<p>Brandeis University Spring 2014 POL 121 Martin A. Levin</p><p>POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP, POLICYMAKING, & COALITION BUILDING</p><p>Week 1 Prologue-- The Age of Reagan (And His Heir) – 1980-1992: Tax Cuts, Deregulation, Deficit Production </p><p>King, “The American Polity in the late 1970s: Building Coalitions in Sand”</p><p>Wilson, “Politics Then & Now” </p><p>Landy and Levin, “Preface” and "The New Politics of Public Policymaking" in Landy & Levin, New Politics of Policymaking</p><p>James Q. Wilson, "New Politics, New Elites, Old Politics", in Landy and Levin</p><p>Schuck, “The Politics of Rapid Legal Change: Immigration Policy in the 1980s”</p><p>Week 2 The Age of Perot: The Third Party Split in the 1992 Election Brings us the Age of Clinton </p><p>Lubell, The Future of American Politics, “The Sun and Moon Theory of American Political Parties” </p><p>Week 3 The Age of Clinton and The Age of Gingrich and the New Pattern of Frequent Alternation in Closely Competitive Elections --1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2010. </p><p>Mayhew , “Much Huffing and Puffing, Little Change”</p><p>Levin and Landy , “Durability and Change”</p><p>Week 4 The Age of Moderate Innovations: Welfare Reform, Deficit Reduction, NAFTA and The Age of Perot Redux—the 1996 Election and the Impeachment Blues Cured by a Coalition with a Few Republicans </p><p>Teles, Whose Welfare: AFDC and Elite Politics, Chapters 1,3-5, 8-9</p><p>Teles and Prinz, “The Politics of Rights Retraction: Welfare Reform from Entitlement to Block Grant” in Seeking the Center.</p><p>Martin , Cathie Jo , “ Dead on Arrival: The New Politics of Health Care Reform in the Clinton Administration “ 2</p><p>Week 5 The Age of An Electoral Split Decision—the 2000 Election and More Third Party Influence </p><p>Levin, Shapiro & Disalvo, Building Coalitions, Making Policy: The Politics of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies, Introduction and Chapter 1 (Levin, Emer, & DiSalvo)</p><p>Week 6 The Age of 9/11 and its Foreign and Domestic Effects : Iraq, Afghanistan , and the Patriot Act followed by Social Security Privatization, An Underfunded Expansion of Drug Coverage for Medicare , and Tax Cuts </p><p>Lindsay, “National Security, the Electoral Connection, and Policy Choice” in Levin, Shapiro, & Disalvo</p><p>Week 7 The Age of Bush and the Stealth Politics of Indirection: A Domestic Version of the Voodoo Dance of Weapons of Mass Destruction </p><p>Emer, “A Feint to the Center but Moving Backwards: Bush’s Clear Skies Environmental Policies and Non-Policies” in Levin, Shapiro, and DiSalvo</p><p>Week 8 Policies to Serve the Business Providers to Government: Pillaging from the Right After a Feint to the Center</p><p>Levin, Shapiro & Disalvo, Building Coalitions, Making Policy: The Politics of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies</p><p>Shapiro, “Bush’s ‘Our Crowd’”</p><p>Weaver, “The Privatization of Social Security</p><p>Oberlander “Medicare Prescription Drug Reform”</p><p>Tichenor, “Bush’s Immigration Reform Failure”</p><p>Hess, “Compassionate Conservatism and No Child Left Behind”</p><p>Conlan, “Politics of Tax Reduction in the Bush Administration”</p><p>Week 9 An Age of Frequent and Surprising Alternations in Power Redux --the 2002 and 2006 Elections</p><p>Wildavsky, “The Two Presidencies— Foreign and Domestic “ </p><p>Week 10 The Age of Obama: Healthcare Reform, Dodd-Frank Financial Reform, and the Fiscal Stimulus Package</p><p>Levin, Shapiro & Disalvo, Building Coalitions, Making Policy 3</p><p>Oberlander, “Learning from the Clinton Healthcare Reform Failure”</p><p>Tichenor, “Obama’s Immigration Reform Failure”</p><p>Week 11 And Again, An Age of More Frequent Alternations in Power: The 2010 Election Brings Us the Republican Coalition Building Strategy –‘Just Say No’</p><p>Levin, Shapiro & DiSalvo, Building Coalitions, Making Policy</p><p>Mayhew, “Politics, Elections and Policymaking”</p><p>Week 12 The Age of a Surprising 2010 Lame Duck Session: A New Republican Strategy –‘ Just Say Yes’ If It Involves Tax Cuts and Help for Business</p><p>Levin, Shapiro & DiSalvo, Building Coalitions, Making Policy</p><p>Levin, Emer and DiSalvo, “Some New Coalitional Configurations and Policies: The Surprising 2010 Lame Duck Session”</p><p>Mayhew, “The End Note of Obama’s First Two Years: The 2010 Lame Duck Session</p><p>Week 13 The Age of the Deficit Reduction Follies: ‘Just Say No’ Redux</p><p>“Does Obama Really Like this Job?”: Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Y</p><p>Week 14 LOOKING FORWARD AND BACK: OBAMA IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE </p><p>Keller, The Unbearable Heaviness of Governing: Obama in Historical Perspective, Intro, Chapters 1, 3-5 .</p><p>“The Bipartisanship Fantasy Dream Machine: Obama wants to be President of a Country that Doesn’t Exist”: Wolffe, R: Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House.</p><p>“Obama and the Failure To Exert Power: Faubus and Netanyahu ; MacArthur and McCrystal”: Neustadt, Presidential Power </p><p>Levin, “A Politics of Institutions” in Davis, The Post-Imperial Presidency </p>