Connect American Government with LearnSmart 1 Semester Access Card for Government Matters

Product Description Connect American Government is a new web-based assignment and assessment platform that features a number of powerful tools that make managing assignments easier for instructors and learning and studying more engaging and efficient for students. An adaptive learning system helps students to better focus their studying by guiding them through the relevant material. A rich database of assignable and assessable activities, each attached to a learning objective, address a wide variety of student and instructor needs. Instructors can deliver assignments and tests easily online, and students can practice skills that fulfill learning objectives at their own pace and on their own schedule. New to Connect American Government is Politics in Practice, an interactive activity which develop analysis skills through the examination of maps, primary sources and the completion of a written argument. About the Author W. PHILLIPS SHIVELY is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, where he moved in 1971 after teaching at the University of Oregon and Yale University. He has also served as Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo in Norway. His research, which has appeared in numerous articles, deals with the comparative study of elections, and he has written"The Craft of Political Research", an introduction to research techniques. He has also had practical political experience as a lobbyist in Minnesota. His true love is bird-watching.