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1987 Spring – Bogue – “The History of the American Political Party System” UN I VERS I TY OF WI SCONSIN Department of History (Sem. II - 1986-87) History 901 (The History of the American Political Party System) Mr. Bogue I APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES Robert R. Alford, "Class Voting in the Anglo-American Political Systems," in Seymour M. Lipsett and Stein Rokkan, PARTY SYSTEMS AND VOTER ALIGNMENTS: AN APPROACH TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS, 67-93. Gabriel W. Almond, et al., CRISIS, CHOICE AND CHANGE: HISTORICAL STUDIES OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT. *Richard F. Bensel, SECTIONALISM AND AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, 1880-1980. Lee Benson, et al., "Toward a Theory of Stability and Change in American Voting Patterns, New York State, 1792-1970," in Joel Silbey, et al, THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR, 78-105. Lee Benson, "Research Problems in American Political Historiography," in Mirra Komarovsky, COMMON FRONTIERS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, 113-83. Bernard L. Berelson, et al., VOTING: A STUDY OF OPINION FORMATION IN A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. Allan G. Bogue et al., "Members of the House of Representatives and the Processes of Modernization, 1789-1960," JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, LXIII, (September 1976), 275-302. Cyril E. Black, THE DYNAMICS OF MODERNIZATION Paul F. Bourke and Donald A. DeBats, "Individuals and Aggregates: A Note on Historical Data and Assumptions," SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY (Spring 1980), 229-50. Paul F. Bourke and Donald A. DeBats, "Identifiable Voting in Nineteenth Century America, Toward a Comparison of Britain and the United States Before the Secret Ballot," PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY, XI(l977-78), 259-288. David Brady, "A Reevaluation of Realignments in American Politics," American Political Science Review 79(March 1985), 28-49. Philip H. Burch, ELITES IN AMERICAN HISTORY, multiple vols. Walter Dean Burnham, "The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe," AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, LIX (March, 1965), 7-28; and in Swierenga, QUANTIFICATION, 193-225. Walter Dean Burnham, "Political Immunization and political Confessionalism: The United States and Weimar Germany," JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY (Summer 1972), 1-30. Walter Dean Burnham, "Periodization Schemes and "party Systems:" The 'System of 1896' as a Case in Point," Social Science History lO(Fall 1986), 263-314. Page 2 *Walter Dean Burnham, CRITICAL ELECTIONS AND THE MAINSPRINGS OF AMERICAN POLITICS. Walter Dean Burnham "Those High Nineteenth-Century American Voting Turnouts: Fact or Fiction," J00RNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, 16(Spring 1986), 613-44. *Jerome M. Clubb and Howard Allen, ELECTORAL CHANGE AND STABILITY IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY *Jerome M. Clubb, W. H. Flanigan, Nancy H. Zingale, PARTISAN REALIGNMENT: VOTERS, PARTIES AND GOVERNMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Walter Dean Burnham, Jerome Clubb, William Flanigan, "Partisan Realignment: A Systemic Perspective in Joel Silbey et al, THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR, 31-44. Angus Campbell, "Surge and Decline: A Study of Electoral Change," PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY, 24 (Fall, 1960). Angus Campbell, "Voters and Elections: Past and Present," JOURNAL OF POLITICS, 26 (Nov., 1964), 745-57. Bruce A. Campbell and Richard F. Trilling, REALIGNMENT IN AMERICAN POLITICS: TOWARD A THEORY. *William N. Chambers and Walter Dean Burnham, THE AMERICAN PARTY SYSTEMS: STAGES OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT (appropriate chapters). Jerome M. Clubb and Santa Traugott, "Partisan Cleavage and Cohesion in the House of Representatives, 1861-1974, JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, VII (Winter 1977), 375-402. Joseph Cooper and David W. Brady "Toward a Diachronic Analysis of Congress," AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 75 (December 1981) 988-1001. Carl N. Degler, "American Political Parties and the Rise of the City: An Interpretation," JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, LI (June, 1964), 41-59. *John P. Diggins, THE LOST SOUL OF AMERICAN POLITICS: VIRTUE, SELF INTEREST AND THE FOUNDATION OF LIBERALISM. *Leon D. Epstein, "Political Parties in Western Democratic Systems," in Edward H. Buehrig, ESSAYS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, 97-130. Ronald P. Formisano, "Deferential Participant Politics: The Early Republic's Political Culture, 1789-1840," AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 68 (June 1974), 473-87. Daniel J. Gans, "Persistence of Party Success in American Presidential Elections," JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, 16(Autumn 1985), 221-38. Benjamin Ginsberg, "Critical Elections and the Substance of Party Conflict, 1844-1968," MIDWEST JOURNAL OF POLITICS, XVI (November, 1972), 603-625. Gerald Ginsburg, "Computing Antebellum Turnout: Methods and Models, "JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, 16 (Spring 1986), 579-611. James R. Green, "Behavioralism and Class Analysis, A Review Essay on Methodology and Ideol ogy," LABOR HISTORY, 13 (Winter 1972), 89-106. Page 3 L. Ray Gunn, "The New York State Legislature: A Developmental Perspective: 1774-1846," SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY, 4(Summer, 1980), 267-94. John L. Hammond, THE POLITICS OF BENEVOLENCE: REVIVAL, RELIGION, AND AMERICAN VOTING BEHAVIOR. *Samuel P. Hays, AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY AS SOCIAL ANALYSIS. *M.J. Heale, THE PRESIDENTIAL QUEST: CANDIDATES AND IMAGES IN AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE, 1787-1852. *William B. Hesseltine, "Regions, Classes and Sections in American History," in Richard N. Current (Ed.), SECTIONS AND POLITICS: SELECTED ESSAYS BY WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE. Samuel P. Huntington, "Paradigms of American Politics: Beyond the One, the Two and the Many," POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, LXXXIX(l974), 1-26. Richard Jensen, "The Changing Shape of Burnham's Political Universe; SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY, lO(Fall 1986), 209-220. *Robert Kelley, THE CULTURAL PATTERN IN AMERICAN POLITICS: THE FIRST CENTURY V.O. Key, Jr., "A Theory of Critical Elections," JOURNAL OF POLITICS, XXI (May, 1959), 198-210. Michael R. King and Lester G. Seligman, "Critical Elections, Congressional Recruitment, and Public Policy," in Heinz Eulau and Moshe M. Czudnowski, ELITE RECRUITMENT IN DEMOCRATIC POLITIES. *Paul Kleppner, WHO VOTED? THE DYNAMICS OF ELECTORAL TURNOUT, 1870-1980. Paul Kleppner, (ed. ), THE EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN ELECTORAL SYSTEMS J. Morgan Kousser, "Restoring Politics to Political History," JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, 12(Spring 1982), 569-95. Aileen S. Kraditor, "American Radical Historians and their Heritage," PAST AND PRESENT, 56(1972), 136-55. *PaulS. Lazarsfeld, et al., THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE Theodore J. Lowi, THE END OF LIBERALISM: THE SECOND REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES. Roy C. 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