Camelot - A Role-Playing Simulation for Political Decision Making - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0155078615 ISBN 13: 9780155078611

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

CAMELOT introduces students the interactions of contending and contentious groups and individuals whose values and goals range from radical to reactionary. It addresses such issues as equal opportunity, right to life, freedom of expression, affirmative action, property rights, gay rights, and more. Students quickly learn that competing interests and viewpoints - with their varying degrees of organization and cohesiveness - make political decision-making complex, time consuming, exciting, and often difficult to predict.

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Review

Part I. 1. Local Government: Why Study It? 2. Who Governs, and to What Ends? 3. The Legal Authority of Cities: Constraints and Powers. 4. Sources of Local Government Revenues and Their Constraints. 5. Organized Interests in the Decision-Making Process. 6. Implementing Democracy. 7. Forms of Local Government. 8. Land-Use Planning, Planning Departments, and Planning Commissions. Part II. 9. Introduction to Simulation. 10. Starting the Simulation. 11. Issues. 12. Reference Materials. 13. Elections. 14. Role Descriptions, Settings, and Lists of Duties.

About the Author

James R. Forrester has been a faculty member of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at West Libery State College (West Virginia) since 1969. He received his Ph.D. in political science from West Virginia University in 1979. He is a member of the Bethany (West Virginia) Town Council and has been a presidential election consultant for WTOV ¿ Channel 0, Steubenville/Wheeling. His publications include GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN WEST VIRGINIA: READINGS, CASES AND COMMENTARIES, 5th edition, plus articles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0155078615
• ISBN 13: 9780155078611
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 222