This popular mainstream, comprehensive text by renowned scholar, Tom Patterson, is driven by four goals: to draw students in, to help them think critically, to promote citizenship, and to capture the vivid world of real-life politics. Now packaged with PowerWeb, a dynamic course-specific rather than book-specific supplement that engages your students in three levels of resource materials and provides a true avenue to extending learning about a subject, The American Democracy is a necessity in any American Government course.