Principles and Practice of American Politics - Classic and Contemporary Readings

Principles and Practice of American Politics is an engaging collection of readings that balances "classics" of political science with more contemporary analyses of current politics and public policy. Kernell and Smith have drawn from a variety of sources and schools of thought to present a coherent collection. In addition, many selections are drawn from rich political sources such as the CQ Weekly that comparable readers cannot offer.

List of contents

PART ONE: DESIGNING INSTITUTIONS
from The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups - Mancur Olson Jr.
The Tragedy of the Commons - Garrett Hardin
The Citizenship Agenda - Bruce Ackerman
PART TWO: THE CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
The Founding Fathers: A Reform Caucus in Action - John P. Roche Jr.
Anti-Federalist No. 3 - Brutus
Federalist No. 10 - James Madison
Federalist No. 51 - James Madison
PART THREE: FEDERALISM
Federalist No. 39 - James Madison
Federalism: Sorting Out Who Does What - Donald F. Kettl
A Separate Peace - Jonathan Rauch
PART FOUR: CIVIL RIGHTS
from The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse - Richard Thompson Ford
Immigrants and the Changing Categories of Race - Kenneth Prewitt
PART FIVE: CIVIL LIBERTIES
from Republic.com 2.0 - Cass R. Sunstein
A Liberal Vision of U.S. Family Law in 2020 - William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Roe v. Wade
The Real World of Constitutional Rights: The Supreme Court and the Implementation of the Abortion Decisions - Gerald N. Rosenberg
PART SIX: CONGRESS
Congress, the Troubled Institution - Steven S. Smith
The Politics of Legislative Stalemate - Sarah Binder
Congressional Committees in a Continuing Partisan Era - John H. Aldrich and David W. Rohde
PART SEVEN: THE PRESIDENCY
from Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan - Richard E. Neustadt
The Institutional Presidency - John P. Burke
from Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership - Samuel Kernell
PART EIGHT: THE BUREAUCRACY
The Politics of Bureaucratic Structure - Terry M. Moe
Bush and the Bureaucracy: A Crusade for Control - Paul Singer
from The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance - David E. Lewis
Administrative Procedures as Instruments - Matthew McCubbins, Roger G. Noll, and Barry R. Weingast
PART NINE: THE JUDICIARY
from A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law - Antonin Scalia
from Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution - Stephen Breyer
Federalist No. 78 - Alexander Hamilton
The Voting Behavior of Obama's Lower court Judges: A Tentative First Look - Robert A. Carp, Kenneth L. Manning, and Ronald Stidham
PART TEN: PUBLIC OPINION
Analyzing and Interpreting Polls - Herbert Asher
Dynamic Representation - James A. Stimson, Michael B. MacKuen, and Robert S. Erikson
from Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America - Morris P. Fiorina
How Divided Are We? - James Q. Wilson
from American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us - Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell
PART ELEVEN: VOTING, CAMPAIGNS, AND ELECTIONS
from The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns - Samuel L. Popkin
No Compromise: The Electoral Origins of Legislative Gridlock - Gary C. Jacobson
from Air Wars: Television Advertising in Election Campaigns, 1952-2008 - Darrell M. West
America's Ignorant Voters - Michael Schudson
Super PACs and Secret Money 1 - Paul Blumental
PART TWELVE: POLITICAL PARTIES
from Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America - John H. Aldrich
Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952-1996 - Larry M. Bartels
Parties as Problem Solvers - Morris P. Fiorina
PART THIRTEEN: INTEREST GROUPS
The Scope and Bias of the Pressure System - E. E. Schattschneider
The Evolution of Interest Groups - John R. Wright
Buying Time: Moneyed - Richard L. Hall and Frank W. Wayman
PART FOURTEEN: NEWS MEDIA
The Market and the Media - James T. Hamilton
from War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War - Matthew A. Baum and Tim J. Groeling
Understanding the Participatory News Consumer - Pew Research Center

About the author

Samuel Kernell is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since 1977. Previously, he taught at the University of Mississippi and the University of Minnesota. Kernell's research interests focus on the presidency and American political history. His books include Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership, 4th edition, Principles and Practice of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 3rd edition (edited with Steven S. Smith), an edited collection of essays, James Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican Government, and, with Gary C. Jacobson, The Logic of American Politics, 3rd edition and Strategy and Choice in Congressional Elections, 2nd edition.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Kernell, Samuel Smith Kernell, Steven S. Smith, Steven S. Kernell Smith
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2012
• EAN: 9781452226286
• ISBN: 978-1-4522-2628-6
• No. of pages: 752
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education