American Government: The Enduring Conflict - Softcover

Landy, Marc Karnis; Milkis, Landy; Milkis, Sidney M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072383194 ISBN 13: 9780072383195

Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College, 2003

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Book Description

This text highlights the tensions and complementarities between liberalism and democracy that gave rise to the current American political system. It deals extensively with contemporary political issues and dynamics, whilst adopting an American Political Development approach.

About the Author

Marc Landy is Professor of Political Science at Boston College, Co-Director of Boston College's Initiative on Constitutional Democracy, and Faculty Chair of the Boston College Irish Institute. He has a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. He and Sidney Milkis previously co-authored Presidential Greatness (2000). He is an author of The Environmental Protection Agency From Nixon to Clinton: Asking the Wrong Questions (1994) and Civic Environmentalism in Action: A Field Guide to Regional and Local Initiatives (1999). Landy has been an editor of six books, including The New Politics of Public Policy (1995) and Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics of Regulatory Reform (2007). In addition to teaching undergraduates and graduate students, he regularly teaches public officials from Ireland and Northern Ireland about American Politics through a series of executive programs run by the Irish Institute. He is also Director of 'Encountering John Adams: Braintree and Boston', a Landmarks Workshop for Community College Teachers sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072383194
• ISBN 13: 9780072383195
• Binding: Paperback