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THE LANAHAN READINGS |
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| PART ONE American Political Ideas |
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1 Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America 2 Cynthia Farrar Dinner with Democracy 3 James Davison Hunter The Enduring Culture War 4 C. Wright Mills The Power Elite 5 Richard Zweigenhaft / G. W. Domhoff Diversity in the Power Elite 6 Robert Dahl Who Governs? and A Preface to Democratic Theory 7 Cornel West Race Matters 8 Michael Kammen People of Paradox 9 Robert Bellah / Others Habits of the Heart |
| PART TWO The Constitution, Democracy, and Separation of Powers |
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10 James Madison The Federalist 10 and 51 11 Richard Hofstadter The American Political Tradition 12 Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America 13 David Brian Robertson The Constitution and America’s Destiny 14 Mark Rozell Executive Privilege * |
| PART THREE Federalism |
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15 James Madison The Federalist 39 and 46 16 Andrew Karch Democratic Laboratories 17 Erin Ryan Federalism and the Tug of War Within * 18 Lori Riverstone-Newell Renegade Cities, Public Policy, and the Dilemmas of Federalism * |
| PART FOUR Congress |
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19 David Mayhew Congress: The Electoral Connection 20 Richard Fenno Home Style 21 Steven Smith The Senate Syndrome * 22 Michele Swers Women in the Club * 23 Paul Starobin Pork: A Time-Honored Tradition Lives On 24 John Ellwood/Eric Patashnik In Praise of Pork |
| Tweets and Dog Whistles - How Washington Talks |
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25 Sen. John McCain Hey There! SenJohnMcCain Is Using Twitter 26 Chuck McCutcheon / David Mark Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes * |
| PART FIVE The Presidency |
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27 Richard Neustadt Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents 28 Arthur Schlesinger The Imperial Presidency 29 Thomas Cronin / Michael Genovese Paradoxes of the Presidency 30 Craig Rimmerman The Rise of the Plebiscitary Presidency 31 Jack Goldsmith Power and Constraint * 32 Kenneth Mayer With a Stroke of a Pen * |
| Winning the Office |
| 33 Samuel Popkin The Candidate * |
| PART SIX The Executive Branch |
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34 Paul Light A Government Ill Executed 35 Cornelius Kerwin / Scott Furlong Rulemaking * 36 James Q. Wilson Bureaucracy |
| Where’s My Office? |
| 37 Robert Reich Locked in the Cabinet |
| PART SEVEN The Judiciary |
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38 Alexander Hamilton The Federalist 78 39 David O'Brien Storm Center 40 David Yalof Pursuit of Justices 41 Richard Fallon The Dynamic Constitution 42 Marcia Coyle The Roberts Court * |
| No Longer Just "Nine Old Men" [FDR] |
| 43 Jeffrey Toobin The Oath * |
| PART EIGHT Civil Liberties and Civil Rights |
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44 Anthony Lewis Gideon's Trumpet 45 Richard Kluger Simple Justice 46 Charles Ogletree All Deliberate Speed 47 Obergefell v. Hodges and Chief Justice Roberts’ Dissent (2015) * 48 David Bernstein You Can’t Say That! |
| PART NINE Public Opinion and the Media |
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49 V. O. Key Public Opinion and American Democracy 50 Thomas Cronin Direct Democracy 51 Larry Sabato Feeding Frenzy 52 Cass Sunstein Republic.com 2.0 53 Diana Mutz How the Mass Media Divide Us |
| PART TEN Interest Groups |
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54 Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America 55 E. E. Schattschneider The Semisovereign People 56 Anthony Nownes Interest Groups in American Politics 57 Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (2010), Justice Stevens’ Concurrence and Dissent, and Commentary by Jack Fruchtman * 58 Matt Barreto / Gary Segura Latino America * |
| After Your Time in Congress - Now What |
| 59 Mark Leibovich This Town * |
| PART ELEVEN Voting and Elections |
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60 Dante Scala Stormy Weather 61 Robert Boatright Getting Primaried * 62 Dennis Johnson No Place for Amateurs 63 David Mark Going Dirty 64 Sasha Issenberg The Victory Lab * 65 Kenneth Vogel Big Money * |
| Running the Campaign |
| 66 Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Ground Wars * |
| PART TWELVE Political Parties |
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67 Sean Trende Are We in an Electoral Realignment? * 68 Ronald Brownstein The Second Civil War 69 Bill Bishop The Big Sort * 70 William Frey Diversity Explosion * 71 Robert Putnam / David Campbell American Grace * 72 Linda Killian The Swing Vote * |
| PART THIRTEEN Political Economy and Public Welfare |
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73 Michael Harrington The Other America 74 Joseph Stiglitz The Price of Inequality * 75 Milton Friedman Free to Choose 76 David Wessel Red Ink * 77 Michele Wucker, Lockout 78 Steven Cohen Understanding Environmental Policy |
| It’s About Real People |
| 79 Sasha Abramsky The American Way of Poverty * |
| PART FOURTEEN America in a Changed World |
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80 Samuel Huntington The Clash of Civilizations 81 Fareed Zakaria The Post-American World 82 Chalmers Johnson Blowback 83 Joseph Nye Soft Power 84 Richard Haass Foreign Policy Begins at Home * |