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Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book

In addition to this, you may find the following book useful for analysisand reflections on more recent American political developments: (2items)

Developments in American politics: 8 - 2018, ©2018Book

Developments in American politics 7 - 2014Book

General American Politics Books (24 items)

America and its critics: virtues and vices of the democratic hyperpower - Sergio Fabbrini,2008

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The American political process - Alan R. Grant, 2004Book

American politics: 2000 and beyond - Alan R. Grant, c2000Book

The Politics Today companion to American government - Alan R. Grant, Edward Ashbee,2002

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American government and politics: a concise introduction - Robert Singh, 2003Book

American politics and society - David McKay, 2013Book

American politics and society - David H. McKay, 2005Book

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Controversies in American politics and society - David H. McKay, David Patrick Houghton,Andrew Wroe, 2002

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Developments in American politics - Gillian Peele, Christopher J. Bailey, Bruce E. Cain, 1992Book

Developments in American politics 2 - Gillian Peele, 1994Book

Developments in American politics 3 - Gillian Peele, 1998Book

Developments in American politics 4 - Gillian Peele, 2002Book

Developments in American politics 5 - Gillian Peele, 2006Book

Developments in American politics 6 - Gillian Peele, 2010Book

Developments in American politics 7 - 2014Book

US politics today - Edward Ashbee, 2012Book

US politics today - Edward Ashbee, Nigel Ashford, c1999Book

Governing America: history, culture, institutions, organisation, policy - Tim Hames, Nicol C.Rae, 1996

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Government and politics of the United States - Nigel Bowles, 1998Book

Democracy under pressure: an introduction to the American political system - Milton C.Cummings, David Wise, ©2001

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Democracy under pressure: an introduction to the American political system - Milton C.Cummings, David Wise, 1997

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Politics and power in the USA - David H. McKay, 1994Book

Explaining American politics: issues and interpretations - Robert Williams, 1990Book

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The new American political system - Anthony King, American Enterprise Institute for PublicPolicy Research, c1990

Book

Examples of relevant journals are: (9 items)

The American Political Science ReviewJournal

Parliamentary AffairsJournal

Government and OppositionJournal

Political studiesJournal

The Political QuarterlyJournal

Whereas Time and Newsweek have current American politics news the best weekly sourceis The Economist which has a special American politics survey

The EconomistJournal

TimeJournal

NewsweekJournal

Internet sources for political news include: (6 items)

Washington PostWebsite

The New York TimesWebsite

Los Angeles TimesWebsite

ABC NewsWebsite

CNN

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British Government and Politics on the Internet - Keele UniversityWebpage | Keele University Politics Department’s website provides links with a wide

range of organisations, including newspapers, government institutions and pressuregroups

1. Introduction: American System of Government I: Constitution (18items)

Introduction (4 items)

No required reading but this might be a useful introduction

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book | R. Singh (2003) ‘Introduction’

2. American System of Government I: Constitution (2 items)

Basic, required reading

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book | R. Hodder Williams (2003) ‘The US Constitution’

Recommended reading (14 items)

American Politics and Society - David McKay, 2017Book

Developments in American politics 7 - 2014Book | G. Peele (2014) ‘An Emerging Constitutional Debate’

America and its critics: virtues and vices of the democratic hyperpower - Sergio Fabbrini,2008

Book | Chapter 2

American government and politics: a concise introduction - Robert Singh, 2003Book | Chapter 2

American society today - Edward Ashbee, 2002Book

The Politics of Balkanisation - Ashbee, E.Chapter | E. Ashbee, (2000) ‘The Politics of Balkanisation’, chapter 1

Bowling Alone: A Civic or Moral Crisis in US Society Today? - E. Ashbee, 2000Article

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The Making of the Constitution - Zvesper, J.Chapter

A Constitution to Endure - Zvesper, J.Chapter

The Politics Today companion to American government - Alan R. Grant, Edward Ashbee,2002

Book | Read chapters 1 & 2

Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community - Robert D. Putnam, c2000Book

American exceptionalism - Deborah L. Madsen, British Association for American Studies,c1998

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American political ideas: traditions and usages - Michael Foley, c1991Book

The frozen republic: how the Constitution is paralyzing democracy - Daniel Lazare, c1996Book

3. American System of Government II: Executive – Legislative Relations(47 items)

Basic, required reading (1 items)

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book | J. Hart (2003) ‘The presidency’, Chapter 9 and J. E. Owens (2003) ‘Congress’,

Chapter 10

Recommended reading (46 items)

Developments in American politics 7 - 2014Book | J. Herbert (2014) ‘The Presidency’ and A. Ray & J. Thurber (2014) ‘Congress: The

Causes and Consequences of PartisanshipDeadlock’

