POLI 615: THE AMERICAN POLITICAL ARENA
1. (9/7) Analytical Tools: Rational Choice Theory; Social Choice Theory
Downs, Chapters
2. (9/14) Analytical Tools: Decision Theory; Information Aggregation
Schumpeter
Downs
Miller
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(9/21) Analytical Tools: Game Theory; Collective Action; Voice and Exit
Olson
Hardin
Hirschman
4. (9/28) Analytical Tools: The Spatial Model of Political Choice
Schumpeter
Downs
Miller
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(10/5) Analytical Tools: Surveys, Data Archives, and Data Analysis
Michigan Studies/NES
General Social Survey
Participation Surveys
ICPSR
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(10/12) Political Information
Delli Carpini and Keeter, What American Know About Politics and Why
It Matters
(1995)
John Zaller, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (1995)
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(10/26) Political Participation
Verba, Schlozman, and Brady, Voice and Inequality (1995)
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(11/2) Organized Interest Groups
Jack Walker, Mobilizing Interest Groups in America (1990)
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Wolfinger and Rosenstone, Who Votes? (1978)
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(11/23) Electoral Partisanship and Choice
Miller and Shanks, The New American Voter (1997)
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(11/30) Issue Evolution and Realignment
Carmines and Stimson, Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of
American
Politics (1989)
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(12/7) Institutions and Incentives I: Electoral Systems
Douglas Amy, Real Choices/New Voices (1993)
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(12/14) Institutions and Incentives II: Term Limits
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