American Political Development Bibliography

 

 

Books

 

Ackerman, Bruce.  1993.  We the People: Foundations.  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

 

Aldrich, John H.  1995.  Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America.  University of Chicago Press.

 

Bensel, Richard F.  1984.  Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980.  The University of Wisconsin Press.

 

Bensel, Richard F.  1991.  Yankee Leviathan : The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877.  Cambridge University Press.

 

Bensel, Richard F.  2004.  The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.  Cambridge University Press.

 

Brady, David W. and Mathew D. McCubbins.  2002.  Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress: New Perspectives on the History of Congress.  Stanford University Press.

 

Carpenter, Daniel P.  2001.  The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928.  Princeton University Press.

 

Dougherty, Keith.  2001.  Collective Action Under the Articles of Confederation.  Cambridge University Press.

 

James, Scott C.  2000.  Presidents, Parties, and the State: A Party System Perspective on Democratic Regulatory Choice, 1884-1936.  Cambridge University Press.

 

Mayhew, David R.  2002.  Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre.  Yale University Press.

 

McGuire, Robert A.  2003.  To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution.  Oxford University Press.

 

Mettler, Suzanne.  1998.  Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy.  Cornell University Press.

 

Milkis, Sidney.  1993.  The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal.  Oxford University Press.

 

Morone, James A.  1990.  The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government.  Basic Books.

North, Douglass C.  1990.  Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance.  Cambridge University Press.

 

Orren, Karen.  1992.  Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States. Cambridge University Press.

 

Orren, Karen and Stephen Skowronek.  2004.  The Search for American Political Development.  Cambridge University Press.

 

Pierson, Paul.  2004.  Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis.  Princeton University Press.

 

Schickler, Eric.  2001.  Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress, Princeton University Press.

 

Shefter, Martin. 1994. Political Parties and the State: the American Historical Experience.  Princeton University Press.

 

Silbey, Joel H.  1991.  The American Political Nation, 1838-1893.  Stanford University Press.

 

Skocpol, Theda.  1995.  Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States.  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

 

Skowronek, Stephen.  1982.  Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920.  Cambridge University Press.

 

Skowronek, Stephen.  1997.  The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton.  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

 

Stewart, Charles III. 1990. Budget Reform Politics: The Reform of the House Appropriations Process, 1883-1922.  Cambridge University Press.

 

Swift, Elaine K.  1996.  The Making of an American Senate: Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787-1841.  University of Michigan Press.

 

 

Articles and Book Chapters

 

Ansolabehere, Stephen, James M. Snyder, Jr., and Charles Stewart, III. 2000. “Old Voters, New Voters, and the Personal Vote: Using Redistricting to Measure the Incumbency Advantage.” American Journal of Political Science 44 (January): 17-34.

 

Bensel, Richard. 2003. “The American Ballot Box: Law, Identity, and the Polling Place in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.” Studies in American Political Development 17 (Spring): 1-27.

 

Bianco, William T., David B. Spence, and John D. Wilkerson. 1996. “The Electoral Connection in the Early Congress: The Case of the Compensation Act of 1816.” American Journal of Political Science 40 (January): 145-171.

 

Brady, David W. and Philip Althoff.  1974.  "Party Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives 1890-1910: Elements of a Responsible Party System," Journal of Politics 36 (August): 753-774.

 

Brady, David W., Joseph Cooper, and Patricia A. Hurley.  1979.   "The Decline of Party in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1887-1968," Legislative Studies Quarterly, IV, 3 (August): 381-407,

 

Carpenter, Daniel P.  2001.  “The Political Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy: A Response to Kernell.” Studies in American Political Development 15: 113-122.

 

Carson, Jamie L., Jeffery A. Jenkins, David W. Rohde, and Mark A. Souva. 2001. “The Impact of National Tides and District-Level Effects on Electoral Outcomes: The U.S. Congressional Elections of 1862-63.” American Journal of Political Science 45 (October): 887-898.

 

Cooper, Joseph and David W. Brady.  1981.  "Institutional Context and Leadership Style: The House from Cannon to Rayburn," American Political Science Review, 75: 411-425.

 

Jenkins, Jeffery A.  1998.  “Property Rights and the Emergence of Standing Committee Dominance in the Nineteenth-Century House.” 1998. Legislative Studies Quarterly 23: 493-519.

 

Jenkins, Jeffery A. and Brian R. Sala.  1998.  “The Spatial Theory of Voting and the Presidential Election of 1824.” 1998. American Journal of Political Science 42: 1157-79.

 

Jenkins, Jeffery A.  1999.  “Examining the Bonding Effects of Party: A Comparative Analysis of Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. and Confederate Houses.”  American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 43, No. 4. (October): 1144-1165.

 

Jenkins, Jeffery A.  2000.  “Examining the Robustness of Ideological Voting: Evidence from the Confederate House of Representatives.”  American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 44, No. 4. (October): 811-822.

 

Katz, Jonathan N. and Brian R. Sala. 1996. “Careerism, Committee Assignments, and the Electoral Connection.” American Political Science Review 90 (March): 21-33.

 

Kernell, Samuel. 1977. “Toward Understanding 19th Century Congressional Careers: Ambition, Competition, and Rotation.” American Journal of Political Science 21 (November): 669-693.

 

Kernell, Samuel and Gary C. Jacobson. 1987. “Congress and the Presidency as News in the Nineteenth Century.” The Journal of Politics 49 (November): 1016-1035.

 

Kernell, Samuel and Michael P. McDonald, 1999.  “Congress and America’s Political Development: The Transformation of the Post Office from Patronage to Service.”  American Journal of Political Science 43(4): 792-811.

 

Kernell, Samuel.  2001.  “Rural Free Delivery as a Critical Test of Alternative Models of American Political Development.” Studies in American Political Development 15: 103-112.

 

Lynch, G. Patrick. 2002. “Midterm Elections and Economic Fluctuations: The Response of Voters Over Time.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 27 (May): 265-294.

 

Orren, Karen and Stephen Skowronek, “Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a New Institutionalism.” In Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson, eds., The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), ch. 14.

 

Pierson, Paul.  2000.  “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of American Politics,” American Political Science Review, vol. 94, no. 2.

 

Polsby, Nelson.  1968.  "The Institutionalization of the House of Representatives," American Political Science Review, 62 (March): 144-168

 

Rusk, Jerrold G. 1970. “The Effects of the Australian Ballot Reform on Split Ticket Voting: 1876-1908.” American Political Science Review 64 (December): 1220-1238.

 

Stewart, Charles 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.

 

Struble, Robert, Jr. 1979. “House Turnover and the Principle of Rotation.” Political Science Quarterly 94 (Winter): 649-667.

 

Swenson, Peter. 1982. “The Influence of Recruitment on the Structure of Power in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1870-1940.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 7 (February): 7-36.