TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peele,Gillian
TI  - Developments in American politics
SN  - 9780230576827 (hbk.)
U1  - 320.973090511 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2009-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-306) and index; Introduction : The legacy of the Bush years / Gillian Peele ... [et al.] -- A new political agenda? / Gillian Peele -- The electoral system and the lessons of 2008 / Bruce E. Cain -- Political parties and the new partisanship / Alan Ware -- Interest groups / Dorie E. Apollonio -- The media / Jonathan Parker -- The presidency / Jon Roper -- Congress / Thomas Mann -- The Supreme Court / Paul Martin -- American federalism in the twenty-first century / Tim Conlan -- Environmental politics and policy / Christopher J. Bailey -- The American economy in crisis / George A. (Sandy) Mackenzie -- American social policy : the possibilities for reform / B. Guy Peters -- American foreign policy in the 2010s / Timothy Lynch -- The American Constitution at the end of the Bush presidency / Louis Fisher -- American immigration policy and politics : an enduring controversy / James F. Hollifield
N2  - Assessing the state of American politics in the Obama administration, this text looks both at the institutional framework of government and at the policy dilemmas facing the United States today
ER  -