P.S. 6100 Survey in American Politics

Dr. Audrey Haynes

Fall 2000 - Mondays 3:35 to 6:35 - Sanford 204

542-2933

polaah@arches.uga.edu

Purpose

This seminar is designed to introduce you to the evolution and current state of the scholarly study of American politics. While it is impossible to give all of the important literature, debates, approaches and sub-fields the emphasis that they deserve, this course will focus on what are considered the foundational works and continuing debates in the field and attempt to provide you with a refined base of readings that may be built upon as you develop areas of interest and expertise. Additional readings are listed to guide your readings beyond the requirements of the seminar.

Below is an outline of seminar topics. Each week, one of you will serve as discussion leader. The responsibilities of that role will be discussed at length during our first meeting.

Week		Topic	Discussion Leader
1 Aug 21	Introduction: The Discipline		Haynes
2 Aug 28	Theory/History The American Constitution and the Founding		Chris Jackson
3 Sep 11	Federalism		Karen Gunter
4 Sep 11	Theory: Paradigms of Political Science		Dan Minnich
5 Sep 18	Institutions Congress		George Lichter
6 Sep 25	The Presidency/Bureaucracy		Julie Cardwell
7 Oct 2	Divided Government/Conflict and Cooperation		Jason Seitz
8 Oct 9	Supreme Court		John Nah
9 Oct 16	Political Parties		Jason Seitz
10 Oct 23	Interest Groups		Dan Minnich
11 Oct 30	Political Behavior Political Psychology/Public Opinion		Julie Cardwell
12 Nov 6	Political Socialization/Media Effects		George Lichter
13 Nov13	Voting		John Nah
14 Nov20	Participation/Social Movements		Karen Gunter
15 Nov 27	Candidate Behavior		Chris Jackson
16 Dec 4	Overview and Discussion		Haynes
Click Here to Email the Class and Professor Scroll below and you can also read the critical responses of students to the works read.

Books Available at the Bookstore:

V. Ostrom, The Meaning of American Federalism: Constituting a Self-Governing Society Institute for Contemporary Studies (Reprint Edition, 1994- paperback).

Rosenstone and Hansen: 1993. Mobilization, Participation, and Democracy in America. MacMillan Press.

T. Cook (1998) Governing the News: The News Media as a Political Institution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

C. Jones (1994) The Presidency in a Separated System. Washington, DC: Brookings.

M. Fiorina (1992/96) Divided Government. (2nd Ed.) Boston: Addison-Wesley.

E. Gerber (1999) The Populist Paradox: Interest Group Influence and the Promise of Direct Legislation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Books are available at the U.G.A. Bookstore. Obtaining articles and book chapters will be discussed the first day of class.

Grades will be based on your performance on three written assignments (25% of your final grade each) (detailed at the end of this syllabus) and your performance as discussion leaders and participants (weekly comments by email) (25 % of your final grade).

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Readings

Week 1 The Discipline

Recquired: M. Holden Jr. (2000)The Competence of Political Science: “Progress in Political Research Revisited.” APSR 94: 1-20.

Foundations of our Government and American Political Theory

Week 2 Theory/History

Required: The Constitution

Required: Federalist No. 10; 47-51

Required: R. Hardin (1989) “Why a Constitution?” ;Cain and Jones (1989) “Madison’s Theory of Representation”; and Chappell and Keech (1989) “Electoral Institutions in the Federalist Papers: A Contemporary Perspective” in Grofman and Wittman, eds. The Federalist Papers and the New Institutionalism . Agathon Press.

Web sources: Rousseau’s the Social Contract

Additional Bibliography

A.de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Edward S. Corwin (1936)The Constitution as Instrument and as Symbol

APSR, 30: 1071-1085.

H. Chase and C. Ducake (1920/1978) Erwin Corwin’s The Constitution and What It Means Today. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

C. Beard (1929) An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New York: MacMillan.

R. Dahl (1956) A Preface to Democratic Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

C. Jillson (1981) "Constitution-making: Alignment and Realignment in the Federal Convention of 1787." APSR. 75: 598-612.

C.Jillson & C. Eubanks (1984) "The Political Structure of Constitution-Making." AJPS. 28: 435-458.

J. Sundquist (1986) Constitutional Reform and Effective Government. Washington, DC: Brookings.

J. Wilson (1990) "Interests and Deliberation in the American Republic" PS. December 558-562.

M. Ethridge (1991) "Minority Power and Madisonianism." AJPS. 35: 335-356.

Samuel Freeman (1992) Original Meaning, Democratic Interpretation, and the Constitution, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 21: 3-42

W. Riker (1996) The Strategy of Rhetoric. New Haven,. CT: Yale University Press.

R. M. Smith (1997) Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in US History. New Haven: Yale University Press.

B. Weingast (1997) "The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of Law." APSR 91: 245-263.

Week 3 Theory/History

Required: V. Ostrom, The Meaning of American Federalism: Constituting a Self-Governing Society (Reprint Edition, 1994- paperback).

Student Comments: Jason Seitz Chris Jackson Dan Minnich (good example of a strong “comment”) John Nah Julie Cardwell George Lichter

Additional Bibliography:

D. Wright (1978) Understanding Intergovernmental Relations. North Scituate, MA: Duxbury.

S. Welch and K. Thompson (1980) "The Impact of Federal Incentives on State Policy Innovation." AJPS. 24: 715-729.

D. Walker (1981) Toward a Functioning Federalism. Cambridge: Winthrop. (Ch. 3 & 4)

J. Chubb (1985) "Federalism and the Bias for Centralization." in J. Chubb and P. Peterson (eds.) New Directions in American Politics.

J. Chubb (1985) "The Political Economy of Federalism." APSR. 79: 994-1015.

P. Peterson, B. Rabe, and K. Wong (1986) When Federalism Works. Washington, DC: Brookings.

T. Anton (1989) American Federalism and Public Policy: How the System Works. New York: Random House.

M. Rich (1989) "Distributive Politics and the Allocation of Federal Grants." APSR. 83: 193-213.

T. Dye (1990) American Federalism: Competition Among Governments. Lexington: Lexington Books.

A. Rivlin (1992) "A New Vision of American Federalism." PAR. 52: 315-320.

J. Lee and J. Shannon (1992) "The Crisis and Anti-Crisis Dynamic: Rebuilding the American Federal System." PAR. 52: 321-329.

