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Bibliography - American Politics

 
 
Agenda - Setting
Patrick Fagan, University of Southern Mississippi. Briefly annotated, this list regards readings on agenda-setting effects of news media, rather than agenda-setting effects of the public or government.
 
Agenda Setting
Allan Louden, Wake Forest University.
 
American Government, 1989, readings list
Patrick Fagan, University of Southern Mississippi.
 
American Government, 1998, readings list
Patrick Fagan, University of Southern Mississippi.
 
American Political Development
Dave Robertson. University of Missouri.
Arranged by categories such as Theory Construction; Case Studies; The Political Science Discipline; Historical Institutionalism; The State; The Positive Theory of Institutions; American "Exceptionalism"; American Political Development; The American State; Federalism; Institutional Engineering; Founding to Civil War; The State of Courts and Parties, 1865-1900; Progressivism; Normalcy and New Deal; Cold War and the 1960s; Primary Sources and Data; Political Parties; Realignment; Suffrage, Elections, Initiative & Referenda; Political Corruption, Machines, Patronage; Campaign Finance; Public Opinion; Political Culture and Ideology; The South; Religion; Gender; Race; Slavery; Media; Agenda Setting; and Legislating.
 
American Political Development
Trey Hood. University of Georgia.
 
American Politics
University of Virginia.
 
American Political Development
Dave Robertson, University of Missouri. Topics include research, case studies, pitfalls, the development of political science, historical institutionalism, positive theories of institutions, American exceptionalism, the state, federalism; public opinion; media; political culture; political corruption; the South; religion; gender; race; and constitutional development. Under Periods of Political Developments are the following topics: founding to civil war; state of courts and parties, 1865-1900; progressivism; normalcy and New Deal; Cold War; and the new American political system. There are also large sections devoted to legislative development; presidential development; administrative and bureaucratic development; legal development; and critical legal theory.
 
Butterfly Ballot
Bibliography from  "The Butterfly Did It: The Aberrant Vote for Buchanan in Palm Beach County, Florida," by Jonathan Wand, Kenneth Shotts, Jasjeet Sekhon, Walter Mebane, Michael Herron, and Henry Brady.
 
Capital Punishment
Boston University Library. Categories include Reference Books; Indexes, Abstracts, and Full Text Sources; Statistics; and Internet Sources.
 
Congress, 1999, readings list
Patrick Fagan, University of Southern Mississippi.
 
Congressional Communication
Allan Louden, Wake Forest University.
 
Criticisms of Proportional Representation
Mount Holyoke College. Earlier works on Proportional Representation (PR) may be found hereA lot of background articles on PR and PR voting systems may be found here .
 
Direct Mail in Elections
Allan Louden, Wake Forest University.
 
Election 2000 Bibliography
Patrick Fagan, University of Southern Mississippi. In reference to the presidential election of 2000, sections are devoted to books, articles, class exercises, and Internet sources.
 
Electoral Systems
Mount Holyoke College.
 
Electronic Democracy
Scott London. Includes the following six categories: Politics and Technology, Electronic Town Meetings, Ross Perot, Interactive Television, Computer Networking, and Polls and Opinions.
 
Electronic Voting
Small bibliography from an MIT student in 2000.
 
Electronic Voting
Anne-Marie Oostveen, University of Amsterdam.
 
Equal Justice: Foundations, Theories, and Ethics
Association of American Law Schools. The works presented here are well-annotated.
 
Freedom of the Press
Southern Illinois University, Ralph McCoy. Very extensive listing of works regarding free press.  All works are listed multi-paged and alphabetically by author's name. There is no single-page index.
 
Internet Resources for Politics, Political Science, and Political Scientists
Bruce Pencek, University of Nevada. Dr. Pencek has put together an "annotated directory site to political science directories (gateways, portals...) and to a few specialized resources that are interesting uses of Internet technology." He has organized the bibliography "around a three-part typology of political science information needs."
 
Introduction to Political Science, 1999, readings list
Patrick Fagan, University of Southern Mississippi.
 
Mass Media : Television and News Coverage
Allan Louden, Wake Forest University.
 
National Election Studies
University of Michigan. Lists the works that use NES data and currently has something in the neighborhood of 3500 papers, dissertations, book chapters, conference presentations.
 
Political Organization
Alfred De Grazia. Chapter bibliographies from the author's book,  Elements of Political Science.
 
Presidency, 2000, readings list
Patrick Fagan, University of Southern Mississippi.
Includes book reviews of the listed books.
 
United States Congress
David Canon, University of Wisconsin. This bib was designed for PS 826 at the University of Wisconsin. Major topics include an introduction to Congress; comparative legislative studies; voting and elections; representation and constituency service; ambition and careers; the media; committees; legislative parties; interest groups; congressional ethics; the executive, bureaucracy, and public policy; foreign policy; congress and the courts; theory; empirical works; and general books.
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