Introduction

Requirements

Grading will be based on weekly class participation; discussion leadership; two short papers; and a take-home final. Each of you will be responsible for leading the discussion for one week. You are also to write a short (6-8 page) paper on that topic in light of your reading and preparation. We will lead discussion of the first two seminar weeks, by which time we will have allocated the remaining weeks among you. The first two weeks provide, respectively, an introduction to one historical approach and an overview of several political-scientific approaches to understanding political phenomena. The other short (also 6-8 page) paper will reflect on a part of each week's reading, considering the strengths of each approach and, especially, the complementarities between those of the two disciplines. We view the take-home final as the means by which you will be able to complete the integration of the materials, both substantive and methodological, in this course - or at least the means by which we will be able to judge the degree to which you have so integrated.
 

Reading Materials

• Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment : A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, (New York : Oxford University Press, 1978).
• Samuel P. Hayes, The Response to Industrialism (Chicago, 1957).
• V.O. Key, Jr. Southern Politics in State and Nation, a New Edition (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1984 [1949]).
• Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism: a re-interpretation of American history, 1900-1916, (Chicago, Ill.: Quadrangle Books, 1967, c1963).
• C. Van Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, (Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 1971 [1951]).
• Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920, (New York: Hill and Wang, 1967).
• Gavin Wright, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War (Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press,. 1986).

Class Schedule and Readings

September 8: A Historian's "Big Picture"

• Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920, (New York: Hill and Wang, 1967)

Chapters from Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson, eds., The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994):

• Burnham, Walter Dean, "Pattern Recognition and 'Doing' Political History: Art,Science, or Bootless Enterprise?" pp. 59-82.
• Swift, Elaine K. and David W. Brady, "Common Ground: History and Theories of American Politics," pp. 83-104.
• Steinmo, Sven H., American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: Culture or Institutions?" pp. 106-131.
• Aldrich, John H., "Rational Choice Theory and the Study of American Politics," pp. 208-233.
• Orren, Karen and Stephen Skowronek, "Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a 'New Institutionalism'," pp. 311-330.

• C. Van Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, (Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 1971 [1951]), Chaps, 2-4, 7-9, and 12.
• Gavin Wright, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War, (Baton rouge, LA: Louisiana University Press, 1986).

• J. Morgan Kousser, Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction, (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), Chap. 1, pp. 12-68.
• Jerrold Rusk, "The Effect of the Australian Ballot Reform on Split Ticket Voting: 1876-1908," American Political Science Review 64 (4) December, 1970, pp. 1220-38
• Walter Dean Burnham, "Theory and Voting Research: Some Reflections on Converse's 'Change in the American Electorate,"
  Philip E. Converse, "Comment,"
  Jerrold G. Rusk, "Comment," and
  W.D. Burham, "Rejoinder" all in:
  American Political Science Review 68 (3) September, 1974, pp.: 1002-57.

• Current research - drafts of chapters on reconstruction and on "redemption of North," tables from his work, to be supplied.

Party Systems I: In the Nation: The Persistence of the Two-Party System

• Duverger, Maurice, Political Parties, Their Organization and Activity in the Modern State, (London: Methuen, 1978 [1951]), Part II, Chapter 1, The Number of Political Parties, esp. pp. 206-228 and 255-280.
• Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment : A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, (New York : Oxford University Press, 1978).
• James Sundquist, Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States, rev. ed. (Washington: Brookings, 1983. Chapters 6-8 (required, substantive material), Chapters 1-3, 13 (theory), recommended.

• V.O. Key, Jr. Southern Politics in State and Nation, a New Edition (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1984 [1949]). One (or more) state chapters in Part One, Chaps. 14, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24.
• C. Van Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, (LSU Press), Chas. 13, 14, and 17.

• Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, (New York, A.A. Knopf, 1948): Chapters on W. Bryan, T. Roosevelt, W. Wilson.
• Jeffery K. Tulis, "The Two Constitutional Presidencies," pp. 91-123, and Stephen Skowronek, "Presidential Leadership in Political Time," pp. 124-170 [Both are in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System, 5th ed. (Washington: CQ Press, 1998)].
• Gerald Gamm and Renee M. Smith, "Presidents, Parties, and the Public: Evolving Patterns of Interaction, 1877-1929," in Richard J. Ellis, ed., Speaking to the Public: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective, (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998), pp. 87-111.
• Gerald Gamm and Renee M. Smith, "The Rise of Candidate-Centered Elections, 1876-1928," revised version (5/31/99) of a paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 18-20, 1996, Chicago, Ill.

• Charles Stewart III and Barry R. Weingast, "Stacking the Senate, Changing the Nation: Republican Rotten Boroughs, Statehood Politics, and American Political Development," Studies in American Political Development, 6 (2) Fall, 1992: 223-271.
• David W. Brady and Philip Althoff, "Party Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1890-1910: Elements of a Repsonsible Party System," Journal of Politics 36 (3) August, 1974: 753-774.
• Joseph Cooper and David W. Brady, "Institutional Context and Leadership Style: The House from Cannon to Rayburn," American Political Science Review, ," American Political Science Review, 75 (2) June, 1981, 411-425
• Nelson Polsby, "The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives," American Political Science Review, 62 (1) March, 1986: 144-168
• Patricia A. Hurley and Rick K. Wilson, "Partisan Voting Patterins in the U.S. Senate, 1877-1986, Legislative Studies Quarterly, 14 (2) May, 1989: 225-50

• William Chafe, Chapter from Invisible Women
• Eileen McDonough, "The 'Welfare Rights State' and the 'Civil Rights State': Policy Paradox and State Building I the Progressive Era," Studies in American Political Development, 7 (2) Fall, 1993, 225-274
• Theda Skocpol, "The Origin of Social Policy in the United States: A Policy-Centered Analysis," Chapter 8 in Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson, eds., The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994)]
• Theda Skocpol and Gretchen Ritter, "Gender and the Origins of Modern Social Policies in Britain and the United States," Studies in American Political Development, 5 (1) Spring, 1991, 36-93.

December 1: Last class

• Samuel P. Hayes, The Response to Industrialism (Chicago, 1957), Selections. TBA
• Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism: A Re-interpretation of American history, 1900-1916, (Chicago, Ill.: Quadrangle Books, 1967, c1963), Chaps. 2 - 6.