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POL 3010: American Political Systems
Module 3
POL 3010: American Political Systems
General Resources
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Theories of Representation and Participation
Elections and Voting Behavior
Politics and the Media
Political Parties
Interest Groups
Module 4
The Presidency: The Presidency Since 1945: General Resources
The Presidency: The Imperial Presidency
The Presidency: The Return of the Imperial Presidency
The Presidency: Presidential Performance
Module 5
Module 6
Module 7
Module 8
Theories of Representation and Participation
Representation
Participation
Discussion Exercise: Representation
Karen Bird, "The Political Representation of Women and Ethnic Minorities in Established Democracies"
Jennifer E. Manning, "Membership of the 113th Congress: A Profile"
Jane Mansbridge, "Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent 'Yes'"
Jane Mansbridge, "Rethinking Representation"
Norman J. Ornstein et al., "Vital Statistics on Congress 2013"
Philip Bump, "The new Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent make and 92 percent Christian"
Suzanne Dovi, "Political Representation"
Ezra Klein, "The myth of the presidential mandate"
Eugene Volokh, "Is the United States of America a republic or a democracy?"
Discussion Exercise: Political Participation
Russell J. Dalton, "Citizenship Norms and the Expansion of Political Participation"
Patrick Flavin and Michael J. Keane, "Life Satisfaction and Political Participation"
Danny Hayes and Jennifer L. Lawless, "As Local News Goes, So Goes Citizen Engagement"
Pew Research Center for People and the Press, "The People and Their Government: Distrust, Discontent, Anger and Partisan Rancor"
Thomas H. Sander and Robert D. Putnam, "Still Bowling Alone? The Post 9/11 Split"
Brendan Brady, "The influence of union membership on political participation and social capital"
The Brookings Institution, "Voter Turnout"
Jose A. DelReal, "Voter turnout in 2014 was the lowest since WWII"
Federal Election Commission, "Election Results"
Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox, "Just say run: How to overcome cynicism and inspire young people to run for office:
Pew Research Center, "Voter Participation"
USHistory.org, "Participating in Government"
Dave Meslin, "The Antidote to Apathy"
Jacob Soboroff, "Why Do Americans Vote on Tuesday?"
Elections and Voting Behavior
Research and Discussion Exercise: Voting Behavior
PowerPoint: "Elections and Participation", by Shea, Green and Smith (2009)
Larry M. Bartels, "The Study of Electoral Behavior"
Bendor et al., "Bounded Rationality and Elections"
American National Election Studies
Anon. "Guru: Herbert Simon"
Drew Desilver, "The Politics of American Generations"
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, "Voting Behavior"
Lexington, "Barack Obama's Best 2012 Friends: Enthusiastic Black Pensioners, and Apathetic White Youths"
USHistory.org, "What Factors Shape Political Attitudes?"
Lynn Vavreck, "The Power of Political Ignorance"
Politics and the Media
Research Essay: Politics and the Media
Politics and the Media Help Notes
PowerPoint: "Media and Public Opinion", by Shea, Green, and Smith (2009)
Larry Bartels, "The Political Impact of Media Exposure"
Danny Hayes and Jennifer L. Lawless, "As Local News Goes, So Goes Citizen Engagement: Media, Knowledge, and Participation in U.S. House Elections"
K. A. Oswald, "Mass Media and the Transformation of American Politics"
David Greenberg, "A Half Century of 'Liberal Media Bias'" (Aug. 23, 2018)
American Press Institute, "How Americans Get Their News"
Dylan Byers, "The Mobile Election: How Smartphones Will Change the 2016 Political Race"
Andrea Chang and Samantha Masunaga, "From Fox to Facebook: Campaign Influence Shifts Toward Social Media"
Matthew Lynch, "Analyzing the Media's Role in the Political Process"
Micah L. Sifry, "A See-Through Society: How the Web is Opening Up Our Democracy"
Paul Starr, "Governing in the Age of Fox News"
Kayla Webley, "How the Nixon-Kennedy Debate Changed the World"
Political Parties
Discussion Exercise: Significance of U.S. Parties
PowerPoint: "Political Parties", by Shea, Green, and Smith (2009)
Victor D. Hanson, "Dueling Populisms" (2018)
Jennifer Agiesta, "American Independents Movement: Fewer Identify with Political Parties"
Van Gosse, "Realigning American Politics: Towards a Mass Party of the Center"
Library of Congress, "Party System"
Pew Research Center: "Political Party Affiliation"
ProCon.org, "U.S. Political Parties"
Robert O. Self, "Are We There Yet?"
USHistory.org, "Political Parties"
D. Robert Worley, "Issues, Principles, and Party Realignment"
Interest Groups
PowerPoint: "Interest Groups" by Shea, Green and Smith (2009)
Matt Grossman, "Interest group influence on U.S. policy change: An assessment based on policy history"
Halpin 2006 Article on Pressure Groups
Sarah Bondioli, "U.S. Policies Favor the Wealthy, Interest Groups, Study Shows"
Center for Responsive Politics, "Interest Groups"
Darren R. Halpin and Anthony J. Nownes, "Interest Groups in American Politics"
Nicholas Lemann, "Conflict of Interests"
Project Vote Smart, "National Special Interest Groups"
Alexandra Raphel, "Lobbying, Special Interests and 'Buying ' Influence"
USHistory.org, "Interest Groups"
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