Find answers in American Governance on all questions related to the variety of ways by which the American people govern themselves - from their constitutions and governments to the political norms and ideals that guide their actions as citizens and leaders; to local communities, civic associations, and political associations people form for collective deliberation and action; and to the relationships they form with their elected representatives.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Thematic Outline
• List of Contributors
• VOLUME 1
• A
• Abolition Movement
• Abortion Rights
• Abrams v. United States
• Adams, John
• Addams, Jane
• Adequate and Independent State Grounds
• Administrative Procedure Act
• Admission of New States
• Advocacy
• Advocacy Coalition Framework
• Affinity Groups
• Affirmative Action
• Agenda Setting and Policy Reform
• Agrarian Democracy
• Alien and Sedition Acts
• Alienation
• Ambition
• Amending the US Constitution, History of
• Amending the US Constitution, Process of
• American Constitutional Development from 1789 to 1868
• American Constitutional Development from 1868 to 1937
• American Constitutional Development from 1937 to 1980
• American Constitutional Development Since 1980
• American Dream
• American Exceptionalism
• American Political Development
• American Revolution
• Anthony, Susan B.
• Anti-Federalists
• Apathy
• Appointment and Removal Powers
• Arizona v. United States
• Arrow's Theorem
• Article I Courts
• Article I, United States Constitution
• Article II, United States Constitution
• Article III, United States Constitution
• Article IV, United States Constitution
• Articles of Confederation
• Astroturf Groups
• Authorization and Appropriations
• Autonomy
• B
• Baker v. Carr
• Barron V. Baltimore
• Behavioralism
• Bicameralism
• Bills and Resolutions
• Black, Hugo
• Black Politics
• Blackstone, William
• Block Grants
• Boards of Education
• Boumediene v. Bush
• Bounded Rationality
• Bowling Alone
• Brandeis, Louis
• Brandenburg v. Ohio
• Brennan, William
• Breyer, Stephen
• British Constitution
• Broken Branch
• Broken Windows Theory
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Bryan, William Jennings
• Buckley, William F., Jr.
• Buckley v. Valeo
• Bureaucracy
• Burger, Warren
• Burwell v. Hobbylobby
• Business and Governance
• C
• Calhoun, John C.
• Calvinism
• Campaign Finance Laws
• Campaign Finance Practices
• Capital Laws of Connecticut, 1642
• Capital Punishment
• Capitalism
• Capitalism and Democracy
• Cardozo, Benjamin
• Cato's Letters
• Charters
• Chase, Salmon P.
• Checks and Balances
• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
• Citizenship
• Citizenship, History of
• Citizenship, Pathways to
• City of Boerne v. Flores
• Civic Agency
• Civic Associations
• Civic Discourse
• Civic Dispositions
• Civic Duty
• Civic Education
• Civic Empowerment Gap
• Civic Engagement
• Civic Health Index
• Civic Identity
• Civic Participation
• Civic Responsibility
• Civic Skills
• Civic Space
• Civil Community
• Civil Disobedience
• Civil Liberties
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Society
• Civil War Amendments
• Civilian Control of the Military
• Civility
• Clinton v. Jones
• Code of Federal Regulations
• Code of the Street
• Coke, Edward
• Collective Action
• Commerce Clause
• Common Good
• Common Law
• Common Law: Legal Systems
• Commons Problems
• Communitarianism
• Community
• Community Development
• Compact and Covenant
• Compact Clause
• Compact Theory
• Comparative Method
• Concurrent and Exclusive Powers
• Congress as a Governing Institution
• Congress in the Policy Process
• Congressional Budget Office
• Congressional Elections: Law
• Congressional Oversight
• Connecticut Plan (Connecticut Compromise)
• Consent
• Conservatism
• Constituency/Constituent
• Constitution
• Constitutional Authority
• Constitutional Convention of 1787
• Constitutional Criminal Procedure
• Constitutional Dialogues
• Constitutional Government
• Constitutional Interpretation
• Constitutional Interpretation by Citizens
• Constitutional Litigation
• Constitutional Protections for Media
• Constitutionalism
• Contract
• Contract Clause
• Cooley, Thomas
• Cooper v. Aaron
• Crawford v. Marion County Election Board
• Crime and Justice Policy
• Criminal Law
• Culture Wars
• Cynicism
• VOLUME 2
• D
• De Facto and De Jure
• Decision Making
• Declaration of Independence
• Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls (1848)
• Delegation of Legislative Power
• Deliberative Democracy
• Democracy
• Democrats
• Departmentalism
• Devolution
• Direct Taxes
• Dissent
• Divided Government
• Divided Powers
• Doctrine of Concurrent Majority
• Dormant Commerce Clause
• Dorr Rebellion
• Douglas, Stephen A.
• Douglas, William O.
• Douglass, Frederick
• Dred Scott V. Sandford
• Du Bois, W. E. B.
• Duverger's Law
• E
• Earmarks
• Economic Policy
• Education Policy
• Election Campaigns
• Election Outcomes
• Election Process
• Election Process: Primaries
• Elections and Democracy
• Elections: Presidential
• Elections: Presidential Debates
• Electoral College
• Electoral Realignments and Turnovers
• Electoral Systems
• Eleventh Amendment
• Emancipation Proclamation
• English Bill of Rights
• Enlightenment
• Entitlements
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Enumerated Powers
• Environmental Policy
• Environmentalism
• Equal Rights Amendment: Federal
• Equal Rights Amendment: States
• Equality
• Ethics in Government
• Ex Parte Mccardle
• Ex Parte Milligan
• Exclusionary Rule
• Executive Agreements
• Executive Branch in the Policy Process
• Executive Order
• Executive Powers
• Executive Privilege
• Extended Republic, Theory Of
• Externalities
• Extraterritoriality
• F
• Fact-Checking
• Faction
• Fair Trade
• Fairness
• Fairness Doctrine
• Federal Budget Deficit
• Federal Budget Process
• Federal Circuit Courts
• Federal Court Jurisdiction
• Federal District Courts
• Federal Powers: Bankruptcy
• Federal Powers: Civil Rights
• Federal Powers: Commerce
• Federal Powers: General
• Federal Powers: Immigration and Naturalization
• Federal Powers: Intellectual Property
• Federal Powers: Necessary and Proper
• Federal Powers: Tax and Spend
• Federal Powers: Territories
• Federal Powers: War
• Federal Register
• Federal Reserve
• Federal Sovereign Immunity
• Federalism, Theory of
• Federalism in American History
• Federalism in the Public Policy Process
• Federalist, The
• Federalists
• Feminism
• Field, Stephen
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Filibuster
• Fiscal and Monetary Policy
• Focusing Events
• Foreign Policy
• Founding
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship Clause
• Fourteenth Amendment: Due Process Clause
• Fourteenth Amendment: Enforcement Clause
• Fourteenth Amendment: Equal Protection Clause
• Fourteenth Amendment: Privileges or Immunities Clause
• Fourth Amendment
• Framing
• Frankfurter, Felix
• Franklin, Benjamin
• Free-Market Economics, Theory of
• Free Rider Problems
• Free Trade and Tariffs
• Freedom of Association
• Freedom of Contract
• Freedom of Information Act
• Freedom of Religion: Establishment
• Freedom of Religion: Free Exercise
• Freedom of Speech
• Freedom of Speech: Advocacy in Times of Crisis
• Freedom of Speech: Commercial Advertising
• Freedom of Speech: Obscenity and Pornography
• Freedom of Speech: Public Property, Employees, and Subsidies
• Freedom of Speech: Schools
• Freedom of Speech: Symbolic
• Freedom of the Press
• Fries's Rebellion
• Fuller, Melville W.
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• G
• Gag Rule
• Garcia V. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority
• Gender Discrimination
• General Welfare Clause
• Geographic Mobility and Sorting
• Gerrymander
• Get Out the Vote
• Gettysburg Address
• Gibbons V. Ogden
• Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
• Globalization
• Governance
• Government
• Government, Size of
• Great Society
• Gridlock
• Gross Domestic Product
• Gun Control
• VOLUME 3
• H
• Habeas Corpus
• Hamdi V. Rumsfeld
• Hamilton, Alexander
• Hand, Learned
• Happiness
• Harper V. Virginia Board of Elections
• Hate Speech
• High Crimes and Misdemeanors
• Hollow Hope
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
• Home Rule Charters
• Hughes, Charles Evans
• Human Fallibility
• Hume, David
• I
• Immigration
• Immigration and Nationality Act and Amendments
• Immigration Policy, History of
• Impeachment
• Imperial Presidency
• Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
• Incumbency
• Indian Bill of Rights
• Individualism
• Inequality in American History
• Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
• Ins V. Chadha
• Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD)
• Institutionalism and Neo-Institutionalism
• Instructions
• Interest Groups
• Interests, Permanent and Aggregate
• Intergovernmental Relations
• International Law
• International Organizations
• International Tribunals
• Interposition
• Issue Networks
• J
• Jackson, Andrew
• Jacksonian Democracy
• Jay, John
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Jim Crow
• Judicial Decision Making
• Judicial Federalism
• Judicial Impact
• Judicial Implementation
• Judicial Independence
• Judicial Opinions
• Judicial Review
• Judicial Review: Administrative Agencies
• Judicial Review by State Courts
• Judicial Selection
• Judicial Supremacy
• Judiciary in the Policy Process
• Jurisdiction
• Jury
• Justice
• Justiciability
• K
• Katzenbach V. Morgan
• Kennedy, Anthony M.
• Kent, James
• Keynesianism
• King, Martin Luther, Jr.
• L
• Latino Immigration Politics
• Leadership
• Leadership and Women
• Legislative Committees and Caucuses
• Legislative Intent
• Legislative Supremacy
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Movements
• Letter Concerning Toleration, John Locke's
• “Letter From Birmingham Jail”
• Liberalism
• Libertarianism
• Liberty
• Limited Government
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Litigation Campaigns
• Lobbying and Lobbyists
• Local Government
• Lochner V. New York
• Locke, John
• Logic of Appropriateness
• Logrolling
• Loyalists
• M
• Madison, James
• Magic Mirror
• Magma Carta
• Majority Minority Election Districts
• Majority Rule
• Majority Tyranny
• Malcolm X
• Manifest Destiny
• Marbury V. Madison
• Marshall, John
• Marshall, Thurgood
• Martial Law
• Martin V. Hunter's Lessee
• Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641
• Massachusetts Constitution, 1780
• Mayflower Compact
• Mcculloch V. Maryland
• Media and Politics
• Michels's Iron Law of Oligarchy
• Military Draft
• Military Justice
• Millennial Generation
• Mixed Regime
• Montesquieu, Charles-Louis De Secondat, Baron De La Brède Et De
• Mootness
• Moral Hazard
• Morality and Politics
• Morrison V. Olson
• Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
• Mutual Aid Agreements
• N
• National Bank Controversy
• National Debt
• National Federation of Independent Business V. Sebelius
• National Guard and Reserves
• National Security Policy
• Native Americans: Citizenship
• Native Americans: Governance
• Natural Law
• Natural Rights
• Naturalization
• Near V. Minnesota
• Negotiation
• Net Neutrality
• Networking
• New Deal
• New Deal Constitutional Revolution
• New Haven Fundamentals, 1643
• New Jersey Plan
• New Media
• New York Times V. Sullivan
• New York Times V. United States
• News Cycle
• News Media in the Policy Process
• Nineteenth Amendment
• Ninth Amendment
• Nonpartisanship
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Nonviolent Resistance
• Northern Securities Company V. United States
• Northwest Ordinance
• Nullification
• VOLUME 4
• O
• Obama, Barack
• Obergefell V. Hodges
• O'Connor, Sandra Day
• Office of Management and Budget
• Open Society
• Organizational Theory and Public Policy
• ORIGINALISM
• Ostrom, Elinor
• P
• Paine, Thomas
• Paradox of Voting
• Pardon
• Parliament
• Partisanship
• Party Platform
• Patriotism
• Patronage
• Pennsylvania Colonial Charters
• Pennsylvania Constitution, 1776
• Persuasion
• Planned Parenthood V. Casey
• Plessy V. Ferguson
• Pluralism and Elitism
• Polarization
• Police Powers
• Policy Adoption
• Policy Advocacy
• The Policy Agendas Project
• Policy Analysis
• Policy Change
• Policy Design
• Policy Entrepreneurs
• Policy Evaluation
• Policy Failure
• Policy Implementation
• Policy Learning
• Policy Process
• Policy Subsystems
• Policy Tools
• Policy Typologies
• Political Correctness
• Political Corruption
• Political Culture
• Political Efficacy
• Political Generations
• Political Ideology
• Political Interest
• Political Judgment
• Political Legitimacy
• Political Participation
• Political Party
• Political Party Systems
• Political Question
• Political Rhetoric
• Political Rhetoric Genres
• Political Socialization
• Politics
• Politics in Film and Fiction
• Polity
• Popular Sovereignty
• Populism
• Pork Barrel Legislation
• Powell V. Mccormack
• Power
• Preamble, United States Constitution
• Precedent
• Preclearance
• Preemption
• Preferred Freedoms
• Presidency, The
• Presidency in the Policy Process
• Presidential Signing Statements
• Presidential Succession
• Prigg V. Pennsylvania
• Printz V. United States
• Prior Restraints
• Privacy
• Privatization
• Problem Identification in the Policy Process
• Progressive Movements, 1890 to 1920
• Progressive Movements in American History
• Progressive Reform in American History
• Prohibition
• Property
• Property, Common Law
• Public Administration
• Public and Private Goods
• Public Authorities
• Public Choice
• Public Interest
• Public Opinion
• Public Participation in the Policy Process
• Public Policy
• Public Policy from 1789 to 1868
• Public Policy from 1868 to 1937
• Public Policy from 1937 to 1980
• Public Policy Since 1980
• Public Service
• Public Trust
• Publius
• Punctuated Equilibrium
• Puritanism
• Q
• Quid Pro Quo
• R
• Race Discrimination
• Racism
• Ratification of the US Constitution
• Rational Choice Theory
• Rational Comprehensive Decision Making
• Reagan, Ronald
• Reapportionment
• Recession and Depression
• Red Tape
• Redistricting
• Regionalization
• Regular Order
• Regulation
• Regulation of Federal Elections
• Regulation of State Elections
• Rehnquist, William
• Religion and Politics
• Representation: Accountability
• Representation: Idea of
• Representation: Redistricting
• Representation: Representatives
• Representation: The Represented
• Representation: Transparency
• Republic
• Republican Virtue
• Republicanism
• Republicans
• Resident Alien
• Respect for the Law
• Reynolds V. Sims
• Rhode Island Parliamentary Patent of 1643/44 and Acts and Orders of 1647
• Rhode Island Royal Charter of 1663
• Right to Assemble
• Right to Petition
• Right to Revolution
• Rights, Negative
• Rights, Positive
• Ripeness
• Roberts, John
• Roe V. Wade
• Roosevelt, Franklin
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• Rule of Law
• Rules and Regulations
• VOLUME 5
• S
• Same-Sex Marriage
• Scalia, Antonin
• Schenck v. United States
• School Choice
• School Desegregation
• School Financing
• School Governance
• School Prayer
• Science and Technology Policy
• Scottish Enlightenment
• Secession
• Second Amendment
• Sectionalism
• Sedition
• Self-Governance
• Self-Improvement
• Separation of Powers
• Seventeenth Amendment
• Shaw v. Reno
• Shays's Rebellion
• Shelby County v. Holder
• Shiele Law
• Slaughter-House Cases, The
• Slavery
• Smith, Adam
• Social Capital
• Social Contract
• Social Darwinism
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Social Movements
• Solidary Incentives
• South Carolina v. Katzenbach
• Sovereignty
• Special-Purpose Governments
• Spin
• Standing
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
• Stare Decisis
• State Action
• State Constitutions
• State Constitutions: Amending Process
• State Constitutions: Amendments
• State Constitutions: Bills of Rights
• State Constitutions: History
• State Court Judges, Nineteenth Century
• State Court Judges, Twentieth Century
• State Court Jurisdiction
• State Courts, Lower
• State Courts, Supreme
• State Governors and the Executive Branch
• State Legislatures
• State Sovereign Immunity
• States
• Status Quo
• Statutes and Case Law
• Statutory Interpretation
• Stone, Harlan Fiske
• Story, Joseph
• Streams Metaphor of the Policy Process
• Street-Level Bureaucracies
• Substantive Due Process
• Suburbanization
• Suffrage
• Sunset Provision
• Supremacy Clause
• Supreme Court of the United States
• T
• Taft, William Howard
• Takings Clause
• Taney, Roger
• Tax Expenditures
• Taxes, General
• Tea Party Movement
• Technocracy
• Tenth Amendment
• Term Limits, Legislative
• Term Limits, Presidential
• Territorial Government
• Test Oaths
• Third Parties
• Third Rail
• Thirteenth Amendment
• Thomas, Clarence
• Ticket Splitting
• Tocqueville, Alexis de
• Torts
• Torture Memos
• Traynor, Roger
• Treason
• Treaty Power
• Trial Balloon
• Twelfth Amendment
• Twenty-Sixth Amendment
• U
• Undocumented Alien
• Unenumerated Rights
• Unfunded Mandates
• Unitary Executive
• United States v. Butler
• United States v. Carolene Products Co.
• United States v. Lopez
• United States v. Morrison
• United States v. Nixon
• United States v. Wong Kim Ark
• Universities and Colleges, Roles of
• Urban Planning and Zoning
• US Bill of Rights
• US Nationals
• U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton
• Utopian Communities
• V
• Venue Shopping in Public Policy
• Vesting Clause
• Veto
• Virginia Declaration of Rights and Constitution, 1776
• Virginia Plan
• Voluntarism
• Voter Registration
• Voting Behavior
• Voting Rights, Constitutional
• Voting Rights Act
• Voting Rights Act: Amendments
• W
• Waite, Morrison R.
• War On Terrorism: A Constitutional Perspective
• War Powers Resolution of 1973
• Warren, Earl
• Washington, Booker T.
• Washington, Dc
• Washington, George
• Watergate
• Webster, Noah
• Whigs
• Whiskey Rebellion
• Whistleblower Protection Policy
• White, Edward
• Whitney v. California
• Williams, Roger
• Wilson, Woodrow
• Winthrop, John
• Wire Service
• Women's Rights Movements
• Writ of Certiorari
• Writ of Error
• Writ of Mandamus
• Y
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer
• Youth in Politics
• Z
• Zenger Trial
• List of Websites
• Primary Sources
• Declaration of Independence
• Adopted and ratified by the Continental Congress, 1776
• United States Constitution
• Drafted by the Philadelphia Convention, 1787; ratified by the States, 1788
• Bill of Rights
• Proposed by the US Congress, 1789; ratified by the States, 1791
• Amendments to the United States Constitution
• Proposed by the US Congress and ratified by the States
• The Federalist No. 10
• James Madison, 1787
• The Federalist No. 39
• James Madison, 1788
• The Federalist No. 51
• James Madison, 1788
• Case Index