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American Government: Political Development and
Institutional Change 12th
Edition
by Cal Jillson, All Chapters 1 -
16
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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Chapter 1 The Origins of American Political Principles
2. Chapter 2 The Revolution and the Constitution
3. Chapter 3 Federalism and American Political Development
4. Chapter 4 Political Socialization and Public Opinion
5. Chapter 5 The Mass Media and the Political Agenda
6. Chapter 6 Interest Groups: The Politics of Influence
7. Chapter 7 Political Parties: Winning the Right to Govern
8. Chapter 8 Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
9. Chapter 9 Congress: Partisanship, Polarization, and Gridlock
10. Chapter 10 The President: Executive Power in a Separation of
Powers Regime
11. Chapter 11 Bureaucracy: Redesigning Government for the Twenty-
First Century
12. Chapter 12 The Federal Courts: Activism versus Restraint
13. Chapter 13 Civil Liberties: Ordered Liberty in America
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14. Chapter 14 Civil Rights: Where Liberty and Equality Collide
, 15. Chapter 15 Government, The Economy, and Domestic
Policy
16. Chapter 16 America’s Global Role in the Twenty-First
Century
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, Chapter 1 The Origins of American Political
Principles Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question Answe A B C D
r
A custom, practice, b policy institution legal rule
or organization, procedure
often embedded in
rules and
law, is called a
Which of these terms d Monarchy Polis Democracy Oligarchy
refers to the rule of
an elite few for
their
own
According to Plato, a A A political The None of these
who should rule a philosophe science- few
properly r- king king wisest
constituted polis? citize
ns
According to d Oligarchy is Democracy Tyranny is All of these
Aristotle’s typology a is a any
of governments, which governme government governmen
of these statements nt organized t that is
accurately defines a organized around oppressive
type of around a many men to the
government? few men who are people.
who are primarily
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motivated by the
by their broad
narrow public