Date | LectureTopic | |
Jan. 29: | Introduction to the Course | Syllabus |
Feb. 5: | American Voting Behavior | Charles Prysby and Carmine Scavo, American Voting Behavior in Presidential Elections, 1972 to 1992 (Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Assn., 1995), pp. 1-10, and 31-41. |
Feb. 12: | Gender and Culture |
Ronald Brownstein, "Divisions Exposed in
Election Will Be Obstacles for Bush," Los Angeles Times
(Dec. 14, 2000);
Ronald Brownstein, "Attendance, Not Affiliation, Key to Religious Voters," Los Angeles Times (July 16, 2001). Steven Pearlstein,"Angry Female Voters a Growing Force," The Washington Post (January 30, 1996). Ronald Brownstein, "Education Surfacing as Key Issue for Bush," Los Angeles Times (March 24, 2000); Kevin Phillips, "Cultural Tide Gathers for A Puritan Revival," Los Angeles Times (January 3, 1999). |
Feb. 19: | Places and Ideology |
Kevin Sack, "Campaigning in the New, Not-So-Solid South," The New
York Times (March 12, 2000);
Rhodes Cook,"Suburbia: Land of Varied Faces and a Political Force," Congressional Quarterly, (May 24, 1997). Mark Z. Barabak, "Who is a Conservative?" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (December 31, 1998); Doyle McManus, "Centrist Gains Give Pause to Both Extremes," Los Angeles Times (November 6, 1998); Ronald Brownstein, "Across the Nation, Guns Delineate America's new Political Geography," Los Angeles Times (June 14, 1999). |
Feb. 26: Mar. 5 |
Retrospective Voting | Douglas A. Hibbs,"President Reagan's Mandate From the 1980 Election," American Politics Quarterly, Vol. 10 (Oct. 1982), pp. 387-420. |
Mar. 12: | First Midterm Exam | |
Mar. 19: | Secular Realignment | V.O. Key, Jr. ,"Secular Realignment and the Party System," Journal of Politics, Vol.21 (May 1959), pp. 198-210. |
Mar. 26: | Spring Break--Campus Closed | |
Apr. 2: Apr. 9: |
Issue Voting | Richard W. Boyd,"Popular Control of Public Policy: A Normal Vote Analysis,"American Political Science Review, Vol. 65 (June 1972), pp. 429-449. |
Apr. 16: | Meeting in Social Science Lab | |
Apr. 23: | Second Midterm Exam | |
Apr. 30: | Scenarios of Partisan Realignment | Clubb,Flanigan, and Zingale"Partisan Realignment Since 1960." |
May 7: | The Two-Tier Electoral System | Everett Carll Ladd,"The Shifting Party Coalitions : From the 1930s to the 1970s," in Seymour Martin Lipset, (ed.), Party Coalitions in the 1980s (San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies,1981), pp. 127-149 |
May 14 May 16 : |
Oral Reports | |
May 23: | Final Exam | 10:15 to 12:15 |
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