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By the People: Debating American Government, Brief Edition by James A. Morone (John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy, John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy, Brown University)

By the People: Debating American Government, Brief Fourth Edition, reflects the dynamism of American government and politics with superior teaching and learning tools that prepare students to ENGAGE, THINK, and DEBATE now more than ever before. Using a storytelling approach that weaves commentary together with historical context, By the People: Debating American Government explores the themes and ideas that drive the great debates in American government and politics. It introduces students to big questions like Who governs? How does our system of government work? What does government do? and Who are we? By challenging students with these questions, the text encourages them to think about, engage with, and debate the merits of U.S. government and politics.

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I have used Morone and Kersh for the past four years and I think the book is great. It is focused, well-written, and accessible. * Andra Gillespie, Emory University *
By the People is fantastic. It is a well-balanced presentation of material with all sides represented. I especially like the questions posed within each chapter. It is far superior to any text I have used. * Linda Bos, Mount Mary University *
I've used this book since the first edition and have been very pleased. It does a very good job covering the most important topics. I especially like that the book takes American political culture seriously. * Phillip Klinkner, Hamilton College *
I thoroughly enjoy By the People. I appreciate the organizing principle of 'Ideas' and how the text identifies seven big ideas that animate American politics. It is an effective balance of informative introduction and accessibility. -John Altick, The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
14/01/2019

About James A. Morone (John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy, John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy, Brown University)

James A. Morone is the John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and director of the Brown's public policy program. Rogan Kersh serves as Provost and Professor of political science at Wake Forest University.

About the Authors Preface PART I IDEAS AND RIGHTS 1. Ideas That Shape American Politics BY THE NUMBERS American Ideas The Spirit of American Politics Who Governs? How Does American Politics Work? Ideas Institutions Interests Individuals What Does Government Do Who Are We? A Nation of Ideas Liberty The Land of the Free The Two Sides of Liberty WHAT DO YOU THINK? NEGATIVE VERSUS POSITIVE LIBERTY The Idea of Freedom Is Always Changing Self-Rule One Side of Self-Rule: Democracy Another Side of Self-Rule: A Republic A Mixed System Limited Government The Origins of Limited Government And Yet . . . the United States Has a Big Government Limits on Government Action When Ideas Clash: Self-Rule and Limited Government WHAT DO YOU THINK? SELF-RULE VERSUS LIMITED GOVERNMENT Individualism Community Versus Individualism The Roots of American Individualism: Opportunity and Discord Golden Opportunity Social Conflict Who We Are: Individualism and Solidarity? WHAT DO YOU THINK? INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS SOLIDARITY The American Dream Spreading the Dream Challenging the Dream Is the System Tilted Toward the Wealthy? INFO/DATA Most Americans Believe There Is Opportunity to Get Ahead Does the American Dream Promote the Wrong Values? Equality Three Types of Equality How Much Economic Inequality Is Too Much? Opportunity or Outcome? Religion Still a Religious Country So Many Religions The Politics of Religion How Do Ideas Affect Politics? Ideas in American Culture The Ideas in Political Institutions Culture or Institutions? Conclusion: Culture and Institutions, Together Chapter Summary Key Terms Study Questions 2 The Constitution BY THE NUMBERS The Constitution The Colonial Roots of the Constitution Why the Colonists Revolted The Colonial Complaint: Representation The Conflict Begins with Blood on the Frontier The Stamp Tax and the First Hints of Independence The Townshend Acts Worsen the Conflict The Boston Tea Party Revolution! A Long Legacy The Declaration of Independence The Principle: We Hold These Truths . . . Grievances The First American Government: The Articles of Confederation The National Government Some Success . . . . . . And Some Problems WHAT DO YOU THINK? YOUR ADVICE IS NEEDED Secrecy The