American Government

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Textbooks

• Bardes et al., American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials (Wadsworth)
• Edwards et al., Government in America: Brief Edition (Longman)
• Fiorina et al., America's New Democracy (Longman)
• Ginsberg and Lowi, American Government: Freedom and Power (W.W. Norton)
• Jacobson and Kernell, The Logic of American Politics (Congressional Quarterly)
• Janda et al., The Challenge of Democracy (Wadsworth)
• O'Brien et al., Government by the People (Prentice Hall)
• O'Connor and Sabato, American Government: Continuity and Change (Longman)
• Patterson, The American Democracy (McGraw-Hill)
• Welch et al., Understanding American Government: The Essentials (Wadsworth)
• Wilson, American Government (Wadsworth)
• Wolf et al., Keeping the Republic: Power and Citizenship in American Politics (Congressional Quarterly)

Online Resources

• The Center on Congress at Indiana University
• CitizenJoe
• Hippocampus: American Government
• National Repository of Online Courses: American Government
• Yale Law School: The Avalon Project's American Constitution