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In 356 engaging pages, with new engaging features and a new low price as part of Thomson Advantage Books, this brief version of the best selling book for American Government, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TODAY: BRIEF EDITION 2004-2005 helps students experience the excitement that comes from active, informed citizenship. Praised for its balanced and up-to-the-minute coverage, this book focuses on the fundamentals?the constitutional, governmental, political, social, and economic structures and processes that are the core of American government. Coverage of policy and analysis as well as appendices is also included in this brief text.
About the Author
Steffen W. Schmidt is Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University. He grew up in Colombia, South America, and studied in Colombia, Switzerland, and France. He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York, in public law and government. Schmidt has published six books and over seventy articles in scholarly journals. He is also the recipient of numerous prestigious teaching prizes, including the Amoco Award for Lifetime Career Achievement in Teaching and the Teacher of the Year award. He is a pioneer in the use of Web-based and real-time video courses and is a member of the American Political Science Association's section on Computers and Multimedia. He is on the editorial board of the Political Science Educator. Schmidt has a political talk show on WOI radio, where he is known as Dr. Politics. The show has been broadcast live from various U.S. and international venues. Mack C. Shelley, II, is Professor of Political Science and Statistics at Iowa State University. After receiving his Bachelor's degree from American University in Washington, D.C., he went on to graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received a Master's degree and a Ph.D. He taught for two years at Mississippi State University prior to arriving at Iowa State in 1979. Shelley has published numerous articles, books, and monographs on public policy. In 1993, he was elected co-editor of the Policy Studies Journal. His published books include THE PERMANENT MAJORITY: THE CONSERVATIVE COALITION IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS; BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE RESEARCH ENTERPRISE: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE (with William F. Woodman and Brian J. Reichel); and AMERICAN PUBLIC POLICY: THE CONTEMPORARY AGENDA (with Steven G. Koven and Bert E. Swanson). Barbara A. Bardes is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree and Master of Arts degree from Kent State University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. She held a faculty position at Loyola University in Chicago for many years before returning to Cincinnati, her hometown, as a college administrator. Bardes has written articles on public opinion and foreign policy, and on women and politics. She has authored THINKING ABOUT PUBLIC POLICY AND DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE: WOMEN AND POLITICAL POWER IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELS and co-authored PUBLIC OPINION: MEASURING THE AMERICAN MIND.
Thomson Advantage Books: American Government and Politics Today, Brief Edition, 2004-2005 (with InfoTrac) (Advantage Series),Steffen W. Schmidt,Mack C. Shelley,Barbara A. Bardes,Wadsworth Publishing,0534631800,General,Political Science,Politics - Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Political Science / General
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