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David R. Mayhew – July 2013
Recommended short pieces on American political development
Carville Earle, “Environment, Disease, and Mortality in Early Virginia,” Journal of Historical
Geography 5 (1979), 365-390
Timothy L. Bratton, “The Identity of the New England Indian Epidemic of 1616-19,” Bulletin of
the History of Medicine 62 (1988), 351-383
David Eltis, “Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery in the Americas: An
Interpretation,” American Historical Review 98 (1993), 1399-1423
David Eltis, “The Volume and Structure of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Reassessment,”
William and Mary Quarterly 58 (2001), 17-46.
Paul E. Lovejoy, “The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Synthesis,” Journal of African
History 23 (1982), 473-502
Christian Warren, “Northern Chills, Southern Fevers: Race-Specific Mortality in American
Cities, 1730-1900,” Journal of Southern History 58 (1997), 23-56
H.G. Koenigsberger, “Composite States, Representative Institutions, and the American
Revolution,” Historical Research 62 (1989), 135-153
Samuel P. Huntington, “Political Modernization: America vs. Europe,” World Politics 18 (1966),
378Richard D. Brown, “Modernization and the Modern Personality in Early America, 1600-1865: A
Sketch of a Synthesis,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2 (1972), 201-228
John Patrick Diggins, “Class, Classical, and Consensus Views of the Constitution,” University of
Chicago Law Review 55 (1988), 555-570
H. Jefferson Powell, “The Original Understanding of Original Intent,” Harvard Law Review 98
(1985), 885-948
Lance Banning, “James Madison and the Dynamics of the Constitutional Convention,” Political
Science Reviewer 17 (1987), 5-48
Jac C. Heckelman and Keith L. Dougherty, “A Spatial Analysis of Delegate Voting at the
Constitutional Convention,” Journal of Economic History 73:2 (June 2013), 407-44
William Ewald, “James Wilson and the Drafting of the Constitution,” Journal of Constitutional
Law 10:5 (June 2008), 901-1009
Bernard Manin, “Checks, Balances, and Boundaries: The Separation of Powers in the
Constitutional Debate of 1787,” ch. 2 in Biancamaria Fontana (ed.), The Invention of the Modern Republic
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Frederick Mosteller, “A Statistical Study of the Writing Styles of the Authors of The Federalist
papers,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 131 (1987) 132-140
Donald S. Lutz, “The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century
American Political Thought,” American Political Science Review 78 (1984), 189-197
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Richard Bellamy, “The Political Form of the Constitution: The Separation of Powers, Rights and
Representative Democracy,” Political Studies 44 (1996), 436-456
William E. Scheuerman, “American Kingship? Monarchical Origins of Modern Presidentialism,”
Polity 37 (2005), 24-53
Lawrence Lessig and Cass R. Sunstein, “The President and the Administration,” Columbia Law
Review 94 (1994), 1-123
Steven G. Calabresi and Joan L. Larsen, “One Person, One Office: Separation of Powers or
Separation of Personnel?” Cornell Law Review 79 (1994), 1045-1157
Joseph M. Torsella, “American National Identity, 1750-1790: Samples from the Popular Press,”
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 112 (1988), 167-187
Robert J. Steinfeld, “Property and Suffrage in the Early American Republic,” Stanford Law
Review 41 (1989), 335-376
Donald Ratcliffe, “The Right to Vote and the Rise of Democracy, 1787-1828,” Journal of the
Early Republic 33:2 (Summer 2013), 219-54
Stanley L. Engerman & Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New
World,” Journal of Economic History 65:4 (2005), 891-921
John Markoff, “Where and When Was Democracy Invented?” Comparative Studies in Society
and History 41 (1999), 660-690
Daniel H. Deudney, “The Philadelphian System: Sovereignty, Arms Control, and Balance of
Power in the American States-Union, circa 1787-1861,” International Organization 49 (1995), 191-228
Joyce Appleby, “The Popular Sources of American Capitalism,” Studies in American Political
Development 9 (Fall 1995), 437-457