Constitutional Convention How Much Power to the People? National Government Versus State Government Big States Versus Small States The Virginia Plan The New Jersey Plan The Connecticut Compromise The President Committee or Individual? The Electoral College Separation of Powers A Principle of Which We Were Ashamed The Three-Fifths Compromise The Slave Trade Fugitive Slaves The National Calamity An Overview of the Constitution Preamble WHAT DO YOU THINK? HAVE WE ACHIEVED THE CONSTITUTION'S GOALS TODAY? Article 1: Congress Article 2: The President Article 3: The Courts Article 4: Relations Between the States Article 5: Amendments Article 6: The Law of the Land Article 7: Ratification The Missing Articles Ratification The Anti-Federalists The Federalists Two Strong Arguments A Very Close Vote Changing the Constitution The Bill of Rights The Seventeen Amendments The Constitution Today INFO/DATA Amend the Constitution Today? On What Issue? WHAT DO YOU THINK? HOW STRICTLY SHOULD WE INTERPRET THE CONSTITUTION? Conclusion: Does the Constitution Still Work? Chapter Summary Key Terms Study Questions 3 Federalism and Nationalism BY THE NUMBERS Federalism Forging Federalism Who Holds Government Authority? Advantages of State-Level Policy The Advantages of National Policy INFO/DATA: Regulatory Policies Differ By State WHAT DO YOU THINK? PRESERVING LOCAL VALUES OR PROMOTING CONSISTENT NATIONAL POLICY? How Federalism Works The Constitution Sets the Ground Rules The Constitution Empowers National Authority The Constitution Protects State Authority The Constitution Authorizes Shared Power Dual Federalism (1789-1933) Cooperative Federalism (1933-1981) New Federalism Progressive Federalism Education Healthcare Federalism Today Issues in Federalism Unfunded Mandates Drowned in the Bathtub? Reducing the Federal Government Federalism in the Courts Nationalism, American Style The Rise of American Nationalism America's Weak National Government Size Authority Independence Conclusion: Who Are We? Chapter Summary Key Terms Study Questions 4 Civil Liberties BY THE NUMBERS Civil Liberties The Rise of Civil Liberties Civil Rights and Civil Liberties The Purpose of Civil Liberties The Slow Rise of Civil Liberties Privacy Penumbras and Emanations WHAT DO YOU THINK? IS THERE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY? Roe v. Wade Planned Parenthood v. Casey Sex Between Consenting Adults Clashing Principles Freedom of Religion The Establishment Clause Free Exercise of Religion WHAT DO YOU THINK? MAY THE CHRISTIAN YOUTH CLUB MEET IN SCHOOL? Freedom of Speech A Preferred Position Political Speech TEST YOURSELF: THE SIMPSONS VERSUS THE FIRST AMENDMENT: WHICH DO YOU KNOW BETTER? Symbolic Speech Limits to Free Speech: Fighting Words Limited Protections: Student Speech WHAT DO YOU THINK? FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS Freedom of the Press Prior Restraint Obscenity Libel The Right to Bear Arms INFO/DATA Guns on Campus A Relic of the Revolution? The Palladium of All Liberties? INFO/DATA: GUNS ON CAMPUS The Rights of the Accused The Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure The Fifth Amendment: Rights at Trials The Sixth Amendment: The Right to Counsel The Eighth Amendment: The Death Penalty Terrorism, Non-Citizens, and Civil Liberties Contacts with Forbidden Groups Surveillance The Rights of Non-Citizens Conclusion: The Dilemma of Civil Liberties Chapter Summary Key Terms Study Questions 5 The Struggle for Civil Rights BY THE NUMBERS Civil Rights Winning Rights: The Political Process Seven Steps to Political Equality How the Courts Review Cases Suspect Categories Quasi-Suspect Categories Nonsuspect Categories Race and Civil Rights: Revolt Against Slavery The Clash Over Slavery Abolition Economics Politics Dred Scott v. Sandford The Second American Founding: A New Birth of Freedom? Freedom Fails The Fight for Racial Equality Two Types of Discrimination The Modern Civil Rights Campaign Begins The Courts The Civil Rights Movement Congress and the Civil Rights Act The Post Civil Rights Era Affirmative Action in the Workplace Affirmative Action in Education WHAT DO YOU THINK? HIGHER EDUCATION AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Women's Rights Suffrage The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Equal Rights Amendment The Courts Progress for Women-But How Much? Hispanics Challenging Discrimination The Politics of Immigration Ancient Fears Three Categories Undocumented Immigrants Language Controversy: Speak English! Political Mobilization Asian Americans Native Americans The Lost Way of Life Indians and the Federal Government Social Problems and Politics Groups Without Special Protection