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| Introduction | |
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| The Constitution | |
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| The Continental Congress | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| State constitutions | |
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| The Articles of Confederation | |
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| Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation | |
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| Calls to strengthen the national government | |
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| The Constitutional Convention | |
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| The Virginia Plan | |
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| The New Jersey Plan | |
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| The Great Compromise | |
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| Decisions on slavery | |
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| Compromise over the presidency | |
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| Key Concepts in the Constitution | |
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| Republican form of government | |
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| The organization of government | |
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| The federal system | |
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| Summary of the Constitution | |
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| The Debate over Ratification | |
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| The Antifederalists | |
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| The Federalists | |
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| The Amendment Process and Bill of Rights | |
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| The Bill of Rights | |
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| Subsequent amendments to the Constitution | |
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| Federalism | |
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| Concepts of Federalism | |
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| The constitutional framework | |
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| Dual federalism | |
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| Cooperative federalism | |
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| Defining Federal-State Relations | |
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| The role of the courts | |
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| The role of Congress | |
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| The role of funding policies | |
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| Recent Trends in Federalism | |
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| Richard Nixon and the New Federalism | |
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| Federalism under Reagan | |
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| Ongoing mandates | |
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| Where Americans stand | |
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| Congress | |
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| The Powers of Congress | |
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| Specific powers | |
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| Implied powers | |
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| Limitations on the powers of Congress | |
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| The Organization of Congress | |
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| Congressional districts | |
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| Members of Congress | |
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| Leadership in the House | |
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| Leadership in the Senate | |
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| The work of congressional committees | |
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| How a Bill Becomes a Law | |
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| A bill is introduced | |
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| A bill in committee | |
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| A bill before the full House and Senate | |
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| Factors influencing voting decisions | |
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| The conference committee and action by the president | |
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| The President | |
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| The Powers of the President | |
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| Treaty power | |
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| Appointment power | |
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| Legislative powers | |
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| Other specific powers | |
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| Inherent powers | |
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| Delegation of powers | |
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| The Functions of the President | |
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| Commander in chief | |
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| Chief of state | |
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| Diplomat | |
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| Chief executive | |
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| Legislator | |
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| Moral leader | |
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| Party leader | |
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| Organization of the Executive Branch | |
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| The Executive Office of the President | |
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| The cabinet | |
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| The Vice President and Presidential Succession | |
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| The selection of the vice president | |
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| The role of the vice president | |
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| The process of presidential succession | |
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| The Judiciary | |
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| The State Court System | |
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| Superior courts | |
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| State appellate courts | |
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| State supreme courts | |
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| The election of state judges | |
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| The Federal Court System | |
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| District courts | |
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| Courts of appeal | |
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| Legislative and special courts | |
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| The Supreme Court | |
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| The appointment of federal judges | |
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| The Supreme Court in Operation | |
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| The appointment of Supreme Court justices | |
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| A case comes to the Supreme Court | |
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| A case before the Court | |
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| A decision is reached | |
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| The rationale for decisions | |
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| Implementing Supreme Court decisions | |
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| The Bureaucracy | |
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| Characteristics of a Bureaucracy | |
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| Specialization | |
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| Hierarchical organization | |
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| Formal rules | |
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| The Growth of the Federal Bureaucracy | |
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| The nature of the civil service | |
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| The rise of the welfare state | |
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| National security bureaucracy | |
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| Controlling the Size of Bureaucracy | |
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| Appointment power and presidential persuasion | |
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| Reorganization | |
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| Privatization and deregulation | |
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| The power of the budget | |
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| Sunset laws | |
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| Executive branch reviews of the federal bureaucracy | |
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| The Functions of the Federal Bureaucracy | |
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| The Structure of the Federal Bureaucracy | |
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| Cabinet departments | |
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| Independent agencies | |
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| Government corporations | |
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| Public Opinion | |
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| How Public Opinion Is Measured | |
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| Polling techniques | |
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| Avoiding bias | |
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| Political Socialization | |
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| Family | |
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| Schools | |
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| Peer groups | |
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| Mass media | |
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| Social Background and Political Values | |
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| Income and education | |
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| Race and ethnicity | |
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| Religion | |
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| Region | |
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| Gender | |
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| Political Ideology | |
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| Liberals | |
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| Conservatives | |
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| Moderates | |
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| How Public Opinion Is Formed | |
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| Personal interest | |
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| Schemas | |
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| Effective leadership | |
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| The Mass Media | |
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| The Evolution of the Mass Media | |
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| Newspapers and magazines | |
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| Radio and television | |
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| The Structure of the Mass Media and Government Regulation | |
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| Concentration in the mass media | |
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| Hard news vs. entertainment | |
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| Regulation of radio and television | |
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| The Functions of the Mass Media | |
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| Public opinion | |
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| Political agenda | |
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| Link between the government and the people | |
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| Government watchdog | |
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| Socialization | |
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| The Mass Media and Political Coverage | |
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| How reporters get the news | |
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| The media and presidential elections | |
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| Political Parties | |
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| The Functions of Political Parties | |
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| Representing groups of interests | |
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| Simplifying choices | |
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| Making policy | |
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| The Development of Political Parties | |
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| The Federalists and the Democratic Republicans | |
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| Jacksonian Democrats and the Whigs | |
