PLSC 541, American Policymaking Institutions Seminar: Fall 2008
Mondays, 6–9pm, Room 236 Pond
Prof. Baumgartner
click here to read the syllabus
click on these links for the weekly discussion questions and paper assignments:
click on the links below for required readings
that are not easily available
- Heclo, Issue Networks and the Executive Establishment (to be distributed in class, file too big)
- Shepsle, Kenneth A. and Barry Weingast. 1987. The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power. American Political Science Review 81 (1): 85–104.
- Krehbiel, Keith. 1990. Are Congressional Committees Composed of Preference Outliers? American Political Science Review 84 (1): 149–63.
- King, David C., 1994. The Nature of Congressional Committee Jurisdictions. American Political Science Review 88 (1): 48–62.
- Poole, Keith T., and Howard Rosenthal. 1991. Patterns of Congressional Voting. American Journal of Political Science 35: 228–78.
- McCubbins, Matthew and Thomas Schwartz. 1984. Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols vs. Fire Alarms. American Journal of Political Science 28: 165–179.
- Bendor, Jonathan, and Terry M. Moe. 1985. An Adaptive Model of Bureaucratic Politics. American Political Science Review 79: 755–74.
- Davis, Otto A., M.A.H. Dempster, and Aaron Wildavsky. 1966. A Theory of the Budget Process. American Political Science Review 60: 529–547.
- Lindblom, Charles. 1959. The Science of “Muddling Through.” Public Administration Review 19: 79–88.
- Berry, William D. 1990. The Confusing Case of Budgetary Incrementalism: Too Many Meanings for a Single Concept. Journal of Politics 52: 167–196.
- Padgett, John F. 1980. Bounded Rationality in Budgetary Research. American Political Science Review 74: 354–72.
- Jones, Bryan D., and Frank R. Baumgartner. 2005. A Model of Choice for Public Policy. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15, 3 (July): 325–51.
- Walker, Jack L., Jr. 1969. The Diffusion of Innovations Among the American States. American Political Science Review 63 (3, Sept.): 880–899.
- Berry, Frances Stokes and William D. Berry. 1990. State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations: An Event History Analysis. American Political Science Review 84, 2 (June): 395–415.
- Gray, Virginia. 1973. Innovation in the States: A Diffusion Study. American Political Science Review 67, 4 (Dec.): 1174–1 185.
- Tiebout, Charles M. 1956. A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures. Journal of Political Economy 64, 5 (Oct.): 416–424.
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