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MnU |
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20201105133417.0 |
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MnU |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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MnU |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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H1 |
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JA71 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Hubert, David |
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author |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Attenuated Democracy |
| Remainder of title |
A Critical Introduction to U.S. Government and Politics |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
David Hubert |
| 264 #2 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Open Textbook Library |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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Salt Lake Community College |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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1 online resource |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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Open textbook library. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Part 1: Thinking Like a Political Scientist -- Part 2: Constitutional Foundations -- Part 3: Congress -- Part 4: The Presidency -- Part 5: The Supreme Court -- Part 6: The Federal Bureaucracy -- Part 7: Linkage Institutions -- Part 8: Electoral Politics and Public Opinion -- Part 9: Individual Political Behavior -- Part 10: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties |
| 520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The U.S. political system suffers from endemic design flaws and is notable for the way that a small subset of Americans-whose interests often don't align with those of the vast majority of the population-wields disproportionate power. Absent organized and persistent action on the part of ordinary Americans, the system tends to serve the already powerful. That's why this text is called Attenuated Democracy. To attenuate something is to make it weak or thin. Democracy in America has been thin from the beginning and continues to be so despite some notable progress in voting rights. As political scientists Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens wrote, "The essence of democracy is not just having reasonably satisfactory policies; the essence of democracy is popular control of government, with each citizen having an equal voice." (1) Since this is likely to be your only college-level course on the American political system, it is important to point out the structural weaknesses of our system and the thin nature of our democracy. Whenever you get the chance-in the voting booth, in your job, perhaps if you hold elected office-I encourage you to do something about America's attenuated democracy. |
| 542 1# - INFORMATION RELATING TO COPYRIGHT STATUS |
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| Copyright statement |
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
In English. |
| 588 0# - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE |
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| Source of description note |
Description based on print resource |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Social sciences |
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Textbooks |
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Political Science |
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Textbooks |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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Open Textbook Library |
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distributor |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/916">https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/916</a> |
| Public note |
Access online version |
