American Politics Readings List

American Politics
University of Virginia
Year 1996
 

The following list was the readings list given to students at the University of Virginia to prepare them for their comprehensive finals in 1996.

 State Politics

• Campbell, Ballard C. 1980. Representative Democracy: Public Policy and Midwestern Legislatures in the Late 19th Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Dye, Thomas R. 1990. American Federalism: Competition Among Governments. Lexington, MA: DC Heath and Company.
• Eisinger, Peter. 1988. The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State. Madison: Universitv of Wisconsin Press.
• Erikson, Robert, Gerald C. Wright, and John P. McIver. 1993. Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Jewell, Malcolm. 1982. Representation in State Legislatures. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
• Key, V.O. 1949. Southern Politics in the State and Nation. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
• Key, V.O. 1956. American State Politics: An Introduction. New York: Knopf.
• Schulman, Bruce. 1992. From Cotton Belt to Sun Belt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Rosenthal, Alan. 1990. Governors and Legislatures: Contending Powers. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
• Tiebout, Charles. 1956. "A Pure Theory of Local Government Expenditures." Journal of Political Economy 44: 416-24.

Urban

• Bridges, Amy. 1984. A City in the Republic. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
• Browning, Rutus, Marshall, and Tabb. 1984. Protest is Not Enough: The Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics for Equality in Urban Politics. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
• Burns, Nancy E. 1994. The Formation of American Local Governments: Private Values in Public Institutions. New York Oxford University Press.
• Elkin, Steven. 1987. City and Regime in the American Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Dawson, Michael. 1994. Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Erie, Steven P. 1988. Rainbow's End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1945. Berkeley University of California Press.
• Gelfand, Mark. 1975. A Nation of Cities: The Federal Government and Urban America, 1933-1965. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Jackson, Kenneth T. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Kantor, Paul. 1981. The Dependent City: The Changing Political Economy of Urban America. Glenview: Scot, Foresman.
• Logan, John R., and Harvey Molotch. 1987. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Mollenkopf, John H. 1994. A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Mollenkopf, John H. 1983. The Contested City. Princeton Princeton University Press.
• Monkkonnen, Eric H. 1984. America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Peterson, Paul. 1981. City Limits. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Sonenshein, Raphael. 1993. Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles. Princeton: Princeton University
• Stone, Clarence, and Haywood T. Sanders, eds. 1987. The Politics of Urban Development. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.
• Stone, Clarence N. 1989. Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.
• Teaford, Jon. 1990. The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in the United States, 1940-1985. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Williams, Joan C. 1986. "The Constitutional Vulnerability of American Local Government: The Politics of City Status in American Law." Wisconsin Law Review 83-153.
• Wilson, William Julius. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.