M. Berkman (1993) The State Roots of National Politics: Congress and the Tax Agenda, 1978-1986. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

P. Peterson (1995) The Price of Federalism. Washington, DC: Brookings.

Week 4 Paradigms in Political Science

Required: S. Huntington (1974) Pardigms in American Politics: Between the One, the Two and the Many. PSQ 89: 1-26 (Available through J-Stor)

Required: D. Arnold (1982) Overtilled and Undertilled Fields in American Politics. PSQ 97: 91-103 (Available through J-Stor)

Required: Systems Theory: D. Easton (1975) "A Re-examination of the Concept of Political Support" BJPS. 5: 435-457.

Required: Rational Choice J. Aldrich (1993) "Rational Choice Theory and the Study of American Politics" in L. Dodd and C. Jillson (eds.) The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations. Boulder: Westview Press, 208-233.

Required: Pluralism/Interest Group Liberalism: J. Manley (1983) "Neo-Pluralism: A Class Analysis of Pluralism I and Pluralism II." APSR. 77: 368-389 (including comments by C. Lindblom and R. Dahl). (Available through J-Stor)

Required: American Exceptionalism: S. Steinmo (1993) "American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: Culture vs. Institutions" in L. Dodd & C. Jillson (eds.) The Dynamics of American Politics.

Required: Political Culture: A. Wildavsky (1987) "Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: A Cultural Theory of Preference Formation." APSR. 81: 3-21. (plus comments by Laitin and reply by Wildavsky APSR. 82: 589-597.) (Available through J-Stor)

Required: Institutions and the State: J. March and J. Olson (1984) "The New Institutionalism and Organized Factors in American Life." APSR. 78: 734-749. (Available through J-Stor)

Student Comments: Jason Seitz Chris Jackson Dan Minnich John Nah Julie Cardwell Karen Gunter George Lichter

Systems Theory

D. Easton (1965) A Framework for Political Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

D. Easton (1965) A Systems Analysis of Political Life. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Rational Choice

A. Downs (1957) An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row. (Chapters 1-4,7,8,14)

W. Riker (1982) Liberalism Against Populism. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. (Chapters 1, 2 & 4)

J. Enelow and M. Hinich (1984) The Spatial Theory of Voting. New York: Cambridge University Press.

K. Shepsle (1989) "Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach" Journal of Theoretical Politics. 1: 131-147.

D. Green and I. Shapiro (1994) Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory. New Haven: Yale University Press. (plus Critical Review. Volume 9, #1-2 "Special Issue".)

D. Wittman (1995) The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions are Efficient. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Pluralism/Interest Group Liberalism

D. Truman (1951/1971) The Governmental Process. New York: Alfred Knopf. (Chapters 1-3, 16)

R. Dahl (1961) Who Governs? New Haven: Yale University Press.

P. Bacharach (1967) A Theory of Democratic Elitism. Boston: Little, Brown.

J. Walker (1966) "A Critique of The Elitist Theory of Democracy." APSR. 60: 285-295.

R. Dahl (1966) "Further Reflections on "The Elitist Theory of Democracy." .APSR. 60: 296-305.

T. Lowi (1967) "The Public Philosophy: Interest Group Liberalism." APSR. 61: 5-24.

R. Dahl (1982) Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press.

P. McClain and J. Garcia (1993) "Expanding Disciplinary Boundaries: Black, Latino and Racial Minority Group Politics in Political Science." in A. Finifter (ed.) Political Science: The State of the Discipline II. Washington DC: APSA. 247-279.

C. Stone (1993) "Group Politics Re-examined: From Pluralism to Political Economy" in L. Dodd and C. Jillson (eds.) The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations. Boulder: Westview Press, 277-296.

American Exceptionalism

L. Hartz (1952) "American Political Thought and the American Revolution." APSR. 46: 321-342.

L. Hartz (1955) The Liberal Tradition in America. New York: Harcourt, Brace. (Chapter 1)

D. Bell (1975) "The End of American Exceptionalism." The Public Interest. 41: 193-224.

S. Huntington (1982) "American Ideals versus American Institutions." PSQ. 97: 1-37.

R. Rose (1989) "How Exceptional is the American Political Economy?" PSQ. 104: 91-115.

D. Bell (1989) "American Exceptionalism Revisited: The Role of a Civil Society." The Public Interest. 95: 38-56.

S. Lipset (1996) American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword. New York; W. W. Norton.

Political Culture

S. Stouffer (1955) Communism, Conformity and Civil Liberties. New York: Doubleday.

G. Almond & S. Verba (1963/65) The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Boston: Little, Brown. (Chapters 1 & 3)

D. Elazar (1966/72) American Federalism: A View From the States. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. (Chapters 4 & 5)

D. Devine (1972) The Political Culture of the United States. Boston: Little, Brown.

J. Hochschild (1981) What's Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

H. McCloskey and J. Zaller (1984) The American Ethos. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

S. Verba and G. Orren (1985) Equality in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Chaps. 1 & 2).

R. Inglehart (1988) "The Renaissance of Political Culture." APSR. 82: 1203-1230.

A. Wildavsky (1989) "A World of Difference - The Political Philosophies and Political Behaviors of Rival American Cultures." in A. King (ed.) The New American Political System. (2nd Edition.) Washington DC: AEI Press, 263-286.

E. J. Dionne, jr. (1991) Why Americans Hate Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster.

R. Ellis (1993) American Political Cultures. New York: Oxford University Press.

J. Lieske (1993) "Regional Subcultures of the United States." JOP 55: 888-913.

J. Granato, R. Inglehart and D. Leblang (1996) "The Effect of Cultural Values on Economic Development: Theory, Hypotheses and Some Empirical Tests." (plus comments by R. Jackman, R. Miller, D. Swank, response by authors

and rejoinder) AJPS. 40: 607-716

G. Gendzel (1997) "Political Culture: Geneology of a Concept." Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 28: 225-250.

Institutions and the State

C. Lindblom (1977) Politics and Markets. New York: Basic Books.

M. Carnoy (1984) The State and Political Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

E. Greenberg (1985) Capitalism and the American Political Ideal. (Chapters 2 & 3)

P. Evans (1985) Bringing the State Back In. New York: Cambridge University Press.

R. Alford and R. Friedland (1985) Powers of Theory. New York: Cambridge University Press.

G. Almond (1988) "The Return to the State." APSR. 82: 853-874. plus comments by Nordlinger, Lowi and Fabbrinni 875-901.

G. Esping-Andersen (1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

T. Mitchell (1991) "The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics." APSR. 85: 77-96. (and comments APSR. 86: 1007-1021.)

