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How Your Government Really Works
A Topical Encyclopedia of the Federal Government
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- Contents
- Alphabetical List of Entries
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- + 1. How the United States Government Began
- + 2. Structure of the United States Government Today
- + 3. Federal Government Employees
- + 4. Federal Elections
- + 5. The Legislative Process
- + 6. The Executive Process
- + 7. The Judicial Process
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8. United States Foreign Policy
- The President’s Foreign Policy Agenda
- Evolution of Foreign Policy During the Twentieth Century
- Foreign Assistance
- U.S. Humanitarian Assistance
- Allies, Enemies, and Treaties
- Trade Agreements
- U.S. Ambassadors
- U.S. Membership in NATO and the United Nations
- The Group of Eight (G8)
- The United States as the World Police
- Military Tribunals
- Immigration
- + 9. United States Domestic Policy
- + 10. The United States Federal Budget
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Appendixes
- Appendix A: Timeline of U.S. Federal Government History
- Appendix B: Glossary
- Appendix C: How to Read Legal and Statutory Citations
- Appendix D: List of Relevant Web Sites
- Appendix E: The Declaration of Independence
- Appendix F: The Constitution of the United States
- Appendix G: The Presidents of the United States of America
- Appendix H: Organizational Chart of the United States Senate for the 110th Congress
- Appendix I: Independent Agencies, Commissions, Boards, and Government Corporations
- Appendix J: Patriotic and Charitable Nonprofit Organizations
- Appendix K: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justices and Associate Justices Since 1900
- Appendix L: Member States of the United Nations
- Appendix M: Members of the World Trade Organization
- Appendix N: United States Embassies
- Bibliography
- + Index
The U.S. government is an ever-more-complex system that few American citizens comprehend in any detail. Even some of its most basic operations, seemingly clear in concept, are in reality intricate and obscure. Although textbooks explain how the government is supposed to work in theory, they don't reveal how it actually works in practice. This book offers a concise and objective explanation of government operations, mapping the federal government's branches, departments, agencies, corporations, and quasi-official bodies—and the bureaucracies that support them. The authors effectively bridge the gap between the government's ideal, balanced structure, laid out in the Constitution, and its actual institutionalized form today, making this a superb resource for students and citizens at large.||Coverage of the government's inner workings includes such subjects as executive-branch appointments, domestic and foreign policy development and execution, the federal budget, the legislative process, the Congressional committee system, the drawing of Congressional districts, the levels of the federal judiciary, aides in all three branches, and the various government offices and oversight agencies.||
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Political Science > Government > National
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Publication year : 2009
License: All rights reserved ©
Times read: 9
