POL SCIENCE 101 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

READING LIST TO CHOOSE TOPIC FROM:

1) Writing and Citing - Rothman, J. (2014, Feb. 20). Why is Academic Writing so Academic. New Yorker. Available at: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-is-academic-writing-so-academic.

2) Origins of American Politics and Polices - Wood, J. (2010, May 10). Tocqueville in America. New Yorker. Available at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-story-americas-19th-century-opiate-addiction180967673/.

3) Constitutional Provisions for Limited Government - Dunham, R. G., & Mauss, A. L. (1976). Waves from Watergate: evidence concerning the impact of the Watergate scandal upon political legitimacy and social control. Pacific Sociological Review, 19(4), 469-490. Available at: https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=sociology.

4) Voting and Representative Government

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- McKinley, J. & Mays, J. (2019, Oct. 24). Early Voting Stirs Anxiety in N.Y. The New York Times. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/nyregion/early-voting-nyelection.html.

5) Division of Power: Federal v. State Authority - Hammer, D., Phillips, B., & Schmidt, T. L. (2010). The intended—and unintended— consequences of healthcare reform. Healthcare Financial Management, 64(10), 50-55. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Terry_Schmidt5/publication/47348397_The_intendedand_unintended-consequences_of_healthcare_reform/links/5512cda50cf270fd7e33781b/Theintended-and-unintended-consequences-of-healthcare-reform.pdf.

6) America’s Civil Liberties - Nelson, T. E., Clawson, R. A., & Oxley, Z. M. (1997). Media framing of a civil liberties conflict and its effect on tolerance. American Political Science Review, 91(3), 567-583. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Nelson6/publication/209409737_Media_Framing_ of_A_Civil_Liberties_Conflict_and_Its_Effect_on_Tolerance/links/02e7e5323276f31251000000 .pdf.

February 20th – 14th Amendment and Civil Rights - Epps, G. (2015, Dec. 10). Is Affirmative Action Finished?. The Atlantic. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/when-can-race-be-a-college-admissionsfactor/419808/.

7) Legislative Branch and the People - O’Keefe, E. (2014, Feb. 4). Farm bill passes after three years of talks. The Washington Post. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/02/04/farm-billpasses-after-three-years-of-talks/.

February 27th – Legislative Branch and Political Parties - Everett, B., Sherman, J. & Bresnahan, J. (2013, Oct. 1). Shutdown: Congress sputters on CR. Politico. Available at: https://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/house-senate-governmentshutdown-097557.

8) Executive Branch and Domestic Policies - Guetzkow, J. (2010). Beyond deservingness: congressional discourse on poverty, 1964— 1996. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 629(1), 173-197. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joshua_Guetzkow/publication/239770353_Beyond_Deservi ngness_Congressional_Discourse_on_Poverty_19641996/links/554c71e10cf29752ee7ee539.pdf.

9) Executive Branch and Foreign Policies

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- A transcript of George Bush’s war ultimatum speech from the Cross Hall in the White House (2003): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/18/usa.iraq

10) Bureaucracy - Johnson, R. N., & Libecap, G. D. (1994). The" Problem of Bureaucracy". In The federal civil service system and the problem of bureaucracy (pp. 1-11). University of Chicago Press. Available at: https://www.nber.org/chapters/c8632.pdf.

March 12th – Judicial Branch - Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010). Read through the case information here: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2008/08-205.

11) We the People - Monroe, A. D. (1998). Public opinion and public policy, 1980-1993. Public Opinion Quarterly, 6-28. Available at: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.955.1091&rep=rep1&type=pdf.

March 19th – Political Parties - Drutman, L. (2020, Jan. 2). America Is Now the Divided Republic the Framers Feared. The Atlantic. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/two-party-systembroke-constitution/604213/.

12) Elections - Steger, W. P. (2007). Who wins nominations and why? An updated forecast of the presidential primary vote. Political Research Quarterly, 60(1), 91-99. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wayne_Steger/publication/239531074_Who_Wins_Nomin ations_and_Why_An_Updated_Forecast_of_the_Presidential_Primary_Vote/links/568d006608a efb48d4bf24f4.pdf.

March 26th – Power and Protest - Listen to NPR’s “The Surprising Legacy Of Occupy Wall Street In 2020” here: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/799004281/the-surprising-legacy-of-occupy-wall-street-in2020.

13) Politics and Religion - Schwartz, J. (2015, June 8). Highlights From the Supreme Court Decision on Same-Sex Marriage. The New York Times. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/us/2014-term-supreme-court-decision-same-sexmarriage.html.

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14) Politics and the Economy - Lowrey, A. (2019, Aug. 26). The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials. The Atlantic. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/millennials-are-screwedrecession/596728/.

15) Welfare State - Learn about President Roosevelt’s New Deal here: https://www.history.com/topics/greatdepression/new-deal.

April 23rd – Regulatory Policy - Funk, C., & Kennedy, B. (2017). Public divides over environmental regulation and energy policy. Pew Research Center. Availzble at: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2017/05/16/public-divides-over-environmental-regulationand-energy-policy/.

16) International Relations - Hufbauer, G. C., Cimino, C., & Moran, T. (2014). NAFTA at 20: Misleading Charges and Positive Achievements. Piie Briefing, (14-3). Available at: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6187/b2b83761a89e3a465025e77f67a5b0ef44fd.pdf?_ga=2.142 595186.1578156890.1580082205-655531515.1580082205.

The American System - Eidlinz, B. (2020). We Shouldn’t Be Nostalgic for Jimmy Hoffa. Jacobin. Available at: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/jimmy-hoffa-teamsters-the-irishman-union-corruption.