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PS99 & Internships: Suggested Reading
Below are a list of books and articles which students may wish to
consult in writing papers for PS 99. Items are organized by topic, and
necessarily by political science subfield. These books and articles
are just suggestions. You are free to use additional sources
from your previous political science classes. But remember, whether
you chose to write the two ten page papers or the single twenty-five
to thirty page term paper, you should use the appropriate theoretical
literature to frame your analysis. List of topics:
Organization Theory and
Bureaucratic Politics Models
Aldrich, Howard E. Organizations and Environment. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1979.
Allison, Graham T. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Boston: Little Brown, 1971.
Hirshman, Albert O. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. Responses to Decline in Firms,
Organizations, and States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Steinbrunner, John D. The Cybernetic Theory of Decision. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1974.
Jones, Bryan D. Reconceiving Democratic Decision-Making. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Welch, David A. "The Organizational Process and Bureaucratic Politics Paradigms:
Retrospects and Prospects." International Security. vol. 17, no. 2 (Fall
1992): 112-146.
Williamson, Oliver E., ed. Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the
Present and Beyond. expanded edition. New York: Oxford University Press,
1995.
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International Political Economy and Foreign Economic Policy
Aggarwal, Vinod K. Liberal Protectionism: The International Politics of
Organized Textile Trade. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Dicken, Peter. Global Shift: The Internationalization of Economic Activity.
2nd ed. New York: Guilford, 1992.
Gipin, Robert. The Political Economy of International Relations.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Grieco, Joseph M. Cooperation Among Nations: Europe, America, and Non-Tariff
Barriers to Trade. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Milner, Helen V. Resisting Protectionism. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1985.
Katzenstein, Peter J. Small States in Global Markets. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1985.
Keohane, Robert O. After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World
Political Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Rosecrance, Richard. The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in
the Modern World. New York: Basic Books, 1986.
Yarbrough, Beth V. and Robert M. Yarbrough. Cooperation and Governance in
International Trade: The Strategic Organizational Approach. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1992.
Yergin, Daniel. The Prize. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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Learning within Organizations
Davis, Tim R. V. and Fred Luthans. "A Social Learning Approach to Organizational
Behavior." Academy of Management Review.
5 (1980): 281-290.
Etheridge, Lloyd S. Can Governments Learn? New York: Pergamon, 1985.
Hedberg, Bo. "How Organizations Learn and Unlearn." in Paul C. Nystrom and
William H. Sarbuck, eds. Handbook of Organizational Design. vol. 1.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Hermann, Charles F. "Changing Course: When Governments Choose to Redirect
Foreign Policy." International Studies Quarterly.
34 (March 1990): 3-21.
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Individual and Small Group Learning
Breslauer, George W. and Philip E. Tetlock, eds. Learning in US and Soviet
Foreign Policy. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1990.
Levy, Jack S. "Learning in Foreign Policy: Sweeping a Conceptual Minefield."
International Organization. vol. 48, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 279-312.
Khong, Yuen Foong. Analogies at War: Munich, Korea, Dien Ben Phu, and the
Vietnam Decisions of 1965. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
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Interest Groups, Institutions and Agenda Setting
Atkinson, M. and W. Coleman. The State, Business, and Industrial Change in
Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.
Berry, Jeffrey M. The Interest Group Society. Boston: Little, Brown,
1984.
Lobbying for the People : The Political Behavior of Public
Interest Groups. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
Baumgartner, Frank and Bryan Jones. Agendas and Instability in American
Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. trans. George Lawrence, ed.
J.P. Meayer. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Evans, Peter, Dietrich Rueshemeyer and Theda Skocpol, eds. Bringing the State
Back In. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstle, eds. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Hooks, Gregory. Forging the Military-Industrial Complex: World War II's
Battle of the Potomac. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press,
1991.
Mitchell, Robert C., Angela G. Mertig and Riley E. Dunlap, "Twenty Years of
Environmental Mobilization: Trends Among National Environmental Organizations"
in American Environmentalism: The US Environmental Movement, 1970-1990.
Bristol, PA: Taylor and Francis, 1992. ( pp. 11-26)
Sabatier, Paul A. and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, eds. Policy Change and Policy
Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.
Salamon, Lester M. Beyond Privatization: The Tools of Government Action.
Washington DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1989.
Skowronek, Stephen. Building a New American State: The Expansion of National
Administrative Capacities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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Legislative Processes (state and federal)
Davidson, Roger H. and Walter J. Oleszak. Congress and Its Members. 4th
ed. Washington DC: CQ Press, 1994.
