Classic Readings in American Politics

by Nivola, Pietro; Rosenbloom, David

• ISBN13: 9780312084196
• ISBN10: 0312084196
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-15
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Now in its Third Edition, this collection gathers together nearly four dozen classic and contemporary readings that provide essential insights into the workings of the American political and governmental processes.

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword to the Third Edition by John W

Kingdon

Foreword to the Second Edition by Nelson W

Polsby

Foreword to the First Edition by Theodore J

Lowi

I: POLITICAL CULTURE AND TRADITIONS

Alexis de Tocqueville, Equality of Condition

Louis Hartz, The Concept of a Liberal Society

Charles A

Beard, The Constitution as an Economic Document

Gordon S

Wood, The American Science of Politics

James Madison, Federalist 10. II: FEDERALISM

Samuel H

Beer, The National Idea in American Politics

Morton Grodzins, The Federal System

Martha Derthick, The Enduring Features of American Federalism

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 27 and 28. James Madison, Federalist 39

III: POLITICAL POWER

C

Wright Mills, The Structure of Power in American Society

Robert A

Dahl, On the Species Homo Politicus

Peter Bacharach and Morton S

Baratz, Two Faces of Power

IV: POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTIONS

Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy

Donald E

Stokes, Spatial Models of Party Competition

Morris P

Fiorina, The Decline of Collective Responsibility in America Politics

V

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Key, Elections as Collective Decisions

V: INTEREST GROUPS AND LOBBYING

Mancur Olson, Jr

Collective Action: The Logic

Richard L

Hall and Frank W

Wayman, Buying Time: Moneyed Interests and the Mobilization of Bias

Hugh Heclo, Issue Networks and the Executive Establishment

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Schattschneider, The Scope and Bias of the Pressure System

VI: THE CONGRESS

James Madison, Federalist 51. Warren E

Miller and Donald E

Stokes, Constituency Influence in Congress

David R

Mayhew, Divided We Govern

Nelson W

Polsby, The Institutionalization of the U

House of Representatives

Richard F

Fenno, Jr

Congressmen in Committees

VII: THE PRESIDENCY

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 69. Aaron Wildavsky, The Two Presidencies

Richard E

Neustadt, The Power to Persuade

Charles O

Jones, Separating to Govern: The American Way

Doris Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the America Dream

VIII: THE BUREAUCRACY

James Q

Wilson, The Bureaucracy Problem

Herbert Kaufman, Red Tape

IX: THE JUDICIARY

Edward S

Corwin, The "Higher Law" Background of American Constitutional Law

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78. Walter f

Murphy, Marshalling the Court

Martin M

Shapiro, The Presidency and the Federal Courts

X: THE POLICY PROCESS

James W

Kingdon, Agenda Setting

Charles E

Lindblom, The Science of "Muddling Through"

Edward C

Banfield, Influence and the Public Interest

Theodore J

Lowi, Distribution, Regulation, Redistribution: The Functions of Government