T. Skocpol (1993) "The Origins of Social Policy in the United States: A Polity-Centered Analysis" in L. Dodd and C. Jillson (eds.) The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations. Boulder: Westview Press, 182-206.

Nature of American Democracy/Critics of the American Political System

T. Lowi (1969) The End of Liberalism. New York: W.W. Norton.

R. Hanson (1985) The Democratic Imagination in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

R. Dahl (1990) Democracy and Its Critics. New Haven: Yale University Press.

B. Jones (1994) Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

D. Kinder and L. Sanders (1996) Divided by Color. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

P. Sniderman and E. Carmines (1997) Reaching Beyond Race. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

M. Gilens (1999) Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Institutions

Week 5 Congress

Required: M. McCubbins and T. Schwartz (1984) "Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols or Fire Alarms." AJPS 28: 165-179. (Available through J-Stor)

Required: L. Dodd (1986) "A Theory of Congressional Cycles: Solving the Puzzle of Change." in Wright et al. (eds.) Congress and Policy Change. NY: Agathon Press, pp: 3-44.

Required: D. Arnold (1990) The Logic of Congressional Action. New Haven: Yale University Press. (Chapters 1, 7, 10)

Required: M. Mezey (1993) "Legislatures: Individual Purpose and Institutional Performance." in A. Finifter (ed.) Political Science: The State of the Discipline II. Washington DC: APSA. 335-364.

Required: K. Shepsle and B. Weingast (1994) "Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions." Legislative Studies Quarterly. 19: 149-179.

Student comments on required readings: Julie Cardwell George Lichter Jason Seitz John Nah Karen Gunter Dan Minnich Chris Jackson

Additional Bibliography

D. Matthews (1960) U.S. Senators and Their World. New York: Vintage.

W. Miller and D. Stokes (1963) "Constituency Influence in Congress." APSR. 57: 45-56.

N. Polsby (1968) "The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives." APSR. 62: 144-168.

R. Fenno (1973) Congressman in Committees. Boston: Little, Brown.

J. Kingdon (1973/89) Congressmen's Voting Decisions. (3rd Ed.) New York: Harper & Row.

D. Mayhew (1974) Congress: The Electoral Connection. New Haven: Yale University Press.

R. Fenno (1978) Home Style. Boston: Little, Brown.

M. Fiorina (1977/1989) Congress: Keystone to the Washington Establishment. New Haven: Yale University Press.

J. Sundquist (1981) The Decline and Resurgence of Congress. Washington, DC: Brookings. (Ch. 1,7,13-16)

J. Cooper and D. Brady (1981) "Institutional Context and Leadership Style: The House from Cannon to Rayburn." APSR. 75: 411-425.

S. Smith and C. Deering (1984/1990) Committees in Congress. (2nd ed.) Washington DC: CQ Press.

M. McCubbins and T. Page (1987) "A Theory of Congressional Delegation." in M. McCubbins and T. Sullivan (eds.) Congress: Structure and Process. NY: Cambridge University Press. 409-425.

D. Brady (1988) Critical Elections and Congressional Policy Making. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.

B. Sinclair (1989) The Transformation of the U.S. Senate. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

D. Rohde (1991) Parties and Leaders in the Post-Reform House. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

K. Krehbiel (1991) Information and Legislative Organization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

D. R. Kiewiet and M. McCubbins (1991) The Logic of Delegation: Congressional Parties and the Appropriation Process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

G. Jacobson (1992) The Politics of Congressional Elections. (3rd edition) NY: Harper Colllins.

S. Anasolabehere, D. Bray & M. Fiorina (1992) "The Vanishing Marginal and Electoral Responsiveness." BJPS. 22: 21-38.

G. Cox and M. McCubbins (1993) Legislative Leviathan. Berkeley: University of California Press.

L. Dodd (1993) "Congress and the Politics of Renewal: Redressing the Crisis of Legitimation." in L. Dodd & B. Oppenheimer (eds.) Congress Reconsidered. (5th edition) Washington, DC: CQ Press.

B. Sinclair (1995) Legislators, Leaders and Lawmaking. Baltimore; Johns Hopkins.

P. Herrnson (1995) Congressional Elections. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

R. Stein and K. Bickers (1995) Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.

J. Hibbing and E. Theiss-Morse (1995) Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes Toward American Political Institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

R. Hall (1996) Participation in Congress. New Haven,. CT: Yale University Press.

S. Adler and J. Lipinski (1997) "Demand Side Theory and Congressional Committee Composition: A Constituency Characteristics Approach." AJPS.

N. Ornstein, R. Peabody and D. Rohde (1997) "The US Senate: Toward the 21st Century." in L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer (eds.) Congress Reconsidered (6th Ed.), 1-28.

L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer (1997) "Revolution in the House: Testing the Limits of Party Government." in L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer (eds.) Congress Reconsidered (6th Ed.) 29-60.

Week 6

Required R. Neustadt (1960/1991) Presidential Power and the Modern Presidency: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan. New York: The Free Press. Chapters 1-3

Required: C. Jones (1994) The Presidency in a Separated System. Washington, DC: Brookings. (Chapters 1-5)

Required: Hager and Sullivan (1994) President-centered and Presidency centered Explanations of Presidential Public Activity. AJPS 38: 1079-1103.

Student Comments: Lichter Gunter Nah Jackson Minnich Seitz Cardwell

Additional Bibliography

P. Sperlich (1975) "Bargaining and Overload:..." in A. Wildavsky (ed.) Perspectives on the Presidency. Boston: Little, Brown, 406-430. (Comment on Neustadt)

J. Barber (1972/1992) The Presidential Character (4th edition). Englewood Cliffs. NJ: Prentice Hall. (Chapters 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 14, 15)

J. Qualls (1977) "Barber's Typological Analysis of Political Leaders." APSR. 71: 182-211. (and Barber's response: "Nonsensical Analysis of Nonexistent Works." APSR. 71: 212-225.)

