Keeping the Republic. Christine Barbour

ection>

      

      We dedicate this book with love to our parents, Patti Barbour and John Barbour and Doris and Gerry Wright,

       To our kids, Andrea and Monica,

      To our grandkids, Liam, Elena, Paloma, and Asher, And to each other.

      Keeping the Republic

      8th Brief Edition

      Keeping the Republic

      Power and Citizenship in American Politics

      8th Brief Edition

       Christine Barbour

       Indiana University

       Gerald C. Wright

       Indiana University

      FOR INFORMATION:

      CQ Press

      An Imprint of SAGE Publications, Inc.

      2455 Teller Road

      Thousand Oaks, California 91320

      E-mail: [email protected]

      SAGE Publications Ltd.

      1 Oliver’s Yard

      55 City Road

      London, EC1Y 1SP

      United Kingdom

      SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd.

      B 1/I 1 Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area

      Mathura Road, New Delhi 110 044

      India

      SAGE Publications Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd

      18 Cross Street #10-10/11/12

      China Square Central

      Singapore 048423

      Copyright © 2020 by Christine Barbour and Gerald C. Wright

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Printed in Canada

      ISBN 978-1-5443-1621-5

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Executive Publisher: Monica Eckman

      Content Development Editors: Anna Villarruel, Sarah Calabi

      Editorial Assistant: Sam Rosenberg

      Production Editors: Kelly DeRosa, Tori Mirsadjadi

      Copy Editor: Amy Marks

      Typesetter: C&M Digitals (P) Ltd.

      Proofreader: Liann Lech

      Indexer: Joan Shapiro

      Cover Designer: Gail Buschman

      Marketing Manager: Erica DeLuca

      About the Authors

      Christine Barbour

      Christine Barbour teaches in the Political Science Department and the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University, where she has become increasingly interested in how teachers of large classes can maximize what their students learn. She is working with online course designers to create an online version of her Intro to American Politics class. At Indiana, Professor Barbour has been a Lilly Fellow, working on a project to increase student retention in large introductory courses, and a member of the Freshman Learning Project, a university-wide effort to improve the first-year undergraduate experience. She has served on the New York Times College Advisory Board, working with other educators to develop ways to integrate newspaper reading into the undergraduate curriculum. She has won several teaching honors, but the two awarded by her students mean the most to her: the Indiana University Student Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty and the Indiana University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award. When not teaching or writing textbooks, Professor Barbour enjoys playing with her dogs, traveling with her coauthor, and writing about food. She is the food editor for Bloom Magazine of Bloomington and is a coauthor of Indiana Cooks! (2005) and Home Grown Indiana (2008). She also makes jewelry from precious metals and rough gemstones. If she ever retires, she will open a jewelry shop in a renovated Airstream on the beach in Apalachicola, Florida, where she plans to write a book about the local politics, development, and the fishing industry.

      Gerald C. Wright

      Gerald C. Wright has taught political science at Indiana University since 1981, and he is currently the chair of the Political Science Department. An accomplished scholar of American politics, and the 2010 winner of the State Politics and Policy Association’s Career Achievement Award, his books include Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States (1993), coauthored with Robert S. Erikson and John P. McIver. He has published more than fifty articles on elections, public opinion, and state politics. Professor Wright has long studied the relationship among citizens, their preferences, and public policy.

       He is currently conducting research funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation on the factors that influence the equality of policy representation in the states and in Congress. He is also writing a book about representation in U.S. legislatures. He has been a consultant for Project Vote Smart in the past several elections. Professor Wright is a member of Indiana University’s Freshman Learning Project, a university-wide effort to improve the first-year undergraduate experience by focusing on how today’s college students learn and how teachers can adapt their pedagogical methods to best teach them. In his nonworking hours, Professor Wright also likes to spend time with his dogs, travel, eat good food, fish, and play golf.

      Brief Contents

      1  Preface

      2  To the Student

      3  CH 1 POWER AND CITIZENSHIP IN AMERICAN POLITICS

      4  CH 2 THE POLITICS OF THE AMERICAN FOUNDING

      5  CH 3 FEDERALISM

      6  CH 4 FUNDAMENTAL