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The Contours of American Politics: An Introduction

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2061-9
Paperback
232 pages
August 2002, Polity
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  • A key introduction to US politics, offering students a comprehensive guide to institutions, processes and issues

  • An essential guide to the nation's political thinking, its attitudes and its political processes at the end of the American Century and at the beginning of the new millennium

  • Examines not just the mechanics of America's political system but also the ideas and principles which shape its values

  • Argues that religious beliefs, together with patterns of immigration and migration westwards across the continent, create the landscape of America's contemporary political culture

  • Explores the politics of nostalgia, the roots of American democracy, the framework of the federal government and the cultural sensibilities which underpin foreign policy
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