S. Skowronek (1984) "Presidential Leadership in Political Time" in Nelson (ed.) The Presidency and the Political System.

S. Kernell (1986) Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly.

D. Rivers and N. Rose (1985) "Passing the President's Program: Public Opinion and Presidential Influence in Congress." AJPS. 29: 183-196.

G. Edwards and S. Wayne (1990) Presidential Leadership. New York: St. Martin's Press.

T. Sullivan (1990) "Bargaining with the President: A Simple Game and Some Evidence." APSR. 84: 1167-1196.

R. Rose (1991) The Postmodern Presidency (2nd Edition). Chatham: Chatham House.

D. Gleiber and S. Shull (1992) "Presidential Influence in the Policymaking Process." WPQ. 45: 441-467.

S. Skoronek (1992) "Franklin Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency." SAPD. 6: 322-358.

S. Skoronek (1993) The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Chapters 1-3, 8)

C. Campbell (1993) "Political Executives and Their Officials." in A. Finifter (ed.) Political Science: The State of the Discipline II. Washington DC: APSA. 383-406.

P. Light (1993) "Presidential Policy Making" in George Edwards et al. (eds.) Researching the Presidency: Vital Questions, New Approaches. 161-199.

B. Woodward (1994) The Agenda: Inside the Clinton Whitehouse. New York: Simon & Schuster.

C. Jones (1994) The Presidency in a Separated System. Washington, DC: Brookings. (Chapters 1-5)

S. Renshon (1996) The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates. Albany: NYU Press.

J. Cohen (1997) Presidential Responsiveness and Public Policy Making: The Publics and the Policies that Presidents Choose. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

T. Cronin & M. Genovese (1998) The Paradoxes of the American Presidency. New York: Oxford University Press.

Week 7 Divided Government

Required: C. Jones (1994) The Presidency in a Separated System. Washington, DC: Brookings. (Chapters 6-7)

Required: M. Fiorina (1992/96) Divided Government. (2nd Ed.) Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Student Comments: Lichter Gunter Nah Jackson Minnich Seitz Cardwell

Additional Bibliography

V. O. Key (1956) American State Politics. New York: Alfred Knopf. (Chapter 7)

A. Cowart (1973) "Electoral Choice in the American States: Incumbency Effects, Partisan Forces, and Divergent Partisan Majorities." APSR. 67: 835-853.

J. Sundquist (1988) "Needed: A Political Theory for a New Era of Coalition Government in the United States." PSQ. 103: 613-635.

G. Cox and S. Kernell (1991) The Politics of Divided Government. Boulder: Westview Press.

G. Jacobson (1990) The Electoral Origins of Divided Government. Boulder: Westview Press.

D. Mayhew (1991) Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking and Investigations, 1946-1990. New Haven: Yale University Press.

R. Born (1994) "Split Ticket Voters, Divided Government and Fiorina's Policy-Balancing Model." (plus rejoinder and response) LSQ. 19: 95-129.

M. Shugart (1995) "The Electoral Cycle and Institutional Sources of Divided Presidential Government." APSR. 89: 327-343.

A. Alesina and H. Rosenthal (1995) Partisan Politics, Divided Government and the Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press.

D. Epstein and S. O'Halloran (1996) "Divided Government and the Design of Administrative Procedures: A Formal Model and Empirical Test." JOP. 58: 373-397.

K. Krehbiel (1996) "Institutional and Partisan Sources of Gridlock: A Theory of Divided and Unified Government." Journal of Theoretical Politics. 8: 7-40.

Week 8 Supreme Court

Required: R. Dahl (1957) Decision Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy-maker." Journal of Public Law. 6: 279-295.

Required: B. Canon (1992) "The Supreme Court as Cheerleader in Politico-Moral Disputes." JOP 54: 637-653. (Available through J-Stor)

Required: J. Gibson, G. Caldeira, and V. Baird (1998) "On the Legitimacy of National High Courts." APSR 92: 343-358.

Student Comments: Lichter Gunter Nah Jackson Minnich Seitz Cardwell

Additional Bibliography

W. Murphy (1964) Elements of Judicial Strategy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

G. Schubert (1965) The Judicial Mind. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

R. Berger (1977) Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the 14th Amendment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

H. Spaeth (1979) Supreme Court Policy Making: Explanation and Prediction. San Francisco: Freeman.

J. Choper (1980) Judicial Review and the National Political Process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

D. O'Brien (1986) Storm Center. (2nd edition) New York: W.W. Norton.

T. Marshall (1987) "The Supreme Court as Opinion Leader." APQ. 15: 147-168.

K. Hall (1988) The Magic Mirror: Law in American History. New York: Oxford University Press.

G. Caldiera & J. Wright (1988) "Organized Interests and Agenda Setting in the U.S. Supreme Court." APSR 82: 1109-1127.

C. Franklin and L. Kosaki (1989) "The Republican Schoolmaster: The Supreme Court, Public Opinion and Abortion." APSR. 83: 751-772.

R. Bork (1990) The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law. New York: Simon & Schuster.

G. Rosenberg (1991) The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

H. Perry (1991) Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the U.S. Supreme Court. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

L. Baum (1991) "Membership Change and Collective Voting Change in the US Supreme Court." JOP. 3-24.

L. Epstein & J. Kobylka (1992) The Supreme Court and Legal Change. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

J. Gates (1992) The Supreme Court and Partisan Realignment. Boulder: Westview Press.

T. George and L. Epstein (1992) "On the Nature of Supreme Court Decision Making." APSR. 86: 323-337.

R. Hodder-Williams (1992) "Six Notions of 'Political' and the US Supreme Court." BJPS. 22: 1-20.

J. Segal and H. Spaeth (1993) The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model. New York: Cambridge.

W. Mischler & R. Songer (1993) "The Supreme Court as Countermajoritarian Institution? The Impact of Public Opinion on Supreme Court Decisions." APSR. 87: 87-101.

R. Davis (1994) Decisions and Images: The Supreme Court and the Press. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.

S. Brenner and H. Spaeth (1995) Stare Indecisis: The Alteration of Precedent on the Supreme Court, 1946-1992.New York: Cambridge University Press.

H. Jacob et al. (1996) Courts, Law and Politics in Comparative Perspective. New Haven: Yale University Press.

S. Gerber and K. Park (1997) "The Quixotic Search for Consensus on the US Supreme Court: A Cross-Judicial Empirical Analysis of the Rehnquist Court Justices." APSR 91: 390-408.

