Table of Contents

Preface
About The Editors
Chapter 1. Designing Institutions
1-1 From The Logic of Collective Action - Mancur Olson Jr.
1-2 Governing the Commons - Elinor Ostrom
1-3 What is Political Science For? - Jane Mansbridge
Chapter 2. The Constitutional Framework
2-1 Federalist No. 10 - James Madison
2-2 Federalist No. 51 - James Madison
2-3 “The True Principles of Republican Government”: Reassessing James Madison’s Political Science - Samuel Kernell
Chapter 3. Federalism
3-1 Federalism: Sorting Out Who Does What - Donald F. Kettl
3-2 How America’s “Devolution Revolution” Reshaped Its Federalism - Thad Kousser
Chapter 4. Civil Rights
4-1 Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) - Supreme Court of the United States
4-2 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) - Supreme Court of the United States
4-3 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978) - Supreme Court of the United States
4-4 Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U.S. 181 (2023) - Supreme Court of the United States
4-5 Racial Authoritarianism in U.S. Democracy - Weaver and Prowse
Chapter 5. Civil Liberties
5-1 Free Speech and National Security - Geoffrey R. Stone
5-2 Roe v. Wade (1973) - Supreme Court of the United States
5-3 Dobbs v. Jackson Women′s Health Organization (2022) - Supreme Court of the United States
5-4 The Real World of Constitutional Rights: The Supreme Court and the Implementation of the Abortion Decisions - Gerald N. Rosenberg
Chapter 6. Congress
6-1 Legislating in Polarized Times - Sarah A. Binder
6-2 Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign - Frances E. Lee
6-3 Beneath the Surface: Partisanship, Bipartisanship, and Committee Activity - Steven S. Smith
6-4 Disrupted: The Appropriations Process, Partisan Polarization, and Partisanship - Steven S. Smith
6-5 Diversifying: Gender, Race, and Congressional Representation - Steven S. Smith
6-6 Why 435? Reapportionment and the Size of the House - Steven S. Smith
Chapter 7. The Presidency
7-1 From Presidential Power - Richard E. Neustadt
7-2 From Going Public - Samuel Kernell
7-3 Power without Persuasion - William Howell
Chapter 8. The Bureaucracy
8-1 The Rise of the Bureaucratic State - James Q. Wilson
8-2 Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols versus Fire Alarms - Mathew D. McCubbins and Thomas Schwartz
Chapter 9. The Judiciary
9-1 From A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law - Antonin Scalia
9-2 From Active Liberty - Stephen Breyer
9-3 Federalist No. 78 - Alexander Hamilton
9.4 On the Nature of Supreme Court Decision Making - Tracey George and Lee Epstein
Chapter 10. Public Opinion
10-1 Analyzing and Interpreting Polls - Herbert Asher
10-2 The Polarized Electorate - Alan I. Abramowitz
10-3 The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion - John Zaller
10-4 Democracy Hypocrisy: Examining America’s Fragile Democratic Convictions - Joe Goldman, Lee Drutman, and Oscar Pocasangre
Chapter 11. Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
11-1 Voter turnout, 2018-2022 - Pew Research Center
11-2 No Compromise: The Electoral Origins of Legislative Gridlock - Gary C. Jacobson
11-3 Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government - Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels
11-4 Election Reform: Past, Present, and Future - Richard Hasen
Chapter 12. Political Parties
12-1 From Why Parties? - John H. Aldrich
12-2 Doom-Loop Partisanship - Lee Drutman
12-3 Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity - Lilliana Mason
Chapter 13. Interest Groups
13-1 Lobbying as Legislative Subsidy - Richard L. Hall and Alan V. Deardorff
13-2 The Growth of Corporate Lobbying - Lee Drutman
13-3 Democracy in America? - Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens
Chapter 14. News Media
14-1 Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election - Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow
14-2 (Almost) Everything in Moderation: New Evidence on Americans′ Online Media Diets - Andrew M. Guess
14-3 Local News, Information, and the Nationalization of U.S. Elections - Daniel J. Moskowitz
Appendix: Constitution of the United States - U.S. Constitution