James Errington and George Rawlyk, “The Loyalist-Federalist Alliance of Upper Canada,”
American Review of Canadian Studies 14 (1984), 157-176
Christopher Adamson, “God’s Continent Divided: Politics and Religion in Upper Canada and the
Northern and Western United States, 1775-1841,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 36 (1994),
417-446
Alan Taylor, “The Late Loyalists: Northern Reflections of the Early American Republic,” Journal
of the Early Republic 27 (2007), 1-34
Barry Wright, “Migration, Radicalism, and State Security: Legislative Initiatives in the Canadas
and the United States c. 1794-1804,” Studies in American Political Development 16 (2002), 48-60
O.S. Ireland, “The Crux of Politics: Religion and Party in Pennsylvania, 1778-1789,” William and
Mary Quarterly 42 (1985), 453-475
Roger Finke and Rodney Stark, “How the Upstart Sects Won America: 1776-1850,” Journal for
the Scientific Study of Religion 28 (1989), 27-44
James L. Huston, “The American Revolutionaries, the Political Economy of Aristocracy, and the
American Concept of the Distribution of Wealth, 1765-1900,” American Historical Review 98 (1993),
1079-1105
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Peter L. Rousseau and Richard Sylla, “Emerging Financial Markets and Early US Growth,”
Explorations in Economic History 42 (2005), 1-26
Richard Sylla, “Financial Foundations: Public Credit, the National Bank, and Securities Markets,”
chapter 2 in Douglas A. Irwin & Richard Sylla, Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the
1790s (2011)
John Joseph Wallis, “American Government Finance in the Long Run: 1790 to 1990,” Journal of
Economic Perspectives 14 (2000), 61-82
Richard Sylla, Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen, “Alexander Hamilton, Central Banker:
Crisis Management during the U.S. Financial Panic of 1792,” Business History Review 83:1 (Spring 2009),
61-86
Brian Phillips Murphy, “’A Very Convenient Instrument,’: The Manhattan Company, Aaron
Burr, and the Election of 1800,” William and Mary Quarterly 65:2 (April 2008)
William H. Riker, “The Senate and American Federalism,” American Political Science Review 49
(1955), 452-469
C. Edward Skeen, “Vox Populi, Vox Dei: The Compensation Act of 1816 and the Rise of Popular
Politics,” Journal of the Early Republic 6 (1986), 153-74
Michael Wallace, “Changing Concepts of Party in the United States: New York, 1815-1828,”
American Historical Review 74 (1968), 453-491
Douglas W. Jaenecke, “The Jacksonian Integration of Parties into the Constitutional System,”
Political Science Quarterly 101 (1986), 85-107
Fred S. Rolater, “The American Indian and the Origin of the Second American Party System,”
Wisconsin Magazine of History 76 (1993), 180-203
Paul F. Bourke and Donald A. DeBarts, “Identifiable Voting Blocs in Nineteenth-Century
America: Toward a Comparison of Britain and the United States Before the Secret Ballot,” Perspectives in
American History 11 (1977-78), 257-288
Michael Carwardine, “Evangelicals, Whigs and the Election of William Henry Harrison,” Journal
of American Studies 17 (1983), 47-75
Michael F. Holt, “The Election of 1840, Voter Mobilization, and the Emergence of the Second
American Party System,” from William J. Cooper, Jr., et al. (eds.), A Master’s Due: Essays in Honor of
David Herbert Donald (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985)
Johanna Nicol Shields, “Whigs Reform the ‘Bear Garden’: Representation and the Apportionment
Act of 1842,” Journal of the Early Republic 5 (1985), 355-382
Micah Altman, “Traditional Districting Principles: Judicial Myths vs. Reality,” Social Science
History 22 (1998), 159-200
John Gerring, “A Chapter in the History of American Party Ideology: The 19th Century
Democratic Party, 1828-1892,” Polity 26 (1994), 729-768
John Gerring, “Party Ideology in America: The National Republican Chapter, 1828-1894,”
Studies in American Political Development 11 (1997), 44-108
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John Ashworth, “The Democratic-Republicans before the Civil War: Political Ideology and
Economic Change,” Journal of American Studies 20 (1986), 375-390
Robert W. Fogel, “Problems in Modeling Complex Dynamic Interactions: The Political
Realignment of the 1850s,” Economics and Politics 4 (1992), 215-254.
