Valelly, Richard M. <br/><br/>
American politics :  a very short introduction / 
Richard M. Valelly. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  2013. 
 - xv, 136 p. :  ill. ;  18 cm. 
 - (Very  short introductions) .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliogr. references (p. 113-126) and index. 
<br/><br/>Elements of American democracy -- The presidency -- Congress and its bicameralism -- The legislative-executive process -- The Supreme Court -- Bureaucracy -- Public opinion and its influence -- Political parties and democratic choice -- The partisan revival -- Politics in the new gilded age. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195373851   
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government.