We the People: An Introduction to American Politics, Texas Edition
Author: Benjamin Ginsberg
Emphasizing the relevance of politics and government in everyday life, We the People provides tools to help students think critically about American government and politics. The Sixth Edition has been carefully updated to reflect most recent developments, including the ongoing conflict in Iraq and the 2006 midterm elections. Complemented by a rich package of multimedia tools for instructors and students, including a new video-clip DVD, We the People is now more pedagogically effective than ever.
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Lawyers of the Right: Professionalizing the Conservative Coalition
Author: Ann Southworth
A timely and multifaceted portrait of the lawyers who serve the diverse constituencies of the conservative movement, Lawyers of the Right explains what unites and divides lawyers for the three major groups—social conservatives, libertarians, and business advocates—that have coalesced in recent decades behind the Republican Party.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than seventy lawyers who represent conservative and libertarian nonprofit organizations, Ann Southworth explores their values and identities and traces the implications of their shared interest in promoting political strategies that give lawyers leading roles. She goes on to illuminate the function of mediator organizations—such as the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy—that have succeeded in promoting cooperation among different factions of conservative lawyers. Such cooperation, she finds, has aided efforts to drive law and the legal profession politically rightward and to give lawyers greater prominence in the conservative movement. Southworth concludes, though, that tensions between the conservative law movement’s elite and populist elements may ultimately lead to its undoing.
Table of Contents:
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction 1
2 The Creation of an Infrastructure for Conservative Legal Advocacy 8
3 Divided Constituencies and Their Lawyers 41
4 Professional Identity 66
5 How Much Common Ground? 89
6 Mediator Organizations: The Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society 124
7 What's Law Got to Do with It? 149
8 Conclusion 168
Appendix Research Methods 189
Notes 193
References 213
Index 241
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