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| Democrats and Republicans | |
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| The New Deal coalition and Republican resurgence | |
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| Third Parties in American Politics | |
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| Splits within the Republican and Democratic parties | |
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| Farmer-labor parties | |
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| Ideological and one-issue parties | |
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| Why third parties fail | |
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| The Structure of Political Parties | |
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| Local party organization | |
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| State party organization | |
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| National party organization | |
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| The national convention | |
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| The Strengths and Weaknesses of Political Parties | |
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| Voting and Elections | |
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| The Expansion of Suffrage | |
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| Universal manhood suffrage | |
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| Expansion by amendment | |
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| Obstacles to Voting | |
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| Poll taxes | |
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| Literacy tests | |
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| Good-character tests | |
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| Grandfather clause | |
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| Residency requirements | |
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| Other restrictions to voting | |
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| Voter Turnout | |
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| The process of registering | |
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| The process of voting | |
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| Who votes and who doesn't | |
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| Voting Choices | |
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| Voting the party line | |
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| The personality element | |
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| Issue voting | |
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| Alternatives to voting | |
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| Getting Nominated and Campaigning for Office | |
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| Primary elections | |
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| Nominating a president | |
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| Political campaigns | |
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| Electing Candidates to Office | |
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| Electing a president | |
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| The coattails effect | |
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| Congressional elections | |
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| Interest Groups | |
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| Types of Interest Groups | |
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| Economic interest groups | |
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| Public interest groups | |
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| Government interest groups | |
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| Religious interest groups | |
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| Civil rights interest groups | |
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| Ideological interest groups | |
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| Single-issue interest groups | |
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| Functions of Interest Groups | |
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| Representation | |
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| Education | |
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| Tactics of Interest Groups | |
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| Lobbying | |
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| Grassroots campaigns | |
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| Political action committees | |
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| Litigation | |
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| Regulation of Interest Groups | |
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| Controls over lobbying | |
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| Controlling political action committees | |
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| Civil Liberties | |
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| Perspective on Civil Liberties | |
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| The Bill of Rights | |
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| The impact of the Fourteenth Amendment | |
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| The First Amendment: Freedom of Religion | |
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| "Wall of separation" vs. government accommodation | |
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| Free exercise of religion | |
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| The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech | |
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| Political speech | |
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| Public speech | |
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| Symbolic speech | |
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| The First Amendment: Freedom of the Press | |
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| Prior restraint | |
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| Subsequent punishment | |
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| Obscene materials | |
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| The Rights of Defendants | |
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| The Fourth Amendment | |
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| The Fifth Amendment | |
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| The Sixth Amendment | |
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| Implied Rights | |
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| The right to privacy | |
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| The abortion issue | |
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| The right to die | |
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| Civil Rights | |
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| Slavery and Civil Rights | |
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| The Missouri Compromise | |
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| The Compromise of 1850 | |
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| The Dred Scott decision | |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation and the abolition of slavery | |
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| Segregation in the United States | |
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| Jim Crow laws | |
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| Separate but equal doctrine | |
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| Breaking Down Segregation | |
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| Executive actions | |
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| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | |
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| Issues in school desegregation | |
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| The Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Civil disobedience | |
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| Civil rights legislation | |
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| Racial violence | |
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| Civil Rights for Minorities and Women | |
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| Hispanic Americans | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| Disabled Americans | |
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| Homosexuals | |
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| Women | |
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| Affirmative Action | |
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| Reverse discrimination | |
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| Challenges to affirmative action | |
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| QandA | |
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| Public Policy | |
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| The Policymaking Process | |
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| Agenda building | |
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| Formulation and adoption | |
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| Implementation | |
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| Evaluation and termination | |
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| Politics and Policymaking | |
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| Fragmented policies | |
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| Politics in Congress | |
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| Iron triangles and issue networks | |
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| Policymaking in Action | |
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| Regulatory policy | |
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| Criticism of regulation and deregulation | |
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| Social welfare policy | |
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| Social Security | |
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| The "War on Poverty" | |
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| Recent trends and challenges | |
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| Economic Policy | |
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| The Goals of Economic Policy | |
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| Stable prices | |
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| Full employment | |
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| Economic growth | |
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| Theories of Economic Policy | |
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| Laissez-faire economics | |
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| Keynesian economic theory | |
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| Monetarism | |
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| Supply-side economics | |
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| The Federal Budget | |
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| Preparing the budget | |
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| Balancing the budget | |
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| Taxation and Spending | |
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| Types of taxes | |
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| Tax-reform efforts | |
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| International Economic Policy | |
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| Foreign Policy | |
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| Background of American Foreign Policy | |
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| The Spanish-American War and its aftermath | |
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| World War I and World War II | |
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| The Cold War and Vietnam | |
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| Detente and the end of the Cold War | |
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| The new world order | |
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| Making Foreign Policy | |
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| The president and foreign policy | |
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| Congress and foreign policy | |
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| The mass media and foreign policy | |
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| The Institutions of Foreign Policy | |
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| Department of State | |
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| Department of Defense | |
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| National Security Council | |
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| Central Intelligence Agency | |
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| Issues in Foreign Policy | |
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| National security issues | |
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| International economic policy | |
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| Environmental issues | |
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| CQR Review | |
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| CQR Resource Center | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |