Department of Political Science University of Illinois at Chicago AMERICAN POLITICS PHD PRELIMARY EXAMS READING LIST Edited May 11, 2020 BROAD Campbell, Angus, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller, and Donald E. Stokes. 1960. The American Voter. New York: Wiley. Dahl, Robert A. 2005. Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Gilens, Martin, and Benjamin Page. 2014. “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens.” Perspectives on Politics 12(3): 564-581. Lipset, Seymour M. 1977. “Why No Socialism in the United States?” In Sources of Contemporary Radicalism, Seweryn Bialer and Sophia Sluzer, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press Miller, Warren and J. M. Shanks. 1996. The New American Voter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Schattschneider, E. E. 1960. The Semisovereign People: A Realist’s View of Democracy in America. Hinsdale, Ill: Dryden Press. EXECUTIVE BRANCH Beckmann, Matthew N. 2010. Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in U.S. Lawmaking, 1953- 2004. New York: Cambridge University Press. Carpenter, Daniel P. 2001. The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Edwards, George C., III. 2009. The Strategic President: Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Howell, William G. 2006. Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Howell, William G. 2011. “Presidential Power in War.” Annual Review of Political Science 14:89-105. Howell, William G., and Jon C. Rogowski. 2013. “War, the Presidency, and Legislative Voting Behavior.” American Journal of Political Science 57(1):150-66. Kernell, Samuel. 2007. Going Public: New Strategies in Presidential Leadership. Washington, DC: CQ Press. Lipsky, Michael, 2010. Street-Level Bureaucrats: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service. Rev. ed. New York: Russell Sage. McCubbins, Mathew D., Roger G. Noll, and Barry R. Weingast. 1987. “Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control.” Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 3(2): 243–77. McCubbins, Mathew D., and Thomas Schwartz. 1984. “Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols versus Fire Alarms.” American Journal of Political Science 28(1): 165. 1 Neustadt, Richard E., 1991. Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents. New York: Free Press. Nyhan, Brendan. 2015. “Scandal Potential: How Political Context and News Congestion Affect the President’s Vulnerability to Media Scandal.” British Journal of Political Science 45(2):435-66. Potter, Rachel Augustine. 2017. “Slow-Rolling, Fast-Tracking, and the Pace of Bureaucratic Decisions in Rulemaking.” Journal of Politics 79(3): 841-855. Potter, Rachel Augustine, and Charles R. Shipan. 2017. “Agency Rulemaking in a Separation of Powers System.” Journal of Public Policy 1-25. Skowronek, Stephen. 1982. Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press. Skowronek, Stephen. 2008. Presidential Leadership in Political Time. Lawrence, KS: Kansas University Press. Tulis, Jeffrey K. 1987. The Rhetorical Presidency. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Wilson, James Q. 1989. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It. New York: Basic Books. Wood, B. Dan, and Richard Waterman, “The Dynamics of Political Control of the Bureaucracy,” American Political Science Review 85(4):801-28. Yates, Jeffery, and Andrew Whitford, “Presidential Power and the United States Supreme Court,” Political Research Quarterly 51(3): 539-350. LEGISLATIVE BRANCH Adler, E. Scott, and John D. Wilkerson. 2012. Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving. New York: Cambridge University Press Arnold, R. Douglas. 1992. The Logic of Congressional Action. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2005. Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives. New York: Cambridge University Press. Fenno, Richard F. 1973. Congressmen in Committee. Boston, MA: Little, Brown. Fenno, Richard F. 1977. “U.S. House Members in Their Constituencies: An Exploration.” American Political Science Review 71(3): 883–917. Fiorina, Morris P. 1977. Congress: The Keystone of the Washington Establishment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Jacobson, Gary C., and Jamie L. Carson. 2015. Congressional Elections. 9th ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Jones, Bryan D., and Frank R. Baumgartner. 2005. The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Kingdon, John. 1989. Congressmen’s Voting Decisions. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Krehbiel, Keith. 1998. Pivotal Politics. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Lawless, Jennifer L. 2004. “Politics of Presence? Congresswomen and Symbolic Representation.” Political Research Quarterly 57(1):81-99. Lee, Frances E. 2005. Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2 Lee, Frances E. 2015. “How Party Polarization Affects Government.” Annual Review of Political Science 18:261-82. Mayhew, David R. 1974. Congress: The Electoral Connection. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. McCarty, Nolan, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. 2009. “Does Gerrymandering Cause Polarization.” American Journal of Political Science 53(3):666-80. Polsby, Nelson W. 1968. “The Institutionalization of the House of Representatives.” American Political Science Review 64(1):144-68. Poole, Keith T., and Howard Rosenthal. 2007. Ideology and Congress. New York: Transaction. Shepsle, Kenneth A., and Barry R. Weingast. 1987. “The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power.” American Political Science Review 81(1):85-104. Shor, Boris, and Nolan McCarty. 2011. “The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures.” American Political Science Review 105(3:530-51. Volden, Craig, and Alan E. Wiseman. 2013. “Formal Approaches to the Study of Congress.” In The Oxford Handbook of American Congress, Eric Schickler and Frances E. Lee, eds. New York: Oxford University Press. Volden, Craig, and Alan E. Wiseman. 2014. Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers. New York: Cambridge University Press. Baumgartner, Frank R., and Bryan D. Jones. 1991. “Agenda Dynamics and Policy Subsystems.” The Journal of Politics 53(4): 1044–74. Binder, Sarah A. 1999. “The Dynamics of Legislative Gridlock, 1947–96.” American Political Science Review 93(3): 519–33. Curry, James M. 2015. Legislating in the Dark: Information and Power in the House of Representatives. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press. Grimmer, Justin. 2013. Representational Style in Congress: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters. New York: Cambridge University Press. POLITICAL PARTIES Aldrich, John.1995. Why Parties? Chicago: University of Chicago Press Bawn, Kathleen, Martin Cohen, David Karol, Seth Masket, Hans Noel, and John Zaller. 2012."A Theory of Political Parties: Groups, Policy Demands and Nominations in American Politics." Perspectives on Politics 10 (03):571-97. Cohen, Marty, Davod Karol, Hans Noel, and John Zaller. 2008. The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press Levitsky S. and D. Ziblatt.2019. How Democracies Die. New York: Penguin Masket, Seth. 2016. The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press. Mickey, Rob. 2015. Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press Noel, Hans. 2013. Ideologies and Political Parties in America. New York: Cambridge University Press. 3 Schickler, Eric. 2016. Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press Egan, Patrick J. 2013. Partisan Priorities: How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics. Cambridge University Press. Grossmann, Matt, and David A. Hopkins. 2016. Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats. Oxford University Press. Petrocik, John R. 1996. “Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study.” American Journal of Political Science 40(3): 825–50. Teles, Steven Michael. 2008. The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law. 2. Dr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. STATE POLITICS Boehmke, Frederick J., and Julianna Pacheco, eds. 2016. “Special Issue: Policy Diffusion.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 16(1):3-141. Berry, Frances Stokes, and William D. Berry. 1990. “State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations: An Event History Analysis.” American Political Science Review 84(2):395-415 Butler, Daniel M., and David E, Broockman. 2001. “Do Politicians Racially Discriminate Against Their Constituents: A Field Experiment on State Legislators.” American Journal of Political Science 55(3):463-77. Cain, Bruce E., Todd Donovan, and Caroline J. Tolbert, eds. 2008. Democracy in the States: Experiments in Election Reform. Washington, DC: Brookings. Carey, John M., Richard G. Neimi, Lynda W. Powell, and Gary F. Moncrief. 2006. “The Effects of Term Limits on State Legislatures: A New Survey of the 50 States.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 31(1):105-34. Caughey, Devin, Yiqing Zu,