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Standard and Short Edition:
1 American Political Culture
2 The Founding and the Constitution
3 Federalism
4 Civil Liberties
5 Civil Rights
6 Public Opinion
7 The Media
8 Political Participation and Voting
9 Political Parties
10 Campaigns and Elections
11 Groups and Interests
12 Congress
13 The Presidency
14 Bureaucracy In A Democracy
15 The Federal Courts
16 Government and Economy
17 Social Policy
18 Foreign Policy and Democracy
Texas Edition:
19 The Political Culture, People, and Economy of Texas
20 The Texas Constitution
21 Parties and Elections in Texas
22 Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Lobbyists
23 The Texas Legislature
24 The Texas Executive Branch
25 The Texas Judiciary
26 Local Government in Texas
27 Public Policy in Texas

Chapter 8: Political Participation and Voting

Study Plan

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Organize

  1. Skim the Chapter Outline to get a bird’s eye view of what you will be learning.
  2. Take the Preview Quiz to begin effectively engaging with the chapter topic.

Learn

  1. Read Chapter 8.
  2. Read the Chapter Review of Chapter 8.  Note any material you have difficulty remembering from the text.
  3. Master the key terms for this chapter by working through the deck of Flashcards.
  4. Take the Diagnostic Quiz.  Using your diagnostic results, re-read any section of the chapter where you got less than 70% of the questions correct. If you like, you can mail the results to your instructor’s Gradebook and keep track of your progress in your student Gradebook.

Connect            

  1. Explore the Interactive Politics Simulation and the questions that follow.  This sort of learning by doing exercise will help the concepts of the chapter come alive for you.
  2. Read the Policy Debate box in Chapter 8 and complete the corresponding You Decide Exercise to deepend your knowledge of the debate.
  3. By writing answers to the Questions for Discussion and Thought you will begin to articulate your own point of view on the chapter’s material.
  4. Complete the What Government Does Exercises to see how this chapter material affects your life in a direct way.
  5. Complete the Get Involved Exercise to see how you can use what you have learned in this chapter to effect change in politics.

 

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