Fetch We The People: An Introduction To American Politics Constructed By Benjamin Ginsberg Publication

the relevance of politics and government in everyday life, We the People, Seventh Edition, continues to provide tools to help students think critically about American government and politics.
The Seventh Edition has been thoroughly updated to include extensive coverage of the pivotalelections and important recent events and issues.
Complemented by a rich package of multimedia tools for instructors and students, including an expanded DVD with more popular culture content, We the People is now more pedagogically effective than ever.
The information given was much better than the text from the first time I took this classit covered things that I hadn't heard of until! There is, however, a very liberal bias to it.
I would give it a,if I could. This was a decent textbook, It was very uptodate, which was nice, but the writing was rather mediocre and it was unclear at times.
My biggest problem with this book is that it wasn't very neutral it made an attempt, but you could tell that the author was a liberal and I'm not one of those crazy conservatives who thinks everything but the Bible is liberal propaganda I'm super liberal myself, but I still value neutrality in textbooks.
The author would sometimes clearly promote certain ideas over others for instance, the book was really positive about political parties and REALLY negative about the scope of presidential power for example, the last sentence in the Presidency chapter was "Americans of the founding generation feared that unchecked presidential power would lead to monocracy a republican form of monarchy without a king.
Have we not taken more than one step in that direction Inevitably, we will pay a price for our undemocratic politics.
" This concerns me even more after seeing that the author also wrote a book about how the president is too powerful clearly, he has strong opinions on the matter that clouded his objectivity in writing the textbook.
And while I did like that the book discussed theelection in depth, it also usedas an example for things like voter turnout and party identification and such that I don't think is the best example, since theelection was extraordinary and unique and not typical of American elections.


So, not the worst American Politics textbook, but not the best either, The visuals are great and there are some really interesting graphs, but some of the information is a little suspect.
As far as text books go, this one was okay, The chapters were structured really well and the information was explained alright, Mt biggest probalem with this textbook was that there were times when the sentences were needlessly complex.
I found myself engaged and focused one moment and completely spaced out the next, When I reread the part I spaced out, it was usually worded badly, Still, I learned a lot and the web site that goes with it provides some great study tools as well.
I had no love for Political Science, but this text was helpful in understanding what was going on Overall, a good textbook.
Since my professor didn't go in chapter order, I read more of this textbook than I usually do during a semester.
Well written and easy to understand, Governmentanother wellwritten textbook This is a textbook on American Politics, It covers pretty much every subject you would expect to find in a textbook on politics, If you have to read a textbook on American politics, this will do fine, but as you would imagine, it can be dry and boring.
I read this book for my federal government class, . . In fact, I nearly read ittimes through and some of the chapters I readtimes, It's very well organized, containing the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, a lot of all the presidents, etc.
in the back. Most students didn't know about this, . . unfortunately for them. lol I will caution that the quizzes in the back of the chapters have a misprint in the answer key.
So please do not memorize the answers or you'll be shooting yourself in the foot! Read this for school.
For you poor souls dealing with Online Government/US Government out there: DO THE QUIZZES AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER! They are superbly helpful and may mimic questions you'll encounter again.
Also, the following links all have very good practice questions to help you breeze through the course:

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These question sets are lifesavers, No joke. Whoever made these deserves to be repeatedly commended for their efforts, Great for a textbook. I'd use it again in class For school, so I had to read this, Pretty good, for a textbook! A little repetitive, though, Standard College level textbook an introduction into American Politics, I bought it mainly as a reference book which it does an adequate job,

It's compact size is perfect for desktop reference and review, In addition to having copies of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the textbook also has review questions for the reader to challenge themselves.


It extensively covers:

Citizenship and Government how government affects our lives, our identities, our ideals

Our Founding and the Constitution How Political conflicts shaped the first founding, how the failure of the articles attributed to the second founding, what the Constitution created, and how difficult ratification was

Federalism How it shaped American politics and how the definition changed radically over time

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Students will be surprised to learn that those who opposed the Constitution paved the way for the Bill of Rights.
This section also provides coverage of the first amendment, how the second amendment protects gun owners, how criminals are afforded due process by the constitution, the right to privacy, Civil Rights protections and struggles, and online privacy is also covered.