C. Shipan (1997) Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress and Communications Policy. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.

L. Epstein and J. Knight (1998) The Choices Justices Make. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

T. Johnson and A. Martin (1998) "The Public's Conditional Response to Supreme Court Decisions." APSR 92: 299-310.

P. Walhbeck, J. Spriggs II, and F. Maltzman (1998) "Marshalling the Court: Bargaining and Accomodation on the US Supreme Court." AJPS 42: 294-315

S. Wood, et al. (1998) "Acclimating Effects for Supreme Court Justices: A Cross-Validation, 1888-1940." AJPS 42: 690-697.

C. Epp (1998) The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective.Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

H. Spaeth and J. Segal (1999) Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedence on the US Supreme Court. NY: Cambridge University Press.

C. Sunstein (1999) One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Week 9 Political Parties

Required: APSA (1950) "Responsible Two-Party Government" APSR. 44: Supplement. (Available through J-Stor)

Required: W. Riker (1982) "The Two Party System and Duverger's Law: An Essay on the History of Political Science." APSR. 76: 753-766. (Available through J-Stor)

Required: J. Schlesinger (1985) "The New American Political Party." APSR. 79: 1152-1169. (Available through J-Stor)

Required: A. Wildavsky (1992) "Are American Political Parties Pretty Much the Same as They Used to Be, Only a Little Different, or Are They Radically Different? A Review Essay." JPH. 4: 228-247.

Required: K. Janda (1993) "Comparative Political Parties: Theory and Research." in A. Finifter (ed.) Political Science: The State of the Discipline II. Washington DC: APSA. 163-191.

Required: D. Shea (1999) The Passing of Realignment and the Advent of the 'Base-less' Party System." APQ 27: 33-57.

Additional Bibliography

A. Downs (1957) An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row. (Chapters 7 and 8)

H. McClosky, P. Hoffman and R. O'Hara (1960) "Issue Conflict and Consensus among Party Leaders and Followers." APSR. 54: 406-427.

J. Schlesinger (1984) "On the Theory of Party Organization." JOP. 46: 369-400.

W. Miller, M. K. Jennings & B. Farah (1986) Parties in Transition. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

M. Wattenberg (1990) The Decline of American Political Parties: 1952-1988. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

J. Silbey (1990) "The Rise and Fall of American Political Parties, 1790-1990." in S. Maisel (ed.) The Parties Respond.

K. Strom (1990) "A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties." AJPS. 34: 565-598.

I. Budge and R. Hofferbert (1990) "Mandates and Policy Outputs: U.S. Party Platforms and Federal Expenditures."APSR. 84: 111-131.

J. Bruce, J. Clark & J. Kessel (1991) "Advocacy Politics in Presidential Parties." APSR. 1089-1106.

J. Aldrich (1995) Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Party Politics in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chaps. 1-2, 6,9)

K. Hill & J. Leighley (1996) "Political Parties and Class Mobilization in Contemporary United States Elections." AJPS. 40: 787-804.

J. Coleman (1996) "Party Organizational Strength and Public Support for Parties." AJPS. 40: 805-824.

J. Coleman (1996) Party Decline in America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Week 10 Interest Groups

Required: A. McFarland (1987) "Interest Groups and Theories of Power in America." BJPS. 17: 129-147.

Required: E. Gerber (1999) The Populist Paradox: Interest Group Influence and the Promise of Direct Legislation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Additional Bibliography

R. Bauer et al. (1963) American Business and Public Policy. New York: Atherton Press.

M. Olson (1965/1971) The Logic of Collective Action. New York: Schocken.

G. McConnell (1966) Private Power and American Democracy. New York: Alfred Knopf.

R. Salisbury (1969) "An Exchange Theory of Interest Groups." MJPS. 13: 1-32.

J. Berry (1978) "On the Origins of Public Interest Groups." Polity. 10: .

T. Moe (1980) "A Calculus of Group Membership." AJPS. 24: 593-632.

T. Moe (1980) The Organization of Interests. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

A. Costain (1981) "Interest Groups as Policy Aggregators in the Legislative Process" Polity. 14: 249-272.

K. Schlozman & J. Tierney (1983) "More of the Same: Washington Pressure Groups Activity in a Decade of Change." JOP. 45: 351-377.

K. Schlozman and J. Tierney (1986) Organized Interests in American Society. New York: Harper & Row.

R. Salisbury (1990) "The Paradox of Interest Groups in Washington - More Groups, Less Clout." in A. King (ed.) The New American Political System. (2nd Edition.) Washington DC: AEI Press.

W. Mitchell & M. Munger (1991) "Economic Models of Interest Groups: An Introductory Survey." AJPS. 35: 512-546.

J. Walker (1991) Mobilizing Interest Groups In America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Chapters 1-4, 6-7, 9-10)

L. Epstein & C. Rowland (1991) "Debunking the Myth of Interest Group Invincibility in the Courts." APSR: 35: 205-217.

W. Mitchell and M. Munger (1991) Economic Models of Interest Groups: An Introductory Survey" AJPS. 35: 512-546.

P. Peterson (1992) "The Rise and Fall of Special Interest Politics" in M. Petracca (ed.) The Politics of Interests: Interest Groups Transformed. Boulder: Westview. 326-341.

J. Heinz, E. Laumann, R. Nelson and R. Salisbury (1993) The Hollow Core: Private Interests in National Policy Making. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

D. Lowery and V. Gray (1995) "The Population Ecology of Gucci Gulch, or the Natural Regulation of Interest Group Numbers in the American States" AJPS. 39: 1-29.

V. Gray and D. Lowery (1996) The Population Ecology of Interest Representation. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

D. Lowery and V. Gray (1998) "The Dominance of Institutions in Interest Representation: A Test of Seven Explanations." AJPS 42: 231-255.

A, Harvey (1998) Votes without Leverage: Women in American Electoral Politics, 1920-1970. NY: Cambridge University Press.

PACS/Money

L. Sabato (1984) PAC Power. New York: W. W. Norton.

F. Sorauf (1992) Inside Campaign Finance: Myths and Realities. New Haven: Yale University Press.

T. Gais (1996) Improper Influence: Campaign Finance Law, Political Interest Groups, and the Problem of Equality. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Political Behavior

Week 11 Political Psychology/Public Opinion

Required: P. Converse (1964) "The Nature of Belief System in Mass Publics." in D. Apter (ed.) Ideology and Discontent. Glencoe: The Free Press. (original article available through Jstor)

Required: P. Sniderman, R. Brody and P. Tetlock (1991) Reasoning and Choice. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Chapters 1-3)

Required: W. Jacoby (1995) "The Structure of Ideological Thinking in the American Electorate." AJPS. 39: 314-335.

