7th Edition

American Political Process

By Alan Grant Copyright 2004
334 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

American Political Process examines both the formal institutions of government and organizations such as political parties and pressure groups. It analyzes how these bodies interact in the making of public policy in the United States in order to provide an understanding of contemporary American politics. The seventh edition has been thoroughly updated and revised with entirely new material on:... Read more
1. The Framework of American Politics  2. Making the Laws: The American Congress  3. Law Execution: The President and Administration  4. Law Adjudication: The Supreme Court and the Judiciary  5. Pressure Group Politics  6. Party Politics  7. Elections and Voting  8. Federalism, the States and Local Government.  Appendices

Biography

Alan Grant is Principal Lecturer in the Politics Department at Oxford Brookes University. He is the editor and co-author of Contemporary American Politics (1995) and American Politics: 2000 and Beyond and co-author of The 'Politics Today' Companion to American Government (2002).