Barack Obama and the Calculus of Presidential Ambiguity - M. Foley, 2013Article

Recommended reading for seminar papers

The Unconstrained Presidency: Checks and Balances Eroded Long Before Trump. -Goldgeier, James Saunders, Elizabeth N, 2018

Article

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Developments in American politics: 8 - 2018, ©2018Book | D. L. Kriner (2018) ‘The Presidency’

Developments in American Politics 7 - 2014Book | J. Herbert (2014) ‘The Presidency’ and A. Ray & J. Thurber (2014) ‘Congress: The

Causes and Consequences of Partisanship Deadlock’

Barack Obama and the Calculus of Presidential Ambiguity - Michael Foley, 2013Article

Developments in American politics 6 - Gillan Peele, 2010Book | J. Roper (2010) ‘The Presidency’ and T. Mann (2010) ‘Congress’

What Happened to Post-Partisanship? Barack Obama and the New American Party System- Sidney M. Milkis, Jesse H. Rhodes, Emily J. Charnock, 2012-3

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Varieties of Obamaism: Structure, Agency, and the Obama Presidency - Lawrence R.Jacobs, Desmond S. King, 2010-9

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The Weakening White House - Richard E. Neustadt, 2001Article

Supplementary Reading 

Barack Obama: The Man and His Presidency at the Midterm - Fred I. Greenstein, 2011Article

American politics: 2000 and beyond - Alan R. Grant, c2000Book | J. E. Owens (2000) ‘Congress after the ‘Revolution’’, chapter 2

Contemporary American politics - Alan R. Grant, 1995Book | P. Falconer (1995) ‘Congressional Oversight: the Development of Legislative

Review’, chapter 2

Developments in American politics 3 - Gillian Peele, 1998Book | J. E. Owens (1998) ‘Congress and Partisan Change’, chapter 2

Developments in American politics 2 - Gillian Peele, 1994Book | R. Davidson, (1994) ‘Congress in Crisis – Once Again’, chapter 7

The United States Congress - Ross M. English, 2003Book

The contemporary Congress - Burdett A. Loomis, Wendy J. Schiller, c2004Book

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The Postreform Congress - Roger H. Davidson, c1992Book

Congress and its members - Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, c2004Book

Remaking Congress: change and stability in the 1990s - James A. Thurber, Roger H.Davidson, 1995

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Congress reconsidered - Lawrence C. Dodd, Bruce Ian Oppenheimer, c2005Book

Congress today - Edward V. Schneier, Bertram M. Gross, c1993Book

Congress and the presidency: institutional politics in a separated system - Michael Foley,John E. Owens, 1996

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Separate but equal branches: Congress and the presidency - Charles Oscar Jones, c1995Book

The United States: Congress Under StressArticle

American politics: 2000 and beyond - Alan R. Grant, c2000Book | T. Hames (2000) ‘Presidential Power and the Clinton Presidency’, chapter 3

Contemporary American politics - Alan R. Grant, 1995Book | D. Mervin (1995), ‘Statecraft in the White House: The Reagan and Bush

Presidencies’, chapter 1

Developments in American politics 3 - Gillian Peele, 1998Book | G. Wilson (1998) ‘The Presidency’, chapter 2

Developments in American politics 2 - Gillian Peele, 1994Book | J. Hart (1994) ‘The Presidency in the 1990s’, chapter 6

The presidential difference: leadership style from FDR to Clinton - Fred I. Greenstein, 2001Book

The modern presidency - James P. Pfiffner, ©2011Book

Understanding the presidency - James P. Pfiffner, Roger H. Davidson, c2000Book

Presidential leadership: politics and policy making - George C. Edwards, Stephen J. Wayne,2003

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High hopes: the Clinton presidency and the politics of ambition - Stanley Allen Renshon,1998

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The president of the United States - David Mervin, 1993Book

George Bush and the guardianship presidency - David Mervin, 1996Book

The postmodern president - Richard Rose, 1991Book

Presidential power and the modern presidents: the politics of leadership from Roosevelt toReagan - Richard E. Neustadt, Richard E. Neustadt, c1990

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The presidency in a separated system - Charles Oscar Jones, 1994Book

The paradoxes of the American presidency - Thomas E. Cronin, Michael A. Genovese, 2004Book

The modern American presidency - Lewis L. Gould, c2003Book

Considering the Bush presidency - Gary L. Gregg, Mark J. Rozell, 2004Book

The George W. Bush presidency: an early assessment - Fred I. Greenstein, 2003Book

Developments in American politics 4 - Gillian Peele, 2002Book | B. Guy Peters (2002) 'Federal Bureaucracy and Public Management'

4. American System of Government III: The Judiciary (32 items)

Basic, required reading (1 items)

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book | R. Hodder-Williams (2003) ‘The Federal Judiciary’, Chapter 8

Recommended reading for seminar papers (31 items)

