The American political arena selected readings - Fiszman, Joseph R. (Boston Little, Brown and Company, 1962)
The cultural and ideological foundations -- The American mind/ Henry Steele Commager -- America's ethnic pattern: meeting pot or nation of nations/ Nathan Glazer -- Public vs. private interest/ James Madison -- The founding fathers: an age of realism/ Richard Hofsatder -- The decline of liberalism/ Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills -- Social conflict consensus, and democracy/ Seymour Martin Lipset -- The concept of federalism -- The republican cause and the federal principle/ Publius ( James Madison) -- Decision- making in a federal system/ Edward W. Weidner -- Federalism and freedom: a critique/ Franz L. Neumann -- The political elite -- The executive branch -- The other interpreters of the general will- congress Group represenation before congress: the effect/ E. Pendleton Herring -- Who the policeman ( Congress)?/ Richard L. Neuberger A Capp -- The folkways of the United States Senate: conormity to group norms and legislative effectiveness/ Donald R. Mathews -- Organizational and constituency backgrounds of the rules commettee/ James A. Robinson -- The guardians of the law -- The supreme court and the supreme people/ Earl Latham -- Who shall be the judge: recruiting judges/ Jack W. Peltason -- Group politics and the judiciary/ David B. Truman -- Other instrumentalities of politics: parties and groups -- The experts in violence -- Communication and politics: the experts in persuasion -- The economic wheels and cogs -- The Sub-culture dwellers: minorities -- Nationality groups and social stratification in America / Carles B. Nam -- Some political aspects of immigration/ Lawrtence H. Fuchs -- Encountering the negro problem/ Gunnar Myrdal -- The psychic of segregation/ James W. Prothro and Charles U. Smith -- New York's Puerto Ricans: forma tion and future of a new community/ Nathan Glazer -- The Undifferentiated public: political non-participation -- Some determinants of political apathy/ Morris rosenberg -- The non-voter in 1952: a study of pittsfield, Maussachusetts/ Philipp K. Hasting -- for 500,000- still tobacco road: A. H. Raskin -- Why don't young men care: the political indifference of the American undergraduate/ Harold J. Laski.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: United States -- Politics and government