Keeping the Republic: Power and Citizenship in American Politics - Softcover

Barbour, Christine; Wright, Gerald C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483352897 ISBN 13: 9781483352893

Publisher: Cq Pr, 2014

Synopsis

other than some light wear on cover there are NO markings on pages.

About this title

About the Author:

Christine Barbour teaches in the Political Science Department and the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University, where she has become increasingly interested in how teachers of large classes can maximize what their students learn. She is working with online course designers to create an online version of her Intro to American Politics class. At Indiana, Professor Barbour has been a Lilly Fellow, working on a project to increase student retention in large introductory courses, and a member of the Freshman Learning Project, a university-wide effort to improve the first-year undergraduate experience. She has served on the New York Times College Advisory Board, working with other educators to develop ways to integrate newspaper reading into the undergraduate curriculum. She has won several teaching honors, but the two awarded by her students mean the most to her: the Indiana University Student Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty and the Indiana University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award. When not teaching or writing textbooks, Professor Barbour enjoys playing with her dogs, traveling with her coauthor, and writing about food. She is the food editor for Bloom Magazine of Bloomington and is a coauthor of Indiana Cooks!(2005) and Home Grown Indiana (2008). She also makes jewelry from precious metals and rough gemstones and if she ever retires, she will open a jewelry shop in a renovated air-stream on the beach in Apalachicola, Florida, where she plans to write another cookbook and a book about the local politics, development, and fishing industry. Gerald C. Wright has taught political science at Indiana University since 1981, and he is currently the chair of the political science department. An accomplished scholar of American politics, and the 2010 winner of the State Politics and Policy Association's Career Achievement Award, his books include Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States (1993), coauthored with Robert S. Erikson and John P. McIver, and he has published more than fifty articles on elections, public opinion, and state politics. Professor Wright has long studied the relationship among citizens, their preferences, and public policy. He is currently conducting research funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation on the factors that influence the equality of policy representation in the states and in Congress. He is also writing a book about representation in U.S. legislatures. He has been a consultant for Project Vote Smart in the past several elections. Professor Wright is a member of Indiana University's Freshman Learning Project, a university-wide effort to improve the first-year undergraduate experience by focusing on how today's college students learn and how teachers can adapt their pedagogical methods to best teach them. In his nonworking hours, Professor Wright also likes to spend time with his dogs, travel, eat good food, fish, and play golf.

Review:

"I'm really impressed with the new `Big Picture' feature. It will be really useful in encouraging my students to think more critically about American politics!" -- John Carhart "Keeping the Republic: Brief Edition is my go-to American politics textbook. It's accessible and practical. Through an emphasis on citizenship, Barbour and Wright masterfully encourage students to analyze the impact of government and politics on their lives." -- Sara M. Butler "Keeping the Republic: Brief Edition is that rare text that clearly and briefly describes key political science concepts, while at the same time offering students substantive insight into the political process. Barbour and Wright's text is both comprehensive and completely relatable for students." -- Zachary Callen

About this edition

• Publisher: Cq Pr
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1483352897
• ISBN 13: 9781483352893
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 514