American Government and Public Policy Today: Origins, Institution, and Modern Democracies: Texas Edition

American Government and Public Policy Today: Origins, Institution, and Modern Democracies: Texas Edition by Glynn E Newman. Misc. Supplies edition. ISBN: 9781524923709.

American Government and Public Policy Today is a turn-key online course package that introduce students to American national government, providing a broad-based introduction to the concepts and institutions that shape politics in the United States. It focuses on four major areas: the Constitution and the debates of the founding era, political institutions of modern American government, public policy issues of modern American government, and the political behavior of the American mass public. Student will study the ideas, roles, and limitations of both governmental officials and ordinary citizens, and how they interact while trying to achieve public goods. The authors provide documents from America’s formative period and modern political phenomena from a variety of sources. It helps each student in the class arrive at a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of the forces that shape American government and politics. Ultimately, the goal is that each person may be both a more discerning student and critic of the system and a more informed and fact based participant in the society. While most of the decision-making takes place at the national level, state and local government are primarily responsible for public safety and education. In addition, state and local governments are responsible for economic development, welfare policy, environmental policy and healthcare. American Government and Public Policy Today: continues a tradition of scholarly and factual coverage of both American and Texas government. features a basic structure, which makes it an easy read and remains informative and current. makes government come alive. features current graphs and charts. includes access to test bank, quizzes, and assignments.