Politics and the American Future: Dilemmas of Democracy

by John J. Harrigan

Written for the American Government course, this book is a point-of-view book that addresses the fundamental dilemma facing democratic societies. This book takes all of the traditional topics covered by an American Government text and shows how they are influenced by the trade-offs between efficacy and representativeness. For example, in the civil liberties chapter, it is shown how the emergencies of the Civil War, World War I and World War II led...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0079120849
• ISBN13: 9780079120847
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 512 Pages