The Logic of American Politics
by Samuel H. Kernell, Gary C. Jacobson, Thad Kousser, Lynn Vavreck · Samuel Kernell et al.
Undergraduate textbook that explains American political institutions through collective-action problems, transaction costs, and institutional design. Readers finish able to analyze why Congress, the presidency, and the bureaucracy behave as they do rather than only describing their formal powers.
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