Required: P. Sniderman (1993) "The New Look in Public Opinion Research." in A. Finifter (ed.) Political Science: The State of the Discipline II. Washington DC: APSA. 219-245

Additional Bibliography

H. Lasswell (1930) Psychopathology and Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

R. Lane (1959) Political Life. Glencoe: Free Press. (Chaps. 7-12)

R. Lane (1969) Political Thinking and Consciousness. Glencoe: Free Press.

F. Greenstein (1969) Personaility and Politics. Chicago: Markham.

J. Knutson (1972) The Human Basis of the Polity. Chicago: Aldine Atherton.

P. Sniderman (1975) Personailty and Democratic Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

P. Conover (1984) How People Organize the Political World: A Schematic Model." AJPS. 28: 95-126.

(pp. 1-27, 58-92)

H. Simon (1985) Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science." APSR. 79:293-304.

E. Smith (1989) The Unchanging American Voter. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Intro/Chap. 1)

J. Kuklinski, R. Luskin and J. Bolland (1991) "Where is the Schema? Going Beyond the 'S' word in Political Psychology" (+ comments by Lodge and McGraw, Conover and Feldman and Miller) APSR. 85: 1341-1380.

N. Nie, J. Junn and K. Stehlik-Barry (1996) Democracy and Education in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Public Opinion

E.E. Schattschneider (1960) The Semi-Sovereign People. (Chapter 8)

E. Noelle-Neumann (1984) The Spiral of Silence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

G. Wright, R. Erikson and J. McIver (1985) "Measuring State Partisanship and Ideology with Survey Data." JOP 47: 469-489.

M. Mackuen, R. Erikson and J. Stimson (1989) "Macropartisanship" APSR. 83: 1125-1142.

R. Erikson, N. Luttbeg and K. Tedin (1990) American Public Opinion. (4th edition) New York: MacMillan.

J. Stimson (1991) Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles, & Swings. Boulder: Westview Press.

J. Zaller (1991) "Information, Values and Opinions." APSR. 85: 1215-1237.

P. Abramson and C. Ostrom (1991) "Macropartisanship: An Empirical Reassessment." APSR. 85: 181-192.

B. Page & R. Shapiro (1992) The Rational Public. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chap. 1 & 2)

J. Zaller and S. Feldman (1992) A Simple Theory of the Survey Response: Answering Questions versus Revealing Preferences." AJPS. 36: 579-616.

J. Zaller (1992) The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinions. New York: Cambridge University Press.

K. McGraw, S. Best and R. Timpone (1995) "What They Say or What They Do? The Impact of Elite Explanation and Policy Outcomes on Public Opinion." AJPS. 39: 53-74.

J. Cohen (1995) "Presidential Rhetoric and the Public Agenda." AJPS. 39: 87-117.

T. Kuran (1995) Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preferences Falsification. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

J. Stimson, et al. (1995) "Dynamic Representation". APSR. 89: 543-565

M. DelliCarpini and S. Keeter (1996) What American Know About Politics and Why It Matters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

C. Anderson and C. Guillory (1997) "Political Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy: A Cross-national Analysis of Consensus and Majoritarian Systems." APSR 91: 66- 81.

M. Hetherington (1998) "The Political Relevance of Political Trust." APSR 92: 791-808.

D. Green, B. Palmquist, E. Schickler (1998) "Macropartisanship: A Replication and a Critique." (plus response) APSR 92: 883-912.

S. Herbst (1998) Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

D. Mutz (1998) Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes. NY: Cambridge University Press.

J. Mondak (2000) "Reconsidering the Measurement of Political Knowledge" Political Analysis 8 (1): 57-82.

Week 12 Media and Socialization

Required: T. Cook (1998) Governing the News: The News Media as a Political Institution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Additional Bibliography

M. McLuhan (1964) Understanding Media: The Extension of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill.

T. Patterson and R. McClure (1976) The Unseeing Eye: The Myth of Television Power in National Elections. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

H. Gans (1980) Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time. New York: Random House.

T. Patterson (1980) The Mass Media Election: How American Choose Their President. New York: Praeger.

M. Robinson and M. Sheehan (1983) Over the Wire and on TV. New York: Russell Sage.

W. L. Bennett (1983/1996) News: The Politics of Illusion. (3rd ed.) White Plains, Longman.

S. Iyengar and D. Kinder (1987) News That Matters: Television and American Opinion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chapters 2, 3 & 7)

D. Graber (1988) Processing the News: How People Tame the Information Tide. New York: Longman.

R. Entman (1989) Democracy Without Citizens: Media and the Decay of American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.

T. Cook (1989) Making Laws and Making News: Media Strategies in the US House of Representatives. Washington, DC: Brookings.

S. Iyengar (1991) Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

B. Bagdikian (1992) The Media Monopoly (4th ed.) Boston: Beacon Press.

Socialization/Life-cycle Politics

H. Hyman (1959) Political Socialization. Glencoe: Free Press.

F. Greenstein (1965) Children and Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press.

D. Easton and J. Dennis (1969) Children in the Political System. New York: McGraw Hill. (Ch. 1, 3, 6, 8)

D. Searing, J. Schwartz and A. Lind (1973) "The Structuring Principle: Political Socialization and Belief Systems." APSR. 67: 415-432.

M. Jennings and R. Niemi (1973) The Political Character of Adolescence. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

P. Beck (1974) "A Socialization Theory of Partisan Realignments" in R. G. Niemi (ed.) The Politics of Future Citizens. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

M. Jennings and R. Niemi (1981) Generations and Politics: A Panel Study of Young Adults and Their Parents. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

M. Jennings and G. Markus (1984) "Partisan Orientation Over the Long Haul: Results from the Three Wave Political Socialization Study." APSR. 1000-1018.

M. Jennings (1984) "Intergenerational Transfer of Political Ideologies in Eight Western Nations." EJPR. 12: 261-276.

J. Strate, C. Parrish, C. Elder & C. Ford III (1989) "Life Span Civic Development and Voting Participation" APSR. 83: 443-463.

