Correlations

Living Democracy, 1st Edition ©2008

Daniel M. Shea, Joanne Connor Green, Christopher E. Smith

Correlated to AP* United States Government and Politics Topics

I. Constitutional Underpinnings of United States Government

Considerations that influenced the formulation and adoption of the Constitution	pp. 41–45, 48, 51, 55–63, 67–69, 594–595
Separation of powers	pp. 61–62, 122–127, 255–259, 300–307
Federalism	pp. 61, 63, 84–106, 158–160
Theories of democratic government	pp. 39–40, 45–47, 49–52, 61, 70–72, 156–157, 252–254, 304, 307, 376–377, 421–422, 463–466, 536–537, 543, 550–551, 571, 627–629

II. Political Beliefs and Behaviors

Beliefs that citizens hold about their government and its leaders	pp. 24–28, 373–375, 378–379, 385–387, 485–487, 624–629, 652–654, 689–697, 701–705
Processes by which citizens learn about politics	pp. 387–391, 420, 422–428, 430–435, 457–459, 489–491, 520–521, 523–525, 540
The nature, sources, and consequences of public opinion	pp. 376–378, 380–381, 383–384, 401–409, 429, 484–485
The ways in which citizens vote and otherwise participate in public life	pp. 12–17, 21–23, 221–224, 225, 382, 460–463, 466–483, 487–491, 504, 520–522, 526–527, 540–542, 550–551, 562–563
Factors that influence citizens to differ from one another in terms of political beliefs and behaviors	pp. 18–20, 208–209, 382, 392–400, 427–428, 434–435, 443, 452, 509–514, 566–570

III. Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Mass Media

Political parties and elections
—Functions	pp. 537–540, 543, 582–585, 605
—Organization	pp. 586–593
—Development	pp. 543–544, 546, 548–549, 552–555, 563–564, 592–599, 601–605
—Effects on the political process	pp. 410–411, 499–501, 533–535, 542, 551, 564–565, 588, 605–608, 612–613
—Electoral laws and systems	pp. 545, 547, 549–551, 559–560, 600–601, 609–611
Interest groups, including political action committees (PACs)
—The range of interests represented	pp. 504, 509, 518, 522, 556, 561
—The activities of interest groups	pp. 442, 502–503, 515–525, 557
—The effects of interest groups on the political process	pp. 457–459, 499–501, 503, 505–506, 517, 519, 526–529, 558, 562, 580–581
—The unique characteristics and roles of PACs in the political process	pp. 506–508, 527, 556–557, 559
The Mass Media
—The functions and structures of the media	pp. 420, 429–435, 446–447, 449–451
—The impact of media on politics	pp. 417–419, 421, 426, 431–432, 434, 436–446, 448

IV. Institutions of National Government: The Congress, the President, the Bureaucracy, and the Federal Courts

The major formal and informal institutional arrangements of power	pp. 114–128, 131, 135–137, 146, 255–277, 279–281, 303–316, 320–324, 326, 329, 340–355, 357, 363, 365–367
Relationships among these four institutions, and varying balances of power	pp. 130–132, 138, 142–143, 300–301, 319–321, 324–326, 347, 349, 351, 357–366
Linkages between institutions and the following
—Public opinion and voters	pp. 130–131, 144–145, 290, 297–299, 318, 321, 327–328, 352–353, 365
—Interest groups	pp. 129–132, 138–141, 216–225, 249–251, 278, 288–289, 340–341, 350–351, 360–361, 364
—Political parties	pp. 129–130, 270–271, 355–357, 585–593
—The media	pp. 132, 366
—Subnational governments	pp. 111–113, 115–118, 132–135, 337–339, 358

V. Public Policy

Policymaking in a federal system	pp. 624, 629–632, 635, 642, 657–662, 680, 720
The formation of policy agendas	pp. 633–634, 641, 654–657, 676–679, 693, 714–719
The role of institutions in the enactment of policy	pp. 142–143, 209, 635–640, 657, 663–670, 696, 705–713, 715–716
The role of the bureaucracy and the courts in policy implementation and interpretation	pp. 124, 128, 144–145, 635, 639–640, 672–675, 709–710, 713
Linkages between policy processes and the following:
—Political institutions and federalism	pp. 97–99, 100–102, 104–105, 215–216, 221–223, 228–231, 233–234, 548–549
—Political parties	pp. 270–272, 586–593
—Interest groups	pp. 621–623, 671–672, pp 697–700, 703–704
—Public opinion	pp. 688, 700–702
—Elections	pp. 638, 649–651, 702–703
—Policy networks	pp. 621–623, 637–638, 668, 671–672, 677–679

VI. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

The development of civil liberties and civil rights by judicial interpretation	pp. 156–198, 205–207, 224–227
Knowledge of substantive rights and liberties	pp. 153–156, 167, 170, 175–176, 180–182, 184, 186, 189, 191–192, 195, 232–234
The impact of the Fourteenth Amendment on the constitutional development of rights and liberties	pp. 90, 121, 158–160, 162–163, 216, 211–240