Description
We the People: An Introduction to American Politics (14th Essentials Edition)
Ginsberg and Lowi’s We the People has been a standard introduction to American government for three decades. The Essentials edition is the condensed version: the same organising argument about how citizens and institutions shape one another, delivered at a length a single semester can actually cover.
What the Book Covers
- Foundations — the founding, the Constitution, and federalism as a live political question rather than a settled arrangement.
- Civil liberties and civil rights — how constitutional guarantees have been contested and redefined through the courts.
- Political behaviour — public opinion, the media, political parties, campaigns, elections and interest groups.
- Institutions — Congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy and the federal judiciary, and how they check one another in practice.
- Public policy — how the system converts political pressure into policy outcomes, domestically and abroad.
Why the Essentials Edition
- Built for one semester — the full text condensed without losing the analytical spine.
- Cheaper and lighter than the comprehensive edition, which matters for a required first-year text.
- Widely adopted, so used copies and study support are easy to find.
Who It Is For
- Undergraduates taking introductory American government or POLS 101.
- AP Government students wanting a college-level treatment.
- Anyone preparing for citizenship study, civics teaching or general political literacy.
Book Details
- Title: We the People: An Introduction to American Politics
- Authors: Benjamin Ginsberg and Theodore J. Lowi
- Edition: Fourteenth Essentials Edition
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Format: Paperback, 688 pages
- ISBN-13: 978-0393887846
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