Encompasses a large number of the most famous and influential writings about American government since the
Founding
Editors provide expert commentary
A superb supplemental resource for American Government courses
Table of Contents
I. POLITICAL CULTURE AND TRADITIONS
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Equality of Condition"
Louis Hartz, "The Concept of a Liberal Society"
*Charles A. Beard, "The Constitution as an Economic Document"
*Gordon S. Wood, "The American Science of Politics"
James Madison, Federalist 10
II. FEDERALISM
*Samuel H. Beer, "The National Idea in American Politics"
Morton Grodzins, "The Federal System"
*Martha Derthick, "The Enduring Features of American Federalism"
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 27 and 28
James Madison, Federalist 39 McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
III. POLITICAL POWER
*C. Wright Mills, "The Structure of Power in American Society"
*Robert A. Dahl, "On the Species Homo Politicus"
*Peter Bacharach and Morton S. Baratz, "Two Faces of Power"
IV. POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTIONS
*Anthony Downs, "An Economic Theory of Democracy"
*Donald E. Stokes, "Spatial Models of Party Competition"
Morris P. Fiorina, "The Decline of Collective Responsibility in America Politics"
V. O. Key, "Elections as Collective Decisions"
V. INTEREST GROUPS AND LOBBYING
Mancur Olson, Jr., "Collective Action: The Logic"
Richard L. Hall and Frank W. Wayman, "Buying Time: Moneyed Interests and the Mobilization of Bias"
Hugh Heclo, "Issue Networks and the Executive Establishment"
E. E. Schattschneider, "The Scope and Bias of Pressure System"
VI. THE CONGRESS
James Madison, Federalist 51
*Waren E. Miller and Donald E. Stokes, "Constituency Influence in Congress"
*Daivd R. Mayhew, "Divided We Govern"
Nelson W. Polsby, "The Institutionalization of the House of Representatives"
*Richard F. Fenno, Jr., "Congressmen in Committees"
VII. THE PRESIDENCY
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 69
Aaron Wildavsky, "The Two Presidencies"
Richard E. Neustadt, "The Power to Persuade"
Charles O. Jones, "Separating to Govern: The American Way"
Doris Kearns, "Lyndon Johnson and the America Dream"
VIII. THE BUREAUCRACY
James Q. Wilson, "The Bureaucracy Problem"
*Herbert Kaufman, "Red Tape"
IX. THE JUDICIARY
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78
*Roe v. Wade (1973)
*Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Edward S. Corwin, "The 'Higher Law' Background of American Constitutional Law"
*Walter F. Murphy, "Marshalling the Court"
Martin M. Shapiro, "The Presidency and the Federal Courts" Korematsu v. The United States (1944)
X. THE POLICY PROCESS
James W. Kingdon, on Agenda-Setting
Charles E. Lindblom, "The Science of 'Muddling Through'"
Edward C. Banfield, "Influence and the Public Interest"
Theodore J. Lowi, "Distribution, Regulation, Redistribution: Functions of Government"
