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Week 8:

• Keith Edwards
  • Groseclose, Tim and Charles Stewart III. "The Value of Committee Seats in the House, 1947-91." /American Journal of Political Science./ 42.2 (1998): 453-474.
  • Heberlig, Eric S. “Congressional Parties, Fundraising, and Committee Ambition.” Political Research Quarterly/ 56.2 (2003): 151-61.
  • Deering, Christopher J. and Steven S. Smith. /Committees in Congress/. 3rd ed., Washington DC: CQ Press, 1997. Chapter 2 (pp. 25-57).
• Deborah Kobes
  • Eulau, Heinz and Paul D. Karps, "The Puzzle of Representation: Specifying Components of Responsiveness," Legislative Studies Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 3 (Aug., 1977), pp. 233-254.

  • Harris, Charles Wesley. (1995). Congress and the Governance of the Nation's Capital. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Chapters 3 and part of 6.
    

Week 9

• Brian Feinstein
  • Shepsle, Kenneth and Barry Weingast. "The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power." APSR, Vol. 81 (1987). pp. 85-104.
  • Sundquist, James. 1988. "Needed: A Political Theory for the New Era of Coalition Government in the United States." PS Quarterly, Vol. 103. pp. 613-635.
  • Mayhew, David. 1991. "Divided Party Control: Does It Make a Difference?" PS: Political Science & Politics, Vol. 24. pp. 637-640. [A symposium piece summarizing Mayhew's book 'Divided We Govern']
  • Fiorina, Morris. 1992. "An Era of Divided Government." PS Quarterly, Vol. 107. pp. 387-410.
  • Binder, Sarah. 1999. "The Dynamics of Legislative Gridlock." APSR, Vol. 93. pp. 519-533.
• Alec De Reitzes
  • Morris P. Fiorina, “An Era of Divided Government”, Political Science Quarterly , Vol 107, No 3 (Autumn 1992), 387-410.  (The foundation in this line of research.)(Also required for Brian's part)
  • Richard Born, “Split-Ticket Voters, Divided Government, and Fiorina's Policy-Balancing Model”, Legislative Studies Quarterly , Vol 19, No 1 (Feb 1994), 95-115.  (Born takes this opportunity to trash Fiorina's theory.)
  • James C. Garand & Marci Glascock Lichtl, “Explaining Divided Government in the United States : Testing an Intentional Model of Split-Ticket Voting”, British Journal of Political Science , Vol 30, No 1 (Jan 2000), 173-191.  (An attempt to refine and verify Fiorina's theory.)

Week 10

• Eleanor Powell
  • Paul S. Herrnson.  “The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act and Congressional Elections,” in Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, eds. Congress Reconsidered, 8th ed., (CQ Press, 2005), 107-135.
  • Kristin Kanthak.  "Party preservation or self-promotion? Leadership PAC contributions in the U.S. House of Representatives".  Presented at 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
  • Theodore J. Eismeier; Philip H. Pollock III.  "Strategy and Choice in Congressional Elections: The Role of Political Action Committees".    American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 30, No. 1. (Feb., 1986), pp. 197-213. (Available on JSTOR)
    
• Tony Hill
  • Ronald Keith Gaddie, "Congressional Seat Swings: Revisiting Exposure in House Elections," Political Research Quarterly PRQ 50(3): 699-710 (1997).
  • Monica Bauer and John R. Hibbing, "Which Incumbents Lose in House Elections: A Response to Jacobson's "The Marginals Never Vanished", American Journal of Political Science 33(1): 262-271 (1989)
    The following overlaps with the syllabus:
  • David R. Mayhew, "Congressional Election: The Case of the Vanishing Marginals," Polity 6(3): 295-317 (1974)
  • Morris P. Fiorina, "The Case of the Vanishing Marginals: The Bureaucracy Did It," American Political Science Review 71(1): 177-181 (1977)
  • Stephen Ansolabehere, David Brady and Morris Fiorina, "The Vanishing Marginals and Electoral Responsiveness," British Journal of Political Science 22(1): 21-38 (1992)

Week 11

• John Velasco
  • Anthony Corrado . “Party Finance in the Wake of BCRA: An Overview” in Michael J. Malbin , ed. , The Election after Reform: Money , Politics , and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act , ( Rowman and Littlefield , forthcoming).
  • Diana Dwyre & Robin Kolodny . “The Parties' Congressional Campaign Committees in 2004” in Michael J. Malbin , ed. , The Election after Reform: Money , Politics , and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act , ( Rowman and Littlefield , forthcoming).
  • Gary Jacobsen. “The First Congressional Elections After BCRA” in Michael J. Malbin , ed. , The Election after Reform: Money , Politics , and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act , ( Rowman and Littlefield , forthcoming).

  The first three “articles” are actually excerpts from a book that is forthcoming from the Campaign Finance Institute in Washington , DC . These chapters are written by experts in the area of campaign finance and these chapters focus specifically on BCRA's impact on the political parties fundraising strategies.

• Thomas Stratmann . “Some talk: Money in Politics. A (partial) review of the literature , ” Public Choice 124: 135-156 (2005).
• Timothy P. Nokken . “Ideological Congruence versus Electoral Success: Distribution of Party Organization Contributions in Senate Elections , 1990-2000 , ” American Politics Research 31 (1): 3-26 (2003).

  The final two articles provide an overview of the literature on campaign finance and an approach to analyzing the distribution of party financial assets to candidates.

• Tony Wu
  • The Republican Tidal Wave of 1994: Testing Hypotheses about Realignment, Restructuring, and Rebellion Alfred J. Tuchfarber; Stephen E. Bennett; Andrew E. Smith; Eric W. Rademacher PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 28, No. 4. (Dec., 1995), pp. 689-696.
  • The Concept of a Critical Realignment, Electoral Behavior, and Political Change Peter F. Nardulli The American Political Science Review > Vol. 89, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 10-22
  • Partisan realignment : voters, parties, and government in American history / Jerome M. Clubb, William H. Flanigan, Nancy H. Zingale. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1990. Chapter 1.
  • Brady, David W.    Critical elections and congressional policy making / David W. Brady. Stanford, Calif. :  Stanford University Press,   c1988, Chapters 5 and 6.