Congress: The Electoral Connection
10 best books like Congress: The Electoral Connection (David R. Mayhew): The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion, Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do, Midway: the Battle That Doomed Japan, Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America, The Semi-Sovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan, An Economic Theory of Democracy, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (Longman Classics Edition), The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
| Author | John R. Zaller |
| ISBN | 0521407869 |
Methodologically questionable to say the least: huge swathes of this book consist of nothing but post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning and blatantly confounded statistical models. It's also rather dull, especially the second half.
Additionally it's somewhat outdated, and incorporating...
On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans sat riveted in front of their televisions as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become a symbol of a culture war that thrives on stereotypes--pickup-driving red-state Republicans...
| Author | Mitsuo Fuchida |
| ISBN | 0345346912 |
The great air and sea battle of World War II,
as seen through Japanese eyes . . .
For the Japanese, confident over the easy victory at Pearl Harbor, the Midway operation had one objective; to draw out the U.S. Navy and destroy it. Thus, on June 4, 1942, Admiral Yamamoto launched his attack on...
Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America
| Author | Michael Scheuer |
| ISBN | 1574885537 |
All Americans must read this book in order to truly understand the reasons why radical Muslims like Osama bin Laden and his followers have declared war on America and the West. Furthermore, only this book accurately describes the severity of the threat they will continue to pose, with or without bin...
| Author | E.E. Schattschneider |
| ISBN | 0030133661 |
Having read this as an undergrad PoliSci major, I remembered it being better than it was.
Here were my major complaints:
1- not understanding the economic concept of rent-seeking, that big business also colludes with government to preserve their market position. Schattschneider ("Shatty"),...
Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
| Author | Richard E. Neustadt |
| ISBN | 0029227968 |
Thirty years ago Richard Neustadt published Presidential Power, which became a widely studied book on the theory and practice of presidential leadership. Presidents themselves read it and assign it to their staff for study, as did the intructors of hundreds of thousands of students of government....
| Author | Anthony Downs |
| ISBN | 0060417501 |
This book seeks to elucidate its subject - the governing of democratic state - by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics. His explanations are systematically related to, and deductible from, precisely stated assumptions...
| Author | John W. Kingdon |
| ISBN | 0321121856 |
Agenda setting, in the world of politics, is when a problem becomes identified as an issue that calls for government attention, discussion, and--possibly--decision making. This book is one of the most important works on agenda-setting.
John Kingdon has stated that:
Political...
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track
| Author | Thomas E. Mann |
| ISBN | 0195174461 |
Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed...
| Author | Marty Cohen |
| ISBN | 0226112373 |
Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that—such unusually competitive cases notwithstanding—people,...
| Author | David C. Whitney |
| ISBN | 1568650310 |
Short biographies
of all the Presidents of America so far, packed into one giant volume - that was pretty much it to scare me.
But David C. Whitney's writing was enough to win me over. The undertones of american patriotism to admitting the scandals and the faults and flaws with some presidencies...
| Author | Larry M. Bartels |
| ISBN | 0691136637 |
Using a vast swath of data spanning the past six decades, Unequal Democracy debunks many myths about politics in contemporary America, using the widening gap between the rich and the poor to shed disturbing light on the workings of American democracy. Larry Bartels shows the gap between the rich and...
The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
| Author | Daniel Marston |
| ISBN | 1841768820 |
Published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of V-J Day, 'The Pacific War Companion' brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians. From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the release of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict in...
The Obamians: How a Band of Newcomers Redefined American Power
The definitive analysis of the events, ideas, personalities, and conflicts that have defined Obama’s foreign policy
When Barack Obama took office, he brought with him a new group of foreign policy advisers intent on carving out a new global role for America in the wake of the Bush administration’s...
Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919
| Author | Ann Hagedorn |
| ISBN | 0743243714 |
Written with the sweep of an epic novel and grounded in extensive research into contemporary documents, "Savage Peace" is a striking portrait of American democracy under stress. It is the surprising story of America in the year 1919. In the aftermath of an unprecedented worldwide war and a flu pandemic,...
Feminists Theorize the Political
| Author | Judith Butler |
| ISBN | 0415902746 |
At the risk of being caricaturish and simplistic:
The contributors to this volume (edited by the historian and theorist Joan W. Scott and the inimitable Judith Butler) share a broad concern: making coherent a committment to feminsim in the wake of both (a) poststructuralist interventions...
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It
| Author | James Q. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0465007856 |
The classic book on the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better -- the "masterwork" of political scientist James Q. Wilson (The Economist)
In Bureaucracy, the distinguished scholar James Q. Wilson examines a wide range of bureaucracies, including the...
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
| Author | Mancur Olson |
| ISBN | 0674537513 |
This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of the political scientist, sociologist,...
| Author | Edward W. Said |
| ISBN | 0375709363 |
Edward Said, the renowned literary and cultural critic and passionately engaged intellectual, is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers. For more than three decades his books, which include Culture and Imperialism, Peace and Its Discontents, and the seminal...
| Author | David Herbert Donald |
| ISBN | 0394419006 |
The Pulitzer-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns! In this brilliant biography—a Pulitzer Prize—winning national bestseller—David Herbert Donald, Harvard professor emeritus, traces Sumner's life as the nation careens toward civil war. In a period when senators often...
After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy
| Author | Robert O. Keohane |
| ISBN | 0691122482 |
This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Can cooperation persist without the dominance of a single power, such as the United States after World War II? To answer this pressing question, Robert Keohane analyzes the institutions, or "international...
The Arab Uprising: The Wave of Protest that Toppled the Status Quo and the Struggle for a New Middle East
| Author | Marc Lynch |
| ISBN | 1610390849 |
Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region's politics almost beyond recognition. But the biggest transformations of what has been labeled...
| Author | Ira Katznelson |
| ISBN | 0871404508 |
Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Ira Katznelson, “a towering figure in the study...
| Author | Richard N. Haass |
| ISBN | 0465057985 |
The biggest threat to the United States comes not from abroad but from within. This is the provocative, timely, and unexpected message of Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass’s Foreign Policy Begins at Home.
A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran,...
| Author | Louis Menand |
| ISBN | 0679775447 |
Pragmatism has been called America's only major contribution to philosophy. But since its birth was announced a century ago in 1898 by William James, pragmatism has played a vital role in almost every area of American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges, educators, politicians, poets,...