Public Opinion and Setting the Agenda on the U.S. Supreme Court - Amanda C. Bryan,2019

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Developments in American politics: 8 - 2018, ©2018

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Book | C.W. Clayton & M. F. Salamone (2018) ‘The Supreme Court’

Developments in American Politics 7 - 2014Book | C.W. Clayton & L. K. McMillan (2014) ‘The Supreme Court’

The Semiconstrained Court: Public Opinion, the Separation of Powers, and the U.S.Supreme Court's Fear of Nonimplementation - Matthew E.K. Hall, 2014

Article

Obamacare and the Court. - Friedman, Barry, 2012Article

How Public Opinion Constrains the U.S. Supreme Court - Christopher J. Casillas, Peter K.Enns and Patrick C. Wohlfarth, 2011

Article

Developments in American politics 6 - Gillian Peele, 2010Book | P. Martin (2010) ‘The Supreme Court’

The US Supreme Court's 'Enemy Combatant' Decisions: A 'Major Victory for the Rule ofLaw'? - Daniel Moeckli

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The Least Dangerous Branch Revisited: New Evidence on Supreme Court Responsivenessto Public Preferences - Kevin T. McGuire, James A. Stimson, 2004

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The Supreme Court in American Politics - Lawrence Baum, 2003Article

Six Notions of 'Political' and the United States Supreme Court - Richard Hodder-Williams,1992

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Presidential Capital and the Supreme Court Confirmation Process - Timothy R. Johnson,Jason M. Roberts, 2004

Article

Supplementary reading

American politics: 2000 and beyond - Alan R. Grant, c2000Book | R. McKeever (2000) ‘In Search of a Role: The Supreme Court in a Post-Civil

Rights Era’, chapter 6

Contemporary American politics - Alan R. Grant, 1995Book | R. Hodder Williams (1995) ‘The Supreme Court Nominations of Reagan and

Bush’, chapter 5

Developments in American politics - Gillian Peele, Christopher J. Bailey, Bruce E. Cain, 1992Book | R. Hodder Williams (1992) ‘Constitutional Legitimacy and the Supreme Court’,

chapter 6

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Developments in American politics 3 - Gillian Peele, 1998Book | C. W. Clayton & J. Giordano (1998) ‘The Supreme Court and the Constitution’,

chapter 4

Developments in American politics 5 - Gillian Peele, 2006Book | R. English (2006) ‘The United States Supreme Court: Continuity and Change’

Developments in American politics 4 - Gillian Peele, 2002Book | T. E. Yarbrough (2002) ‘The Supreme Court and the Constitution’

The United States Supreme Court: a political and legal analysis - Robert J. McKeever, 1997Book

The limits of judicial power: the Supreme Court in American politics - William Lasser, c1988Book

The Supreme Court and American democracy - David G. Barnum, c1993Book

Raw judicial power?: the Supreme Court and American society - Robert J. McKeever, c1995Book

The least dangerous branch?: consequences of judicial activism - Stephen Powers, StanleyRothman, Smith College, 2002

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The U.S. Supreme Court and the electoral process - David K. Ryden, 2002Book

The Rehnquist court: a retrospective - Martin H. Belsky, 2002Book

The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution - Tinsley E. Yarbrough, 2000Book

Closed chambers: the rise, fall, and future of the modern Supreme Court - Edward Lazarus,2005

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The selling of Supreme Court nominees - John Anthony Maltese, 1998Book

In defense of a political court - Terri Jennings Peretti, c1999Book

Supreme Court decision-making: new institutionalist approaches - Cornell W. Clayton,Howard Gillman, 1999

Book

5. American System of Government IV: Elections and Participation (60

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items)

Basic, required reading (1 items)

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book | C. J. Nelson (2003) ‘Elections’, Chapter 6

Recommended reading for seminar papers (54 items)

Developments in American politics: 8 - 2018, ©2018Book | D. Brady & B. Parker (2018) ‘The 2016 Elections’

Developments in American politics: 8 - 2018, ©2018Book | N. Rae (2018) ‘Political Parties’

Voter Turnout, Felon Disenfranchisement and Partisan Outcomes in Presidential Elections,1988–2012 - Edward M. Burmila, 2017-3

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Black (and Brown) Bodies Out of Place: Towards a Theoretical Understanding of SystematicVoter Suppression in the United States - Barbara Harris Combs, 2016

Article

Developments in American politics 7 - 2014Book | J. Cohen (2104) ‘The 2012 Elections’

Developments in American politics 6 - Gillian Peele, 2010Book | B. E. Cain (2010) ‘The Electoral System and the Lessons of 2008’

The Electoral College, Mobilization, and Turnout in the 2000 Presidential Election - DavidHill, Seth C. McKee, 2005

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“The electors shall meet in their respective states”: Bias and the US Presidential ElectoralCollege, 1960–2012 - Charles Pattie, Ron Johnston, 2014

