American Politics PhD Reading List

Schar School of Policy and Government

Approved: Spring 2019

Contents

1 American Political Development and Thought 2

2 Research Methods 4

3 The Presidency 6

4 Legislative Politics 8

5 The Courts 11

6 Elections and Voting Behavior 13

7 Bureaucracy and Public Administration 15

8 Political Parties and Interest Groups 17

9 Public Opinion and Political Behavior 19

10 Public Policy 21

11 Race/Gender/Inequality 22

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American Political Development and Thought: Seminal Works

Dahl, Robert A. 1961. Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City. Yale UniversityPress.

Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row.Green, Donald Philip and Ian Shapiro. 1994. Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of

Applications in Political Science. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay, and James Madison. The Federalist Papers.Key, V.O. Jr. 1949. Southern Politics in State and Nation. New York: A. Knopf.North, Douglass C. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. Cam-

bridge: Cambridge University Press.Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Schattschneider, E. E. 1960. The Semi-Sovereign People: A Realist’s View of Democracy in America.

New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.Skocpol, Theda. 1992. Protecting Mothers and Soldiers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in

the United States.Tocqueville, Alexis de. 1835. Democracy in America.

American Political Development and Thought: Recommended Works

Arrow, Kenneth J. 1963. Social Choice and Individual Values. 2nd. New York, NY: John Wiley andSons.

Bachrach, Peter and Morton S. Baratz. 1962. “Two Faces of Power”. American Political ScienceReview 56.4, pp. 947–952.

Black, Duncan. 1958. The Theory of Committees and Elections. London: Cambridge UniversityPress.

Buchanan, James and Gordon Tullock. 1962. The Calculus of Consent. Ann Arbor, MI: Universityof Michigan Press.

Dahl, Robert A. 1956. A Preface to Democratic Theory. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.Dubois, WEB. 1903. The Souls of Black Folk. New York, NY: New American Library Inc.Fukuyama, Francis. 1995. Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity. D10 301 c. 1/c.

2. Free Press Paperbacks.Hayek, Friedrich August. 1960. The Constitution of Liberty. Routledge.Hirschman, Albert O. 1970. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations,

and States. Harvard University Press.Knight, Jack. 1992. Institutions and Social Conflict. Cambridge University Press.Kreps, David M. 1990. Game Theory and Economic Modelling. Oxford University Press.Lasswell, H.D. 1950. Politics: Who Gets What, When, How. New York, NY: P. Smith.Lowi, Theodore. 1969. The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States. New York:

W.W. Norton.Lupia, Arthur and Mathew D. McCubbins. 1998. The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn

What They Need to Know? New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.Orren, K and S. Skowronek. 2004. The Search for American Political Development. Cambridge

University Press.Rawls, John. 1971. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

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Riker, William H. 1982. Liberalism Against Populism: A Confrontation Between the Theory ofDemocracy and the Theory of Social Choice. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.

Skowronek, Stephen. 1982. Building a New American State. New York, NY: Cambridge UniversityPress.

Truman, David B. 1951. The Governmental Process. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.Walker, Jack L. 1966. “A Critique of the Elitist Theory of Democracy”. American Political Science

Review 60.02, pp. 285–295.

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Methods: Primary Statistics Texts

Berry, William and Mitchell Sanders. 2000. Understanding Multivariate Research: A Primer forBeginning Social Scientists. Westview Press.

Gill, Jeff. 2006. Essential Mathematics for Political and Social Research. Cambridge University PressCambridge.

Johnson, Janet Buttolph, Henry T Reynolds, and Jason D Mycoff. 2015. Political Science ResearchMethods. Cq Press.

Kellstedt, Paul M and Guy D Whitten. 2018. The Fundamentals of Political Science Research.Cambridge University Press.

King, Gary, Robert O Keohane, and Sidney Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Infer-ence in Qualitative Research. Princeton university press.

Kmenta, Jan. 1997. Elements of Econometrics. 2nd. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press.Lewis-Beck, Colin and Michael Lewis-Beck. 2015. Applied Regression: An Introduction. Vol. 22. Sage

publications.Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. 2015. Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach. Nelson Education.

