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Student Resources
for
"Government in America"
by Edwards, Wattenberg & Lineberry

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DIRECTIONS:  Open each of the Adobe Portable Document Files or Powerpoint presentations listed below by clicking on it with your mouse cursor.  It will then open up the file in your Web browser.  You may need to wait for them to load in the Web browser - it may take a little while in computers with a slow processor.  These files have been adapted from Edwards, Wattenberg & Lineberry's "Government in America" and are strictly for the use of students who utilize that textbook.  Click on the hyperlinked title of each chapter below to access the corresponding companion Web site for students. 

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    INTRODUCING GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA

 

    THE CONSTITUTION

 

   FEDERALISM

 

    CIVIL LIBERTIES AND PUBLIC POLICY

 

    CIVIL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC POLICY

 

    PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL ACTION

 

    THE MASS MEDIA AND THE POLITICAL AGENDA

 

    POLITICAL PARTIES

 

    NOMINATIONS AND CAMPAIGNS

 

    ELECTIONS AND VOTING BEHAVIOR

 

    INTEREST GROUPS

 

   CONGRESS

 

   THE PRESIDENCY

 

 

   THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY

 

   THE FEDERAL COURTS

 

   ECONOMIC POLICYMAKING

 

   SOCIAL WELFARE POLICYMAKING

 

   POLICYMAKING FOR HEALTH CARE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

 

   FOREIGN AND DEFENSE POLICYMAKING

 

   THE NEW FACE OF STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT