Bibliography of American Institutions 1

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SEMINAR IN AMERICAN POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS

GVPT 770 Prof. Frances Lee Office Hours

Spring 2007 [email protected] 2126B Tydings

Wednesdays 3:30-6:15 p.m. 301-405-4339 (Work) T-Th 10:00-11:00, 5:00-6:00Tydings 1136 216-536-4745 (Home) and by appointment

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is the core institutions seminar in American politics, and its purpose is to survey the primary literature in the

field. Each week is devoted to a broad topice.g., party organizations, congressional representation, presidentialleadership, judicial decision making. The expectation is that over the course of the semester students will master

much of the American institutions literature and develop an understanding of the major controversies and research

agendas in the field. This course will prepare students for a comprehensive exam in American politics and to go onto undertake research of their own in American institutions.

ASSIGNMENTS:

Short critical essays (4, 10% each) 40%Synthetic review essay 20%

Discussion/participation 10%

Final examination (take home) 30%

BOOKS FOR PURCHASE:

Arnold, R. Douglas. 1990.Logic of Congressional Action (New Haven: Yale University Press).

Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).

Patterson, Thomas E. 1994. Out of Order(New York: Vintage Press).

Peterson, Paul E. 1995. The Price of Federalism (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution).

Rosenberg, Gerald N. 1993. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (Chicago: University of

Chicago Press).

Skowronek, Stephen. 1993. The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush.(Cambridge: Harvard University Press).

Wilson, James Q. 1989.Bureaucracy (New York: Basic Books).

READINGS:

All students will be expected to have read and reflected upon the assigned readings before class.

The books required for the course have been ordered and are available for purchase at the University Book Center.Students will be responsible for obtaining their own copies of suggested/presentation readings. The syllabus


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provides the http addresses for the articles that are currently available on JSTOR. The other readings are made

available in the GVPT department office.

RESPONSE ESSAYS:

Students will be asked to select four class meetings for which they will write 3-4 page (double-spaced) essays on therequired readings for those meetings. Students should engage in critical analysis of the readings, and summaryshould be kept to a minimum. The purpose of these essays is critique and analysis.

SYNTHETIC REVIEW ESSAY:

For this review essay students should select three or four books and articles from the syllabus (or other books andarticles upon request). The review should compare and contrast the selected readings in terms of the questions they

ask, the data they use, and/or their major findings. You can find examples of this kind of essay using the search

term review essays in JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/search/AdvancedSearch). The review should be 5-6 pages in

length. It is due at the start of our seminar on May 9, 2007

DISCUSSION/PARTICIPATION:

Each student will also be asked to take the lead on discussion for one class meeting. This will involve preparing a

brief set of introductory and integrative remarks about the readings for that date. There is no need to summarize the

readings, because everyone will have read them.

In addition, all students will be asked to submit questions or comments on the required readings for each classmeeting. These comments are designed to promote discussion, so students should feel free to be provocative.

Comments and questions should be emailed to the instructor and to the rest of the class by 12:00 noon on the days

that class meets.

FINAL EXAMINATION:

The final exam will be distributed in a sealed envelope on the last meeting of class. Completed exams will be due

back on May 15, 2007. Students will have 6 hours to complete the exam starting when the exam is opened.

Students may refer to the course readings and notes as they write the exam essay.

SCHEDULE OF TOPICS &READINGS

01/24: Course Introduction

Katznelson, Ira and Helen Milner. 2003. American Political Science: The Discipline's State and the State

of the Discipline in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, Political Science: The State of the Discipline,

III. New York: WW Norton, pp. 1-26.

Weingast, Barry, Rational Choice Institutionalism in Katznelson and Milner, pp. 660-692.


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Pierson, Paul and Theda Skocpol, Historical Institutionalism In Contemporary Political Science in

Katznelson and Milner, pp. 693-721.

Orren, Karen and Steve Skowronek, The Study of American Political Development in Katznelson and

Milner, pp. 722-754.

01/31: The Study of Political Institutions

Jackson, John. 1990. Institutions in American Society: An Overview. Ann Arbor: University ofMichigan Press, chapter 1 (pp. 9-29).

Lee, Frances E. and Bruce I. Oppenheimer. 1999. Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences ofEqual Representation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), chapter 2 (pp 19-43).

March, James G. & Johan P. Olsen. 1989.Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics

(New York The Free Press), chapters 1 & 2 (pp. 1-38).

Pierson, Paul. 2004.Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis. (Princeton: Princeton

University Press), chapters 4 & 5 (pp. 103-166).

Riker, William H. 1980. Implications from the Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of

Institutions.American Political Science Review 74 (2: June): 432-446.