Article

Polarization, Gridlock, and Presidential Campaign Politics in 2016 - Gary C. Jacobson, 2016Article

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism - Vanessa Williamson, ThedaSkocpol, John Coggin, 2011

Article

Tea Time in America? The Impact of the Tea Party Movement on the 2010 MidtermElections - Christopher F. Karpowitz, J. Quin Monson, Kelly D. Patterson, Jeremy C. Pope,2011

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The Transformation of the Republican and Democratic Party Coalitions in the U.S. - GaryMiller, Norman Schofield, 2008

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Political Polarization in the American Public - Fiorina M.P, Abrams S.J, 2008Article

Developments in American politics 3 - Gillian Peele, 1998Book

American politics: 2000 and beyond - Alan R. Grant, c2000Book

Developments in American politics 7 - 2014Book

Developments in American politics 2 - Gillian Peele, 1994Book

Federalism and American Inequality - N. Kelly & C. Witko, 2012Article

Developments in American politics 6 - Gillian Peele, 2010Book | T. Conlan (2010) ‘American Federalism in the Twenty First Century’

Developments in American politics 5 - Gillian Peele, 2006Book | R. Albriton (2006) ‘American Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations’

The Color of Devolution: Race, Federalism, and the Politics of Social Control - Joe Soss,Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram, 2008-07

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The federal nation: perspectives on American federalism - Iwan W. Morgan, Philip Davies,2008

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The Electoral College, Mobilization, and Turnout in the 2000 Presidential Election - D. Hilland S. C. McKee, 2005

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The Obama coalition and the future of American politics - L. García Bedolla & K. L. Haynie,2013

Article

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism - Vanessa Williamson, ThedaSkocpol, John Coggin, 2011-3

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Tea Time in America? The Impact of the Tea Party Movement on the 2010 MidtermElections - Christopher F. Karpowitz, J. Quin Monson, Kelly D. Patterson and Jeremy C. Pope, 2011

Article

The Transformation of the Republican and Democratic Party Coalitions in the U.S. - Gary

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Miller and Norman Schofield, 2008Article

Political Polarization in the American Public - Fiorina M.P, Abrams S.J, 2008Article

Developments in American politics 6 - Gillian Peele, 2010Book | A. Ware (2010) ‘Political Parties and the New Partisanship’

Supplementary reading

Contemporary American politics - Alan R. Grant, 1995Book | A. Grant (1995) ‘Political Action Committees in American Politics’, chapter 8

Pressure and Power: Organized Interests in American Politics - Anthony J. Nownes, 2001,©2001

Book

Developments in American politics 3 - Gillian Peele, 1998Book | S. Reilly (1998) ‘Interest Groups in National Politics’, chapter 8

Interest groups, lobbying, and participation in America - Kenneth M. Goldstein, 1999Book

American politics, 2000 and beyond - Alan R. Grant, ©2000Book | N. (2000) Ashford, ‘The Republican Policy Agenda’, chapter 8

Contemporary American politics - Alan R. Grant, 1995Book | N. Ashford (1995) ‘The Right After Reagan: Crack-Up or Comeback?’, chapter 6

Contemporary American politics - Alan R. Grant, 1995Book | N. Rae (1995) ‘Clinton and the Democratic Party: The 1992 Election and Beyond’,

chapter 7

Grand Old Party: a history of the Republicans - Lewis L. Gould, 2003Book

Party of the people: a history of the Democrats - Jules Witcover, ©2003Book

American political parties: the formation, decline, and reform of the American partysystem - Dean McSweeney, John Zvesper, 1991

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Developments in American politics 3 - Gillian Peele, 1998Book | G. Peele (1998) ‘Political Parties’, chapter 7

Developments in American politics 2 - Gillian Peele, 1994Book | P. Herrnson (1994) ‘American Political Parties: Growth and Change’, chapter 4

Politics, parties, and elections in America - John F. Bibby, ©2003Book

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American politics, 2000 and beyond - Alan R. Grant, ©2000Book | P. John Davies (2000) ‘Elections, Voting and Campaigning at the Start of the

Twenty-first Century’, chapter 10

American politics, 2000 and beyond - Alan R. Grant, ©2000Book | A. Grant (2000) ‘The Reform of Election Campaign Finance’, chapter 9

Contemporary American politics - Alan R. Grant, 1995Book | D. McSweeney (1995) ‘Parties and Presidential Nominations’, chapter 9

US elections today - Philip Davies, Philip Davies, ©1999Book

The politics of presidential selection - John S. Jackson, William J. Crotty, ©1996Book

Presidential elections: strategies and structures of American politics - Nelson W. Polsby,Aaron B. Wildavsky, ©1996

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The road to the White House, 2000: the politics of presidential elections - Stephen J.Wayne, ©2000

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Nonvoters: America's no-shows - Jack C. Doppelt, Ellen Shearer, ©1999Book

US Campaign 2000: Of Pregnant Chads, Butterfly Ballots and Partisan Vitriol - Pippa Norris,2001

Article

The Politics of American Campaign Finance - A. Grant, 1998Article

Money and the 2004 American Elections - A. Grant, 2004Article

Internet sources: (5 items)

Gallup.Com - Daily News, Polls, Public Opinion on Politics, Economy, Wellbeing, and WorldWebpage | The Gallup Organization is a long-established source of opinion poll data.