Methods: Recommended Works

Abadie, Alberto, Alexis Diamond, and Jens Hainmueller. 2010. “Synthetic Control Methods forComparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California’s Tobacco Control Program”.Journal of the American Statistical Association 105, pp. 493–505.

Angrist, Joshua D. and JÃűrn-Steffen Pischke. 2008. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiri-cist’s Companion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Beck, Nathaniel and Jonathan N. Katz. 1995. “What to Do (And Not to Do) With Time-SeriesCross-Section Data”. The American Political Science Review 89, pp. 634–647.

Bonica, Adam. 2014. “Mapping the Ideological Marketplace”. American Journal of Political Science58, pp. 367–387.

Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M. and Bradford S. Jones. 2004. Event History Modeling: A Guide for So-cial Scientists. Analytical Methods for Social Research Series. New York: Cambridge UniversityPress.

Brady, Henry E and David Collier. 2010. Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards.Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Brambor, Thomas, William Roberts Clark, and Matt Golder. 2006. “Understanding InteractionModels: Improving Empirical Analysis”. Political Analysis 14, pp. 63–82.

Clinton, Joshua D. et al. 2012. “Separated Powers in the United States: The Ideology of Agencies,Presidents, and Congress”. American Journal of Political Science 56.2, pp. 341–354.

Cranmer, Skyler J. and Bruce A. Desmarais. 2011. “Inferential Network Analysis With ExponentialRandom Graph Models”. en. Political Analysis 19.1, pp. 66–86.

Druckman, James N et al. 2006. “The Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Po-litical Science”. American Political Science Review 100.4, pp. 627–635.

Franzese, Robert J and Cindy Kam. 2009. Modeling and Interpreting Interactive Hypotheses inRegression Analysis. University of Michigan Press.

George, Alexander L and Andrew Bennett. 2005. Case Studies and Theory Development in theSocial Sciences. mit Press.

Gerring, John. 2006. Case Study Research: Principles and Practices. Cambridge university press.

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Gill, Jeff and Christopher Witko. 2013. “Bayesian Analytical Methods: A Methodological Prescrip-tion for Public Administration”. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 23.2,pp. 457–494.

King, Gary. 1986. “How Not to Lie With Statistics: Avoiding Common Mistakes in QuantitativePolitical Science”. American Journal of Political Science, pp. 666–687.

— 1995. “Replication, Replication”. PS: Political Science & Politics 28.3, pp. 444–452.Lax, Jeffrey R and Justin H Phillips. 2009. “How Should We Estimate Public Opinion in the States?”

American Journal of Political Science 53.1, pp. 107–121.Londregan, John B. 2000. “Estimating Legislators Preferred Points”. Political Analysis 8, pp. 35–56.Long, J. Scott. 1997. Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables. Thousand

Oaks, CA: Sage.Miller, Jane E. 2015. The Chicago Guide to Writing About Numbers. University of Chicago Press.Park, David K, Andrew Gelman, and Joseph Bafumi. 2004. “Bayesian Multilevel Estimation With

Poststratification: State-Level Estimates From National Polls”. Political Analysis 12.4, pp. 375–385.

Primo, David M, Matthew L Jacobsmeier, and Jeffrey Milyo. 2007. “Estimating the Impact ofState Policies and Institutions With Mixed-Level Data”. State Politics & Policy Quarterly 7.4,pp. 446–459.

Rainey, Carlisle. 2014. “Arguing for a Negligible Effect”. American Journal of Political Science 58.4,pp. 1083–1091.

Sekhon, Jasjeet S. and Rocio Titiunik. 2012. “When Natural Experiments Are Neither Natural NorExperiments”. American Political Science Review 106.1, pp. 35–57.

Shor, Boris and Nolan McCarty. 2011. “The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures”. Amer-ican Political Science Review 105.3, pp. 530–551.

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The Presidency: Seminal Works

Canes-Wrone, Brandice and Kenneth W. Shotts. 2004. “The Conditional Nature of PresidentialResponsiveness to Public Opinion”. American Journal of Political Science 48.4, pp. 690–706.

Howell, William G. 2003. Power Without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Lewis, David E. 2008. The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and BureaucraticPerformance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univesity Press.

