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The Eleventh Edition of bestselling textbook The Logic of American Politics provides readers with the tools they need to make sense of our government today. Weaving together historical context, contemporary politics, and a "toolkit" of institutional... Read Full Overview

Why does the American political system work the way it does?

Find the answers in The Logic of American Politics. This best-selling text arms you with a toolkit of institutional design concepts--command, veto, agenda control, voting... Read Full Overview

Why does the American political system work the way it does?

Find the answers in The Logic of American Politics. This bestselling text arms you with a "toolkit" of institutional design concepts--command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, and delegation--to... Read Full Overview

This new edition of the bestselling The Logic of American Politics is thoroughly updated and covers the dramatic 2016 election results with a thorough analysis of those results. It arms students with a revised introduction to institutional design that makes concepts... Read Full Overview

Now featuring the logic of policymaking

Praised for its engaging narrative, The Logic of American Politics hooks students with great storytelling while giving them a taste of real political science. Students come to understand why institutional... Read Full Overview

Why does the American political system work the way it does?

Find the answers in The Logic of American Politics. This bestselling text arms you with a "toolkit" of institutional design concepts--command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, and delegation--to... Read Full Overview

Praised for its engaging narrative, The Logic of American Politics, Sixth Edition, by Samuel Kernell, Gary C. Jacobson, Thad Kousser, and Lynn Vavreck, hooks students with great storytelling while arming them with a toolkit of institutional design concepts... Read Full Overview

This bundle includes Samuel Kernells The Logic of American Politics 9th edition (Paperback), Kernells Principles and Practice of American Politics 7th edition (Paperback), and Kernells The Logic of American Politics 9th edition Interactive eBook. Bundle: Kernell: The Logic of... Read Full Overview

Novices to the study of politics find the American political system complicated, even mystifying or infuriating. They may have strongly held opinions on a number of political issues, but no systematic way&BAD:-no logic&BAD:-for thinking about how and why the system works the... Read Full Overview