P. Beck and M. Jennings (1991) "Family Traditions, Political Periods and The Development of Partisan Orientations." JOP.53: 742-763.

D. Alwin, R. Cohen and T. Newcomb (1991) Political Attitudes over the Life Span: The Bennington Women after 50 Years. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

A. Westholm and R. Niemi (1992) "Political Institutions and Political Socialization: A Cross-National Study" Comparative Politics. 25: 25-41.

L. Stoker and M. Jennings (1996) "Life Cycle Transitions and Political Participation: The Case of Marriage." APSR. 89: 421-436.

D. Sears and N. Valentino (1997) "Politics Matters: Political Events as Catalysts for Preadult Socialization." APSR 91: 45-65.

W. R. Neumann, M. Just and A. Crigler (1992) Common Knowledge: News and the Construction of Political Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

B. Page and R. Shapiro (1992) The Rational Public. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chapter 9)

S. Ansolabehere, R. Behr, and S. Iyengar (1993) The Media Game: American Politics in the Television Age. New York: MacMillan.

L. Bartels (1993) "Messages Received: The Political Impact of Media Exposure." APSR 87: 267-285.

M. Parenti (1993) Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media. New York: St. Martins Press.

D. West (1993) Air Wars: Television Advertising in Election Campaigns, 1952-1992. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

D. Jordan (1993) "Newspaper Effects on Policy Preferences." Public Opinion Quarterly. 57: 191-204.

W. Munson (1993) All Talk: The Talk Show in Media Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

S. Reese, A. Grant and L. Danielian (1994) "The Structure of News Sources on Television" Journal of Communication 44: 84-107.

J. Mondak (1995) "Newspapers and Political Awareness." AJPS 39: 513-526.

M. Just, A, Crigler, D. Alger, T. Cook, M. Kern and D. West (1996) Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates and the Media in a Presidential Campaign. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chapter 5)

B. Page (1996) Who Deliberates? Mass Media in Modern Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chapter 1)

Week 13 Turnout and Voting

Turnout

Required: A. Downs (1957) An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row. (Chapter 14)

Required: W. Miller (1992) "The Puzzle Transformed: Explaining Declining Turnout." Political Behavior. 14: 1-43

Voting

Required: V. O. Key (1966) The Responsible Electorate. Cambridge; Harvard University Press. Chapter 1

Required: J. Lewis and G. King (2000) "No Evidence on Directional vs. Proximity Voting." Poliitcal Analysis 8 (1): 21-33.

Required: Bartels (an agenda for voting research?)

Additional Bibliography

Turnout

W. Riker & P. Ordeshook (1968) "A Theory of the Calculus of Voting." APSR. 62: 25-42.

J. Ferejohn & M. Fiorina (1974) "The Paradox of Not Voting: A Decision Theoretic Analysis" APSR 68: 525-536.

R. Wolfinger & S. Rosenstone (1980) Who Votes. New Haven: Yale University Press.

P. Kleppner (1982) "Were Women to Blame? Female Suffrage and Voter Turnout" Journal of Interdisciplinary History 12: 621-643.

G. B. Powell (1986) "American Voter Turnout in Comparative Perspective." APSR. 80: 17-43.

R. Jackman (1987) "Political Institutions and Voter Turnout in Industrial Democracies." APSR 81: 405-424.

C. Cassel and R. Luskin (1988) "Simple Explanations of Turnout Decline" APSR. 82: 1321-1330.

R. Teixeira (1992) The Disappearing American Voter. Washington, DC: Brookings.

P. Tuckel and R. Maisel "Voter Turnout Among European Immigrants to the United States." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 24: 407-430.

W. Miller and J. M. Shanks (1996) The New American Voter. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Part 2 Chapter 3)

M. Franklin and W. Hirczy de Mino (1998) "Separated Powers, Divided Government and Turnout in U.S. Presidential Elections." AJPS 42: 316-326.

Voting

B. Berelson, P. Lazarsfeld & W. McPhee (1954) Voting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

A. Campbell, P. Converse, W. Miller & D. Stokes (1960) The American Voter. New York: Wiley. (Chapters 4, 6, 13)

J. Rusk (1970) "The Effect of the Australian Ballot Reform on Split Ticket Voting: 1876-1908." APSR. 64:1220-1238.

S. Kelley, jr. & T. Mirer (1974) "The Simple Act of Voting." APSR. 68: 572-591.

S. Verba, N. Nie & J. Petrocik (1976) The Changing American Voter. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

B. Page (1978) Choices and Echoes In American National Elections. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

D. Sears, R. Lau, T. Tyler & H. Allen (1980) "Self-Interest vs. Symbolic Politics in Policy Attitudes and Presidential Voting." APSR. 74: 670-684.

M. Fiorina (1981) Retrospective Voting in American National Elections. New Haven: Yale University Press.

L. Bartels (1988) Presidential Primaries and the Dynmamics of Public Choice. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

G. Marcus (1988) "The Structure of Emotional Response: 1984 Presidential Candidates." APSR. 82: 737-761.

G. Rabinowitz & S. MacDonald (1989) "A Directional Theory of Issue Voting." APSR. 83: 93-121.

J. Aldrich, J. Sullivan & E. Borgida (1989) "Foreign Affairs and Issue Voting: Do Presidential Candidates Waltz Before a Blind Audience." APSR. 83: 123-141.

E. Smith (1989) The Unchanging American Voter. Berkeley: University of California Press.

R. Erikson and D. Romero (1990) "Candidate Equilibrium and the Behavioral Model of the Vote." APSR 84: 1103-1126.

S. Popkin (1991) The Reasoning Voter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

M. Wattenberg (1991) The Rise of Candidate Centered Politics: Presidential Elections in the 1980s. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

W. Miller (1991) "Party Identification, Realignment and Party Voting: Back to the Basics." APSR. 557-568.

R. Dalton and M. Wattenberg (1993) "The Not So Simple Act of Voting." in A. Finifter (ed.) Political Science: The State of the Discipline II. Washington DC: APSA. 193-218.

R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague (1995) Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication. New York: Cambridge University Press.