Neustadt, Richard E. 1990. Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leader-ship From Roosevelt to Reagan. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Skowronek, Stephen. 1993. The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership From John Adams to BillClinton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

The Presidency: Recommended Works

Beckmann, Matthew N. 2010. Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in US Lawmaking,1953âĂŞ2004. Cambridge University Press.

Berry, Christopher R, Barry C Burden, and William G Howell. 2010. “The President and theDistribution of Federal Spending”. American Political Science Review 104.4, pp. 783–799.

Bolton, Alexander and Sharece Thrower. 2016. “Legislative Capacity and Executive Unilateralism”.American Journal of Political Science 60.3, pp. 649–663.

Cameron, Charles M. 2000. Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power. NewYork: Cambridge University Press.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. 2001. Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public. Chicago, IL:University of Chicago Press.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice, William G. Howell, and David E. Lewis. 2008. “Toward a Broader Un-derstanding of Presidential Power: A Reevaluation of the Two Presidencies Thesis”. Journal ofPolitics 70.1, pp. 1–16.

Chiou, Fang-Yi and Lawrence S Rothenberg. 2014. “The Elusive Search for Presidential Power”.American Journal of Political Science 58.3, pp. 653–668.

Cohen, Marty et al. 2009. The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform.University of Chicago Press.

Dickinson, Matthew J. and Matthew Lebo. 2007. “Reexamining the Growth of the InstitutionalPresidency, 1940-2000”. Journal of Politics 69.

Edwards, George C. 2003. On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit. New Haven: Yale UniversityPress.

Groseclose, Tim and Nolan McCarty. 2001. “The Politics of Blame: Bargaining Before an Audience”.American Journal of Political Science 45.1, pp. 100–119.

Howell, William G., Saul P. Jackman, and Jon C. Rogowski. 2013. The Wartime President: ExecutiveInfluence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Kernell, Samuel. 1993. Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership. Washington, D.C.:CQ Press.

Lewis, David E. and William G. Howell. 2002. “Agencies by Presidential Design”. Journal of Politics64.4, pp. 1095–1114.

Light, Paul C. 1999. The President’s Agenda: Domestic Policy Choice From Kennedy to Clinton.Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Mayer, Kenneth. 2002. With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power. Prince-ton University Press.

McCarty, Nolan and Rose Razaghian. 1999. “Advice and Consent: Senate Responses to ExecutiveBranch Nominations 1885-1996”. American Journal of Political Science, pp. 1122–1143.

Miller, Joanne M and Jon A Krosnick. 2000. “News Media Impact on the Ingredients of PresidentialEvaluations: Politically Knowledgeable Citizens Are Guided by a Trusted Source”. AmericanJournal of Political Science, pp. 301–315.

Moe, Terry M and William G Howell. 1999. “The Presidential Power of Unilateral Action”. TheJournal of Law, Economics, and Organization 15.1, pp. 132–179.

Mutz, Diana C. 1995. “Effects of Horse-Race Coverage on Campaign Coffers: Strategic Contributingin Presidential Primaries”. The Journal of Politics 57.4, pp. 1015–1042.

Nicholson, Stephen P, Gary M Segura, and Nathan D Woods. 2002. “Presidential Approval and theMixed Blessing of Divided Government”. Journal of Politics 64.3, pp. 701–720.

Rogowski, Jon C. 2016. “Presidential Influence in an Era of Congressional Dominance”. AmericanPolitical Science Review 110.2, pp. 325–341.

Rottinghaus, Brandon. 2006. “Rethinking Presidential Responsiveness: The Public Presidency andRhetorical Congruency, 1953âĂŞ2001”. Journal of Politics 68.3, pp. 720–732.

Wlezien, Christopher and Robert S Erikson. 2002. “The Timeline of Presidential Election Cam-paigns”. The Journal of Politics 64.4, pp. 969–993.

Wood, B Dan. 2009. The Myth of Presidential Representation. Cambridge University Press.Zeisberg, Mariah. 2013. War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority. Princeton University

Press.

