Government and Politics of the United States

Nigel Bowles is Director of the Rothermere American Institute, and Professorial Fellow, at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK.Robert McMahon is the Head of the Politics Department at Radley College, Abingdon, UK.

• 1. Introduction2. Beliefs and Values in American Society3. The Constitution Creating the Rules of the Game4. Political Parties The Politics of Aggregation and Disaggregation5. Elections and the Politics of Participation6. The Presidency and the Politics of Leadership7. Congress and the Politics of Legislative Competition8. The Supreme Court and the Politics of Adjudication9. Interest Groups10. Bureaucracy- The Fourth Branch of Government11. Federalism and Intergovernmental Policy-Making12. Economic and Domestic Policy13. Foreign and Defence Policy14. ConclusionAppendix 1: The Constitution of the United StatesFurther ReadingBibliography.