A consistent and compelling narrative is crucial to student engagement with any book. But sadly, so many brief editions are mere cut-and-paste versions of their comprehensive selves. Not the case with Keeping the Republic’s brief edition. Carefully condensed by Barbour and Wright, this text gives your students all the continuity and crucial content of the full version, just in a more concise, value-oriented package. And now, your students benefit from a new full-color interior design. Photos jump off the page and colorful charts, tables, and maps enhance students’ data literacy. Repeatedly praised for engaging students to think critically about “who gets what and how” in American politics, Barbour and Wright show them how institutions and rules determine who wins and who loses in the political arena. The authors carefully craft each graphic, boxed feature, and vignette to develop students’ analytic capabilities. By introducing them to the seminal work in the field and showing them how to employ the themes of power and citizenship, this proven text builds confidence in students who want to take an active part in their communities and government—so they play their part in keeping the republic.

Key Features:

• FULL COLOR! With a beautiful new interior design and larger trim size, students will love the look and feel of the brief 5th edition with eye-catching photos and the ability to better showcase data through new tables, figures, maps, and charts. 
• 9 new What’s at Stake? / Let’s Revisit: What’s at Stake… chapter-opening vignettes tackle current, impactful events to vividly show students what’s at stake in taking it to the streets with the Occupy movement, for religious freedom in mandatory health care coverage for contraception, in marriage equality, when parties pander to the extremes, in health care reform, or in determining immigration law.
• The fifth edition includes updated and new coverage of:
  • the 2012 primaries and analysis of the 2012 election results with special focus on the impact of changing American demographics;
  • the end of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and Obama’s endorsement of marriage equality; 
  • the impact of the courts on immigration law, on campaign finance, on affirmative action, and on free exercise; 
  • the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the continued influence of the Tea Party; 
  • the effects of ideological polarization and legislative partisanship on the major functions of representation and lawmaking, including the 2011 debt ceiling crisis and the use of the filibuster by the minority party; and
  • the shift in the War on Terror to stealth forms of warfare such as drone strikes and covert operations.. 
• Thorough and comprehensive updating to all the data in the book’s tables, figures, maps, and charts.
• Over 50 new photos and political cartoons, illustrating recent events and featuring contextual captions that promote deeper thinking.  
• Don’t Be Fooled By… boxes help students become analytical and skeptical consumers of such political information as social media, polling, campaign advertising, and party platforms. 
• Who are We? graphically displays an array of demographic data with Behind the Numbers critical thinking questions encourage students to actively “read” tables, charts, and maps, so they can explore the effect diversity plays on our ideas of government.
• Profiles in Citizenship features advice and inspiration about the various ways students can make a difference. New profiles include Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Jon Tester, statistician and blogger Nate Silver, political speechwriter and consultant David Frum, former OMB director Peter Orszag, and journalist and blogger Andrew Sullivan captivate students’ imagination. 
• Thinking Outside the Box questions challenge students’ assumptions and provoke thoughtful responses and discussion.
• Summary with Key Terms at the end of each chapter and a full glossary make sure important ideas and concepts can be easily reviewed and studied.

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Preface

To the Student

1. Power and Citizenship in American Politics
2. The Politics of the American Founding
3. Federalism
4. Fundamental American Liberties
5. The Struggle for Equal Rights
6. Congress
7. The Presidency
8. The Bureaucracy
9 The American Legal System and the Courts
10. Public Opinion
11. Parties and Interest Groups
12. Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
13. The Media
14. Domestic and Foreign Policy

Appendix Material
Notes
Glossary
Index

Christine Barbour teaches in the political science department and the Honors College at Indiana University, where she has become increasingly interested in how teachers of large classes can maximize what their students learn. At Indiana, Professor Barbour has been a Lilly Fellow, working on a project to increase student retention in large introductory courses, and a member of the Freshmen Learning Project, a university-wide effort to improve the first year undergraduate experience. She has served on the New York Times College Advisory Board, working with other educators on developing ways to integrate newspaper reading into the undergraduate curriculum. She has won several teaching awards at Indiana, but the two that mean the most to her were awarded by her students: the Indiana University Student Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty (1995-6) and the Indiana University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award (1997). She is currently working on a book about local politics, development and the fishing industry in Apalachicola, Florida.

Gerald C. Wright has taught political science at Indiana University since 1981. He is an accomplished scholar of American politics—his books include Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion, and Policy in the American States with co-authors Robert S. Erikson and John P. McIver, and he has published over 40 articles on elections, public opinion, and state politics. He has long studied the relationship between citizens, their preferences and public policy. He is currently conducting research with a grant from the National Science Foundation on what influences the character of policy representation in the states and the U.S. Congress, and he is writing a book about representation in the American legislatures. He has been a consultant for Project Vote Smart in the last several elections. Professor Wright is a member of the Freshmen Learning Project at Indiana University, a university-wide effort to improve the first year undergraduate experience by focusing on how today’s college students learn and how teachers can adapt their pedagogical methods to best teach them.

Student Resources

republic-brief.cqpress.com

A robust companion website features an impressive array of tools for review, study, and further exploration:

• chapter summaries with learning objectives;
• key-term flashcards;
• self-graded practice quizzes;
• interactive exercises wherein students mine web resources and answer critical thinking questions;
• “Take a Position” exercises pose debate scenarios and offer guidance for how best to develop an argument in favor of or in opposition to a stated position;
• annotated web links to further explore and facilitate research; and
• author Christine Barbour's regularly updated KTRBlog ties news events to the themes and chapters of the text. 

Instructor’s Resources

college.cqpress.com/instructors-resources/republic-brief/

A full suite of instructor’s resources includes: 

• new annotated chapter-by-chapter video links help instructors bring a variety of clips into the classroom to help kick off a lecture, further explain a point, or expose students to the political actors they’re reading about;
• a test bank with more than 1,400 multiple-choice, true/false, short answer, and essay questions with Respondus test generation capabilities;
• a full set of PowerPoint lecture slides;
• downloadable tables, figures, and maps from the text;  and
• an instructor's manual with lecture starters, discussion questions, and ideas for activities to run in the classroom.

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