The Role of the Media in Society as well as social media

Political Parties, Participation and Elections how political parties rose from the electoral process, the twoparty system, political participation in traditional and online forms, as well as explaining why political party loyalty is important

Interest Groups This section also covers pluralist and elitist views, the increase of special interest groups, as well as the strategies used

Congress how the congress represents the people, how it is shaped by party, explanation of how a bill becomes law, the factors that leads congress to their decisions, and the other roles that congress has

The Presidency where the President gets his/her powers, institutional resources

Bureaucracy how it improves efficiency, how the Executive Branch is organized, and who controls the bureaucracy

Federal Courts how the legal system settles disputes, the different courts and what cases they hear, the Supreme Court and its powers

Domestic Policy Public Policy Government Coercion, how the techniques of making policy are control, social policy and welfare, poverty, and social spending is also explored.


Foreign Policy this section ends the book covering: security based on military strength, how American foreign policy is shaped by both Government and nonGovernment actors, the tools of American Foreign policy, and using technology to topple governments citing the Case of Egypt.


For pleasure reading it is a boring read, However, for review and reference it does the job it was written to do, Long chapters. Boring at times but really insightful. This is my second choice book to use as a textbook for Intro to AP, It seems very engaging and it emphasizes student involvement in politics,

But it's not very structural, critical, or comparative, And those are things that I think a textbook should be, I

I can't believe it, . .

I've actually read a whole textbook cover to cover,



Maybe I'll review this one later, You know, after the exam this book has spawned, FINALLY!! I read a textbook cover to cover!! AHH

th edition review:
Of course I had to spend on the "latest" version of this US Gov textbook which meant each chapter was padded with photos and references to the Trump administration, COVIDPandemic and "social media" safety tools.
After realizing all of this was meaningless to our course content I don't understand why we weren't given a more paired down cheaper version of US Government basics history.
Obviously this is my beef with the state of college textbooks but still, this is atextbook yet it reads like a collection of Khan Academy lessons intermixed with photo's taken from the last couple years but ended up meaning the firstpages of each chapter were completely unnecessary.


Because this book was so absurdly expensive AND the print copies were all sold out/rented out I had to rent a digital copy.
This was one of the worst ebook designs I've come across in a while, The text was often clunky and the table of contents didn't give good hierarchy to the chapters and sections which meant navigating the whole ebook was difficult because it looked like one long book full ofchapters.
Also because of all the large photos used it took up way to much room per "page" and really messed up the reading experience.


The actual information in the textbook was good but this feels like the bare minimum compared to everything else.
The most important parts are the glossary of each chapter and the constitutional documents at the back.
this book pulled through for all my cramming nights and will probably to continue to pull through until the end

of my finals.
For a political science book this was not bad reading, As expected it did lean towards the left, but did try for middle ground, I did read the whole thing and learned a lot, A good, solid textbook with great support materials for faculty, Love that it comes closer than many texts to following our short termweek schedule than most available texts.
Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Washington Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
He is the author or coauthor ofbooks including Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced, Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public, Politics by Other Means, The Consequences of Consent, and The Captive Public.
Before joining the Hopkins faculty in, Ginsberg was Professor of Government at Cornell University, His most recent book is The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All Administrative University and Why It Matters.
Ginsbergs published research focuses on Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Washington Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
He is the author or coauthor ofbooks including Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced, Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public, Politics by Other Means, The Consequences of Consent, and The Captive Public.
Before joining the Hopkins faculty in, Ginsberg was Professor of Government at Cornell University, His most recent book is The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All Administrative University and Why It Matters.
Ginsbergs published research focuses on political development, presidential politics, participation, and money in politics, sitelink.