People with Disabilities Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity INFO/DATA: 5.1 The Fight for Civil Rights Goes On Voting Rights Today Economic and Social Rights Today Health Income Incarceration Conclusion: Civil Rights . . . By the People Chapter Summary Key Terms Study Questions PART II POLITICAL BEHAVIOR 6 Public Opinion and Political Participation Sources of Public Opinion BY THE NUMBERS Public Opinion and Political Participation Political Socialization Parents and Friends Education Gender Race Religion Life Events Party Self-Interest: Voting Our Pocketbooks Elite Influence Wars and Other Focusing Events Measuring Public Opinion Polling Bloopers Polling 101 Refining the sample Timing Wording Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls Technology and Error Sampling Error and Response Bias TALKING POLITICS TYPES OF POLLS Do Opinion Surveys Influence Us? Public Opinion in a Democracy Ignorant Masses The Rational Public WHAT DO YOU THINK? CAN WE TRUST THE PUBLIC? Do the People Know What They Want? How Do the People Communicate Their Desires? Do Leaders Respond to Public Opinion? Getting Involved: Political Participation Traditional Participation Voting Electoral Activities Civic Voluntarism Direct Action WHAT DO YOU THINK? WOULD YOU HAVE PROTESTED? Why Do People Get Involved? Background: Age, Wealth, Education, and Race Age Wealth Education Race Friends and Family Community Political Mobilization Government Beneficiaries Historical Context TALKING POLITICS HOW MOBILIZERS SEE US INFO/DATA Higher Engagement and Ideology What Discourages Political Participation? Alienation Institutional Barriers Complacency Shifting Mobilization Patterns New Avenues for Participation: The Internet, Social Media, and Millennial Participation Scenario 1: Rebooting Democracy Scenario 2: More Hype and Danger Than Democratic Renaissance Does Social Media Increase Political Participation? How the Millennial Generation Participates Conclusion: Government by the People Chapter Summary Study Questions Key Terms 7 Media, Technology, and Government BY THE NUMBERS The Media The Media and American Democracy Providing Information Watching Political Leaders Shaping the Political Agenda U.S. Media Today: Traditional Formats Are Declining Where People Go for News Newspapers and Magazines: Rise and Decline The First Mass Media Should We Worry? Radio Holds Steady Television: From News to Infotainment The Rise of Cable Infotainment The Rise of the New Media Is the Media Biased? Reporters Are Democrats Profits Drive the News Industry Drama Delivers Audiences Sex and Scandal Investigative Bias How Governments Shape the Media The First Amendment Protects Print Media from Regulation Regulating Broadcasters Protecting Competition INFO/DATA Media Consolidation Understanding the Media in Context: War, Terrorism, and U.S. Elections Covering Wars and Terrorism The Campaign as Drama Candidate Profiles Conclusion: At the Crossroads of the Media World WHAT DO YOU THINK? DOES THE MEDIA ENHANCE DEMOCRACY? Chapter Summary Study Questions 8 Campaigns and Elections How Democratic Are U.S. Elections? BY THE NUMBERS Campaigns and Elections Frequent and Fixed Elections Over 520,000 Elected Officials WHAT DO YOU THINK? TOO MANY ELECTED POSITIONS? Financing Campaigns: The New Inequality? Too Much Money? Democracy for the Rich? Major Donors: Easier to Give INFO/DATA Money in Elections: The New Rules Bundling Presidential Campaigns and Elections Who Runs for President? The Three Phases of Presidential Elections Winning the Nomination WHAT DO YOU THINK? WHY IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE? Organizing the Convention The General Election Winning Presidential Elections Economic Outlook Demographics War and Foreign Policy Domestic Issues The Campaign Organization Who Won and Why Congressional Elections Candidates: Who Runs for Congress? The Power of Incumbency Congressional Election Results Redrawing the Lines: The Art of Gerrymandering Nonpartisan Districting and Minority Representation How to Run for Congress Key 1: Money Key 2: Organization Key 3: Strategy TALKING POLITICS CAMPAIGN LINGO Key 4: Message Conclusion: Reforming American Elections Chapter Summary Study Questions 9 Interest Groups and Political Parties The Many Roles Interest Groups Play BY THE NUMBERS Interest Groups Informing Members Communicating Members' Views Mobilizing the Public What Do Interest Groups Do for Democracy? Types of Interest Groups Economic Groups Citizen or Public Interest Groups Intergovernmental and Reverse Lobbying Interest Groups and the Federal Government The Multiple Roles of Lobbyists Researchers Witnesses Position Takers Coalition Builders