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Classic Readings in American Politics

by: Nivola, Pietro; Rosenbloom, David

Classic Readings in American Politics

by: Nivola, Pietro; Rosenbloom, David

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9780312084196
ISBN 10:
0312084196
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 12/15/1998
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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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.

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
O
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
E
E
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

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