American Government and Politics: Deliberation, Democracy and Citizenship, Election Update

This “Election Update” edition of Bessette/Pitney’s AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: DELIBERATION, DEMOCRACY AND CITIZENSHIP, is complete with 2010 election information. Like its previous edition, the text has three underlying principles: Citizenship, History and Democracy. Via two unique chapters — Chapter 4: American Citizenship and Chapter 5: Civic Culture — authors Joseph Bessette and John Pitney, Jr. examine the way that civic culture shapes the country and take a close look at civic responsibility. “Deliberative democracy” — the concept that political systems work best when informed citizens and public officials deliberate to identify and promote the common good — is considered throughout the text.