We the People

Product Description

Government matters. And you can make a difference
We the People is the number one book for American government because of its unparalleled ability to help students understand American government―how it applies to them, and how they can participate. In her first edition as coauthor, Andrea Campbell used stories of real people to show students how government and politics can affect their lives and how individual participation matters. Now Campbell takes her emphasis on the citizen’s role one step further with new How To guides that present concrete steps to effective political participation. With InQuizitive, a powerful, adaptive learning tool, as well as critical thinking exercises and
NEW Weekly News Quizzes,
We the People offers a wide array of resources to help students learn the concepts of American government and apply them to their own lives.

Book Description

with Ebook, InQuizitive, Weekly News Quiz, Infographic Animations, and Simulations

About the Author

Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Washington Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at
Johns Hopkins University. He is the author or coauthor of 20 books including
Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced,
Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public,
Politics by Other Means,
The Consequences of Consent, and
The Captive Public. Before joining the Hopkins faculty in 1992, Ginsberg was Professor of Government at Cornell University. His most recent book is
The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters. Ginsberg’s published research focuses on political development, presidential politics, participation, and money in politics.

Theodore J. Lowi was John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at
Cornell University. He was elected president of the American Political Science Association in 1990 and was cited as the political scientist who made the most significant contribution to the field during the decade of the 1970s. Among his numerous books are
The End of Liberalism and
The Pursuit of Justice, on which he collaborated with Robert F. Kennedy.

Margaret Weir is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written widely on social policy in Europe and the United States. She is the author of
Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States and coauthor (with Ira Katznelson) of
Schooling for All: Class, Race, and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal. Weir has also edited (with Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol)
The Politics of Social Policy in the United States.

Caroline J. Tolbert is Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa, where she regularly teaches the introductory American government course and was awarded the Collegiate Scholar Award for excellence in teaching and research. Her research explores political behavior, elections, American state politics, and the Internet and politics. Tolbert is coauthor of
Digital Citizenship: The Internet Society and Participation;
Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process; and
Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide.
Digital Citizenship was ranked one of 20 best-selling titles in the social sciences by the American Library Association in 2007. Her latest coauthored scholarly book is
Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity. She is President of the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.

Andrea Louise Campbell is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Campbell’s interests include American politics, political behavior, public opinion, and political inequality, particularly their intersection with social welfare policy, he