American Government: Power and Purpose

• Chapter 1: Principles of Politics
• Harold D. Lasswell, from Who Gets What, When, How
• Mancur Olson Jr., from The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
• Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons”
• Kenneth A. Shepsle and Mark S. Bonchek, from Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions
• Arthur Lupia & Mathew D. McCubbins, from The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?
• Chapter 2: The Founding and the Constitution
• Federalist Papers 10
• Federalist Papers 43
• Federalist Papers 51
• Federalist Papers 71
• Letters from the Federal Farmer 2
• Letters from the Federal Farmer 10
• Essays of Brutus 6
• Essays of Brutus 7
• Essays of Brutus 9
• Chapter 3: Federalism and the Separation of Powers
• Federalist 47
• Donald F. Kettl, from The Regulation of American Federalism
• William H. Riker, from Federalism: Origin, Operation, Significance
• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• U.S. v. Morrison
• Gonzales v. Oregon
• Tom Campbell, from Separation of Powers in Practice
• Chapter 4: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
• Federalist 84
• Essays of Brutus 2
• Clinton Rossiter, from The Grand Convention
• Roe v. Wade
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Gideon v. Wainwright
• Kelo v. New London
• Richard A. Posner, from Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Grutter v. Bollinger
• Lawrence v. Texas
• Ian Haney Lopez, “Race and Colorblindness After Hernandez and Brown”
• Chapter 5: Congress
• Richard F. Fenno, from The United States Senate: A Bicameral Perspective
• David Mayhew, from Congress: The Electoral Connection
• Gary W. Cox and Jonathan N. Katz, from Elbridge Gerry’s Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution
• Jamie L. Carson and Eric J. Engstrom, “Assessing the Electoral Connection: Evidence from the Early United States”
• John R. Hibbing, “Legislative Careers: Why and How We Should Study Them”
• R. Douglas Arnold, from The Logic of Congressional Action
• Nelson Polsby, from How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change
• Stephen Ansolabehere, et al., “Why Is There So Little Money in U.S. Politics?”
• Dan Morgan, “War Funding Bill’s Extra Riders”
• Gary W. Cox and Mathew D. McCubbins, from Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives
• Keith Krehbiel, from Pivotal Politics
• E. Scott Adler, from Why Congressional Reforms Fail: Reelection and the House Committee System
• Federalist 51
• Federalist 62
• Chapter 6: The Presidency
• Richard E. Neustadt, from Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
• Terry M. Moe, “Presidents, Institutions, and Theory”
• William G. Howell, from Power Without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action
• Charles M. Cameron, “Bargaining and Presidential Power”
• David W. Rohde and Dennis M. Simon, "Presidential Vetoes and Congressional Response: A Study of Institutional Conflict"
• Groseclose and McCarty, “The Politics of Blame: Bargaining Before an Audience”
• Brandice Canes-Wrone, from Who Leads Whom?: Presidents, Policy, and the Public
• Garry Young and William B. Perkins, “Presidential Rhetoric, the Public Agenda, and the End of Presidential Television's ‘Golden Age’”
• US v. Nixon
• Clinton v. City of New York
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
• Federalist Papers 70
• Chapter 7: The Bureaucracy
• James Q. Wilson, from Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It
• Mathew D. McCubbins and Thomas Schwartz, "Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols versus Fire Alarms"
• John Brehm and Scott Gates, from Working, Shirking, and Sabotage: Bureaucratic Response to a Democratic Public
• Al Gore, “Reinventing Democracy”
• Chapter 8: Federal Courts
• Lawrence Baum, from Judges and their Audiences
• Alexander M. Bickel, from The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics
• H. W. Perry, Jr, from Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court
• Ronald Kahn, “Institutional Norms and the Historical Development of Supreme Court Politics”
• Bush v. Gore
• Marbury v. Madison
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Chapter 9: Public Opinion
• James A. Stimson, from Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles, and Swings
• Michael X. Delli Carpini and Scott Keeter, from What Americans Know About Politics and Why It Matters
• Taeku Lee, from Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes
• Mark Danner, “How Bush Really Won”
• Chapter 10: Elections
• Larry M. Bartels, “What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas?”
• Donald Green & Alan Gerber, from Get Out the Vote!: How to Increase Voter Turnout
• Larry M. Bartels, “Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952-1996”
• Andrew Gelman, Gary King, and John Boscardin, "Estimating the Probability of Events That Have Never Occurred: When Is Your Vote Decisive?"
• Baker v. Carr
• Smith v. Allwright
• Buckley v. Valeo
• McConnell v. Federal Election Commission
• Chapter 11: Parties
• John H. Aldrich, from Why Parties?: The Origin and Transformation of Party Politics in America
• Martin P. Wattenberg, from The Decline of American Political Parties 1952-1996
• Gary W. Cox and Mathew D. McCubbins, from Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives
• Larry M. Bartels, “Partisanship and Voting Behavior 1952-1996”
• James L. Sundquist, “Strengthening the National Parties”
• Chapter 12: Interest Groups
• Terry M. Moe, from The Organization of Interests: Incentives and the Internal Dynamics of Political Interest Groups
• Kevin M. Esterling, from The Political Economy of Expertise
• Matt Kelley and Peter Eisler, “Relatives Have Inside Track in Lobbying for Tax Dollars”
• Kenneth W. Kollman, from Outside Lobbying: Public Opinion and Interest Group Strategies
• Adam Sheingate, from The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan
• Federalist 10
• Chapter 13: The Media
• Timothy E. Cook, from Governing with the News: The News Media as a Political Institution
• Douglas Kellner, from Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy: Terrorism, War, and Election Battles
• Michael W. Traugott and Ted Brader, “Explaining 9/11”
• Bernard Goldberg, from Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
• Timothy Groseclose and Tom Milyo, “A Measure of Media Bias”
• Michael Massing, “The Press: The Enemy Within”
• Near v. Minnesota
• New York Times v. U.S.
• New York Times v. Sullivan
• Chapter 14: Economic Policy
• Allan H. Meltzer and Scott F. Richard, “A Rational Theory of the Size of Government”
• Jasmine Farrier, from Passing the Buck: Congress, the Budget, and Deficits
• Graham K. Wilson, from Business and Politics: A Comparative Introduction
• Kelo v. New London
• Chapter 15: Social Policy
• Jacob Hacker, from The Divided Welfare State: The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States
• Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, “Listen to the Wallet—AARP Has Become a Formidable Foe of President Bush's Social Security Plan”
• Daniel Béland, from Social Security: History and Politics
• Martin Gilens, from Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy
• Charles Murray, from In Our Hands: A Plan to Remake the Welfare State
• Theda Skocpol, from The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy
• Goldberg v. Kelly
• Chapter 16: Foreign Policy
• Paul E. Peterson, “The President’s Dominance in Foreign Policy Making”
• Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, from America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy
• Michael Mandelbaum, from The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century
• John Yoo, from The Powers of War and Peace
• George W. Bush, 2007 State of the Union Address

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