American National Election StudiesWebsite | The University of Michigan’s National Election Studies website offers polling

research. Its coverage includes attitudes towards important issues, partisan identification,electoral turnout and split-ticket voting.

Federal Election Commission Home PageWebsite | The Federal Election Commission site covers information on campaign finance

laws and regulations, press releases about FEC rulings and election expenditure. It givesinformation about expenditure and contributions by political action committees and

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political parties.

OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's GettingWebsite | The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-profit research group which tracks

the effect of money on elections and public policy. Its website provides a search facility toinvestigate financial details relating to individual politicians and donors.

NARA U.S. Electoral CollegeWebpage | The National Records and Archives Administration Electoral College Home

Page provides information about the working of the Electoral College and details ofrelevant laws.

6. American Public Policy I: Economic Policy (19 items)

Basic, required reading: (1 items)

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book | N. Bowles (2003) ‘Economic Policy’, Chapter 13

Recommended Reading (18 items)

Developments in American politics: 8 - 2018, ©2018Book | B. Guy Peters (2018) ‘Economic Policy’

Trump and Globalization - Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2018Article

Developments in American politics 7 - 2014Book | C. J. Bailey (2014) ‘The Troubled Economy’

A New Normal? American Economic Policymaking After The Great Recession - Barry Pump,2012

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The President, Congress, and the Financial Crisis: Ideology and Moral Hazard in EconomicGovernance - J. Knott, 2012

Article | Not available via Oxford Brookes Library

The Obama Administration, the Left and Narratives of Failure - Edward Ashbee, 2012Article

America's Political Crisis: The Unsustainable State in a Time of Unraveling - LawrenceJacobs and Desmond King, 2009

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Developments in American politics 6 - Gillian Peele, 2010Book | G. A. Mackenzie (2010) ‘The American Economy in Crisis’

Developments in American politics 5 - Gillian Peele, 2006

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Book | A. Wroe (2006) ‘Economic Policy’

Institutional Strangulation: Bureaucratic Politics and Financial Reform in the ObamaAdministration - Daniel Carpenter, 2010

Article

Supplementary reading

Developments in American politics 3 - Gillian Peele, 1998Book | B. Guy Peters (1998) ‘Economic Policy’

Developments in American politics 4 - Gillian Peele, 2002Book | C. J. Bailey (2002) ‘Economic Policy’

Government and politics of the United States - Nigel Bowles, 1998Book | N. Bowles “Domestic Economic Policy”

Government and politics of the United States - Nigel Bowles, Robert K. McMahon, 2014Book | N. Bowles “Domestic Economic Policy”

More: the politics of economic growth in postwar America - Robert M. Collins, 2000Book

Clinton and the economy: The paradox of policy success and political mishap. -Weatherford, M. StephenMcDonnell, Lorraine M.

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American public policy: promise and performance - B. Guy Peters, 2015Book

7. American Public Policy II: Foreign Policy (36 items)

Basic, required reading: (1 items)

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book | J. Dumbrell (2003) ‘Foreign Policy’, Chapter 14, pp 267 – 285

Recommended Reading for Seminar Papers (35 items)

After Credibility: American Foreign Policy in the Trump Era. - Yarhi-Milo, K, 2018Article

The Unconstrained Presidency: Checks and Balances Eroded Long Before Trump. - James,Goldgeier, Elizabeth N. Saunders, 2018

Article

Developments in American politics: 8 - 2018, ©2018Book | J. Tama (2018) ‘Foreign and Security Policy’

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The Obama Doctrine: a legacy of continuity in US foreign policy? - 2017Book | L. Jarvis and M. Lister (2016) ‘For the record: (Re)constructing Obama’s foreign

policy legacy

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in the Twenty-first Century: China's Rise and theFate of America's Global Position - Stephen G. Brooks, William C. Wohlforth, 2016

Article

Externalizing the burden of war: the Obama Doctrine and US foreign policy in the MiddleEast - Andreas Krieg, 2016

Article

What Obama Gets Right. - Rose Gideon, 2015Article

Developments in American Politics 7 - 2014Book | J. Dumbrell (2014) ‘Foreign and Security Policy