Samuel DeCanio, “Religion and Nineteenth-Century Voting Behavior: A New Look at Some Old
Data,” Journal of Politics 69:2 (May 2007), 339-50
Jeffrey L. McNairn, “Publius of the North: Tory Republicanism and the American Constitution in
Upper Canada, 1848-54,” Canadian Historical Review 77 (1996), 504-537
Scott W. See, “’An unprecedented influx,’ Nativism and Irish Famine Immigration to Canada,”
American Review of Canadian Studies, winter 2000, 429-453
Samuel Kernell, “The Early Nationalization of Political News in America,” Studies in American
Political Development 1 (1986), 255-278
John C. Hudson, “North American Origins of Middlewestern Frontier Populations,” Annals of the
Association of American Geographers 78 (1988), 395-413
Kenneth S. Greenberg, “Representation and the Isolation of South Carolina,” Journal of American
History 64 (1977), 723-743
Michael D. Pierson, “’All Southern Society Is Assailed by the Foulest Charges’: Charles
Sumner’s ‘The Crime against Kansas’ and the Escalation of Republican Anti-slavery Rhetoric,” New
England Quarterly 68 (1995), 531-557
Gary J. Kornblith, “Rethinking the Coming of the Civil War: A Counterfactual Enterprise,”
Journal of American History 90 (2003), 76-105
Marc Egnal, “The Beards Were Right: Parties in the North, 1840-1860,” Civil War History 47
(2001), 30-56
David Hacker, “A Census-Based Account of the Civil War Dead,” Civil War History 57:4
(December 2011), 307+
Paul F. Paskoff, “Measures of War: A Quantitative Examination of the Civil War’s
Destructiveness in the Confederacy,” Civil War History 54:1 (2008), 35-62
James L. Huston, “Property Rights in Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War,” Journal of
Southern Politics 65 (1999), 249-286
Richard Graham, “Slavery and Economic Development: Brazil and the United States South in the
Nineteenth Century,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 23 (1981), 629-655
Shearer Davis Bowman, “Antebellum Planters and Vormarz Junkers in Comparative Perspective,”
American Historical Review 85 (1980), 779-808
David R. Good, “Uneven Development in the Nineteenth Century: A Comparison of the
Habsburg Empire and the United States,” Journal of Economic History 46 (1986), 137-151
Steven Hahn, “Class and State in Postemancipation Societies: Southern Planters in Comparative
Perspective,” American Historical Review 95 (1990), 75-98
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Stanley L. Engerman, “Economic Adjustments to Emancipation in the United States and British
West Indies,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 13 (1982), 191-220
Richard Zuczek, “The Last Campaign of the Civil War: South Carolina and the Revolution of
1876,” Civil War History 42 (1996), 18-31
Adam Fairclough, “Was the Grant of Black Suffrage a Political Error? Reconsidering the Views
of John W. Burgess, William A. Dunning, and Eric Foner on Congressional Reconstruction,” Journal of the
Historical Society 12:2 (June 2012), 155-88
Adam Fairclough, “Congressional Reconstruction: A Catastrophic Failure,” Journal of the
Historical Society 12:3 (September 2012), 271-82
Jennifer L. Hochschild and Brenna Marea Powell, “Racial Reorganization and the United States
Census, 1850-1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race,” Studies
in American Political Development 22:1 (spring 2008), 59-96
S. Engelbourg and G. Schachter, “Two ‘Souths’: the United States and Italy since the 1860’s,”
Journal of European Economic History 15 (1986), 563-589
Carl V. Harris, “Right Fork or Left Fork? The Section-Party Alignments of Southern Democrats
in Congress, 1873-1897,” Journal of Southern History 42 (1976), 471-506
Charles Stewart III and Barry Weingast, “Stacking the Senate, Changing the Nation: Republican
Rotten Boroughs, Statehood Politics, and American Political Development,” Studies in American Political
Development 6 (1992), 223-271
Robert S. Salisbury, “The Republican Party and Positive Government, 1860-1890,” Mid-America
68 (1986), 15-34
William E. Nelson, “Officeholding and Powerwielding: An Analysis of the Relationship between
Structure and Style in American Administrative History,” Law and Society Review 10 (1976), 187-233
Ronald N. Johnson and Gary D. Libecap, “Patronage to Merit and Control of the Federal
Government Labor Force,” Explorations in Economic History 31 (1994), 91-119
Werner Troesken, “Patronage and Public-Sector Wages in 1896,” Journal of Economic History 59
(1999), 424-446
Richard H. Steckel and Carolyn M. Moehling, “Rising Inequality: Trends in the Distribution of
