Approaching Democracy

Preface xiii

About the Authors xxi

PART I Foundations of American Democracy

1 Approaching Democracy

2 The Founding and the Constitution

The Constitution of the United States

3 Federalism

PART II Institutions of American Democracy

4 Congress

5 The Presidency

6 The Judiciary

7 The Bureaucracy

PART III Processes of American Democracy

8 Public Opinion

9 Political Parties

10 Participation, Voting, and Elections

11 Interest Groups

12 The Media

PART IV Liberties and Rights in American Democracies

13 Civil Liberties

14 Civil Rights and Political Equality

PART V Policy Making in American Democracy

15 Domestic and Economic Policy

16 Foreign Policy

APPENDIX 1: Introducing the Concept of Approaching Democracy

APPENDIX 2: Presidents and Congresses, 1789—2009

APPENDIX 3: Supreme Court Justices

APPENDIX 4: The Declaration of Independence

APPENDIX 5: The Federalist, No. 10, James Madison

APPENDIX 6: The Federalist, No. 51, James Madison

Glossary

Suggested Readings

Notes

Credits

Index