American Politics Today - Essentials (3rd Ed)

STUDY GUIDE|^21

8. Which issue is commonly associated with the culture
   wars?
   a) the national debt
   b) environmental regulation
   c) affi rmative action
   d) the tax code
   e) gay marriage

S PRACTICE ONLINE

“Critical Thinking ” exercise: Polling Report Data on

Congressional Job Approval Ratings

SUGGESTED READING

Dahl, Robert. On Democracy. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 1998.
Fiorina, Morris P., with Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope.
Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, 2nd ed.
New York: Pearson, Longman, 2006.

Gutman, Amy. Identity in Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton

University Press, 2003.

Schattschneider, E. E. The Semi-Sovereign People: A Realist’s

View of Democracy in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and

Winston, 1960.