(http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28198006%2974%3A2%3C432%3AIFTDOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C)

02/07: Designing American Political Institutions

The Constitution of the United States (http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution/)

Dahl, Robert A. 2003.How Democratic is the American Constitution? (New Haven: Yale University

Press), chapter 3 & 5 (pp. 41-72, 91-119).

Hibbing, John R. and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. 2002. Stealth Democracy: Americans Beliefs About How

Government Should Work. New York: Cambridge University Press,pp. 14-54, 107-159.

Huntington, Samuel P. 1982. American Ideals versus American Institutions. Political ScienceQuarterly, 97 (Spring): 1-37. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0032-

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Riker, William H. 1984. The Heresthetics of Constitution-Making: The Presidency in 1787, with

Comments on Determinism and Rational Choice.American Political Science Review 78 (March: 1):

1-16 (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-

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Robertson, David Brian. The Constitution and Americas Destiny. (New York: Cambridge University

Press), chapter 1 (pp. 1-29).

02/14: Political Parties

American Political Science Association, Committee on Political Parties. 1950. Toward a More

Responsible Two-Party System: A Report of the Committee on Political Parties:


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Summary of Conclusions and ProposalsAmerican Political Science Review, 44

(September): 1-14. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-

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Aldrich, John H. 1995. Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties inAmerica (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), Chapters 1, 2, 4, 9.

Fiorina, Morris P. 1980. The Decline of Collective Responsibility in American Politics.Daedalus,Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The End of

Consensus? 109 (Summer).

Joseph A. Schlesinger. 1985. The New American Political Party. American Political ScienceReview 79 (December): 1152-1169. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-

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Sundquist, James L. 1988-89. Needed: A Political Theory for the New Era of CoalitionGovernment in the United States.Political Science Quarterly, 103 (Winter): 613-635.

(http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0032-

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02/21: Congress: Institutions

Adler, E. Scott and John S. Lapinski. 1997. Demand-Side Theory and Congressional CommitteeComposition: A Constituency Characteristics Approach.American Journal of Political Science, 41

(July): 895-918. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0092-

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Aldrich, John H. and David W. Rohde. 2000. The Consequences of Party Organization in the House: TheRole of the Majority and Minority Parties in Conditional Party Government. InPolarized Politics.

Edited by John R. Bond and Richard Fleisher. (Washington, DC: CQ Press), chapter 3 (pp. 31-72).

Binder, Sarah A. 1996. The Partisan Basis of Procedural Choice: Allocating Parliamentary Rights in the

House, 1789-1990.American Political Science Review, 90 (March): 8-20.

(http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28199603%2990%3A1%3C8%3ATPBOPC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I)

Cooper, Joseph and David W. Brady. 1981. Institutional Context and Leadership Style: The House from

Cannon to Rayburn The American Political Science Review, 75 (Jun): 411-425.

(http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28198106%2975%3A2%3C411%3AICALST%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V)

Fenno, Richard. 1973. Congressmen in Committees. Boston: Little, Brown, pp. 1-67.

02/28: Congress: Policymaking

Arnold, R. Douglas. 1990.Logic of Congressional Action.New Haven: Yale University Press, chapters 1-7.

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Abandoning the MiddlePerspectives on Politics, 3 (2005: March)

33-53.


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Lee, Frances E. 2000. Senate Representation and Coalition Building in Distributive Politics

American Political Science Review, 94 (March: 1): 59-72.

(http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-

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Lee, Frances E. 2003. Geographic Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives: Coalition

Building and Distribution of Benefits, American Journal of Political Science 47

(October) 713-727. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0092-5853%28200310%2947%3A4%3C714%3AGPITUH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H)

03/07: Presidency: Power

Howell, William G. and David E. Lewis. 2002. Agencies by Presidential Design.Journal of

Politics, 64 (Nov): 1095-1114. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-

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Howell William G. 2003.Power without Persuasion. (Princeton: Princeton University Press),

chapters 1 & 7 (pp. 1-23, 175-187).

Neustadt, Richard E. 1990.Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents (New York: TheFree Press), chapters 1-5 (pp. 1-90).

Rudalevidge, Andrew. 2005. The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power afterWatergate (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press), chapters 6 & 7 (pp. 167-259).

Schlesinger, Arthur. 1973. The Imperial Presidency. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), pp. 278-376.

Wildavsky, Aaron. 1966. The Two Presidencies. Trans-action. 4 (2): 7-14.

03/14: Presidency: Leadership

Kernell, Samuel. Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership (Washington, DC:CQ Press), chapters 1-2 (pp. 1-64).

Skowronek, Stephen. 1993. The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to

George Bush (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), chapters 1-3, 5, 7-8 (pp. 1-58, 129-196, 287-446).