Shale gas and the revival of American power: debunking decline? - DAVID HASTINGSDUNN, MARK J. L. McCLELLAND, 2013

Article

The Obama Presidency and US Foreign Policy: Where’s the Multilateralism? - DavidSkidmore, 2012

Article

The Future of American Power. - Nye, Joseph S., 2010Article

Developments in American politics 6 - Gillan Peele, 2010Book | T. Lynch (2010) 'American Foreign Policy in the 2010s'

The Decline of America's Soft Power: Why Washington Should Worry - Joseph S. Nye, 2004Article

Scoring Obama's Foreign Policy: A Progressive Pragmatist Tries to Bend History - M., Indyk,K., Liebertha, M. O’Hanlon, 2012

Article

The Myth of American Exceptionalism - WALT, STEPHEN M., 2011Article

Supplementary reading

Developments in American politics 5 - Gillian Peele, 2006Book | J. Herbert (2006) ‘Foreign Policy’

Myths, Motivations and 'Misunderestimations': The Bush Administration and Iraq - DavidHastings Dunn, 2003

Article

Obama's Year One. - Kagan, Robert1, 2010

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Major foreign policy challenges for the next US President - Z. Brzezinski, 2009Article

The Future of American Power: Dominance and Decline in Perspective - Joseph S. Nye, Jr.,2010

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Developments in American politics 6 - Gillian Peele, 2010Book | T. Lynch (2010) ‘American Foreign Policy in the 2010s’

Scoring Obama's Foreign Policy: A Progressive Pragmatist Tries to Bend History - Martin S.Indyk, Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Michael E. O'Hanlon, 2012

Article

The Myth of American Exceptionalism - S. Walt, 2011Article

Major foreign policy challenges for the next US President - ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, 2009Article

Developments in American politics 3 - Gillian Peele, 1998Book | J. Dumbrell ‘Foreign Policy’

Developments in American politics 4 - Gillian Peele, 2002Book | D. Williams (2002) ‘Foreign and Security Policy’

American government and politics: a concise introduction - Robert Singh, 2003Book | Chapter 12

Writing security: United States foreign policy and the politics of identity - David Campbell,1998

Book

American foreign policy: pattern and process - Eugene R. Wittkopf, Charles W. Kegley,James M. Scott, Charles W. Kegley, c2003

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US foreign policy after the cold war: global hegemon or reluctant sheriff? - Fraser Cameron, 2005

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U.S. Power and Strategy After Iraq. - Nye, Jr., Joseph S., 2003Article

American power before and after 11 September: dizzy with success? - Cox, Michael, 2002Article

US foreign relations in the twentieth century: From world power to global hegemony. -Dunne, Michael, 2000

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What Went Wrong in Iraq. - Diamond, Larry, 2004Article

8. American Public Policy III: Social Policy (25 items)

Basic, required reading: (1 items)

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book | F. Ross (2003) ‘Social Policy’, Chapter 17, pp 321 – 338

Recommended Reading for Seminar Papers (24 items)

Obamacare in the Trump Era: Where are we Now, and Where are we Going? - DanielBéland, Philip Rocco, Alex Waddan, 2018

Article

Developments in American politics: 8 - 2018, ©2018Book | A. Waddan & Béland, D. (2018) ‘The politics of social policy’

Health Reform and the Future of American Politics - Lawrence R. Jacobs, 2014Article

Developments in American politics 7 - 2014Book | R. C. Fording (2014) ‘American Social Policy’

Developments in American politics 7 - 2014Book | B. Guy Peters (2014) ‘Health Policy: ‘Obamacare’ and After’

What the European and American welfare states have in common and where they differ:facts and fiction in comparisons of the European Social Model and the United States - JensAlber, 2010

Article

Obama and the Transformation of U.S. Public Policy: The Struggle to Reform Health Care -Theda Skocpol, Vanessa Williamson, 2011

Journal

What Health Reform Teaches Us about American Politics - Lawrence R. Jacobs, 2010Article

The Road to Somewhere: Why Health Reform Happened: Or Why Political Scientists WhoWrite about Public Policy Shouldn't Assume They Know How to Shape It - Jacob S. Hacker,2010

Article

Developments in American politics 6 - Gillian Peele, 2010Book | B. Guy Peters (2010) ‘American Social Policy: The Possibilities for Reform’

US Social Policy in the 21st Century: The Difficulties of Comprehensive Social Reform -

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Anne Daguerre, 2011-08Article

The politics of social policy change: lessons of the Clinton and Bush presidencies - D.Béland and A. Waddan, 2010

Article

Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the ObamaEra - S. Mettler, 2010

Article

Obamacare and the Court. - Friedman, Barry, 2012Article

Supplementary Reading

The Politics of Reforming Social Security - R. Douglas Arnold, 1998-06Article

Developments in American politics 5 - Gillian Peele, 2006Book | A. Waddan (2006) ‘Social Policy’

