Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hufnagel
University of Siegen
Political Science
Winter 2011/12
USA Today: Nemesis of Democracy?
1) 10-18-11 The American Republic: “Habit of the Heart”
William J. Bennett: Our Sacred Honor (1997)
Martin Luther King, JR: “I Have a Dream” (1963)
Contemporary Views and Values
2) 10-25-11
[5] Kishore Mahbubani: Can America Fail?
[6] William A. Galston: The Right Bite
[46] Linda Chavez: The Realities of Immigration
3) 11-08-11
[7] John Podhoretz: The Purposes of Political Combat
[8] Bernie Sanders: These People Have No Shame
[10] Andrew Gelman: Over Time, a Gay Marriage Groundswell
Constitutional and Legal Matters 1: Supreme Court and the Constitution
4) 11-15-11
[11] Sanford Levinson: It is Time to Repair the Constitution´s Flaws
[12] Stuart Taylor Jr.: Is Judicial Review Obsolete?
[27] Jeffrey Rosen: Roberts versus Roberts
[28] Adam Liptak: Court under Roberts Is Most Conservative in
Decades
Constitution and Legal Matters 2: Free Speech and Corporate Power
5) 11-22-11
[13] Jennifer Rubin: A Triumph for Political Speech
[14] Matthew Rothschild: Corporations Aren´t Persons
[36] Eliza Newlin Carney: Six Myths about Campaign Money
Social Security
6) 11-29-11
[15] Eleanor Smeal: A Title IX for Health Care
[50] James Ridgeway: Meet the Real Death Panels
[52] Allan Sloan: A Flimsy Trust
Environmental Policy
7) 12-06-11
[9] Al Gore: The Crisis Comes Ashore
[51] Michael T. Klare: Clean Green, Safe and Smart
[21] Jonathan Chait: Dear Leader
The Presidency
8) 12-13-11
[17] Jonathan Rauch: Small Ball after All?
[18] Garrett Epps: The Founder´s Great Mistake
[21] Jonathan Chait: Dear Leader
[22] Ramesh Ponnuru: Tha Obama Enigma
Congress
9) 12-20-11
[23] William G. Howell: When Congress Stops Wars
[24] Lawrence Lessig: How to Get Our Democracy Back
[25] Lee H. Hamilton: The Case for Congress
Bureaucracy and Infrastructure
10) 01-10-12
[29] Bruce Berkowitz: Marking Time: Why Government Is Too Slow
[30] Lee Hamilton: Legislation Is Just the Start
[47] Burt Solomon: The Real Infrastructure Crisis
Political Parties and the Electorate
11) 01-17-12
[33] Stuart Taylor: Polarized Pols versus Moderate Voters?
[34] Jonathan Rauch: The Tea Party Paradox
[41] John B. Judis: Tea Minus Zero
Interest Groups
12) 01-24-12
[38] Theo Francis: Don´t Call Them Lobbyists
[39] Ronald Brownstein: Born Fighting
[40] Winter Casey: Why They Lobby
Media
13) 01-31-12
[42] Clay Shirky: The Revolution Will Not Be Published
[44] Micah L. Sifry: A See-Through Society
[45] Paul Starr: Governing in the Age of Fox News
Reader provided:
American Government 11/12. Ed. Bruce Stinebrickner.
41st ed. (Mc Graw Hill) New York, NY, 2012.