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Legislative Politics: Seminal Works

Arnold, Douglas R. 1990. The Logic of Congressional Action. New Haven: Yale University Press.Binder, Sarah A. 1999. “The Dynamics of Legislative Gridlock, 1947-96”. The American Political

Science Review 93.3, pp. 519–534.Fenno, Richard F. 1978. Home Style: House Members in Their Districts. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.Hall, Richard L. 1996. Participation in Congress. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Kiewiet, D. Roderick and Mathew D. McCubbins. 1991. The Logic of Delegation: Congressional

Parties and the Appropriations Process. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.Krehbiel, Keith. 1991. Information and Legislative Organization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan

Press.— 1998. Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Lee, Frances E. 2009. Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.Mayhew, David R. 1974. Congress: The Electoral Connection. New Haven: Yale University Press.Miller, Warren E. and Donald W. Stokes. 1963. “Constituency Influence in Congress”. American

Political Science Review 57, pp. 45–56.Sinclair, Barbara. 1997. Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the U. S. Congress.

Washington: CQ Press.

Legislative Politics: Recommended Works

Aberbach, Joel D. 1990. Keeping a Watchful Eye: The Politics of Congressional Oversight. Wash-ington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

Adler, E Scott and John DWilkerson. 2013. Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving. CambridgeUniversity Press.

Anzia, Sarah F. and Christopher R. Berry. 2011. “The Jackie (And Jill) Robinson Effect: Why DoCongresswomen Outperform Congressmen”. American Journal of Political Science 55.3, pp. 478–93.

Baron, David P. and John A. Ferejohn. 1989. “Bargaining in Legislatures”. The American PoliticalScience Review 89.4, pp. 1189–1206.

Bawn, Kathleen. 1997. “Choosing Strategies to Control the Bureaucracy: Statutory Constraints,Oversight, and the Committee System”. Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 13.1,pp. 101–126.

Binder, Sarah. 1997. Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Brady, David and Craig Volden. 1998. Revolving Gridlock. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.Bratton, Kathleen A and Stella M Rouse. 2011. “Networks in the Legislative Arena: How Group

Dynamics Affect Cosponsorship”. Legislative Studies Quarterly 36.3, pp. 423–460.Carey, John M, Richard G Niemi, and Lynda W Powell. 1998. “The Effects of Term Limits on State

Legislatures”. Legislative Studies Quarterly, pp. 271–300.Cooper, Joseph and David W. Brady. 1981. “Institutional Context and Leadership Style: The House

from Cannon to Rayburn”. American Political Science Review 75.2, pp. 411–425.Cox, Gary W. and Jonathan N. Katz. 1996. “Why Did the Incumbency Advantage in US House

Elections Grow?” American Journal of Political Science 40.2, pp. 478–497.

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Esterling, Kevin M. 2007. “Buying Expertise: Campaign Contributions and Attention to PolicyAnalysis in Congressional Committees”. American Political Science Review 101.01, pp. 93–109.

Fiorina, Morris P. 1977. Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment. New Haven: YaleUniversity Press.

Fowler, James H. 2006. “Connecting the Congress: A Study of Cosponsorship Networks”. PoliticalAnalysis 14.4, pp. 456–487.

Gerber, Elisabeth. 1996. “Legislative Response to the Threat of Popular Initiatives”. AmericanJournal of Political Science 40.1, pp. 99–128.

Gilligan, Thomas and Keith Krehbiel. 1990. “Organization of Informative Committees by a RationalLegislature”. American Journal of Political Science 34.2, pp. 531–564.

Groseclose, Tim and Charles Stewart III. 1998. “The Value of Committee Seats in the House, 1947-91”. American Journal of Political Science 42(2), pp. 453–474.

Hall, Richard L. and Bernard Grofman. 1990. “The Committee Assignment Process and the Con-ditional Nature of Committee Bias”. American Political Science Review 84(4), pp. 1149–1166.

Hall, Richard L. and Frank W. Wayman. 1990. “Buying Time: Moneyed Interests and the Mobiliza-tion of Bias in Congressional Committees”. American Political Science Review 84(3), pp. 797–820.

Hojnacki, Marie and David C Kimball. 1998. “Organized Interests and the Decision of Whom toLobby in Congress”. American Political Science Review 92.4, pp. 775–790.

