Readings in American Politics: Analysis and Perspectives - Softcover

Kollman, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393912825 ISBN 13: 9780393912821

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

Synopsis

A reader with an analytical approach to American politics.

Readings in American Politics introduces students to foundational works and recent scholarship that have shaped the way political scientists understand American government today. In the Second Edition, 30 percent of the readings are new, including excerpts from widely requested classics such as Home Style by Richard Fenno and The Hollow Hope by Gerald Rosenberg―as well as recent scholarship like Michelle Swers’s The Difference Women Make and Larry Bartels’s Unequal Democracy.

About this title

About the Author:

Ken Kollman is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research and teaching focus on political parties, elections, lobbying, and federal systems. He also regularly teaches the introductory American politics course at the University of Michigan. In addition to numerous articles, he has written The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States (with Pradeep Chhibber), and Outside Lobbying: Public Opinion and Interest Group Strategies.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0393912825
• ISBN 13: 9780393912821
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 551