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U.S. Campaigns and Elections
Course material:
- Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy.
- Karp, Walter. 1993. Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in America.
- Converse, Philip E. 1964. The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
- Krasno, Jonathan S. and Donald P. Green. 2008. Do Televised Presidential
Ads Increase Voter Turnout? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
- McNulty, John E., Conor M. Dowling, and Margaret H. Ariotti. 2009.
Driving Saints to Sin: How Increasing the Difficulty of Voting Dissuades the
Most Motivated Voters
- Kleppner, Paul. 1985. Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor.
DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press. Chapters 6-8.
I've decided to substitute two pieces, a law review by Bradley Smith
criticizing campaign finance reform and short essay by Donald Green
and me on the positive effects of campaign spending limits, in place
of the Krasno and Dowling paper. Sorry for any confusion, and
remember to read the Weine piece, too.
- Smith, Bradley A. 1996. Faulty Assumptions and Undemocratic Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform. The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 105, No. 4 (Jan., 1996), pp. 1049-1091.
- Krasno, Jonathan S. and Donald P. Green. 1993. Stopping The Buck Here. The Case for Campaign Spending Limits. The Brookings Review, Spring 1993, pp. 17-21.
- Cohen, Marty, David Karol, Hans Noel, and John Zaller. 2001. Beating
Reform: The Resurgence of Parties in Presidential Nominations, 1980 to
2000. Presented at 2001 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, Illinois.
- Adams, William C., As New Hamshire goes...
Crotty, William J. Electing Obama. The 2008 Presidential Campaign.
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