The Logic of American Politics - Vantage Digital Option

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KEY FEATURES OF THE LOGIC OF AMERICAN POLITICS, TENTH EDITION

• Chapter-opening vignettes draw in students while effectively pointing to a chapter’s main themes.
• A set of feature boxes strengthens the book’s analytic approach:
  
  • Logic of Politics boxes examine the design of various political institutions in light of the objectives they were intended to achieve.
  • Strategy and Choice boxes show how officeholders and those seeking to influence them employ institutions to advance their goals.
  • Politics to Policy boxes highlight how public policies reflect the institutions that produce them and evaluate institutional capacity to solve the nation’s problems.
• The concluding chapter on policymaking examines the noticeable logic that guides American policy. Students glean insights into the sources of policy problems, identify possible solutions, and realize why agreement on those solutions is often so hard to achieve.
• Robust pedagogical features strengthen the text’s analytical approach: boxed features, maps, tables, and figures make for a rich experience as students learn to analyze data; new learning objectives provide measurable takeaways; and more than 200 carefully chosen photographs bring historical and contemporary details to life.