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A Novel Approach to Politics
Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture
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A Novel Approach to Politics
Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture
About this book
A textbook your students will want to read.
"If you would like students to understand hard political concepts, this work makes it accessible for them. By using pop culture, we can open ideological ideas and students are not bound by their own preconceived ideas."
âLeah Murray, Weber State University
A Novel Approach to Politics turns the conventional textbook wisdom on its head by using pop culture references to illustrate key concepts and cover recent political events. Adopters of previous editions are thanking author Douglas A. Van Belle for some of their best student evaluations to date.
With this Seventh Edition, Van Belle brings the book fully up-to-date with recent events, current policy debates, international happenings, and other assorted political matters. Understanding politics requires a willingness to engage with ideas, arguments, and information that makes you uncomfortable, Van Belle takes the most tumultuous political periods in recent history head-on. Somehow, he weaves in recent movies and books into the text as he works in a solid foundation in institutions, ideology, and economics controversies into all that sizzle, which is certain to captivate students.
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"If you would like students to understand hard political concepts, this work makes it accessible for them. By using pop culture, we can open ideological ideas and students are not bound by their own preconceived ideas."
âLeah Murray, Weber State University
A Novel Approach to Politics turns the conventional textbook wisdom on its head by using pop culture references to illustrate key concepts and cover recent political events. Adopters of previous editions are thanking author Douglas A. Van Belle for some of their best student evaluations to date.
With this Seventh Edition, Van Belle brings the book fully up-to-date with recent events, current policy debates, international happenings, and other assorted political matters. Understanding politics requires a willingness to engage with ideas, arguments, and information that makes you uncomfortable, Van Belle takes the most tumultuous political periods in recent history head-on. Somehow, he weaves in recent movies and books into the text as he works in a solid foundation in institutions, ideology, and economics controversies into all that sizzle, which is certain to captivate students.
Included with this title:
LMS Cartridge: Import this title?s instructor resources into your school's learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don?t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Select the Resources tab on this page to learn more.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Acknowledgements
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Brief Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction (Take 2)
- About the Author
- 1 Introducing the Ancient Debate: The Ideal versus the Real
- 2 Why Government?: Security, Anarchy, and Some Basic Group Dynamics
- 3 Governing Society: We Know Who You Are
- 4 Governmentâs Role in the Economy: The Offer You Canât Refuse
- 5 Structures and Institutions
- 6 El Grande Loco Casa Blanca: The Executive (in Bad Spanish)
- 7 The Confederacy of Dunces: The Legislative Function (in Colorless English That Is Grammatically Questionable and Subject to Ridicule)
- 8 Brazilian Bureaucracy: Do I Even Need to Bother with the Jokes?
- 9 Courts and Law: Politics behind the Gavel, Obviously, but Whatâs under the Gown?
- 10 Not Quite Right, but Still Good: The Democratic Ideal in Modern Politics
- 11 Media, Politics, and Government: Talking Heads Are Better Than None
- 12 International Politics: Apocalypse Now and Then
- 13 Secret Government: Spies, Lies, and Freedom Fries
- 14 The Politics of Culture: Sex and Agriculture, Getting Rucked Explains It All
- 15 The Lastest and Bestest Chapter: The Study of Politics
- Appendix A - Fiction Appendix
- Appendix B - A Strategic Approach to Writing for the Classroom
- Glossary
- Index