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AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT POLITICAL 317 SPRING 2010

Introduction 1-6 Receive syllabus; get acquainted; brief discussion of the Hartz thesis Louis Hartz, "American Political Thought and the American ," American Political Science Review 46 (June 1952):321-342 Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution , 74-100

I Three American political traditions A: The liberal tradition and its varieties (e.g., competitive, egalitarian) 1-11 Explaining and refining Hartz’s thesis: the competitive and egalitarian liberal sub-cultures Richard J. Ellis, American Political Cultures , 3-27

1-13 A Tale of Two Toms: Jefferson and Paine’s Richard Matthews, The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson , 1-29 Richard J. Ellis, "Radical Lockeanism in American Political Culture," Western Political Quarterly 45 (December 1992), 825-850

1-18 SPECIAL EVENT King Jr. Day Teach-in Hansen Center 1-4 PM

1-20 class debate: is Paine a competitive or egalitarian liberal? , "Agrarian ," 605-623 in The Life and Major Writings of Thomas Paine

1-22 MICRO-ESSAY #1 DUE IN CLA 251 BY 4PM

1-25 ’s vision of a commercial empire: a competitive liberal structures the regime The Essential and Anti-Federalist Papers, 140-143; 147-152; 158-167 Selected writings of Hamilton in American Political Thought , 163-170; 304-319 John Ferling, Adams v. Jefferson , 36-56; 99-112

B: The republican tradition and its varieties (e.g., pluralist, majoritarian) 1-27 Toward a pluralist : Madison on harnessing ambition and self interest The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, 167-174; 225-231; 241-250; 268-275 Richard Matthews, The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson , 97-118

2-1 The Anti- as majoritarian republicans: Smith and Jefferson on the yeomanry The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, xvi-xxv; 42-58 Richard Matthews, The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson , 31-52; 77-95 THREE QUESTIONS CLASS

2-3 class debate: Which is more republican, Madison’s pluralism or Jefferson’s majoritarianism? Joyce Appleby, and a New Social Order , 79-105 The Adams-Jefferson Letters , 333-392

2-5 MICRO-ESSAY #2 DUE IN CLA 251 BY 4PM

C: The ascriptive tradition and its varieties (e.g., classist, sexist, racist) 2-8 Why does Toqueville’s liberalism erase feudal but not racial differences? Richard Matthews, The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson , 53-75 , in , 11-26; 370-397; 583-600

2-10 class debate: do Tocqueville’s ascriptive assumptions trump his liberal principles? Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America , 398-464 2-12 MICRO-ESSAY #3 DUE IN CLA 251 BY 4PM

II: Dilemmas of the American dream A: A third party in a two-: the strange case of Antimasonry 2-15 How the two party system shapes ideology: critical realignment theory James Sundquist, Dynamics of the Party System , 1-38 Michael F. Holt, Political Parties and American Political Development , 1-32

2-17 To make a populist protest and crusade or to defeat the Democrats? , Towards a Christian , 1-33 Michael F. Holt, Political Parties and American Political Development , 88-127; 148-150

2-22 Christian republicans in the market revolution Paul Goodman, Towards a , 34-53; 147-162 THREE QUESTIONS CLASS

2-24 class debate: were the Antimasons liberals under pressure (i.e., paranoid) or reforming outsiders? , The Paranoid Style in American Politics , 3-40 Mark Voss-Hubbard, “The “Third Party Tradition” Reconsidered,” 121-150 The Address of the National Anti-Masonic Convention (1830), 1-22

2-26 MICRO-ESSAY #4 DUE IN CLA 251 BY 4PM

B: Lincoln resets the regime and the remakes the liberal consensus 3-1 Everett, the culture of death, and the transcendental Declaration Gary Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg , 19-120; 249-263 Karen Orren & Stephen Skowronek, The Search for American Political Development , 120-143

3-3 class debate: did Lincoln’s speech create a “durable shift in governing authority”? Gary Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg , 121-220 Desmond King and Rodgers Smith, “Racial Orders in American Political Development,” 75-92

3-5 MICRO-ESSAY #5 DUE IN CLA 251 BY 4PM

C: Miners in an industrialist age: the end of liberal self-help? 3-8 The Democracy meets the three dimensions of power John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness , v-xi; 3-32 Paul Clark, The Miners’ Fight for Democracy , 1-31

3-9 SPECIAL EVENING PRESENTATION: HARLAN USA 6 PM Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library

3-10 Industrialism comes to Lockean America Michael Paul Rogin, The Intellectuals and McCarthy, 32-58 John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness , 33-68

3-13 / 3-21 SPRING BREAK

3-22 Electoral democracy in the coal camps John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness , 125-164 THREE QUESTIONS CLASS

3-24 class debate : does quiescence make pluralism obsolete? John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness , 165-201

2 John Gaventa, “Citizen Knowledge, Citizen Competence, and Democracy Building,” 49-63 in Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions

3-26 MICRO-ESSAY #6 DUE IN CLA 251 BY 4PM

D: Female citizens: caught between republican virtue and the liberal American dream 3-29 Women’s citizenship and suffrage Kristi Andersen, After Suffrage , 21-47; 160-170

3-30 SPECIAL EVENING PRESENTATION: “SWEET LAND” (2006) 6 PM Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library

3-31 The rise and fall of the Equal Amendment (ERA) Jane J. Mansbridge, Why We Lost the ERA , 1-117 THREE QUESTIONS CLASS

4-5 class debate : was the ERA an egalitarian loss or an ascriptive gain? Jane J. Mansbridge, Why We Lost the ERA , 149-199

4-9 MICRO-ESSAY #7 DUE IN CLA 251 BY 4PM

E: Reconstruction and its aftermath: ascriptive citizenship doesn’t go down without a fight 4-7 Reconstructing American citizenship The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, 143-147 Rogers Smith, “Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America,” 549-566 in American Political Science Review 87:3 (September 1993)

4-12 Darwinian liberalism and Dubois’ double consciousness Carol Horton, Race and the Making of American Liberalism , 3-59 W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk , 43-53

4-14 American labor and White supremacy Carol, Horton, Race and the Making of American Liberalism , 61-138 THREE QUESTIONS CLASS

4-19 class debate : is being color-blind a liberal virtue? Carol Horton, Race and the Making of American Liberalism , 139-208 Nathan Glazer, Affirmative Discrimination , 33-76; 196-221

4-23 FINAL EXAM 10:15 AM

Course requirements The following texts, required of all students, are available at the IWU Bookstore:

John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982) Carol Horton, Race and the Making of American Liberalism (: Oxford University Press, 2006) Jane J. Mansbridge, Why We Lost the ERA (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986) Richard K. Matthews, The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson: A Revisionist View (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1984) Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: Penguin Books, 2003) Gary Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Re-made America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992) David Wootton, The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2003)

Selections from the following articles and books are on e-reserve at Ames Library, password ‘theory’:

3 The Address of the National Anti-Masonic Convention (1830) (google books) Joyce Appleby, Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the (New York: Press, 1984) Kristi Andersen, After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics before the (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996) Paul F. Clark, The Miners’ Fight for Democracy: Arnold Miller and the Reform of the United Mine Workers (Ithaca: Cornell University, 1981) Lester J. Cappon, ed., The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959) W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk (New York: Signet Classics, 1982) Richard J. Ellis, American Political Cultures (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993) John Ferling, Adams v. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) John Gaventa, “Citizen Knowledge, Citizen Competence, and Democracy Building,” 49-63 in Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions Edited by Stephen L. Elkin and Karol Edward Soltan (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999) Nathan Glazer, Affirmative Discrimination : Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy (New York: Basic Books, 1975) Paul Goodman, Towards a Christian Republic: Antimasonry and the Great Transition in , 1826-1836 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988) Louis Hartz, “American Political Thought and the ,” American Political Science Review 46 (June 1952):321-342 Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 (New York: Mentor Books, 1962) Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965) Michael F. Holt, Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln (Baton Rouge: State University Press, 1992) Isaac Kramnick and Theodore J. Lowi, eds. American Political Thought: A Norton Anthology (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009) Thomas Paine, “Agrarian Justice,” 605-623 in The Life and Major Writings of Thomas Paine Edited by Philip S. Foner (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1974) Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek, The Search for American Political Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) Michael Paul Rogin, The Intellectuals and McCarthy , (Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, 1967) Desmond King and Rogers M. Smith, “Racial Orders in American Political Development,” American Political Science Review 99 (February 2005): 75-92 Rogers M. Smith, “Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America,” 549-566 in American Political Science Review 87:3 (September 1993) James L. Sundquist, Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the (, DC: The , 1973) Mark Voss-Hubbard, “The “Third Party Tradition” Reconsidered: Third Parties and American Public Life, 1830- 1900,” 121-150 in Journal of American History 86:1 (June 1999)

Social Students are required to complete seven micro-essays (2-3 pages)—the lowest grade is dropped. Help conserve paper by single-spacing your essay and printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. All assignments and the final exam will be posted on my homepage: see the menu page, below the list of classes, click on ASSIGNMENTS.

60% micro-essays (10% each) 25% final exam 15% class participation

No student who misses as many as eight class sessions, for whatever , shall receive a passing grade. Any student whose cell phone goes off during a class session (including the final exam) will have 2 points deducted from the class participation grade. Because this is a writing intensive class, students have the opportunity to revise every micro-essay (except the last). Students must visit me during office hours with their essay, and then visit me again with a draft of their revision before submitting their final version. Revision grades will be averaged with the original grade for the final grade on the assignment. All such revisions must be handed to me on or before the final class session and must include the original version (April 19).

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