MACROTHEORIES OF AMERICAN POLITICS Political Science 904 Byron E. Shafer, Spring Semester, 2010 Week #1, January 22 Introduction to Macrotheories CONSISTENT INFLUENCES Week #2, January 29, American Exceptionalism John W. Kingdon, AMERICA THE UNUSUAL (New York: St. Martin’s/ Worth, 1999). Byron E. Shafer, "American Exceptionalism," Annual Review of Political Science 2(1999), 445-463. Week #3, February 5, Social Cleavages Geoffrey Layman, THE GREAT DIVIDE: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). Geoffrey C. Layman and John C. Green, “Wars and Rumors of Wars: The Contexts of Cultural Conflict in American Political Behavior”, British Journal of Political Science 36(2006), 61-89. Week #4, February 12, Institutional Structure Stephen Skowronek, THE POLITICS PRESIDENTS MAKE: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993). 1 EVOLUTIONARY INFLUENCES Week #5, February 19, Political Development James W. Ceaser, NATURE AND HISTORY IN AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT: A Debate (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006). Week #6, February 26, Guest Speaker James W. Ceaser, University of Virginia Week #7, March 5, Public Philosophies John Gerring, PARTY IDEOLOGIES IN AMERICA, 1828-1996 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Week #8, March 12, Issue Evolution William J.M. Claggett and Byron E. Shafer, THE AMERICAN PUBLIC MIND: The Issue Structure of Mass Politics in the Postwar United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Edward G. Carmines and James A. Stimson, “On the Structure and Sequence of Issue Evolution”, American Political Science Review 80(September 1986), 901-920. Week #9, March 19, Guest Speaker Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia 2 PUNCTUATED DISRUPTIONS Week #10, March 26, Culture Samuel P. Huntington, AMERICAN POLITICS: The Promise of Disharmony (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981). Spring Break, April 2, No Class Week #11, April 9, Partisan Alignment V.O. Key, Jr., “A Theory of Critical Elections”, Journal of Politics 17(February 1955), 3-18. James L. Sundquist, DYNAMICS OF THE PARTY SYSTEM: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States, rev.ed. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1983). Week #12, April 16, Guest Speaker David R. Mayhew, Yale University EXOGENOUS SHOCKS Week #13, April 23, International Relations Robert Saldin, WAR AND AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010). 3 Week #14, April 30, SYNTHETIC APPROACHES Byron E. Shafer and Anthony J. Badger, eds., CONTESTING DEMOCRACY: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001). V.O. Key, Jr., “Secular Realignment and the Party System”, Journal of Politics 21(May 1959), 198-210. Week #15, May 7, Guest Speaker Edward G. Carmines 4 EXPANDED READING LIST American Exceptionalism John W. Kingdon, AMERICA THE UNUSUAL (New York: St. Martin’s/ Worth, 1999). Byron E. Shafer, "American Exceptionalism," Annual Review of Political Science 2(1999), 445-463. Louis Hartz, THE LIBERAL TRADITION IN AMERICA ((New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1955). Seymour Martin Lipset, THE FIRST NEW NATION: The United States in Historical & Comparative Perspective (New York: W.W. Norton, 1979). Graham K. Wilson, ONLY IN AMERICA? The Politics of the United States in Comparative Perspective (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1998). Byron E. Shafer, ed., IS AMERICA DIFFERENT? A New Look at American Exceptionalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991). Social Cleavages Geoffrey Layman, THE GREAT DIVIDE: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). Geoffrey C. Layman and John C. Green, “Wars and Rumors of Wars: The Contexts of Cultural Conflict in American Political Behavior”, British Journal of Political Science 36(2006), 61-89. James Davison Hunter, CULTURE WARS: The Struggle to Define America (New York: Basic Books, 1991). Jeff Manza & Clem Brooks, SOCIAL CLEAVAGES AND POLITICAL CHANGE: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). 5 Jeffrey M. Stonecash, CLASS AND PARTY IN AMERICAN POLITICS (Boulder: Westview, 2000). Mark D. Brewer and Jeffrey M. Stonecash, SPLIT: Class and Cultural Divides in American Politics (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2006). Institutional Structure Stephen Skowronek, THE POLITICS PRESIDENTS MAKE: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993). Eric Schickler, DISJOINTED PLURALISM: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001). Gerald N. Rosenberg, THE HOLLOW HOPE: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991). Byron E. Shafer, QUIET REVOLUTION: The Struggle for the Democratic Party and the Shaping of Post-Reform Politics (New York: Russell Sage, 1983). Austin Ranney, CHANNELS OF POWER: The Impact of Television on American Politics (New York: Basic Books, 1983). American Political Development James W. Ceaser, NATURE AND HISTORY IN AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT: A Debate (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006). Henry Jones Ford, THE RISE AND GROWTH OF AMERICAN POLITICS: A Sketch of Constitutional Development (New York: Macmillan, 1898). Michael Barone, OUR COUNTRY: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (New York: Free Press, 1990). 