Kingdon, John W. 1981. Congressmen’s Voting Decisions. 2nd. New York, NY: Harper & Row.Kousser, Thad. 2005. Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism. Cam-

bridge: Cambridge University Press.Krehbiel, Keith. 1990. “Are Congressional Committees Composed of Preference Outliers?” American

Political Science Review 84(1), pp. 149–163.Matthews, Donald R. 1959. “The Folkways of the United States Senate: Conformity to Group Norms

and Legislative Effectiveness”. American Political Science Review 53.4, pp. 1064–1089.Mayhew, David R. 2005. Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations, 1946-

1990. 2nd. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Polsby, Nelson W. 1968. “The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives”. American

Political Science Review 62.1, pp. 144–168.Poole, Keith T. and Howard Rosenthal. 2007. Ideology and Congress. Piscataway, New Jersey:

Transaction Publishers.Schickler, Eric and Gregory Wawro. 2006. Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the US Senate.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Schiller, Wendy J. 1995. “Senators as Political Entrepreneurs: Using Bill Sponsorship to Shape

Legislative Agendas”. American Journal of Political Science, pp. 186–203.Shepsle, Kenneth and BarryWeingast. 1981. “Structure-Induced Equilibrium and Legislative Choice”.

Public Choice 37.3, pp. 503–519.— 1987. “The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power”. The American Political Science

Review 81, pp. 85–103.Smith, Richard A. 1995. “Interest Group Influence in the U.S. Congress”. Legislative Studies Quar-

terly 20.1, pp. 89–139.Sulkin, Tracy. 2005. Issue Politics in Congress. Cambridge University Press.

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Victor, Jennifer Nicoll and Nils Ringe. 2009. “The Social Utility of Informal Institutions: Caucuses asNetworks in the 110th US House of Representatives”. American Politics Research 37.5, pp. 742–766.

Wawro, Gregory J. and Eric Schickler. 2004. “Where’s the Pivot? Obstruction and Lawmaking inthe Pre-Cloture Senate”. American Journal of Political Science 48.4, pp. 758–774.

Weingast, Barry R. and William J. Marshall. 1988. “The Industrial Organization of Congress; Or,Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets”. Journal of Political Economy96, pp. 132–163.

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The Courts: Seminal Works

Cameron, Charles M., Albert D. Cover, and Jeffrey A. Segal. 1990. “Senate Voting on Supreme CourtNominees: A Neoinstitutional Model”. The American Political Science Review 84.2, pp. 525–534.

Dahl, Robert A. 1957. “Decision-making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy-maker”. Journal of Public Law 6, p. 279.

Murphy, Walter F. 1964. Elements of Judicial Strategy. University of Chicago Press.Rosenberg, Gerald N. 1991. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change. Chicago, IL:

University of Chicago Press.Segal, Jeffrey A. and Harold J. Spaeth. 2002. The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revis-

ited. New York: Cambridge University Press.

The Courts: Recommended Works

Bailey, Michael A and Forrest Maltzman. 2011. The Constrained Court: Law, Politics, and theDecisions Justices Make. Princeton University Press.

Bartels, Brandon L. 2009. “The Constraining Capacity of Legal Doctrine on the Supreme Court”.American Political Science Review 103, pp. 474–95.

Caldeira, Gregory A. 1987. “Public Opinion and the US Supreme Court: FDR’s Court-PackingPlan”. American Political Science Review 81.4, pp. 1139–1153.

Caldeira, Gregory A and John R Wright. 1988. “Organized Interests and Agenda Setting in the USSupreme Court”. American Political Science Review 82.4, pp. 1109–1127.

— 1990. “Amici Curiae Before the Supreme Court: Who Participates, When, and How Much?” TheJournal of Politics 52.3, pp. 782–806.

— 1998. “Lobbying for Justice: Organized Interests Supreme Court Nominations, and United StatesSenate”. American Journal of Political Science, pp. 499–523.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. 2003. “Bureaucratic Decisions and the Composition of the Lower Courts”.American Journal of Political Science 47.2, pp. 205–214.

Epstein, Lee and Jack Knight. 1996. “The Norm of Stare Decisis”. American Journal of PoliticalScience 40.4, pp. 1018–1035.

— 1997. The Choices Justices Make. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.Epstein, Lee et al. 2006. “The Changing Dynamics of Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees”.

