American Government: Balancing Democracy and Rights

by Marc Karnis Landy and Sidney M. Milkis

Book Overview

The essential story of American politics and government is the relationship between liberalism and democracy. American Government demonstrates that the tensions and complementarities between... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072383194
• ISBN13: 9780072383195
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent idea, mostly great, but falls a bit short

This textbook is a wonderful addition to the available textbooks on American government. It provides historical context lacking in most other texts, and does so in a relatively concise and well-presented manner. The American political development (APD) scholarship it's based on works well, certainly much better than the Kernell/Jacobson textbook. Their framework of democracy versus rights, however, does not come off quite so well as they would like, sometimes obscuring the larger point they are trying to make in each chapter. Sometimes the writing, in an attempt to be concise, may be a bit too dense for some students to grasp. Overall this is a great text, with the added bonus of being easy to carry around (shaped like a real book, not a huge textbook).