American Politics Today - Essentials (3rd Ed)

THE POLICY-MAKING PROCESS AND CIVIL RIGHTS| 411 In the fi rst endorsement of civil rights for gay men and lesbians, the Court s ...

412 CHAPTER 13|CIVIL RIGHTS Among other amendments to civil rights laws, most important were the 1975 amendments to the VRA th ...

THE POLICY-MAKING PROCESS AND CIVIL RIGHTS| 413 stadiums, and many other changes that provide the disabled an equal opportunity ...

a federally protected activity, such as attending school, for it to be a federal hate crime. In signing the bill, President Obam ...

CONTINUING AND FUTURE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES| 415 made serious overtures to minorities, especially Latinos, in his eff ort to expa ...

416 CHAPTER 13|CIVIL RIGHTS Affi rmative action has been a controversial policy. Many whites view it as “preferential treatmen ...

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN If you were serving on the Supreme Court, how would you have decided the Univer ...

418 CHAPTER 13|CIVIL RIGHTS Decisions to establish English as the offi cial language in many states have had wide-reaching con ...

CONCLUSION| 419 law, saying that the Supreme Court wanted to see actual evidence of discrimina- tion rather than speculation th ...

|CIVIL RIGHTS THE CONTEXT OF CIVIL RIGHTS E Describe the historical struggles groups have faced in winning civil rights. Pages ...

STUDY GUIDE|^421 SUMMARY Beyond the unequal treatment of racial minorities, women, and gays and lesbians, inequalities on polit ...

422 CHAPTER 13|CIVIL RIGHTS The diff erence between de facto segregation and de jure segregation is that de facto ____; while ...

STUDY GUIDE|^423 Canon, David T. Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black-Majority Distric ...

Economic and Social Policy 424 14 ...

425 P RESIDENT OBAMA SIGNALED EARLY IN THE 2012 presidential campaign that tax policy and income inequality would be important t ...

426 CHAPTER 14|ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICY for a “millionaire’s tax” that would set a minimum rate of 30 percent for incomes th ...

MAKING PUBLIC POLICY| 427 Making Public Policy Public policy is a course of action pursued by government to address a specifi c ...

428 CHAPTER 14|ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICY intervention until the twentieth century. What causes a society to change its assump ...

1ST MONDAY IN FEB. The president submits budget to Congress. FEB. 15TH CBO issues budget and economic outlook report. WITHIN SIX ...

430 CHAPTER 14|ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICY such as how well the DMV serves disadvantaged populations or people for whom English ...