Corwin, Meg

English

University of Montana

University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Syllabi Course Syllabi Spring 2-1-2003 PSC 540.01: Seminar in American Politics Meg Corwin The University Of Montana, meg.corwin@umontana.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Corwin, Meg, "PSC 540.01: Seminar in American Politics" (2003). Syllabi. 7118. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi/7118 This Syllabus is brought to you for free and open access by the Course Syllabi at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Syllabi by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact scholarworks@mso.umt.edu. I. Core Readings in American Government PSC 540 Spring 2003 Instructor: Dr. Meg Corwin Office: LA 354 Phone: 243-4418 E-mail: mcorwin@selway.umt.edu Office Hours: MW - 2:00-2:45, TR - 3:45-4:30 Course Requirements Student evaluation is based on the following criteria: Seminar Participation- - - - - - - - - - - - 50% Writing Assignments- - - - - - - - - - - - -50% Attendance at all seminars is mandatory. Each unexcused absence will result in an automatic lowering of your final grade by I 0 points. Writing Assignments Each student will be assigned one volume for each seminar topic upon which he/she will prepare a I- I Yi page overview for distribution to other students and to the instructor. These will be due no later than 8:30 am on Monday each week. All students will come to class having read the other summaries. Each student (or group of students) will present and lead the discussion around their assigned reading. As a group, we will discuss the various themes and contrasting approaches to the week's topic. Following the seminar, students will submit a 5-6 page critical essay expanding upon the major themes addressed in the readings and the seminar discussion, choosing at least two to explore in-depth. These essays are due one week after each seminar, at the beginning of Tuesday's class. Reading assignments will be made during the first meeting. Seminar Schedule January 28 - Week I - Introductions and Reading Assignments February 4 - Week II - The Constitution and American Political Culture > Robert Dahl, A Preface to Democratic Theory. 1956. (152) > Richard J. Ellis, American Political Cultures. 1993. (268) > Herbert Storing and Murray Dry, What the Anti-Federalists Were For. 1981. (77), and chapter 2,3,6&9 from Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation ofthe Constitution ofthe United States, (102)> Samuel Huntington, American Politics: The Promise ofDisharmony. 1983. (262) > Herbert McCloskey and John Zaller. The American Ethos. 1984. (302) February 11 - Week III- Federalism > Elazar, Daniel. American Federalism: A View From the States. 1972. (256) > David Walker, The Rebirth ofFederalism: Slouching Towards Washington. 1995. (384) > Timothy Conlan, From New Federalism to Devolution: Twenty-Five Years ofIntergovernmental Reform. 1998. (325) > Paul Peterson, The Price ofFederalism. 1995. (264) .. > 	Michael Berkman, The State Roots ofNational Politics: Congress and the Tax Agenda, 1978-1986. 1993. (195) February 18 - Week IV - Belief Systems and Public Opinion > Carole Pateman, Participation and Democratic Theory. 1970. (132) > John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Stealth Democracy: American's Beliefs about How Government Should Work. 2002. (288) > W. Russell Neumann, The Paradox ofMass Politics. 1986. (241) > Michael X. Delli Carpini and Scott Keeter, Information and Empowerment: What Americans Know about Politics and why it Matters. 1996. (412) > Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion. 1965. (288) February 25 - Week V - Political Communication > Murray Edelman, The Symbolic Uses ofPolitics. 1985. (214) > Charles Elder and Roger Cobb, The Political Uses ofSymbols. 1983. (154) > Stephen Ansolabehere, Roy Behr and Shanto Iyengar, The Media Game: American Politics in the Television Age. 1993. (240) > Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction and Democracy.1992. (266) > Doris Graber, Processing Politics. 2001. (232) > Matthew Kerbel, Remote and Controlled. 1999. (146) March 4 - Week VI- Voter Behavior > Norman H. Nie, Sidney Verba, and John R. Petrocik, The Changing American Voter. 2nd ed. (356) > Flanigan and Zingale, Political Behavior ofthe American Electorate. Ioth ed. 2002. (203) > Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory ofDemocracy.1957. (300) > Susan Tolchin, The Angry American: How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation. 2nd ed. 1999. (161) > Pliven and Coward, Why Americans (still) Don't Vote.2000. (336) March 11 - Week VII - Political Parties and the Electoral Process > E.J. Dionne, Why Americans Hate Politics. 1991. (373) > James Sundquist, Dynamics ofthe Party System. 1983. (449) > M. Wattenberg, The Decline ofAmerican Political Parties. 1998. (242) > John Aldrich, Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation ofParty Politics in America. 1995. (296) > Douglas Amy, Real Choices, New Voices: The Case for Proportional Representation Elections in the United States. 1993. (223) March 18 - Week VIII - Interest Groups > Schattschneider, The Semi-Sovereign People: A Realist's View ofDemocracy in America.1975. (138) > Mancur Olson, The Logic ofCollective Action.1971. (167) > Jonathan Rauch, Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working. 1999. (288) > Theodore Lowi, The End ofLiberalism.1979. (331). > Scott Ainsworth, Analyzing Interest Groups. 2002. (221). April 1 - Week IX-The Executive > Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents.1990. (318) > Theodore Lowi, The Personal President.1985. (212) > Arthur Schlesinger, The Imperial Presidency.1989. (588) > Fred Greenstein, The Presidential Difference:Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton. 2000. (282) > Paul C. Light, The President's Agenda: Domestic Policy Choice from Kennedy to Clinton.1999. (312) April 8 - Week X -The Congress> David Mayhew, Congress: The Electoral Connection.1986. > Richard Fenno, Home Style. 1978. (248) > Woodrow Wilson, Congressional Government.1885. (215) ~ Davidson and Olesczek, Congress Against Itself 1977. > Barbara Sinclair, Unorthodox Lawmaking. 2000. (257) 2 April 15 - Week XI - The Bureaucracy and Regulatory Oversight >- Michael Reagan, Regulation: The Politics ofPolicy. 1987. (219) >- Kenneth Meier, Politics and the Bureaucracy: Policymaking in the 4th Branch o/Goverr1999. (288) >- Robert Higgs, Crisis and Leviathan:Critical Episodes in the Growth ofAmerican Goverunent, 3rd ed. nment.1989. (262) >- Charles Goodsell, The Case for Bureaucracy. 1994. (184) >- Martha Derthick, Bruce MacLaury and Paul Quirk, The Politics ofDe-regulation. 1985. (280) April 22 - Week XI - The Judiciary >- Robert Bork, The Tempting ofAmerica: The Political Seduction ofthe Law.1997. (356) >- Laurence Tribe, God Save This Honorable Court. I985. >- Stephen Gottlieb, Morality Imposed: The Rehnquist Court and Liberty in America 2000. (320) >- Jesse H. Choper. Judicial Review and the National Political Process. 1980. (494) >- David M. O'Brien, Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics, 2nd. Ed 1990. ( 446) April 29, May 6 - Week XII & XIII - Political Economy >- Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers, 71" ed. 1999. (365) >- Harrison and Bluestone, The Great U-Turn:Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America. 1988. (276) >- Douglass North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance.1990. (152) >- Lester Thurow, The Zero-Sum Society.1980. (230) >- Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom. 1962. (212) ~ Paul Krugman, The Age ofDiminished Expectations.3rd ed 1997. (230) >- Ralph Mueller, Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. 1999. (352) Finals Week- Field Exam \'. 3 

PSC 540.01: Seminar in American Politics

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8156&amp;context=syllabi

PSC 540.01: Seminar in American Politics

Abstract

Similar works

Full text

Available Versions

University of Montana