The American Political System
Core Third Edition
21 March 2017
CONCISE EXPLANATIONS AND FOCUS ON CORE CONCEPTS
Kollman's chapters are each organised around the real-world puzzles that draw scholars and students alike to study American politics. The focus remains on the big questions in political science. A new "Data Explorations" feature analyses a key piece of contemporary data that helps to answer the chapter puzzle. Instructors can assign each exploration using short-answer questions in the coursepack.
AMERICAN POLITICS AS A SERIES OF COLLECTIVE DILEMMAS
To understand American politics, students must understand collective dilemmas and how institutions are designed to solve them. Kollman therefore uses the collective dilemmas/institutions framework, contemporary research findings and illustrative cases to teach students how to think about politics. Reconceived and expanded "Applying the Framework: Interests, Institutions, and Outcomes" boxes provide more examples of how political science and the collective dilemmas/institutions framework can help students understand real-world trends and events.
A MEDIA PACKAGE FOR IN CLASS OR ONLINE
The American Political System media package is designed to help professors get their courses up to speed quickly. In addition to lecture PowerPoint slides and slides of all the art and figures from the text, Norton also offers Supplementary Data PowerPoint slides, which include aproximately 50 data figures and tables not found in the text. The coursepack also includes researcher videos, quizzes, data exploration questions and more.
TIGHT INTEGRATION WITH READINGS IN AMERICAN POLITICS
Kollman's companion reader focuses on contemporary political science and reinforces key concepts introduced in the text. New readings are carefully selected to highlight current political science perspectives and contemporary issues.
Kollman's chapters are each organised around the real-world puzzles that draw scholars and students alike to study American politics. The focus remains on the big questions in political science. A new "Data Explorations" feature analyses a key piece of contemporary data that helps to answer the chapter puzzle. Instructors can assign each exploration using short-answer questions in the coursepack.
AMERICAN POLITICS AS A SERIES OF COLLECTIVE DILEMMAS
To understand American politics, students must understand collective dilemmas and how institutions are designed to solve them. Kollman therefore uses the collective dilemmas/institutions framework, contemporary research findings and illustrative cases to teach students how to think about politics. Reconceived and expanded "Applying the Framework: Interests, Institutions, and Outcomes" boxes provide more examples of how political science and the collective dilemmas/institutions framework can help students understand real-world trends and events.
A MEDIA PACKAGE FOR IN CLASS OR ONLINE
The American Political System media package is designed to help professors get their courses up to speed quickly. In addition to lecture PowerPoint slides and slides of all the art and figures from the text, Norton also offers Supplementary Data PowerPoint slides, which include aproximately 50 data figures and tables not found in the text. The coursepack also includes researcher videos, quizzes, data exploration questions and more.
TIGHT INTEGRATION WITH READINGS IN AMERICAN POLITICS
Kollman's companion reader focuses on contemporary political science and reinforces key concepts introduced in the text. New readings are carefully selected to highlight current political science perspectives and contemporary issues.