The Journal of Politics 68.2, pp. 296–307.Johnson, Timothy R, Paul J Wahlbeck, and James F Spriggs. 2006. “The Influence of Oral Argu-

ments on the US Supreme Court”. American Political Science Review 100.1, pp. 99–113.Kastellec, Jonathan P. 2013. “Racial Diversity and Judicial Influence on Appellate Courts”. Amer-

ican Journal of Political Science 57.1, pp. 167–183.Moraski, Bryon J. and Charles R. Shipan. 1999. “The Politics of Supreme Court Nominations: A

Theory of Institutional Constraints and Choices”. American Journal of Political Science 43.4,pp. 1069–1095.

Segal, Jeffrey A. 1997. “Separation-Of-Powers Games in the Positive Theory of Congress andCourts”. American Political Science Review 91, pp. 28–44.

Segal, Jeffrey A and Harold J Spaeth. 1996. “The Influence of Stare Decisis on the Votes of UnitedStates Supreme Court Justices”. American Journal of Political Science, pp. 971–1003.

Shipan, Charles R. and Megan L. Shannon. 2003. “Delaying Justice(s): A Duration Analysis ofSupreme Court Confirmations”. American Journal of Political Science 47.4, pp. 654–66.

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Staton, Jeffrey K and Georg Vanberg. 2008. “The Value of Vagueness: Delegation, Defiance, andJudicial Opinions”. American Journal of Political Science 52.3, pp. 504–519.

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Elections and Voting Behavior: Seminal Works

Bartels, Larry M. 2000. “Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952-1996”. American Journal of Po-litical Science 44.1, pp. 35–30.

Berelson, Bernard R., Paul F. Lazarsfeld, and William N. McPhee. 1954. Voting: A Study of OpinionFormation in a Presidential Campaign. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Campbell, Angus et al. 1960. The American Voter. New York, NY: Wiley.Gerber, Alan S., Donald P. Green, and Christopher W. Larimer. 2008. “Social Pressure and Voter

Turnout: Evidence From a Large-Scale Field Experiment”. The American Political Science Re-view 102.1, pp. 33–48.

Lupia, Arthur. 1994. “Shortcuts Versus Encyclopedias: Information and Voting Behavior in Califor-nia Insurance Reform Elections”. American Political Science Review 88.1.

Riker, William H. and Peter C. Ordeshook. 1968. “A Theory of the Calculus of Voting”. The Amer-ican Political Science Review 62, pp. 25–42.

Rolfe, Meredith. 2012. Voter Turnout: A Social Theory of Political Participation. Cambridge Uni-versity Press.

Elections and Voting Behavior: Recommended Works

Abramowitz, Alan I., Brad Alexander, and Matthew Gunning. 2006. “Incumbency, Redistricting,and the Decline of Competition in U.S. House Elections”. The Journal of Politics 68.1, pp. 75–88.

Ansolabehere, Stephen, James M. Snyder Jr., and Charles Stewart III. 2001. “Candidate Positioningin U.S. House Elections”. American Journal of Political Science 45.1, pp. 136–159.

Ansolabehere, Stephen et al. 1994. “Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate?” AmericanPolitical Science Review 88, pp. 829–838.

Bartels, Larry. 1996. “Uninformed Voters: Information Effects in Presidential Elections”. AmericanJournal of Political Science 40, pp. 194–230.

Bond, Robert M et al. 2012. “A 61-Million-Person Experiment in Social Influence and PoliticalMobilization”. Nature 489.7415, p. 295.

Burden, Barry C. et al. 2014. “Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout: The Unanticipated Con-sequences of Election Reform”. American Journal of Political Science 58.1, pp. 95–109.

Chen, Jowei and Jonathan Rodden. 2013. “Unintentional Gerrymandering: Political Geography andElectoral Bias in Legislatures”. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 8, pp. 239–269.

Gelman, Andrew. 2009. Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote theWay They Do-Expanded Edition. Princeton University Press.

Gerber, Alan S. and Donald P. Green. 2000. “The Effects of Personal Canvassing, Telephone Calls,and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment”. American Political Science Review 94.

Gerber, Elisabeth R. and Rebecca B. Morton. 1998. “Primary Election Systems and Representation”.Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 14, pp. 302–324.