Wealth in Industrializing New England,” Journal of Economic History 61 (2001), 160-183
John Reynolds, “’The Silent Dollar’: Vote Buying in New Jersey,” New Jersey History 98 (1980),
191-211
William Alan Blair, “A Practical Politician: The Boss Tactics of Matthew Stanley Quay,”
Pennsylvania History 56 (1989), 77-92
John F. Reynolds, “The Hustling Candidate and the Advent of the Direct Primary: A California
Case Study,” Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era 12:1 (January 2013), 31-64
Russell Korobkin, “The Politics of Disfranchisement in Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly
74 (1990), 20-58
Paula Baker, “The Culture of Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Community and Political
Behavior in Rural New York,” Journal of Social History 18 (1984-85), 167-193
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Samuel M. Kipp III, “Old Notables and Newcomers: The Economic and Political Elite of
Greensboro, North Carolina, 1880-1920,” Journal of Social History 43 (1977), 373-394
Terrence J. McDonald, “San Francisco: Socioeconomic Change, Political Culture, and Fiscal
Policies, 1870-1906,” pp. 39-67 in T.J. McDonald and Sally K. Ward, The Politics of Urban Fiscal Policy
(Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1984)
Martin Shefter, “The Electoral Foundations of the Political Machine: New York City, 18841897,” pp. 263-298 in Joel Silbey, et al. (eds.), American Electoral History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1978)
Peter McCaffery, “Style, Structure, and Institutionalization of Machine Politics: Philadelphia,
1867-1933,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 22 (1992), 435-452
Tracy A. Campbell, “Machine Politics, Police Corruption, and the Persistence of Vote Fraud: The
Case of the Louisville, Kentucky, Election of 1905,” Journal of Policy History 15 (2003), 269-300
Lawrence H. Larsen & Nancy J. Hulston, “Criminal Aspects of the Pendergast Machine,”
Missouri Historical Review 91:2 (1997), 168-80
Terrence J. McDonald, “The Problem of the Political in Recent American Urban History: Liberal
Pluralism and the Rise of Functionalism,” Social History 10 (1985), 323-345
Christine Meisner Rosen, “Business, Bureaucracy, and Progressive Reform in the Redevelopment
of Baltimore after the Great Fire of 1904,” Business History Review 63 (1989), 283-328
Gavin Wright, “The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940,” American Economic
Review 80 (1990), 651-668
James A. Dunn, Jr., “Railroad Policies in Europe and the United States: The Impact of Ideology,
Institutions, and Social Conditions,” Public Policy 25 (1977), 205-240
Gyung-Ho Jeong, Gary J. Miller & Andrew C. Sobel, “Political Compromise and Bureaucratic
Structure: The Political Origins of the Federal Reserve System” Journal of Law, Economics and
Organization 25:2 (2008), 472-98
Miguel Cantillo Simon, “The Rise and Fall of Bank Control in the United States: 1890-1939,”
American Economic Review 88 (1998), 1077-93
Robert Bussel, “’Business Without a Boss’: The Columbia Conserve Company and Workers’
Control, 1917-1943,” Business History Review 71 (1997), 417-443
Daniel Scott Smith, “Differential Mortality in the United States before 1900,” Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 13 (1983), 735-759
John F. Hughes, “The Jacksonians, the Populists, and the Governmental Habit,” Mid-America 76
(1994), 5-26
Thomas Goebel, “The Political Economy of American Populism from Jackson to the New Deal,”
Studies in American Political Development 11 (1997), 109-48
Jeffry A. Frieden, “Monetary Populism in Nineteenth-Century America: An Open Economy
Interpretation,” Journal of Economic History 57 (1997), 367-95
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Peter J. Coleman, “New Zealand Liberalism and the Origins of the American Welfare State,”
Journal of American History 69 (1982), 372-391
Eric Foner, “Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?” History Workshop, spring 1984,
issue #16, pp. 57-80
Sari Bennett and Carville Earle, “Socialism in America: A Geographical Interpretation of Its
Failure,” Political Geography Quarterly 2 (1983), 31-55
Robin Archer, “Does Repression Help to Create Labor Parties? The Effect of Police and Military
Intervention on Unions in the United States and Australia,” Studies in American Political Development 15
(2001), 189-219
Richard L. McCormick, “The Discovery that Business Corrupts Politics: A Reappraisal of the
