Links to some of the required readings

 

Week 14 The Supreme Court

Segal, Jeffrey A., and Albert D. Cover.  1989.  “Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices.”  The American Political Science Review, 83(2):557-565. (JSTOR)

Epstein, Lee, Valerie Hoekstra, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Harold J. Spaeth.  1998.  “Do Political Preferences Change?  A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Supreme Court Justices.”  The Journal of Politics, 60(3):801-818. (JSTOR)

Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Harold J. Spaeth.  2001.  "The Norm of Consensus on the U.S. Supreme Court."  American Journal of Political Science, 45(2): 362-377. (JSTOR)

Perry, H. W. Jr.  1991.  Deciding to Decide.  Cambridge MA:  Harvard University Press.  Chapter 8 (Part 1 and 2) and excerpt from Chapter 9 (EReserve)

Week 13 The Psychology Study of Presidents
 (Note:  the links for the articles in Political Psychology take you to the correct issue of that journal.)

Barber, James David.  1977.  “The Nixon Brush with Tyranny.”  Political Science Quarterly, 92(4):581-605. (JSTOR)

Suedfeld, Peter, and Dana C. Leighton.  2002.  “Early Communications in the War Against Terrorism:  An Integrative Complexity Analysis.”  Political Psychology, 23(3):585-599. (Journal's web pages)

 Sigelman, Lee.  2002.  “Two Reagans?  Genre Imperatives, Ghostwriters, and Presidential Personality Profiling.”  Political Psychology, 23(4):839-851. (Journal's web pages)

Simonton, Dean Keith.  2006.  “Presidential IQ, Openness, Intellectual Brilliance, and Leadership: Estimates and Correlations for 42 U.S. Chief Executives.”  Political Psychology, 27(4):511-526. (Journal's web pages)

Week 12 Congress

Jacobson, Gary C.  1996.  "The 1994 House Elections in Perspective."  Political Science Quarterly, 111(2):203-223. (JSTOR)

To access the following three readings:  1. Click on one of the titles.  2. Click Extensions link on the left, bottom.  3. Click "American in Red and Blue," the Fall 2005 issue at the top of the list.  4. Click "Special Orders:  Essays near the middle of the page.  5. Click each title to access a web version or a PDF file.

Poole, Keith T.  2005.  “The Decline and Rise of Party Polarization in Congress During the Twentieth Century,” Extensions, Fall:1-6. 

Binder, Sarah A.  2005.  "Elections and Congress' Governing Capacity."  Extensions, Fall:1-7.

Ono, Keiko.  2005.  "Electoral Origins of Partisan Polarization in Congress:  Debunking the Myth."  Extensions, Fall: 1-8.

Week 10 Media Effects

Iyengar, Shanto, Mark D. Peters, and Donald R. Kinder.  1982.  "Experimental Demonstrations of the "Not-So-Minimal" Consequences of Television News Programs."  American Political Science Review, 76(4):848-858. (JSTOR)

Kahn, Kim Fridkin.  1994.  "The Distorted Mirror:  Press Coverage of Women Candidates for Statewide Office."  Journal of Politics, 56(1):154-173. (JSTOR)

Gilliam, Franklin D. Jr., and Shanto Iyengar.  2000.  “Prime Suspects:  The Influence of Television News on the Viewing Public.”  American Journal of Political Science, 44(3):560-573. (JSTOR)

Brader. Ted.  2005.  “Striking a Persuasive Chord:  How Political Ads Motivate and Persuade Voters by Appealing to Emotion.”  American Journal of Political Science 49(2): 388-405. (EBSCO host)

Week 2

King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba.  1994.  Designing Social Inquiry.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press.  (Chapter 1)

Yanow, Dvora.  2003.  “Interpretive Empirical Political Science:  What Makes This Not a Subfield of Qualitative Methods.”  Qualitative Methods Section (APSA) Newsletter, 2nd Issue.

Grant, J. Tobin.  2005.  “What Divides Us?  The Image and Organization of Political Science.”  PS: Political Science and Politics, 38(3): 379-386.

Week 3

Judd, Charles, M., Jon A. Krosnick, and Michael A. Milburn.  1981.  "Political Involvement and Attitude Structure in the General Public."  American Sociological Review, 46(5):660-669.

Week 5

Frank, Thomas.  2004.  "Lie Down for America."  Harper's Magazine, 308(1847):33-46. (Alternative link)

Bartels, Larry M.  2006.  "What's the Matter with What's the Matter with Kansas?"  Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 1:201-226.

 

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