W. Miller and J. M. Shanks (1996) The New American Voter. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Part 4 Chapter 8)

T. Holbrook (1996) Do Campaigns Matter? Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

S. Rosenstone et al. (1996) National Election Study, 1997-2001. National Science Foundation. (Sections 2) Section 2 is available from the NES web page. Go to http://www.umich.edu/~nes/resources/resources.htm and look under the heading "Other Resources" for "NES Contributions to Scholarship: A Review." (

M. Alvarez (1997) Information and Elections. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

S. Merrill III and B. Grofman (1999) A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models. NY: Cambridge University Press.

V. Sapiro (1999) "Fifty Years of the National Election Studies: A Case Study in the History of Big Social Science." presented at the APSA meeting, September 1999, Atlanta, GA. (available at http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/~sapiro/bignes.htm)

L. Bartels (2000) "An Agenda for Voting Research" (forthcoming)

Week 14 Participation/Social Movements

Required: S. Rosenstone and J. M. Hanson (1993) Mobilization, Participation and Democracy in America. New York: MacMillan.

Required: P. Whiteley (1995) " Rational Choice and Political Participation - Evaluating the Debate" PRQ. 48: 211-233.

Required: Evaluating the Debate PRQ 48

Additional Bibliography

S. Verba and N. Nie (1972) Participation in America. New York: Harper & Row.

S. Verba, N. Nie and J. Kim (1978) Participation and Political Equality. New York: Cambridge University Press.

S. Barnes et al. (1979) Political Action: Mass Participation in Five Western Democracies. Beverly Hills: Sage.

P. Beck and M. K. Jennings (1982) "Pathways to Participation." APSR. 76: 94-108.

W. Stone and A. Abramowitz (1983) "Winning May Not Be Everything But It's More Than We Thought: Presidential Party Activists in 1980." APSR. 77: 945-956.

L. Bobo and F. Gilliam (1990) "Race, Socio-Political Participation, and Black Empowerment." APSR. 84: 377-393.

W. Stone, L. Atkeson and R. Rapoport (1992) "Turning Off or Turning On? Mobilization and Demobilization Effects of Participation in Nomination Campaigns." AJPS. 36:

S. Verba, K. Schlozman, H. Brady and N. Nie (1993) "Citizen Activity: Who Participates? What Do They Say? APSR. 87: 303-318.

S. Verba, K. Schlozman and H. Brady. (1995) Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

H. Brady, S. Verba, and K. Schlozman (1995) "Beyond SES: A Resource Model of Political Participation." APSR. 89: 271-294.

J. Leighley (1995) "Attitudes, Opportunities and Incentives: A Field Essay on Political Participation" PRQ. 48:181-209.

Symposium on Voice and Equality, APSR 91: 421-430.

M. K. Jennings (1997) "Political Participation in the Chinese Countryside." APSR 91: 361-372

N. Burns, K. Schlozman and S. Verba (1997) "The Public Consequences of Private Inequality: Family Life and Citizen Participation." APSR 91: 373-389.

Social Movements

F. Piven and R. Cloward (1977) Poor People's Movements. NY: Pantheon.

W. Gamson (1975) The Strategy of Social Protest. Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press.

A. Costain (1992) Inviting Women's Rebellion. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

K. Wald (1992) Religion and Politics in the United States. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

W. Gamson (1992) Talking Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press.

T. Skocpol, M. Abend-Wein, C. Howard and S Lehmann (1993) "Women's Associations and the Enactment of Mother's Pensions in the United States." APSR. 87: 686-701.

L. Banaszak (1996) Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Week 15 Candidate Behavior

Required: Campaign Craft Daniel M. Shea

Additional Bibliography ( Will be provided in class)

Grading: Your grade for the course will be determined by your performance in two areas: written assignments and participation. Your participation percentage is set at 25 percent. You will be evaluated on how prepared you are for your role as discussion leader as well as whether or not you prepared your weekly readings commentary in a responsible fashion. Thus, participation grades come from your weekly verbal and written participation. The other 75 percent of your grade is determined by your performance on the following assignments.

Assignments:

One- (25 percent) Applying Paradigms in Political Science: Many paradigms offer partial explanations of American politics. Choose a recent phenomenon of interest to you and offer explanations of this from the perspective of at least three of the following:

1.Institutional Theory

2.State or Polity Centered Viewpoint

3.Rational Actor Theory

4.Cultural Explanations (including American Exceptionalism perspectives)

5.Economic Theory

6.Psychological Explanations of Behavior

Due: End of Week 5 /Length: 5-8 pages

Two- (25 percent) Examining Political Institutions in American Politics:

Choose a political institution of most interest to you.

1.President/Presidency

2.U S. Congress

3.U S Supreme Court

4.Federal Bureaucracy

5.Political Parties

6.Interest Groups

Part 1 What have we learned about this institution from existing research? What questions about the operation, politics, or effectiveness of this institution seem well answered and what questions seem less well answered or not discussed at all?

Part 2. Take a question or set of questions in the latter categories ("less well" or "not at all") and respond to the following queries and directions:

Write a research design laying out the way you'd design a study to answer your question(s). Money is no object. But be clear why the study would be productive and defend each decision you make with regard to what to study and what to ignore, what data is appropriate and what is not, how you would conceptualize and operationalize key concepts, etc.

Questions to consider include:

Why is your question a "good one"?

What makes it interesting to Political Science?

What theory(ies) would you use to try to answer this question?

How does the theory inform what question you chose, what type of answer you expect, and what type(s) of data or information you'd collect to try to answer the question(s)?

Due: End of Week 10/Length 8 to 10 pages

Three (25 percent) Explaining Political Behavior: Choose a political "behavior" of most interest to you.

1.Acquisition or change of political opinions

2.Socialization to politics

3.Voting (turnout)

4.Voting for a specific candidate or party

5.Participation, other than voting

6.Membership in a politically active interest group

What explanations most satisfy you about how we understand this political behavior? What evidence supports your conclusions? What theory and/or evidence contradicts your conclusions? Why are these alternative explanations or contrary evidence not conclusive?

Due: End of Week 16 /Length: 6-8 pages.

Weekly Comments

Non-discussion leaders are expected to write one page comments on the weeks readings to be distributed via e-mail by Noon Sunday afternoon. This gives ample time to review your communication, particularly given slow servers and such. These comments should highlight important points/major weaknesses and strengths, critique perspectives offered by these readings, and identify questions each reader believes need to be answered by further discussion or additional research. Late emails or the absence of emails will be penalized. If for some reason you are not able to email your peers with your commentary, hard copies must be in their/my folders/mailbox first thing Monday morning.