Origins of Progressivism,” American Historical Review 86 (1981), 247-274
David B. Robertson, “The Bias of American Federalism: The Limits of Welfare-State
Development in the Progressive Era,” Journal of Policy History 1 (1989), 261-291
J.C. Herbert Emery, “’Un-American’ or Unnecessary? America’s Rejection of Compulsory
Government Health Insurance in the Progressive Era,” Explorations in Economic History 47 (2010), 68-81
Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage, “The Political Economy of Religion and Social Insurance
in the United States, 1910-1939,” Studies in American Political Development 20:2 (2006), 132-159
Kris W. Kobach, “Rethinking Article V: Term Limits and the Seventeenth and Nineteenth
Amendments,” Yale Law Journal 103 (1994), 1971-2007
John R. Lott, Jr., and Lawrence W. Kenney, “Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope
of Government?” Journal of Political Economy 107 (1999), 1163-98
Donald A. Ritchie, “’The Loyalty of the Senate’: Washington Correspondents in the Progressive
Era,” The Historian 51 (1989), 574-591
Erik Olssen, “The Making of a Political Machine: The Railroad Unions Enter Politics,” Labor
History 19 (1978), 373-396
Samuel P. Huntington, “The Election Tactics of the Nonpartisan League,” Mississippi Valley
Historical Review 36 (1950), 613-632
Jerold Waldman, “Origins of the Federal Income Tax,” Mid-America 62 (1980), 147-180
David E. Kyvig, “Can the Constitution Be Amended? The Battle Over the Income Tax, 18951913,” Prologue 20 (1988), 181-200
W. Eliot Brownlee, “Wilson and Financing the Modern State: The Revenue Act of 1916,”
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 129 (1985), 173-210
Kimberly J. Morgan and Monica Prasad, “The Origins of Tax Systems: A French-American
Comparison,” American Journal of Sociology 114:5 (March 2009), 1350-94
Peter H. Lindert, “The Rise of Social Spending, 1880-1930,” Explorations in Economic History 31
(1994), 1-37
Jeffrey A. Jenkins, Justin Peck and Vesla M. Weaver, “Between Reconstructions: Congressional
Action on Civil Rights, 1891-1940,” Studies in American Political Development 24 (April 2010), 57-89
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Cybelle Fox and Thomas A. Guglielmo, “Defining America’s Racial Boundaries: Blacks,
Mexicans, and European Immigrants, 1890-1945,” American Journal of Sociology (September 2012), 32779
Andrew Abbott and Stanley DeViney, “The Welfare State as a Transnational Event: Evidence
from Sequences of Policy Adoption,” Social Science History 16 (1992), 245-274
Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol, “Why Not Equal Protection? Explaining the Politics of
Public Social Spending in Britain, 1900-1911, and the United States, 1880s-1920,” American Sociological
Review 49 (1984), 726-750
Edwin Amenta, “Making the Most of a Case Study: Theories of the Welfare State and the
American Experience,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 32 (1991), 172-193
Glen Jeansonne, “Longism: Mainstream Politics or Aberration? Louisiana Before and After
Huey Long,” Mid-America 71 (1989), 89-100
John C. Weaver, “Lawyers, Lodges, and Kinfolk: The Workings of a South Carolina Political
Organization, 1920-1936,” South Carolina Historical Magazine 78 (1977), 272-285
Nancy Beck Young, “Change and Continuity in the Politics of Running for Congress: Wright
Patman and the Campaigns of 1928, 1938, 1962, and 1972,” East Texas Historical Association 34:2 (1996),
52-64
Gauti B. Eggertsson, “Was the New Deal Contractionary?” American Economic Review 102:1
(2012), 524-55
Eric Leif Davin, “Blue Collar Democracy: Class War and Political Revolution in Western
Pennsylvania, 1932-1937,” Pennsylvania History 67:2 (2000), 240-97
Thomas T. Spencer, “’Labor Is With Roosevelt’: The Pennsylvania Labor Non-Partisan League
and the Election of 1936,” Pennsylvania History 46 (1979), 3-16
Ronald E. Marcello, “The Politics of Relief: The North Carolina WPA and the Tar Heel Elections
of 1936,” North Carolina History 68 (1991), 17-37
E. Cary Brown, “Fiscal Policy in the ‘Thirties: A Reappraisal,” American Economic Review 46
(1956), 857-879
Lester G. Telser, “The Veterans’ Bonus of 1936,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 26:2
(Winter 2003-04), 227-43
John Joseph Wallis, “Why 1933? The Origins and Timing of National Government Growth,
1933-1940,” Research in Economic History, 1985, Supplement 4: Robert Higgs, Emergence of the Modern
Political Economy (Greenwich CT: JAI Press, 1985), pp. 1-51.