Public Policy, Economic Inequality, and Poverty: The United States in ComparativePerspective* - Timothy M. Smeeding, 2005-12

Article

In the name of liberalism: illiberal social policy in the USA and Britain - Desmond S. King,1999

Book

From welfare to work: lessons from America - Lawrence M. Mead, Frank Field, Dee Cook,Alan Deacon, Institute of Economic Affairs. Health and Welfare Unit, c1997

Book

From Clinton to Blair: The Democratic (Party) origins of welfare to work. - King,DesmondWickham-Jones, Mark

Article

Dismantling the welfare state?: Reagan, Thatcher, and the politics of retrenchment - PaulPierson, 1994

Book

Developments in American politics 3 - Gillian Peele, 1998Book | D. M. Hill (1998) ‘Social Policy’

Developments in American politics 4 - Gillian Peele, 2002Book | F. Ross (2002) ‘Social Policy’

9. Controversies in American Politics I: Religion and Culture (28 items)

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Basic, required reading: (1 items)

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book | S. Bruce (2003) ‘Religion’, chapter 22

Recommended reading: (27 items)

United States: Racial Resentment, Negative Partisanship, and Polarization in Trump’sAmerica - Alan Abramowitz, Jennifer McCoy, 2019

Article

Make America Christian Again: Christian Nationalism and Voting for Donald Trump in the2016 Presidential Election - Andrew L Whitehead, Samuel L Perry, Joseph O Baker, 2018

Article

Developments in American politics: 8 - 2018, ©2018Book | G. Peele (2018) ‘Religion and American Politics’

Polarization, Gridlock, and Presidential Campaign Politics in 2016 - Gary C. Jacobson,2016-09

Article

God and Caesar in America. - Campbell, David E.; Putnam, Robert D., 2012Article

Is America a Christian Nation? - Hugh Heclo, 2007Article

Between Passion and Deliberation: The Christian Right and Democratic Ideals - JON A.SHIELDS, 2007

Article

Romancing the Gop - Brett M. Clifton, 2004Article

Religion in American Politics: A Short History, Princeton, Princeton University Press - F.Lambert, 2008

Document | not in library, but sample chapter available at:http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8616.pdf

Sex, Secularism and Religious Influence in US Politics - Elizabeth Bernstein, Janet RJakobsen, 2010

Article

Culture Wars and Opinion Polarization: The Case of Abortion - Ted Mouw, Michael E. Sobel,2001

Article

Doubting culture wars - Jonathan B. Imber, 2001-9Article

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Supplementary Reading

American Faith-Based Politics in the ERA of George W. Bush - John C Green, 2009Article

The future of religion in American politics - Charles W. Dunn, c2009Book

The Political Consequences of Religious Group Attitudes - Ted G. Jelen, 1993Article

Something Within: Religion as a Mobilizer of African-American Political Activism - FredrickC. Harris, 1994

Article

Much Hope, Modest Change for Democrats | Pew Research Center - J. C. Green and S.Clement, 2010

Webpage | ‘Much Hope, Modest Change for Democrats:Religion in the 2008 Presidential Election’, The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life,available at: http://pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Much-Hope-Modest-Change-for-Democrats-Religion-in-the-2008-Presidential-Election.aspx

Culture wars: the struggle to define America - James Davison Hunter, c1991Book

Religion and American Politics | MIT Video - A. Wolfe, 2005Webpage

The Tyranny of the Moral Majority: American Religion and Politics since the Pilgrim Fathers.- Perkin, Harold

Article

Developments in American politics 5 - Gillian Peele, 2006Book | R. Mason (2006) ‘Values, Lifestyles and Politics’

Developments in American politics 4 - Gillian Peele, 2002Book | S. B. Hansen (2002) ‘Religion and Morality’

Religion and political behavior in the United States. - Layman, Geoffrey C.Article

American politics and society today - Robert Singh, 2002Book | R. Singh (2002) ‘Subverting American Values? The Simpsons, South Park and the

Cartoon Culture War’

American politics: 2000 and beyond - Alan R. Grant, c2000Book | M. Durham (2000) ‘The Christian Right in American Politics’, chapter 7

The Christian right, the far right and the boundaries of American conservatism - MartinDurham, 2000

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10. Controversies in American Politics II: Race & Multiculturalism (26items)

Basic, required reading: (1 items)

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book | E. Kaufmann (2003) ‘Race and Multiculturalism’, chapter 24

Recommended Reading for Seminar Papers (25 items)

Developments in American politics: 8 - 2018, ©2018Book | R. Johnson (2018) ‘Race, Ethnicity and Immigration’

Racial and Political Dynamics of an Approaching “Majority-Minority” United States -Maureen A. Craig, Julian M. Rucker, Jennifer A. Richeson, 2018

