84-00-66561-5
- 1-282-53576-5
- 9786612535765
- 1-85109-718-X
- OCLC:
- 642821368
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