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James Mitchell (ed.), American  Government  and Politics in Focus, Whittier Pubs., New York, 2004 (ISBN: 1-57604-1948, pp. 383).

 

 

This source book contains 23 chapters and has been edited by Professor James Mitchell, Department of Political Science, California State University, Northridge, USA. It contains previously published articles in journals across the world. The book is divided into ten units, namely: Democracy, The Constitution, The Executive Branch, The Judicial Branch, The Bureaucracy, Participation, Groups and the Media, Civil Liberties, Public Policy, Foreign Policy.

 

It includes the following essays

 

Democracy

 

Stephen Nickolson, “The Political Environment and Ballot Proposition Awareness”.

John A. Guidry and Marc Q. Sawyer, “Contentious Pluralism: The Public Sphere and Democracy”.

Jean Grugel, “Government and Opposition Democratization Studies: Citizenship, Globalisation and Governance”.

 

The Constitution

 

Neal Davins & Louis Fisher, “The Steel Seizure Case: One of a Kind?”.

J. Gregory Siddak, “The Price of Experience: The Constitution After September 11, 2001”.

 

The Executive Branch

 

David Gray Adler, “Presidential Greatness as an Attribute of Warmaking”.

Keith E. Whittington & Daniel P. Carpenter, “Executive Power in American Institutional Development”.

 

The Judicial Branch

 

John V. Orth, “How Many Judges Does it Take to Make a Supreme Court?”.

Wingfield Rose, “Marbury Vs. Madison: How John Marshall Changed History by Misquoting the Constitution”.

 

The Bureaucracy

 

Public Opinion and Parties

 

Jonathan Bernstein & Casey B. K. Dominguez, “Candidates and Candidacies in the Expanded Party”.

Kira Sanbonmatsu, “Political Parties and the Recruitment of Women to State Legislatures"