THE LANAHAN READINGS
in the American Polity, Fourth Edition
edited by Ann Serow & Everett C. Ladd
978-1-930398-09-2  © 2007  $39.00  ($31.20 to bookstores)

 
PART ONE    American Ideology
 
1.  ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE   Democracy in America
2.  JAMES BRYCE   The American Commonwealth
3.  LOUIS HARTZ   The Liberal Tradition in America
4.  THEDA SKOCPOL   Diminished Democracy   New!
5.  CORNEL WEST   Race Matters
6.  MICHAEL KAMMEN   People of Paradox
7.  ROBERT BELLAH/OTHERS   Habits of the Heart
 
PART TWO    The Constitution and American Democracy
 
8.  RICHARD HOFSTADTER   The American Political Tradition
9. JAMES MADISON   The Federalist 10
10. MICHAEL KAMMEN   A Machine That Would Go of Itself
11.  LANI GUINIER   The Tyranny of the Majority
12. C. WRIGHT MILLS   The Power Elite
13. RICHARD ZWEIGENHAFT/G. WILLIAM DOMHOFF   Diversity in the Power Elite
14. ROBERT DAHL   Who Governs? and A Preface to Democratic Theory
 
PART THREE    Separation of Powers
 
15. JAMES MADISON   The Federalist 51
16. WOODROW WILSON   Congressional Government
17. JAMES STERLING YOUNG   The Washington Community: 1800-1828
 
PART FOUR    Federalism
 
18. JAMES MADISON   The Federalist 39 and 46
19. DANIEL ELAZAR   American Federalism
20. DAVID OSBORNE   Laboratories of Democracy
21. LARRY GERSTON/TERRY CHRISTENSEN   Recall!   New!
 
PART FIVE    Congress
 
22. DAVID MAYHEW   Congress: The Electoral Connection
23. RICHARD FENNO   Home Style
24. SARAH BINDER   Stalemate   New!
25. BARBARA SINCLAIR   The "60-Vote Senate"   New!
26. MICHELE SWERS   The Difference Women Make   New!
27. KATHERINE TATE   Black Faces in the Mirror   New!
28. PAUL STAROBIN   Pork: A Time-Honored Tradition
29. JOHN ELLWOOD/ERIC PATASHNIK   In Praise of Pork
30. DAVID PRICE   The Congressional Experience
 
PART SIX    The Presidency
 
31. RICHARD NEUSTADT   Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents
32. ARTHUR SCHLESINGER   The Imperial Presidency
33. THOMAS CRONIN/MICHAEL GENOVESE   The Paradoxes of the American Presidency
34. CRAIG RIMMERMAN   The Rise of the Plebiscitary Presidency
35. KENNETH MAYER   With a Stroke of a Pen   New!
36. BRADLEY PATTERSON   The White House Staff: [Chief of Staff]
 
PART SEVEN    The Executive Branch
 
37. HUGH HECLO   A Government of Strangers
38. JOEL ABERBACH/BERT ROCKMAN   In the Web of Politics   New!
39. ROBERT REICH   Locked in the Cabinet
40. JAMES Q. WILSON   Bureaucracy   New!
 
PART EIGHT    The Judiciary
 
41. ALEXANDER HAMILTON   The Federalist 78
42. EUGENE ROSTOW   The Democratic Character of Judicial Review
43. DAVID O'BRIEN   Storm Center
44. PETER IRONS   Brennan vs. Rehnquist
45. DAVID YALOF   Pursuit of Justices
46. Kelo v. City of New London (2005)   New!
 
PART NINE    Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
 
47. ANTHONY LEWIS   Gideon's Trumpet
48. Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
49. DONALD KETTL   System Under Stress   New!
50. RICHARD KLUGER   Simple Justice
51. CHARLES OGLETREE   All Deliberate Speed   New!
52. CRAIG RIMMERMAN   From Identity to Politics   New!
53. ELLEN ALDERMAN/CAROLINE KENNEDY   In Our Defense
54. MARY ANN GLENDON   Rights Talk
 
PART TEN    Public Opinion
 
55. WALTER LIPPMANN   The Phantom Public
56. V. O. KEY   Public Opinion and American Democracy
57. THOMAS CRONIN   Direct Democracy
58. LAWRENCE JACOBS/ROBERT SHAPIRO   Politicians Don't Pander
 
PART ELEVEN    Interest Groups
 
59. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE   Democracy in America
60. E. E. SCHATTSCHNEIDER   The Semisovereign People
61. THEODORE LOWI   The End of Liberalism
62. JEFFREY BIRNBAUM   The Lobbyists
63. WILLIAM GREIDER   Who Will Tell the People
64. ROBERTO SURO   Strangers Among Us
65. DAN BALZ/RONALD BROWNSTEIN   Storming the Gates
 
PART TWELVE    Voting and Elections
 
66. DANTE SCALA   Stormy Weather   New!
67. DENNIS JOHNSON   No Place for Amateurs
68. WILLIAM EGGERS   Government 2.0   New!
69. KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON   Dirty Politics
70. STEPHEN ANSOLABEHERE/SHANTO IYENGAR   Going Negative
71. JAMES CEASER/ANDREW BUSCH   Red Over Blue   New!
72. FRANCES FOX PIVEN/RICHARD CLOWARD   Why Americans Still Don't Vote
 
PART THIRTEEN    Political Parties
 
73. WALTER DEAN BURNHAM   Critical Election and the Mainsprings of American Politics
74. JAMES CEASER/ANDREW BUSCH   Red Over Blue   New!
75. EARL BLACK/MERLE BLACK   The Rise of Southern Republicans
76. JOHN GARCIA   Latino Politics in America   New!
77. JOHN WHITE   The Values Divide   New!
78. MARK MONMONIER   Bushmanders and Bullwinkles
 
PART FOURTEEN    The Media
 
79. KATHARINE GRAHAM   Personal History
80. LARRY SABATO   Feeding Frenzy
81. BRADLEY PATTERSON   The White House Staff: The Advance Office
82. MARTIN WATTENBERG   Where Have All the Voters Gone?   New!
83. BRIAN ANDERSON   South Park Conservatives   New!
 
PART FIFTEEN    Political Economy and Public Welfare
 
84. MICHAEL HARRINGTON   The Other America
85. MILTON FRIEDMAN   Free to Choose
86. SHARON HAYS   Flat Broke with Children   New!
 
PART SIXTEEN    America in a Changed World
 
87. BENJAMIN BARBER   Jihad vs. McWorld
88. SAMUEL HUNTINGTON   The Clash of Civilizations
89. JOSEPH NYE   Soft Power   New!
90. CHALMERS JOHNSON   Blowback   New!
 
 
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