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American Politics Today
A student success approach to American government
The concepts of democracy, liberty, and equality are central to understanding how American politics works. But not all citizens experience the same opportunities for equality in these areas. The playing field is not even. The Eighth Edition of?American Politics Today features a collaboration with two experts in teaching and learning, Cassandra Khatri (Lone Star College, University Park) and Cory Colby (Lone Star College, Tomball) to bring best-practices for engaging all students in the discussion of American government. By enhancing the proven nut and bolts focus of the explanations with new pedagogy they help students draw connections between their reading assignments, their lived experiences, and American government. With a new, supportive and motivational ebook experience, and robust online resources, instructors have the flexibility to build a course pathway keyed to the unique needs of their students, creating a more equal opportunity for all to succeed. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.
The concepts of democracy, liberty, and equality are central to understanding how American politics works. But not all citizens experience the same opportunities for equality in these areas. The playing field is not even. The Eighth Edition of?American Politics Today features a collaboration with two experts in teaching and learning, Cassandra Khatri (Lone Star College, University Park) and Cory Colby (Lone Star College, Tomball) to bring best-practices for engaging all students in the discussion of American government. By enhancing the proven nut and bolts focus of the explanations with new pedagogy they help students draw connections between their reading assignments, their lived experiences, and American government. With a new, supportive and motivational ebook experience, and robust online resources, instructors have the flexibility to build a course pathway keyed to the unique needs of their students, creating a more equal opportunity for all to succeed. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.
2639 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 15, 2022
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May 29, 2026
Pretty good textbook to American Politics. It's really good guide to the history of politics in USA and a useful tool in classroom, because of its "Take a stance" features. But there is a huge disparity between the chapters of this textbooks. Some of them really go in depth into the topic and the examples from history presented in it are useful to understand the concept, but sometimes the result is quite the opposite - excess of examples with too much data makes it seem more like a excel spreadsheet rather than explanation of a topic such as bureaucracy or polling. For example, chapter 6 gives really good explanation of what political surveys and polls are, but then it goes deeply into details of some examples, gives vague reasons why polls might be wrong sometimes and states at the end that they're still trustworthy, completely not mentioning about different types of surveying and how data might be collected. Those are just a few minor problems, but generally the topics are really well covered.
Generally the textbook is really unbiased and it's difficult to show any political affiliation in the narrative. Sometimes it seems that it favours Democrats, sometimes it seems that it favours Republicans, but really it shows the opinion of both sides. Sadly, the other-party options are somewhat limited, but no wonder, since they don't play such a big role in politics today. A good thing is that the textbooks even mentions such parties like Libertarians and points out that there are more ways to look at political conflict than traditional right-left (with Democrats on the left and Republicans on the right). Overall, a really good source to learn about American Politics.
Generally the textbook is really unbiased and it's difficult to show any political affiliation in the narrative. Sometimes it seems that it favours Democrats, sometimes it seems that it favours Republicans, but really it shows the opinion of both sides. Sadly, the other-party options are somewhat limited, but no wonder, since they don't play such a big role in politics today. A good thing is that the textbooks even mentions such parties like Libertarians and points out that there are more ways to look at political conflict than traditional right-left (with Democrats on the left and Republicans on the right). Overall, a really good source to learn about American Politics.
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