Loose Leaf for We the People: An Introduction to American Government by Thomas Patterson

Loose Leaf for We the People: An Introduction to American Government by Thomas Patterson

Increase student performance, student engagement, and critical analysis skills with We the People. This program is available with GinA, an educational game in which students learn American Government by doing, as well as McGraw-Hill's LearnSmart, an adaptive questioning tool proven to increase content comprehension and improve student results. Try our Politics in Practice which uses real-life scenarios to develop students' critical thinking skills through activities and a written argument.

Unique to this program is a balanced, well-respected author who makes complex topics easy. Tom Patterson is a recognized voice in media who teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. We the People's strong authorship and market-leading digital products make this an ideal solution to course goals.

Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at John F. Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government He was previously a distinguished professor of political science at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship. He was educated at South Dakota State University and the University of Minnesota, where he got his Ph.D., and grew up in a small Minnesota hamlet on the Iowa and South Dakota borders. Tom is the author of six books and dozens of articles on the media and elections. He is currently the director of the Vanishing Voter research at the Kennedy School of Government, which has been widely used in the media and on college campuses.

When President Bill Clinton declared that every politician and journalist should read his book, 'Out of Order,' it gained national notice. 'The Mass Media Election,' published in 1980, won a 'Choice' award for Best Academic Book, 1980-81. Another of Patterson's works, 'The Unseeing Eye' (1976), was recently named one of the fifty most influential books in the field of public opinion by the American Society for Public Opinion Research. A study of White House communication and a study of the function of the news media in Western democracies are among his ongoing projects.

Major funding from the National Science Foundation, the Markle Foundation, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts have supported his research.

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ISBN 13	9781259439186
ISBN 10	1259439186
Title	Loose Leaf for We the People: An Introduction to American Government
Author	Thomas Patterson
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Publisher	McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Year published	2016-12-23
Number of pages	672
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