Readings in American Government

CHAPTER ONE: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS-STABILITY AND CHANGE. Cultural Decline and Political Dependency, Robert J. Bresler. Terrorism: The 21st-Century War, Llewellyn D. Howell. The Great Cultural Divide, Robert J. Bresler. Energy Security is American Security, Senator John Kerry. CHAPTER TWO: THE CONSTITUTION. Southwest shall secede from U.S., Prof. predicts, Frank Zoretich. Government's Legitimate Role in a Free Society, Walter E. Williams. CHAPTER THREE: FEDERALISM. Lynching Past and Present: Race and the Death Penalty, Steven Hawkins. Extreme Sportsmen, Charlie LeDuff. Searching for Democracy Again, Steffen W. Schmidt. CHAPTER FOUR: CIVIL LIBERTIES. Faith and Diversity in American Religion, Alan Wolfe. A Nasty Business, Bruce Hoffman. CHAPTER FIVE: CIVIL RIGHTS: EQUAL PROTECTION. The Year in Hate, Intelligence Report. Class Assignment, Tim Walker. CHAPTER SIX: CIVIL RIGHTS: BEYOND EQUAL PROTECTION. At last, support for U.S. military women in Saudi Arabia, Tom Teepen. Ensuring Patient Rights, Greg Scandlen. CHAPTER SEVEN: PUBLIC OPINION. Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time, Paul Loeb. Looking Inward, Freshmen Care Less About Politics and More About Money, Alex P. Kellogg. CHAPTER EIGHT: INTEREST GROUPS. ACTION ALERT: National ID Cards from DMV? Protect Your Privacy! Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Semester of Our Discontent, Frankie J. Petrosino. Social Security: A Crisis that Doesn't Exist? Andrew G. Biggs. CHAPTER NINE: POLITICAL PARTIES. Towards a More Responsible Two-Party System, Committee on Political Parties, American Political Science Association. 2000 Democratic Party Platform. Republican Party Platform. CHAPTER TEN: CAMPAIGNS, CANDIDATES, AND ELECTIONS. Angry Investors Could Be Political Wild Card, Jamie Dettmer. Lessons of the 2000 Election, John Samples, Tom G. Palmer, and Patrick Basham CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE MEDIA. The Media and Politics: It's More Than the News, Steve Bell. The Last Word, Paul M. Rodriguez. CHAPTER TWELVE: THE CONGRESS. A New Century of American Leadership, Tom Daschle. The Military Tribunal Authorization Act of 2002, United States Senate Bill. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE PRESIDENCY. State of the Union ? 2002, President George W. Bush. State of the Union ? 1999, President Bill Clinton. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE BUREAUCRACY. What Does It Take to Lose a Contract? Kelly Patricia O'Meara. Executive Order Establishing Office of Homeland Security, President George W. Bush . The Futility of Homeland Defense, David Carr. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE JUDICIARY. Should Juvenile Offenders Be Tried as Adults? Laurence Steinberg. Bush v. Gore, U.S. Supreme Court case. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: DOMESTIC POLICY. The Energy We Overlook, Robert U. Ayres. Dust in the Wind, John C. Ryan. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: ECONOMIC POLICY. Why Madonna Should Cry for Argentina, Tony Smith. Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't: New Perspectives on Anti-Globalization, Steffen W. Schmidt. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: FOREIGN AND DEFENSE POLICY. Green Wars: Environmentalism As a National Security Issue, Paul Benjamin. Can We Count on Missile Defense? Craig Eisendrath, Gerald E. Marsh, and Melvin A. Goodman. Pearl Harbor Speech, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. CHAPTER NINETEEN: STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT. President Proposes Fiscal Year 2003 Budget, National Governors Association. Condo Canyon in South Florida, Steffen W. Schmidt. CHAPTER TWENTY: MONEY AND POLITICS. Millions spent to influence Iowa legislators, John McCormick and Jonathan Roos. Enron, Preaching Deregulation, Worked the Statehouse Circuit, Leslie Wayne. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: POLITICS IN CYBERSPACE. Cyberhate Revisited, Intelligence Report. Robo Warriors and Millennial Weapons, J. Michael Waller.