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The US Congress Advanced Topic Master

Anthony J. Bennett, Eric Magee (Editor)


Paperback
£12.99

ISBN: 9781844894444
Published: 31/08/2007
Extent: 109 pages
Illustrations: Full colour illustrations and photos


 
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Summary:
Written by experienced teachers, authors and examiners, Advanced TopicMasters take students beyond the basic textbooks. Each title explores the key questions and debates surrounding the topic, helping students to identify, analyse, interpret and evaluatie the material presented. These skills are developed through a series of short, source-based tasks that appear in each chapter and are accompanied by guidance notes on how to tackle the questions.


  • Will help students to: master key topics in UK and US government and politics and political ideologies

  • Will help students to: make best use of up-to-date analysis and data

  • Will help students to: improve coursework and exam preparation through specially tailored exercises


Table of Contents:
How representative is congress?
Why is it so hard to pass legislation through congress?
Why are congressional committees so important?
Why has congress become so partisan?
Better to be a Senator than a House member?
What's wrong with congress?


About the Author(s):
Anthony J. Bennett, an experienced teacher and examiner, has been writing on American politics for over 20 yeras. His other publications include the highly successful A2 US Government & Politics (3rd edition) textbook, the US Government & Politics Annual Survey and the AS US Government & Politics Exam Revision Note, all published by Philip Allan Updates.


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