Anthony Badger, “State Capacity in Britain and America in the 1930s,” ch. V.4 in David
Englander (ed.), Britain and America: Studies in Comparative History, 1760-1970 (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1997)
Christina D. Romer, “What Ended the Great Depression?” Journal of Economic History 52
(1992), 757-784
Robert J. Barro and Jose F. Ursua, “Stock-Market Crashes and Depressions,” Working Paper
14760, National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2009, http://www.nber.org/papers/w14760
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Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Schleifer, “The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the
Electorate,” Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 21:1 (April 2005), 1-19
Kenneth O’Reilly, “The Roosevelt Administration and Legislative-Executive Conflict: The FBI
vs. the Dies Committee,” Congress & the Presidency 10 (1983), 79-93
Eric Schickler and Devin Caughey, “Public Opinion, Organized Labor, and the Limits of New
Deal Liberalism, 1936-1945,” Studies in American Political Development 25:2 (October 2011), 162-89
Helmut Norpoth, Andrew H. Sidman, and Clara H. Suong, “The New Deal Realignment in Real
Time,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 43:1 (March 2013), 146-66
Neal Katyal and Richard Caplan, “The Surprisingly Stronger Case for the Legality of the NSA
Surveillance Program: the FDR Precedent,” Stanford Law Review 60:4 (February 2008), 1023+
William H. Becker, “Managerial Capitalism and Public Policy,” Business and Economic History
21 (1992), 247-256
Judith Goldstein, “The Impact of Ideas on Trade Policy: The Origins of U.S. Agricultural and
Manufacturing Policies,” International Organization 43 (1989), 31-71
Richard H.K. Vietor, “Contrived Competition: Airline Regulation and Deregulation, 1925-1988,”
Business History Review 64 (1990), 61-108
Robert M. Jiobu, “Ethnic Hegemony and the Japanese of California,” American Sociological
Review 53 (1988), 353-367
James E. Hartley, Steven M. Sheffrin, and J. David Vasche, “Reform During Crisis: The
Transformation of California’s Fiscal System During the Great Depression,” Journal of Economic History
56 (1996), 657-678
Seth E. Masket, “It Takes an Outsider: Extralegal Organization and Partisanship in the California
Assembly, 1849-2006,” American Journal of Political Science 51:3 (July 2007), 482-97
Ronald Tobey and Charles Wetherell, “The Citrus Industry and the Revolution of Corporate
Capitalism in Southern California, 1887-1944,” California History 74 (1995), 6-21 + notes
Steven B. Levine, “The Rise of American Boarding Schools and the Development of a National
Upper Class,” Social Problems 28 (1980), 63-94
Caroline Hodges Persell and Peter W. Cookson, Jr., “Chartering and Bartering: Elite Education
and Social Reproduction,” Social Problems 33 (1985), 114-129
Jerome Karabel, “Status Group Struggle, Organizational Interests, and the Limits of Institutional
Autonomy: The Transformation of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1918-1940,” Theory and Society 13
(1984), 1-39
Donn M. Kurtz II and Mandy A. Simon, “The Education of the American Elite, 1949-2001,”
Social Science Journal 44 (2007), 480-494
Eli Wald, “The Rise and Fall of the WASP and Jewish Law Firms,” Stanford Law Review 60:6
(April 2008), 1803+
Caroline M. Hoxby, “The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges,” Journal of Economic
Perspectives 23:4 (Fall 2009), 95-118
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Brownlee, W. Elliot, “Tax Regimes, National Crises, and State-building in America,” in Brownlee
(ed.), Funding the Modern American State, 1941-1995 (NY: Cambridge UP, 1996), pp. 37-104
Kevin Murphy, “Child of War: The Federal Income Withholding Tax,” Mid-America 78:2 (1996),
203-29
Robert L. Fleegler, “Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism, 1938-1947,” Journal of
Mississippi History 68:1 (2006), 1-28
