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11th Ed. (Complete) and 8th Ed. (Essentials) |
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To keep our book politically current, we publish new editions of the Challenge of Democracy after each biennial national election, when American government and politics change in important ways. The 11th Complete and the 8th Esssentials editions were prepared during the "tea party" assault on Democrats in the 2010 congressional election campaign . Published seven weeks after the election, they reflect results of the midterm election that produced the greatest loss of House seats for a presidential party since 1938. Instructors who use either edition can be assured that their students have access to the latest information heading into the last two years of President Obama's first, and perhaps only, term. This detailed guide is intended to ease the transition in upgrading from the 10th to the 11th Complete editions of The Challenge of Democracy. Students and instructors alike might wonder how much a new edition differs from the previous one, questioning the need to upgrade from the old to the new. We publish new editions not only to include new information about contemporary politics but to keep our book up-to-date with new scholarship. For example, the 68 pages of references in the 11th Complete edition (697 pages of text) contain 305 citations to scholarship or news sources dated 2009 and 110 citations dated 2010. Under skillful co-authorship of Kevin W. Hula, the 492 pages and 14 chapters in the Essentials edition are drawn from the 20 chapters of the Complete 11th edition and reflect the same updating. The guide identifies substantive changes in opening vignettes, features, figures, and photos. In virtually all instances, new features, figures, and photos involve changing the explanatory captions that accompany all artwork. The guide also signals important text changes between the 10th and 11th Complete editions. It excludes, however, minor but worthy updates of specific facts in each chapters--such as the number of deaths from AIDS the previous year or names of new political appointments. These often are illustrative examples that do not alter the point at hand or that reflect current political developments that the instructor is likely to know. The changes are keyed to pages in the 10th revised edition. Due to differences in pagination between the editions, the changes rarely map out to page numbers in the hardback version of the 11th edition. We hope that instructors will find this guide useful in upgrading between the 10th and 11th Complete editions and that students will appreciate the value in reading the new one. Those using the Essentials 8th edition, which excludes the policy chapters 19 and 20, will find similar updating from the previous 7th edition. Essentials 8th edition also includes test preparation and study questions for students previously found only in the discontinued Student Choice editions.
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