Fenno, Richard F., Jr. Homestyle: House Members and Their Districts.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.
Fiorina, Morris. Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment.
2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Malbin, Michael J. Unelected Representatives: Congressional Staff and the
Future of Representative Government. New York: Basic Books, 1980.
Mayhew, David. Congress: The Electoral Connection. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1974.
Price, David. The Congressional Experience. Boulder, Colo.: Westview
Press, 1993.
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Public Policy and Administration
Chubb, John E. and Paul E. Peterson, eds. Can the Government Govern?
Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1989.
Herson, Lawrence J. R. The Politics of Ideas: Political Theory and American
Public Policy. Prospect Hills, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1990.
Howlett, Michael and M. Ramesh. Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and
Policy Subsystems Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Kenis, Patrick and Volker Schneider, "Policy Networks and Policy Analysis:
Scrutinizing a New Analytical Toolbox" in Bernd Marin and Renate Mayntz, ed.
Policy Networks: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Considerations. Boulder:
Westview Press, 1991. pp. 25-62
Kingdon, John W. Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies.
Boston, Little Brown, 1984.
Marin, Bernd and Renate Mayntz, eds. Policy Networks: Empirical Evidence and
Theoretical Considerations. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.
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Urban Politics
Berry, Jeffrey M., Kent E. Portney, and Ken Thompson. The Rebirth of Urban
Democracy. Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1993.
Harrigan, John. Political Change in the Metropolis. New York:
Harper-Collins, 1993.
Jennings, James, ed. Enduring Problems in Urban Politics. New York:
Macmillan, 1992.
Judd, Dennis and Paul Kantor, eds. Enduring Problems in Urban Politics.
New York: Macmillan, 1992.
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Racial and Ethnic Politics
Horowitz, Donald L. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1985.
Glaser, James M. Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South.
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1996.
Messina, Anthony M., et. al, eds. Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced
Industrial Democracies. New York : Greenwood Press, 1992.
Ogletree, Charles J., Jr., Mary Prosser, Anne Smith, and William Talley, Jr.
Beyond the Rodney King Story: An Investigation of Police Conduct in Minority
Communities. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995.
Sniderman, Paul and Thomas Piazza. The Scar of Race. Cambridge: Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.
Stack, John F., Jr, ed. The Primordial Challenge: Ethnicity in the
Contemporary World. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
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Public Opinion
Erikson, Robert S. and Kent I. Tedin. American Public Opinion: Its Origins,
Content, and Impact. 5th ed. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
McClosky, Herbert and John Zaller. The American Ethos: Public Attitudes
toward Capitalism and Democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Sniderman, Paul M., Richard A. Brody, and Philip E. Tetlock. Reasoning and
Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1992.
Zaller, John R. The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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United States Foreign Policy
Kegley, Charles W., Jr. and Eugene R. Wittkopf. American Foreign Policy.
5th ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Ikenberry, G. John. American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays. 2nd ed.
New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, 1996.
Lieber, Robert J., ed. Eagle Adrift: American Foreign Policy at the End of
the Century. New York: Longman, 1996.
Rosati, Jerel A. The Politics of United States Foreign Policy. Fort
Worth: Harcourt Brace, College Publishers, 1993.
Smith, Tony A. America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide
Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1996.
Wittkopf, Eugene R., ed. The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy:
Insights and Evidence. 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
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Mass Media
Baker, C. Edwin. Advertising and a Democratic Press. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1994.
Bennett, W. Lance. News: The Politics of Illusion. 3rd ed. White Plains:
Longman, 1996.
Iyengar, Shanto and Donald R. Kinder. News that Matters: Television and
American Public Opinion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Kaniss, Phyllis C. Making Local News. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1991.
Smith, Joel. Understanding the Media: A Sociology of Mass Communication.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1995.
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Security Studies and Grand Strategy
Institute for National Strategic Studies. Strategic Assessment 1997:
Flashpoints and Force Structure. Washington: National Defense University,
1997.
O'Hanlon, Michael. Defense Planning for the Late 1990s: Beyond the Desert
Storm Framework. Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1995.
Posen, Barry R. The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain and Germany
Between the World Wars. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Rosecrance, Richard and Arthur A. Stein, eds. The Domestic Bases of Grand
Strategy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Schultz, Richard, Roy Godson, and Ted Greenwood. Security Studies for the
1990s. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1993.
Snyder, Jack S. Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International
Ambition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Weinberger, Caspar and Peter Schweizer. The Next War. Washington, DC:
Regnery Publishing, 1996.
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