American Government—Using MicroCase ExplorIt

Designed to supplement core American Government textbooks AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: USING MICROCASE EXPLORIT provides students with award-winning software to analyze and critically evaluate real data. This workbook includes a Windows version of MicroCase ExplorIt, a user-friendly program that makes it easy for students to manipulate and learn from real data without getting bogged down in complicated statistical software. Each exercise introduces an issue related to a major topic in American Government, directs students to pertinent information in the data sets, and then asks a series of questions designed to help students thoroughly consider the subject at hand. Issues include: "Who participates in politics?", Who is more likely to vote?", and "Who is elected to Congress and where do they get their money?" The workbook is designed to increase the student comfort level in working with statistical data, to help them think critically and analytically about key issues in American politics today, and to inspire an abiding interest in the practice of political science.