American Government: Balancing Democracy and Rights - Softcover

Landy, Marc; Milkis, Sidney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072935294 ISBN 13: 9780072935295

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2003

Synopsis

This exciting, concise new text takes a unique political development approach to American government courses. Written by two pre-eminent scholars of American political development, Marc Landy and Sid Milkis, the text explores American government as an entity that evolves through the debates that have occurred in American politics and political culture over time. This approach gives readers a context for understanding the growth of U.S. systems and laws, and encourages critical thinking. The give-and-take between individual rights and equality frames the discussion of each issue.

About this title

Book Description:

This introductory textbook highlights the tensions and complementarities between liberalism and democracy that gave rise to the current American political system. It deals extensively with contemporary political issues and dynamics. It is the first to adopt an American Political Development approach.

About the Author:

Marc Landy is a Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Faculty Chair of the Irish Institute. He has a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. He is co-author with Sidney Milkis of Presidential Greatness (Kansas U. Press, 2000), and an author of The Environmental Protection Agency From Nixon to Clinton: Asking the Wrong Questions. He is an editor of Seeking the Center: Politics and Policymaking at the New Century (2001), and The New Politics of Public Policy. In addition to teaching undergraduates and graduate students, he regularly teaches public officials from Ireland and Northern Ireland about American politics through a series of executive programs run by the Irish Institute. He also teaches summer courses at the Monteverde Institute in Costa Rica. His recent articles include “The Bush Presidency after 9/11: Shifting the Kaleidoscope” in the inaugural issue of the E-Journal Forum; “Local Government and Environmental Policy,” in Martha Derthick ed., Dilemmas of Scale in American Federal Democracy (Cambridge U. Press, 1999); and “The Politics of Risk Reform,” co-authored with Kyle Dell, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, Fall 1999. During the 2000 presidential campaign, his op-ed articles appeared in the Boston Globe and New York Newsday, and he appeared on a wide variety of radio and television news programs.
Sidney M. Milkis is the James Hart Professor of Politics and Senior Scholar at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. His books include The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal; Political Parties and Constitutional Government: Remaking American Democracy; and Presidential Greatness, co-authored with Marc Landy. His articles on American government and political history have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Studies in American Political Development, Journal of Policy History, and several edited volumes.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0072935294
• ISBN 13: 9780072935295
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1