Social Butterflies Iron Triangles TALKING POLITICS WASHINGTON LOBBYING Rise of the Issue Network Interest Groups and the Courts Lobbying on Judicial Confirmations Filing Amicus Curiae (Friend of Court) Briefs Sponsoring Litigation Interest Groups and Power Lobbyists in Washington Interest Groups' Spending INFO/DATA Interest Group Campaign Spending: Sector Totals, 2015-2016 Political Parties and U.S. Government What the Parties Do Parties Champion Ideas Parties Select Candidates Parties Mobilize the Voters Parties Organize Governing Activity After the Election Parties Help Integrate New Groups into the Political Process Two-Party America Third Parties in American Politics America's Party Systems: Origins and Change Beginnings: First Party System (1789-1828) Rise: Second Party System (ca. 1828-1860) War and Reconstruction: Third Party System (1860-1896) Business and Reform: Fourth Party System (1896-1932) Depression and New Deal: Fifth Party System (1933-1968) The Sixth Party System: The Parties at Equal Strength (1972-Present) Party Organization and Identification The Party Bureaucracy Party in Government Party in the Electorate WHAT DO YOU THINK? PERSONALITY AND PARTY The Power of Party Attachment Voting and Participation Filtering Ideology The Big Tent Party Competition . . . and Partisanship Parties Rise Again Partisanship Intensifies WHAT DO YOU THINK? PARTISANSHIP Competition Increases Conclusion: A Political System Ripe for Reform? 1. Regulating Interest Groups 2. Reduce Partisanship in Government Chapter Summary Study Questions PART III POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS 10 Congress BY THE NUMBERS Congress Introducing Congress Two Houses, Different Styles WHAT DO YOU THINK? SENATE FILIBUSTERS The House and Senate Have Some Unique Roles Congressional Representation Trustees and Delegates Do the Right Thing Do What the People Want WHAT DO YOU THINK? TWO VIEWS OF REPRESENTATION Getting to Congress-and Staying There The Permanent Campaign Home Style: Back in the District Congress at Work The City on the Hill Minnows and Whales: Congressional Leadership House Leadership Senate Leadership Committees: Workhorses of Congress The Enduring Power of Committees Leadership and Assignments Legislative Policymaking Drafting a Bill Submitting the Bill Committee Action 1. Committees Hold Hearings on Policy Topics 2. Committees Prepare Legislation for Floor Consideration 3. Committees Also Kill Legislation 4. Committees Exercise Oversight Floor Action Getting to the floor On the floor The Vote Conference Committee Presidential Action: Separated Powers, Revisited Why Is Congress So Unpopular? Partisan Polarization in Congress INFO/DATA Historic Partisan Polarization Divided Government WHAT DO YOU THINK? IS A PARTISAN CONGRESS A GOOD THING? Conclusion: Congress and the Challenge of Governing Chapter Summary Study Questions 11 The Presidency BY THE NUMBERS The Presidency Defining the Presidency Defined by Controversy The President's Powers Is the Presidency Too Powerful? An Imperial Presidency? A Weak Office? What Presidents Do Commander in Chief Top Diplomat The First Legislator Recommending Measures State of the Union Presidential Batting Average Veto Signing Statements Chief Bureaucrat Appointments Executive Orders Economist in Chief INFO/DATA Executive Orders Issued by Each President, Per Day in Office The Head of State Party Leader The Bully Pulpit: Introducing Ideas The Impossible Job Presidential Leadership: Success and Failure in the Oval Office Managing the Public Approval Ratings WHAT DO YOU THINK? RANKING THE PRESIDENT Presidential Greatness Greatness in Context: The Rise and Fall of Political Orders Step 1: A New Order Rises Step 2: The Order Refreshed Step 3: The Old Order Crumbles The President's Team: A Tour of the White House The Political Solar System: Presidential Appointments The Vice President The Cabinet The Executive Office of the President The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) The Council of Economic Advisers 3 The National Security Council (NSC) The Heart of Power: The White House Office (WHO) TALKING POLITICS SPEAK LIKE A WEST WING INSIDER WHAT DO YOU THINK? DO PRESIDENTS NEED SUCH A LARGE STAFF? The First Spouse Conclusion: The Most Powerful Office on Earth? Chapter Summary Study Questions 12 Bureaucracy BY THE NUMBERS The Bureaucracy How the Bureaucracy Grew Birth of the Bureaucracy War Morality Economics Geography Race and Ethnicity The Bureaucratic Model Hierarchy Division of Labor Fixed Routines Equal Rules for All Technical Qualifications Bureaucratic Pathologies The Democratic Dilemma What Bureaucracies Do Rule-Making Implementation How the Bureaucracy Is Organized