Week 1 (Aug. 28): Course Overview Week 2 (Sept. 4): Scaling [1] Poole, Keith T. and Howard Rosenthal (1997). Congress: A Political Economic History of Roll Call Voting. Chapters 2 and 3. [2] Shor, Boris, and Nolan McCarty (2011). The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures. American Political Science Review 105-530-551. [3] Bonica, Adam (2013). Ideology and Interests in the Political Marketplace. American Journal of Political Science 57:294-311. Week 3 (Sept. 11): Congressional Elections [1] Hill, Seth J. and Chris Tausanovitch (2015). A Disconnect in Representation? Comparison of Trends in Congressional and Public Polarization. Journal of Politics 77:1058-1075.[2] Canes-Wrone, Brandice, David W. Brady, and John F. Cogan (2002). Out of Step, Out of Office: Electoral Accountability of House Members Voting. American Political Science Review 1:127-140. [3] Erikson, Robert S. and Gerald C. Wright (2005). Voters, Candidates, and Issues in Congressional Elections. In Congress Reconsidered 8th Edition, Edited by Dodd, Lawrence C. and Bruce I. Oppenheimer. Washington: CQ Press. Chapter 4. Week 4 (Sept. 18): Representation [1] Bafumi,
Joseph and Michael C. Herron (2010). Leapfrog Representation and Extremism: A Study of American Voters and their Members of Congress.
American Political Science Review 104:519-542.[2] Miller,
Warren E., and Donald E. Stokes (1963). Constituency Influence in Congress. American Political Science Review 57:45-56. [3] Butler, Daniel,
and David Nickerson (2011). Can Learning Constituency Opinion Affect How Legislators Vote? Results from a Field Experiment. Quarterly
Journal of Political Science 6:55-83. Week 5 (Sept. 25): Parties and Whipping [1]
Groseclose, Timothy T. and James M. Snyder, Jr. (2000). Estimating Party Influence on Congressional Roll Call Voting. American Journal of
Political Science 44:187-205.[2] McCarty, Nolan, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal (2001). The Hunt for Party Discipline in Congress. American Political Science Review 95:673-687. [3] Battista, James, and Jesse Richman (2011). Party Pressure in the U.S. State Legislatures. Legislative Studies Quarterly 36:397-422. Week 6 (Oct. 2): Parties and Whipping (continued), Gridlock and Checks and Balances [1] Krehbiel, Keith (2000). Party Influence and Measures of Partisanship. American Journal of Political Science 44:187-205.[2] Krehbiel, Keith (1998). Pivotal Politics. Chapters 2 and 3. [3] Alesina, Alberto, and Howard Rosenthal (1995). Partisan Politics, Divided Government, and the Economy. Chapter 3. Week 7 (Oct. 9): Gridlock and Checks and Balances (continued), Parties and Agenda Control [1]
Binder, Sarah. A. and Steven S. Smith (1997). Politics of Principle? Filibustering in the United States Senate. Chapters 1 and 2.[2] Klotz, Robert (2004). The Nuclear Option for Stopping Filibusters. PS: Political Science and Politics 37:843-846. [3] Cox,
Gary W. and Mathew D. McCubbins (2005). Setting the Agenda: Responsible
Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives. Chapter 4. [4] Crespin, Michael, and Nathan Monroe (2006). Partisan Agenda Control in the Senate: A Preliminary Hearing. Working Paper. Week 8 (Oct. 16): Parties and Agenda Control (continued) [1] Chiou, Fang-Yi and Lawrence S. Rothenberg (2003). When Pivotal Politics Meets Partisan Politics. American Journal of Political Science 47:503-522. [2] Anzia,
Sarah F. and Molly C. Jackman (2013). Legislative Organization and the Second Face of Power: Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures. Journal of
Politics 75:210-224. [3] Butler, Daniel M., and Joeph
Sempolinski (2010). Non-Policy Determinants of Legislators' Procedural Votes: Evidence from Vote Switching between Cloture and the Underlying Motion. Working Paper. Week 9 (Oct. 23): Congressional Elections [1]
Ansolabehere, Stephen, and James M. Snyder, Jr. (2002). "The Incumbency
Advantage in U.S. Elections: An Analysis of State and Federal Offices."
Election Law Journal 3:315-338.[2] Jacobson, Gary C. (1989). Strategic Politicians and the Dynamics of U.S. House Elections, 1946-86. American Political Science Review 83:773-793. [3] Shotts, Kenneth W. (2003). "Does Racial
Redistricting Cause Conservative Policy Outcomes? Policy Preferences of
Southern Representatives in the 1980s and 1990s." Journal of Politics
65:216-226. Week 10 (Oct. 30): Testing Theories of Lawmaking [1] Lawrence, Eric D., Forest Maltzman, and Steven S. Smith (2011). Who Wins? Party Effects in Legislative Voting. Legislative Studies Quarterly 31:33-69. [2] Peress, Michael (2013). Estimating Proposal and Status Quo Locations using Voting and Cosponsorship Data. Journal of Politics 75:613-631. [3] Richman, Jesse (2011). Parties, Pivots, and Policy: The Status Quo Test. American Political Science Review 105:151-165. Week 11 (Nov. 6): Committees [1] Fenno, Richard F. (1973). Congressmen in Committees. Chapters 1 and 2.[2] Shepsle, Kenneth A. (1978). The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle. Chapters 3. [3] Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins (1993). Legislative Leviathan. Chapters 3 and 7. Week 12 (Nov. 13): Committees (continued), Constituency Service [1] Krehbiel, Keith (1991). Information and Legislative Organization. Chapter 3. [2] Grimmer,
Justin, Solomon Messing, and Sean Westwood (2012). How Words and Money Cultivate a Personal Vote: The Effect of Legislator Credit Claiming on Constituent Credit Allocation. American Political Science Review
106:703-719.[3] Daniel Butler, Christopher Karpowitz, and Jeremy Pope (2012). A Field Experiment on Legislators' Home Style: Service vs. Policy. Journal of Politics 74:474-486. Week 13 (Nov. 20): Money in Politics [1] Alexander, Dan, Christopher Berry, and William Howell (forthcoming). Distributive Politics and Legislator Ideology. Forthcoming in Journal of Politics. [2] Anzia, Sarah F., and Christopher R. Berry (2011). The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson Effect: Why Do Congresswomen Outperform Congressmen? American Journal of Political Science 55:478-493. [3] Dynes, Adam M. and Gregory A. Huber (2015). Partisanship
and the Allocation of Federal Spending: Do Same-Party Legislators or
Voters Benefit from Shared Party Affiliation with the President and
House Majority? American Political Science Review 109:172-186. Week 14 (Dec. 4): Money in Politics (continued), Districting [2] Bronars, Stephen G. and John R. Lott, Jr. (1997). Do Campaign Donations Alter How a Politician Votes? Or, Do Donors Support Candidates who Value the Same Things that They Do? Journal of Law and
Economics 50:317-350. [3] Chen, Jowei, and David Cottrell (2016). Evaluating
Partisan Gains from Congressional Gerrymandering: Using Computer
Simulations to Estimate the Effect of Gerrymandering in the U.S. House. Electoral Studies 44:329-340. |