American Governance
American Governance
Editor: Schechter, Stephen
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Macmillan US
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-02-866249-7
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count:
349
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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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