Article

Racism in Trump's America: reflections on culture, sociology, and the 2016 US presidentialelection - Lawrence D. Bobo, 2017

Article

Black youths, joblessness, and the other side of ‘Black Lives Matter’ - William Julius Wilson,2016

Article

New perspectives on the declining significance of race: a rejoinder - William Julius Wilson,2015-06-21

Article | see also other articles in this issue of the journal

Is the significance of race declining in the political arena? Yes, and no - JenniferHochschild, Vesla Weaver, 2015

Article

The Declining Significance of Race or the Persistent Racialization of Blacks? A Conceptual,Empirical, and Methodological Review of Today’s Race Debate in America - TahseenShams, 2015

Article

Developments in American politics 7 - 2014Book | D. King (2014) ‘America’s Civil Rights State: Amelioration, Stagnation or Failure?’

The Return of Old-Fashioned Racism to White Americans’ Partisan Preferences in the EarlyObama Era - Michael Tesler, 2013

Article

The paradox of decategorization: deinstitutionalizing race through race-based affirmativeaction in the United States - Daniel Sabbagh, 2011

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Review: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Persistent Complexities of Race andPolitics in the US - D. Osei Robertson, 2011

Article

Barack Obama and the Politics of Race - Martell Teasley, David Ikard, 2010Article

The Sweet Enchantment of Color-Blind Racism in Obamerica - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, DavidDietrich, 2011

Article

The American State and Social Engineering: Policy Instruments in Affirmative Action - D.King, 2007

Article | R. Engstrom (1998) ‘Affirmative Action and the Politics of’Race’

Supplementary Reading

Developments in American politics 6 - Gillan Peele, 2010Book | J. F. Hollifield (2010) ‘American Immigration Policy and Politics: An Enduring

Controversy’

Developments in American politics 5 - Gillian Peele, 2006Book | R. B. Albritton (2006) ‘The Rising Power of Minorities and the Deracialization of

AmericanPolitics’

Politics USA - R. A. Maidment, John Zvesper, Robert J. McKeever, 1999Book | J. Zvesper (1999) ‘Immigration, ethnicity and race in American politics’

Politics USA - R. A. Maidment, John Zvesper, Robert J. McKeever, 1999Book | R. McKeever (1999) ‘The politics of race and affirmative action’

Making Americans: immigration, race, and the origins of the diverse democracy - DesmondS. King, 2000

Book

American politics and society today - Robert Singh, 2002Book | D. King & J. Murphet (2002) ‘Multiculturalism and the End of Jazz’

Barack Obama: 'A More Perfect Union' (Full Speech) - 2008Audio-visual document | [campaign speech about race in America]

The Big Race: Obama and the Psychology of the Color Barrier - John Judis, 2008Webpage

THE CENTRALITY OF RACE IN AMERICAN POLITICS - Vincent L. Hutchings, Nicholas A.Valentino, 2004

Article

Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy -

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Lawrence D. Bobo, Camille Z. Charles, 2009Article

11. Controversies in American Politics III: Capital Punishment (18 items)

Basic, required reading (1 items)

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Book | R. Singh (2003) ‘Capital Punishment’, chapter 20

Recommended Reading For Seminar Papers: (17 items)

Revisiting white backlash: Does race affect death penalty opinion? - Ryden Butler, BrendanNyhan, Jacob M. Montgomery, Michelle Torres, 2018

Article

The American Death Penalty Decline - B. Garrett, A. Jakubow, A. Desai, 2017Article

Religion and Capital Punishment in the United States - Anthony Santoro, 2014Article

The Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration: Convergences and Divergences. - Steiker, CarolS.Steiker, Jordan M., 2014

Article

Capital Punishment in the United States: A New Abolitionism? - Robert Singh, 2000Article

Explanations of American punishment policies - Michael Tonry, 2009Article

Capital Punishment: A Century of Discontinuous Debate - C.S. Steiker and J.M. Steiker,2010

Article

Controversies in American politics and society - David H. McKay, David Patrick Houghton,Andrew Wroe, 2002

Book | D. McKay (2002) ‘Capital Punishment: The Politics of Retribution’

Capital Punishment and American Exceptionalism - Steiker, Carol S., 2002Article

Capital punishment and American culture - David Garland, 2005Article

The Death Penalty: An American History - J. Acker, 2003Article

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Supplementary Reading

The death penalty: an American history - Stuart Banner, 2003Book

The Death penalty in America: current controversies - Hugo Adam Bedau, 1997Book | esp Ch 1 & Part VII

The killing state: capital punishment in law, politics, and culture - Austin Sarat, 1999Book

Why Do White Americans Support the Death Penalty? - Joe Soss, Laura Langbein and AlanR. Metelko, 2003

Article

American Capital Punishment in Comparative Perspective - David T. Johnson, 2011-09Article

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