Hajnal, Zoltan and Jessica Trounstine. 2005. “Where Turnout Matters: The Consequences of UnevenTurnout in City Politics”. The Journal of Politics 67.2, pp. 515–535.

Hetherington, Marc J. 2001. “Resurgent Mass Partisanship: The Role of Elite Polarization”. Amer-ican Political Science Review 95.3, pp. 619–631.

Lassen, David Dreyer. 2005. “The Effect of Information on Voter Turnout: Evidence From a NaturalExperiment”. American Journal of Political Science 49, pp. 103–118.

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Lau, Richard R. and David P. Redlawsk. 1997. “Voting Correctly”. American Political ScienceReview 91, pp. 585–598.

Lau, Richard R and David P Redlawsk. 2006. How Voters Decide: Information Processing in ElectionCampaigns. Cambridge University Press.

Leighley, Jan E and Jonathan Nagler. 2013. Who Votes Now?: Demographics, Issues, Inequality,and Turnout in the United States. Princeton University Press.

Lijphart, Arend. 1997. “Unequal Participation: Democracy’s Unresolved Dilemma”. The AmericanPolitical Science Review 91.1, pp. 1–14.

Lodge, Milton G., Kathleen M. McGraw, and Patrick Stroh. 1989. “An Impression-Driven Model ofCandidate Evaluation”. American Political Science Review 83, pp. 399–420.

McClurg, Scott D. 2006. “The Electoral Relevance of Political Talk: Examining Disagreement andExpertise Effects in Social Networks on Political Participation”. American Journal of PoliticalScience 50.3, pp. 737–754.

McDonald, Michael P. and Samuel L. Popkin. 2001. “The Myth of the Vanishing Voter”. AmericanPolitical Science Review 95.4, pp. 963–974.

McGhee, Eric et al. 2014. “A Primary Cause of Partisanship? Nomination Systems and LegislatorIdeology”. American Journal of Political Science 58.2, pp. 337–351.

Michael S. Lewis-Beck et al. 2008. The American Voter Revisited. Ann Arbor, MI: University ofMichigan Press.

Nickerson, David W. 2008. “Is Voting Contagious? Evidence From Two Field Experiments”. Amer-ican political Science review 102.1, pp. 49–57.

Powell, G. Bingham. 1986. “American Voter Turnout in Comparative Perspective”. The AmericanPolitical Science Review 80.1, pp. 17–43.

Putnam, Robert D. 1995. “Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital inAmerica”. PS: Political Science and Politics 28.4, pp. 664–683.

Riker, William H. 1982. “The Two-Party System and Duverger’s Law: An Essay on the History ofPolitical Science”. American Political Science Review 76.4, pp. 753–766.

Verba, Sidney, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry E. Brady. 1995. Voice and Equality: CivicVoluntarism in American Politics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

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Bureaucracy and Public Administration: Seminal Works

Bawn, Kathleen. 1995. “Political Control Versus Expertise: Congressional Choices About Adminis-trative Procedures”. The American Political Science Review 89.1, pp. 62–73.

Carpenter, Daniel P. 2001. The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, andPolicy Innovation in Executive Agencies. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Cohen, Michael, James March, and Johan Olsen. 1972. “A Garbage Can Model of OrganizationalChoice”. Administrative Science Quarterly 17, pp. 1–25.

Kaufman, Herbert. 2010. The Forest Ranger: A Study in Administrative Behavior. Routledge.Lindblom, Charles E. 1959. “The Science of Muddling Through”. Public Administration Review 19,

pp. 79–88.Lipsky, Michael. 1980. Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services.

Russell Sage Foundation.McCubbins, Mathew D. and Thomas Schwartz. 1984. “Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police

Patrols Versus Fire Alarms”. American Journal of Political Science 28.1, pp. 165–179.Moe, Terry M. 1984. “The New Economics of Organization”. American Journal of Political Science

28.4, pp. 739–777.Weber, Max. 1946. “Bureaucracy”. In: Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Ed. by Heinrich Gerth. New

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Race, Gender, Inequality: Seminal Works

Dawson, Michael C. 1995. Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics. PrincetonUniversity Press.

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