Edwards, George C. III. 2006. On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit(New Haven: Yale UniversityPress), preface and chapters 9-10 (pp. ix-xii, 218-254).

03/21: Spring Break

03/28: Separation of Powers

Binder, Sarah A. 1999. The Dynamics of Legislative Gridlock, 1947-96American Political

Science Review, 93 (September): 519-533. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-

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Whittington, Keith E. and Daniel P. Carpenter. 2003. Executive Power in American

Institutional DevelopmentPerspectives on Politics 1 (September): 495-513.

Mayhew, David R. 1991.Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations,

1946-1990 (New Haven: Yale University Press), chapters 1, 2, 5, 6.

Howell, William, Scott Adler, Charles Cameron, and Charles Riemann. 2000. Divided

Government and the Legislative Productivity of Congress, 1945-94.Legislative StudiesQuarterly. 25 (2): 285-312. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0362-

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Canes-Wrone, Brandice and Scott de Marchi. 2002. Presidential Approval and Legislative

Success.Journal of Politics 64 (May): 491-509. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-

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04/04: Bureaucracy

Carpenter, Daniel P. 2000. State Building through Reputation Building: Coalitions of Esteem

and Program Innovation in the National Postal System, 18831913 Studies in AmericanPolitical Development14 (October): 121-155

(http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=SAP&volumeId=14&issueId=02)

Wilson, James Q. 1989.Bureaucracy (New York: Basic Books), chapter 1-10, 17 (pp. 3-195,315-332).

McCubbins, Mathew D. and Thomas Schwartz. 1984. Congressional Oversight Overlooked:Police Patrols versus Fire Alarms.American Journal of Political Science, 28 (February):

165-179. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0092-

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04/11: Courts: Judicial DecisionmakingBaum, Lawrence. 1997. The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan

Press), chapter 2 (pp. 23-56).

Clayton, Cornell W. and Howard Gillman. 1999. Supreme Court Decisionmaking: NewInstitutionalist Approaches (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), chapter 1 (pp. 1-12).

Epstein, Lee and Jack Knight. 1998. The Choices Justices Make. (Washington, DC: CQ Press),chapters 1-3 (pp. 1-111).

Segal, Jeffrey A. and Harold J. Spaeth. 2002. The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model

Revisited. (New York: Cambridge University Press), chapters 7 & 8 (pp. 279-356).

04/18 Courts: Judicial Policymaking

Dahl, Robert. 1957. Decisionmaking in a Democracy.Journal of Public Law 6 (Fall):50-63.

Casper, Jonathan D. 1976. The Supreme Court and National Policy MakingAmericanPolitical Science Review, 70 (March): 50-63. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-

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Rosenberg, Gerald N. 1993. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press), Introduction, chapters 1-9, 12 (pp. 1-265, 336-

343).

04/25: FederalismKatznelson, Ira, Kim Geiger, Daniel Kryder 1993. Limiting Liberalism: The Southern Veto in

Congress, 1933-1950.Political Science Quarterly, 108 (Summer): 283-306.(http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0032-

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Key, V. O. 1949. Southern Politics in State and Nation. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf),chapters 1, 15-17, and 31 (pp. 3-18, 317-382, 664-675).

Key, V. O. 1956.American State Politics: An Introduction (Westport, Connecticut: GreenwoodPress), chapter 2 (pp. 18-51).

Peterson, Paul E. 1995. The Price of Federalism. (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution),

chapters 1-3, 5-7 (pp. 1-84, 108-174).

05/02: News Media

Patterson, Thomas E. 1994. Out of Order(New York: Vintage Press), chapters 1-5 (pp. 1-207).

Cook, Timothy E. 1998. Governing with the News (Chicago, University of Chicago Press),

chapter 5 (pp. 85-115).

Zaller, John. 1999.A Theory of Media Politics: How the Interests of Politicians, Journalists,

and Citizens Shape the News. (Available for download at:

http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/zaller/media%20politics%20book%20.pdf)

05/09: Interest Groups (Final exam distributed; synthetic review essays due)

Hall, Richard L. and Alan V. Deardorff. 2006 Lobbying as Legislative Subsidy.American Political

Science Review, 100 (February: 1): 69-84.

Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), Chapters 1-

3, and 6 (pp. 5-97, & 132-167).

Schattschneider, E. E. 1960. The Semi-Sovereign People: A Realists View of Democracy in America

(New York: Harcourt Brace Jouvanovich College Publishers), chapters 1& 2 (pp. 1-45).

Hojnacki, Marie and David Kimball. 1998. Organized Interests and the Decision of Whom to Lobby inCongress.American Political Science Review 92 (4): 775-90. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-

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05/15: Final Exams Due

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