Terrence M. Cole, “Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945,”
Western Historical Quarterly 23:4 (1992), 429-49
Aaron L. Friedberg, “Why Didn’t the United States Become a Garrison State?” International
Security 16 (1992), 109-142
Raymond Arsenault, “The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern
Culture,” Journal of Southern History 50 (1984), 597-628
M.J. Heale, “Red Scare Politics: California’s Campaign Against Un-American Activities, 19401970,” Journal of American Studies 20 (1986), 5-32
Steven T. Usdin, “The Rosenberg Ring Revealed: Industrial-Scale Conventional and Nuclear
Espionage,” Journal of Cold War Studies 11:3 (Summer 2009), 91-143
Robert Griffith, “Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Corporate Commonwealth,” American Historical
Review 87 (1982), 87-122
Maurice Klain, “A New Look at the Constituencies: The Need for a Recount and a Reappraisal,”
American Political Science Review 49 (1955), 1105Edmund F. Kallina, “The State’s Attorney and the President: The Inside Story of the 1960
Presidential Election in Illinois,” Journal of American Studies 12 (1978), 147-160
Brian J. Gaines, “Popular Myths about Popular Vote-Electoral College Splits,” PS (March 2001),
71-75
Richard H. Bradford, “John F. Kennedy and the 1960 Presidential Primary in West Virginia,”
South Atlantic Quarterly 75 (1976), 161-172
Hugh Heclo, “The Emerging Regime,” ch. 11 in Richard A. Harris and Sidney M. Milkis (eds.),
Remaking American Politics (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1989)
John L. Campbell and Michael Patrick Allen, “The Political Economy of Revenue Extraction in
the Modern State: A Time-Series Analysis of U.S. Income Taxes, 1916-1986,” Social Forces 72 (1994),
643-669
Charles L. Schultze, “Is There a Bias Toward Excess in U.S. Governmental Budgets or Deficits?”
Journal of Economic Perspectives 6 (1992), 25-43
Hugh Rockoff, “The Peace Dividend in Historical Perspective,” American Economic Review 88
(1998), 46-50
Beverly Gage, “Deep Throat, Watergate, and the Bureaucratic Politics of the FBI,” Journal of
Policy History 24:2 (2012), 157-83
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Robert S. Erikson and Laura Stoker, “Caught in the Draft: The Effects of Vietnam Draft Lottery
Status on Political Attitudes,” American Political Science Review 105:2 (May 2011), 221-37
Louis Fisher, “Presidential Budgetary Duties,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (December 2012),
754-90
William J. Collins and Fred H. Smith, “A Neighborhood-Level View of Riots, Property Values,
and Population Loss: Cleveland 1950-1980,” Explorations in Economic History 44 (2007), 365-386
Allen E. Liska and Paul E. Bellair, “Violent-Crime Rates and Racial Composition: Convergence
over Time,” Ameican Journal of Sociology 101:3 (1995), 578-610
Hugh Davis Graham, “The Origins of Affirmative Action: Civil Rights and the Regulatory State,”
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 523 (September 1992), 50-62
Hugh Davis Graham, “Legacies of the 1960s: The American ‘Rights Revolution’ in an Era of
Divided Governance,” Journal of Policy History 10 (1998), 267-288
Anthony King, “Ideas, Institutions, and the Policies of Governments: a Comparative Analysis,”
British Journal of Political Science 3 (1973), 291-313 and 409-423
Robert Freedman, “The Religious Right and the Carter Administration,” The Historical Journal
48:1 (2005), 231-60
Monica Prasad, “The Popular Origins of Neoliberalism in the Reagan Tax Cut of 1981,” Journal
of Policy History 24:8 (August 2012), 361-83
Patrick J. Akard, “Corporate Mobilization and Political Power: The Transformation of U.S.
Economic Policy in the 1970s,” American Sociological Review 57 (1992), 597-615
Val Burris, “The Political Partisanship of American Business: A Study of Corporate Political
Action Committees,” American Sociological Review 52 (1987), 732-744
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