The Cabinet Departments The Rotating Bureaucracy Other Agencies Executive Agencies Independent Regulatory Commissions INFO/DATA The Formation of Regulatory Commissions An Army of Their Own Private Contractors Who Controls the Federal Bureaucracy? The People The President Congress Interest Groups Bureaucratic Autonomy Democracy Revisited Reforming the Bureaucracy Open Up the System Reinventing Government WHAT DO YOU THINK? SHOULD WE PRIVATIZE MORE GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS? Privatization Conclusion: The Real Solution Lies with You Chapter Summary Study Questions 13 The Judicial Branch Who Are We? A Nation of Laws . . . and Lawyers Embracing the Law-and Lawsuits BY THE NUMBERS The U.S. Judiciary Declining Trust Courts in American Culture Organizing the Judicial Branch Divided We Rule State and Local Courts Judicial Selection Federal Courts WHAT DO YOU THINK? HOW SHOULD STATES SELECT THEIR JUDGES? Specialized Courts Diversity in the Federal Judiciary WHAT DO YOU THINK? IDENTITY ON THE BENCH The Court's Role Judicial Review Activism Versus Restraint The Judicial Process Too Much Power? Or Still the Least Dangerous Branch? The Supreme Court and How It Operates Hearing Cases Selecting Cases: Formal Requirements Selecting Cases: Informal Factors Conference Sessions and Written Decisions Supreme Court Clerks Confirmation Battles Judicial Decision Making and Reform The Role of Law Ideology and Partisanship INFO/DATA How Americans View the Supreme Court: Liberal or Conservative? Collegiality and Peer Pressure Institutional Concerns Nineteen Cases You Should Know 1. Marbury v. Madison (1803) 2. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) 3. Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) 4. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) 5. Santa Clara Co. v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886) 6. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 7. Lochner v. New York (1905) 8. Muller v. Oregon (1908) 9. Schenck v. United States (1919) 10. National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937) 11. Korematsu v. United States (1944) 12. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) 13. Mapp v. Ohio (1961) 14. Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) 15. Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) 16. Roe v. Wade (1973) 17. United States v. Nixon (1974) 18. Bush v. Gore (2000) 19. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012) The Nineteen Cases-and the Power of the Court Conclusion: Democracy and the Courts Chapter Summary Study Questions PART IV POLICYMAKING 14 Domestic and Foreign Policy Public Policymaking in Five (Not-So-Easy) Stages 1. Agenda Setting BY THE NUMBERS U.S. Public Policy 2. Framing 3. Policy Formation Analyzing Policy, Ex Ante From Cost-Benefit Analysis to Politics 4. Policy Implementation Top-Down Delivery Bottom-Up Delivery 5. Policy Evaluation and Feedback Policy Feedback U.S. Social Policy Old-Age Insurance: Social Security Unemployment Benefits Health and Disability: Medicare/Medicaid WHAT DO YOU THINK? SHOULD WE REFORM SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE? INFO/DATA The Federal Budget in Context Economic Policymaking: Fiscal and Monetary Policy Fiscal Policy Monetary Policy Economic Policymaking: The Federal Budget Process American Foreign-Policy Goals American Foreign-Policy Goal No. 1: Security Military Primacy Soft Power Foreign Aid and National Security American Foreign-Policy Goal No. 2: Prosperity Free Trade Energy Economic Weapons Foreign-Policy Goal No. 3: Spreading American Ideals Who Makes Foreign Policy? Congress The President The State Department The Department of Defense Intelligence The National Security Council Success or Fragmentation? Grand Strategies in U.S. History World War I and Isolationism (1918-1939) World War II, the Cold War, and Multilateralism (1942-1989) The New World Order (1989-2001) The War on Terror (2001-Present) WHAT DO YOU THINK? TERRORISTS AND THE RULE OF LAW Conclusion: Policy Matters Chapter Summary Study Questions APPENDIX I The Declaration of Independence A-1 APPENDIX II The Constitution of the United States of America A-4 APPENDIX III The Federalist Papers nos. 1, 10, and 51 A-25 APPENDIX IV Presidential Elections, Congressional Control, 1789-2016 A-35 Glossary G-1 Notes N-1 Credits C-1 Index I-1

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By the People: Debating American Government, Brief Edition by James A. Morone (John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy, John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy, Brown University)

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