Chapter 1. Designing Institutions
from The Logic of Collective Action - Mancur Olson, Jr.
The Tragedy of the Commons - Garrett Hardin
Chapter 2. The Constitutional Framework
Anti-Federalist No. 3 - Brutus
Federalist No. 10 - James Madison
Federalist No. 51 - James Madison
from Reassessing James Madison's Political Science - Samuel Kernell
Chapter 3. Federalism
Federalism: Sorting Out Who Does What - Donald F. Kettl
A Separate Peace - Jonathan Rauch
How America's 'Devolution Revolution' Reshaped its Federalism - Thad Kousser
Chapter 4. Civil Rights
Schuette v. Bamn - Supreme Court of the United States
from "New State Voting Laws: Barriers to the Ballot?" - Justin Levitt
Chapter 5. Civil Liberties
from Republic 2.0 - Cass Sunstein
Roe v. Wade - Supreme Court of the United States
The Real World of Constitutional Rights: The Supreme Court and The Implementation of the Abortion Decisions - Gerald N. Rosenberg
Chapter 6. Congress
Congress, The Troubled Institution - Steven S. Smith
The Politics of Legislative Stalemate - Sarah A. Binder
Congressional Committees in a Continuing Partisan Era - John H. Aldrich and David W. Rohde
Chapter 7. The Presidency
from Presidential Power and Modern Presidents - Richard E. Neustadt
from The Politics of Presidential Appointments - David E. Lewis
from Going Public - Samuel Kernell
Chapter 8. The Bureaucracy
The Politics of Bureaucratic Structure - Terry M. Moe
Chapter 9. The Judiciary
from A Matter of Interpretation - Antonin Scalia
from Active Liberty - Stephen Breyer
Federalist No. 78 - Alexander Hamilton
Selecting Justice: The Ideology of Federal Judges Appointed by President Barack Obama - Robert A. Carp and Kenneth L. Manning
Chapter 10. Public Opinion
Analyzing and Interpreting Polls - Herbert Asher
A Simple Theory of the Survey Response: Answering Questions versus Revealing Preferences - John Zaller and Stanley Feldman
from Culture War? The Myth of Polarized America - Morris P. Fiorina
The Polarized Electorate - Alan Abramowitz
Chapter 11. Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
from The Reasoning Voter - Samuel L. Popkin
No Compromise: The Electoral Origins of Legislative Gridlock - Gary C. Jacobson
America's Ignorant Voters - Michael Schudson
Want a Better Forecast? Measure the Campaign, Not Just the Economy - Lynn Vavreck
Chapter 12. Political Parties
from Why Parties? - John Aldrich
Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952-1996 - Larry M. Bartels
Parties as a Problem Solver - Morris P. Fiorina
Chapter 13. Interest Groups
The Scope and Bias of the Pressure System - E.E. Schattschneider
Issue Advertising and Legislative Advocacy in Health Politics - Richard L. Hall and Richard Anderson
Gridlock Lobbying: Breaking, Creating, and Maintaining Legislative Stalemate - Jennifer Nicoll Victor
Chapter 14. News Media
The Market and the Media - James T. Hamilton
Red Media, Blue Media: Evidence of Ideological Selectivity in Media Use - Shanto Iyengar and Kyu S. Hahn