6 Byron E. Shafer & William J.M. Claggett, THE TWO MAJORITIES: The Issue Context of Modern American Politics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). David M. Ricci, THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS: The Rise of Think Tanks (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993). Public Philosophies John Gerring, PARTY IDEOLOGIES IN AMERICA, 1828-1996 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Daniel J. Elazar, THE AMERICAN MOSAIC: The Impact of Space, Time, and Culture on American Politics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994). Herbert McClosky and John Zaller, THE AMERICAN ETHOS: Public Attitudes toward Capitalism and Democracy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984). Everett Carll Ladd, THE AMERICAN IDEOLOGY: An Exploration of the Origins, Meaning, and Role of American Political Ideas (Storrs, CT: The Roper Center, 1994). Kenneth S. Baer, REINVENTING DEMOCRATS: The Politics of Liberalism from Reagan to Clinton (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000). Issue Evolution William J.M. Claggett and Byron E. Shafer, THE AMERICAN PUBLIC MIND: The Issue Structure of Mass Politics in the Postwar United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Edward G. Carmines and James A. Stimson, “On the Structure and Sequence of Issue Evolution”, American Political Science Review 80(September 1986), 901-920. 7 Edward G. Carmines & James A. Stimson, ISSUE EVOLUTION: Race and the Transformation of American Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989). Alan I. Abramowitz, “Issue Evolution Reconsidered: Racial Attitudes and Partisanship in the US Electorate”, American Journal of Political Science 38(1994), 1-24. James A. Stimson, PUBLIC OPINION IN AMERICA: Moods, Cycles, and Swings (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991). William G. Mayer, THE CHANGING AMERICAN MIND: How and Why American Public Opinion Changed between 1960 and 1988 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993). Culture Samuel P. Huntington, AMERICAN POLITICS: The Promise of Disharmony (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981). Robert Kelley, THE CULTURAL PATTERN IN AMERICAN POLITICS: The First Century (New York: Random House, 1979). Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., THE CYCLES OF AMERICAN HISTORY (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986). Eric M. Patashnik, REFORMS AT RISK: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008). Robert S. Erikson, Michael B. MacKuen, and James A. Stimson, THE MACRO POLITY (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones, AGENDAS AND INSTABIILTY IN AMERICAN POLITICS (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993). 8 Partisan Alignment V.O. Key, Jr., “A Theory of Critical Elections”, Journal of Politics 17(February 1955), 3-18. James L. Sundquist, DYNAMICS OF THE PARTY SYSTEM: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States, rev.ed. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1983). Walter Dean Burnham, CRITICAL ELECTIONS AND THE MAINSPRINGS OF AMERICAN POLITICS (New York: W.W. Norton, 1970). Jerome M. Clubb, William H. Flanagan, and Nancy H. Zingale, PARTISAN REALIGNMENT: Voters, Parties, and Government in American History (Boulder: Westview, 1990). Byron E. Shafer, ed., THE END OF REALIGNMENT? Interpreting American Electoral Eras (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991). David R. Mayhew, ELECTORAL REALIGNMENTS: A Critique of an American Genre (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002). Theodore Rosenof, REALIGNMENT: The Theory That Changed the Way We Think about American Politics (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). External Shocks Robert Saldin, WAR AND AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Daniel Tichenor, DIVIDING LINES: The Politics of Immigration Control in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002). Hugh Davis Graham, THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). John D. Skrentny, THE MINORITY RIGHTS REVOLUTION (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). 9 Synthetic Approaches Byron E. Shafer & Anthony J. Badger, eds., CONTESTING DEMOCRACY: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001). Gareth Davies, FROM OPPORTUNITY TO ENTITLEMENT: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996). William Nisbet Chambers and Walter Dean Burnham, eds., THE AMERICAN PARTY SYSTEMS: Stages of Political Development (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967). Pietro S. Nivola & David W. Brady, eds., RED AND BLUE NATION: Characteristics and Causes of America’s Polarized Politics, Vol. 1 (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2006). Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Mark D. Brewer, and Mack D. Mariani, DIVERGING PARTIES: Social Change, Realignment, and Party Polarization (Boulder: Westview, 2003). Andrew Gelman, RED STATE, BLUE STATE, RICH STATE, POOR STATE: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008). 10