American Politics Graduate Student Reading List
Interest Groups
Bauer, Raymond A. Ithiel S. Pool, and Lewis A. Dexter. 1963. American Business and Public Policy: the Politics of Foreign Trade. New York: Atherton Press.
Key, V. O. 1952. Politics, Parties, and Pressure Groups. New York: Crowell.
Lindblom, Charles E. 1977. Politics and Markets: The World's Political Economic Systems. New York: Basic Books.
Lowi, Theodore J. 1969. The End of Liberalism: Ideology, Policy, and the Crisis of Public Authority. New York: Norton.
Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action: Public goods and the theory of groups. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Riker, William H. 1986. The Art of Political Manipulation. New Haven: Yale University.
Truman, David B. 1971. The Governmental Process: Political Interests and Public Opinion. New York: Knopf.
Mass Behavior
Almond, Gabriel A., Sidney Verba. 1963. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Newbury Park, California: Sage.
Campbell, Angus, Phillip Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald Stokes. 1960. The American Voter. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Converse, Phillip. 1964. "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics." In David Apter. Ed. Ideology and Discontent. New York: Free Press.
Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row.
Fiorina, Morris P. 1981. Retrospective Voting in American National Elections. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Key, V. O. 1961. Public Opinion and American Democracy. New York: Knopf.
Key, V. O. 1966. The Responsible Electorate: Rationality in Presidential Voting, 1936-1960. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Lane, Robert E. 1962. Political Ideology: Why the American Common Man Believes What He Does. New York, Free Press.
Lazarsfeld, Paul F., Bernard Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet. 1965. The People's Choice. New York, Columbia Univ. Press.
Lippmann, Walter. 1922. Public Opinion. New York: Macmillan.
Milton Lodge, Kathleen M. McGraw and Patrick Stroh. 1989. "An Impression-Driven Model of Candidate Evaluation." The American Political Science Review. 83(June):339-419.
Myrdal, Gunnar. 1944. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Page, Benjamin I. and Robert Y. Shapiro. 1992. The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Patterson, Thomas E. and Robert D. McClure. 1976. The Unseeing Eye: The Myth of Television Power in National Politics. New York: Putnam.
Stouffer, Samuel A. 1955. Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties: A Cross- Section of the Nation Speaks its Mind. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.
Tufte, Edward R. 1978. Political Control of the Economy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Verba, Sidney and Norman H. Nie. 1972. Participation in America: Political Democracy and Social Equality. New York, Harper & Row.
Zaller, John. 1992. The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Political Institutions
Dahl, Robert A. 1961. Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City. New Haven, Yale University Press.
Dodd, Lawrence C. 1977. "Congress and the Quest for Power." in Congress Reconsidered (1st edition), Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, eds. New York: Praeger.
Elazar, Daniel J. 1966. American Federalism. New York.
Epstein, Lee and Jack Knight. 1998. The Choices Justices Make. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
Fiorina, Morris P. 1974. Representatives, Roll Calls, and Constituencies. Lexington, MA: Heath.
Fenno, Richard F. 1978. Home Style: House Members in Their Districts. Boston: Little, Brown.
Fenno, Richard. 1973. Congressmen in Committees. Boston: Little, Brown.
Kingdon, John W. 1981. Congressmen's Voting Decisions. New York: Harper & Row.
Matthews, Donald R. 1960. U. S. Senators and Their World. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.
Mayhew, David R. 1974. Congress: The Electoral Connection. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Mayhew, David R. 1991. Divided we Govern : Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations, 1946-1990. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Murphy, Walter. 1964. Elements of Judicial Strategy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Neustadt, Richard E. 1990. Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan. New York, Free Press.
Perry, H.W. 1991. Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the U.S. Supreme Court. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Peterson, Paul E. 1981. City Limits. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Polsby, Nelson W. 1968. "The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives." The American Political Science Review. 68(March): 144-168.
Pritchett, C. Herman. 1948. The Roosevelt Court. New York: MacMillan.
Rohde, David W. and Harold Spaeth. 1976. Supreme Court Decision Making. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.
Rosenberg, Gerald. 1991. The Hollow Hope. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Segal, Jeffrey A. and Harold J. Spaeth. 1993. The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model. Cambridge: New York: Cambridge University Press.
Schattschneider, Elmer E. 1960. The Semisovereign People: a Realist's View of Democracy in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
Schlesinger, Joseph A. 1966. Ambition and Politics: Political Careers in the U.S. Chicago: Rand McNally.
Skowronek, Stephen. 1997. The Politics Presidents make: Leadership From John Adams to Bill Clinton. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. 1973. The Imperial Presidency. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Sundquist, James L. 1981. The Decline and Resurgence of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.