The Logic of American Politics 10th Edition by Samuel H. Kernell, ISBN-13: 978-1071815977

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• Publisher: ? CQ Press; Tenth edition (March 2, 2021)
• Language: ? English
• ?784 pages
• ISBN-10: ? 1071815970
• ISBN-13: ? 978-1071815977

Find the answers in The Logic of American Politics. This bestselling text arms you with a “toolkit” of institutional design concepts-command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, and delegation-to help you comprehend how the American political system was designed and why it works the way it does. The authors build your critical thinking through a simple yet powerful idea: politics is about solving collective action problems. This thoroughly updated Tenth Edition considers the most recent events and data, including rising political polarization, the country’s reaction to changing demographics, and Americans’ growing emotional involvement in politics. With a fresh analysis of the 2020 election results, this bestseller provides you with the tools you need to make sense of the government they have.

Table of Contents:

Preface xviii
A Note to Students xxvi
Chapter 1 • The Logic of American Politics 1
Part I The Nationalization of Politics
Chapter 2 • The Constitution 33
Chapter 3 • Federalism 89
Chapter 4 • Civil Rights 131
Chapter 5 • Civil Liberties 185
Part II The Institutions of Government
Chapter 6 • Congress 231
Chapter 7 • The Presidency 297
Chapter 8 • The Bureaucracy 347
Chapter 9 • The Federal Judiciary 391
Part III The Public’s Influence on National Policy
Chapter 10 • Public Opinion 435
Chapter 11 • Voting, Campaigns, and Elections 475
Chapter 12 • Political Parties 507
Chapter 13 • Interest Groups 549
Chapter 14 • Media 593
Part IV Conclusion
Chapter 15 • Is There a Logic to American Policy? 623
Reference Material 653
Glossary G-1
Notes N-1
Index I-1
About the Authors A-1

Samuel Kernell is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since 1977. Previously, he taught at the University of Mississippi and the University of Minnesota. Kernell’s research interests focus on the presidency and American political history. His previous books include Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership, 3rd edition; an edited collection of essays, James Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican Government; and, with Gary C. Jacobson, The Logic of American Politics, 7th edition, and Strategy and Choice in Congressional Elections, 2nd edition. Kernell’s most recent book, Party Ballots, Reform and the Transformation of American Politics, (2015, with Erik Engstrom), won the APSA’s David Greenstone Award for the best book in politics and history.

Gary C. Jacobson is distinguished professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since 1979. He previously taught at Trinity College, the University of California at Riverside, Yale University, and Stanford University. Jacobson specializes in the study of U.S. elections, parties, interest groups, and Congress. He is the author of Money in Congressional Elections: The Politics of Congressional Elections, Eighth Edition, The Electoral Origins of Dividend Government: Competition in the U.S. House Elections, 1946 – 1988, and A Divider, Not a Uniter: George W. Bush and the American People, Second Edition, and is coauthor with Samuel Kernell of Strategy and Choice in Congressional Elections, Second Edition. Jacobson is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Thad Kousser is professor of political science and department chair at the University of California, San Diego. He has served as a legislative aide in the California, New Mexico, and U.S. senates. He is the author of Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism, coauthor of The Power of American Governors and The Logic of American Politics, and coeditor of The New Political Geography of California. Kousser has been awarded the UCSD Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award, has served as coeditor of State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and serves as coeditor for state and local politics of Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Lynn Vavreck is the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics and Public Policy at UCLA, a contributing columnist to The Upshot at The New York Times, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a recipient of the Andrew F. Carnegie Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the author of five books, including Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America, named the “most ominous” book of 2018 by the Washington Post Book Review. Nate Silver dubbed her 2012 election book the “definitive account” of that election, and her book on messaging has been seen in the hands of more than a few presidential candidates and consultants. Her 2020 election project, NATIONSCAPE, is the largest study of presidential elections ever fielded in the United States. Interviewing more than 6,000 people a week, NATIONSCAPE will complete 500,000 interviews before the inauguration in 2021. At UCLA she teaches courses on campaigns, elections, public opinion, and the 1960s. Professor Vavreck holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Rochester and held previous appointments at Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and The White House. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, she remains a loyal Browns fan and is a “known equestrian” – to draw on a phrase from the 2012 presidential campaign.

Timothy R. Johnson is Morse Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Minnesota, former co-editor of the Law and Society Review, and former chair (2016–2017) of the Law and Court’s Section of the American Political Science Association. He is the co-author of Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court, co-editor of A Good Quarrel: America’s Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court, author of Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the U.S. Supreme Court, and co-author of Religious Institutions and Minor Parties in the United States.

The National Science Foundation has supported five of his research projects. Beyond research, he teaches courses on constitutional law, civil liberties, judicial process, and American politics. He has won college-level and university wide teaching awards and, in 2018, was named a semi-finalist for the prestigious Robert F. Cherry Award for Great Teaching and won the American Political Science Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

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