Keeping the Republic now with a free supplement analyzing the midterm elections!

Coming in July, this valuable supplement will provide an insider’s guide to the 2010 midterm elections. When placing your order, be sure to use the ISBN on this page to ensure that your students receive the supplement packaged FREE with their textbook.

Keeping the Republic, 3rd Brief Edition

Too often, brief texts sacrifice the flavor of the full edition with an outside author condensing material on the altar of fewer pages. Once examples are cut, what’s left is a drabber book heavy on concepts and devoid of color.

This brief is different. Authors Christine Barbour and Gerald Wright have kept the same strong, cohesive narrative and focus on core concepts that form the basis of Keeping the Republic—and do the streamlining and writing themselves. The themes of power and citizenship so crucial to the full text are found here in abundance, along with an array of engaging stories and cases to keep students reading.

Reflecting changes through the 2008 elections, thorough and extensive updating and analysis of new scholarship are evident in every chapter.

Key features include “What’s at Stake?” chapter-opening vignettes that spotlight the “who, what, and how” of American politics, “Profiles in Citizenship” that inspire students with personal interviews with political luminaries such as Sandra Day O’Connor and Rahm Emmanuel, and “Consider the Source” boxes that help students critically read and digest political information. Other study aids include bolded key terms, chapter summaries, suggested resources, and a glossary.

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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

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.

Greg Giroux was previously a senior writer with CQ-Roll Call Group, specializing in politics and elections. He has been a major contributor to the past six editions of CQ’s Politics in America, the almanac that profiles all members of Congress and their constituencies. Giroux joined CQ in 1996 and served as editorial assistant and researcher at the CQ Weekly magazine prior to joining the political reporting staff in 1998. Giroux is a graduate of The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

Student resources are available at: REPUBLIC-BRIEF.CQPRESS.COM

Revised and updated by Frank Codispoti (Lone Star College, CyFair), this customized companion website is tailored and customized to the Brief version of the book.

• NEW! Crossword Puzzles. This fun and unique feature gives students a different way to learn key terms.
• NEW! News Updates. News stories that reflect the themes of the book are selected by the authors and posted on the companion websites
• Study. Chapter summaries and learning objectives.
• Quiz. 20 multiple-choice questions per chapter with immediate grading; users can e-mail quiz results to instructors.
• Flashcards. Interactive study of key terms.
• Exercises. Activities encourage students to apply concepts from the text in a series of interactive questions.
• Explore. Annotated links facilitate further research.
• Take a Position. Critical thinking exercises challenge students to build balanced, well-argued positions on current events. 

• Test Bank. More than 900 for the Brief, factual and conceptual multiple choice, short-answer, fill-in-the-blank, and short essay test questions. Available with Respondus software (compatible with course management systems).
• PowerPoint Lecture Slides. Highlighting key concepts, these slide shows are fully adaptable.
• Instructor’s Manual. Chapter overviews, lecture starters, class activities, and discussion questions provide the backbone for lectures and in-class discussions.
• Figures, Tables, and Maps. All of the books’ graphics are available as both PowerPoint slides and PDFs. Acetates are available upon request (subject to minimum quantities).
• CQ Weekly. CQ Press will provide a free 6-month online subscription to instructors who adopt Keeping the Republic (subject to minimum quantities).
• “Clicker” Slides. Designed for use with any student response system, these PowerPoint slides test comprehension and instantly poll student opinions.

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

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