McGILL UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLI 325 D2
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF THE UNITED STATES
Prof. Harold M. Waller
Leacock 423, 398-4806
11:25
Office Hours: T 11:30-12:00,
Th 11:30-12:15 and Th 2:00-2:45
harold.waller@mcgill.ca
Winter 2009-2010
Lectures TTh, 10:05Birks 111
T.A.:
Kenny Ie
Note:
Assigned readings in the two texts are required.
Other
readings are denoted R (required) or S (supplementary). Generally
the R readings are included in the Course Pack.
There is a
separate course pack for the Winter Term.
January 5-7
The Media
Wilson, Ch. 12
Cigler, Ch. 8
Peele, R: Chapter on Media
Graber, R: Ch. 6 and 8
Part III
Institutions:
Jan. 12-21
The Presidency
Wilson, Ch. 14
Cigler, Ch. 11
Fisher, War Power, R: Ch. 7 & 9, S: Ch. 8.
Milkis and Nelson, R: Ch. 12, S: Ch. 11 & 13
Greenstein, R: Ch. 14, S: Ch. 12-13
Thurber, R: Ch. 8, S: Ch. 3
January 26Feb. 4
Congress
Wilson, Ch. 13
Cigler, Ch. 10
Dodd & Oppenheimer, R: Ch. 18
Davidson & Oleszek, R: Ch. 12
Baker, R: Ch. 3
Thurber, S: Ch. 9
February 9March 4
Supreme Court and Civil Liberties
Wilson, Ch. 16 & 5
Cigler, Ch. 13 & 3 (3.1 - 3.5)
O'Brien, R: Ch. 4
Baum, R: Ch. 2, 5
Fisher, Dialogues, S: Ch. 5-6
Ely, S: Ch. 1 & 2
Power and Limitations
March 9-11
Bureaucracy
Wilson, Ch. 15
Cigler, Ch. 12
Wilson,Bureaucracy, R: Ch. 10-11
Part IV
System Evaluation
March 16
Public Policy
Wilson, Ch. 17
Cigler, Ch. 14
Gillon, R: Introduction, S: Ch. 3
Skocpol & Campbell, R: pp. 497-511, 522-532.
March 18-23
Civil Rights
Wilson, Ch. 6
Cigler, Ch. 3 (3.7 - 3.10)
Edsall & Edsall, S: Ch. 8 & 9
Skocpol & Campbell, S: No. 30
March 25-30
Presidential Crises and Scandals
Watergate Hearings, pp. 1-65, 508, 521, 548-573,
748,758. (Required, but not in Course Pack.)
Posner, S: Ch. 1, 5, 8
Draper, S: Ch. 1, 22, 26
April 1
Politics After 9/11
Cigler, 3.6
Rudalevige, R: Ch. VII
Fisher, Constitutional Conflicts, R:
Crenson, R: Ch. 5
April 6-13
Ch. 9
Perspectives on the System
Dye, S: Ch. 1, R: Ch. 9
Domhoff, R: Ch. 1, 7
Lipset, R: Ch. 8
Brinkley, R: Ch. 19
Ginsberg and Shefter, R: Ch. 1, S: Ch. 6
BOOKS ON RESERVE
Baker, Ross
Baum, Lawrence
Brinkley, Alan et al.
Crenson, Matthew & Ginsberg, Benj.
House and Senate, 4th Ed.
The Supreme Court, 7th Ed.
New Federalist Papers
Presidential Power: Unchecked
and Unbalanced
Davidson, Roger & Oleszek, Walter
Congress and Its Members, 4th
Dodd, Lawrence & Oppenheimer, Bruce Congress Reconsidered, 6th Ed.
Domhoff, G. William
Who Rules America? 4th Ed.
Draper, Theodore
A Very Thin Line
Dye, Thomas
Who’s Running America? 7th Ed.
Editorial Staff of the N.Y. Times
The Watergate Hearings
Edsall, Thomas & Edsall, Mary
Chain Reaction
Ely, John Hart
Democracy and Distrust
Fisher, Louis
Constitutional Dialogues
Fisher, Louis
Constitutional Conflicts
Between Congress and the
President, 5th Ed. Revised
Fisher, Louis
Presidential War Power
Graber, Doris A.
Mass Media and American
Politics, 7th Ed.
Gillon, Steven M.
That’s Not What We Meant to Do
Ginsberg, Benj. & Shefter, Martin
Politics by Other Means, 3rd
Greenstein, Fred I.
The Presidential Difference,
2nd Ed.
Lipset, Seymour Martin
American Exceptionalism
Milkis, Sidney & Nelson, Michael
The American Presidency
O’Brien, David
Storm Center, 8th Ed.
Peele, Gillian et al. (eds.)
Developments in American
Politics 5
Posner, Richard
An Affair of State
Rudalevige, Andrew
The ‘New’ Imperial Presidency
Skocpol, Theda & Campbell, John
American Society and Politics
Thurber, James A.
Rivals for Power
Wilson, James Q.
Bureaucracy
LECTURE AND CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
At the beginning of term lectures will be held from 10:05 to
11:25. Later in the term we will switch to one hour lectures.
There will be no lectures on two Tuesdays, March 30 and April 6.
As a result some of the other lectures toward the end of the term
may be extended to the full length in order to compensate.
New conference sections will be established in order to
accommodate students’ Winter Term schedules. Announcements will
be made during class and on WebCT regarding registration for
conferences and when they will begin.
Please note that the Winter Term half of the course has its own
site on WebCT.
POLICY STATEMENTS
McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all
students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating,
plagiarism and other academic offenses under the Code of Student
Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures. (See www.mcgill.ca/integrity
for more information.
In accord with McGill University’s Charter of Students’ Rights,
students in this course have the right to submit in English or
French any written work that is to be graded.
In the event of extraordinary circumstances beyond the
University’s control, the content and/or evaluation scheme in this
course is subject to change.