American Political Development

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1 Political Science 881 Fall 2012 John Coleman Syllabus Office hours: Th 1:30-3:00 and by appt., Th 3:30-5: North Hall ( ) 422 North Hall American Political Development Political development is concerned with analyzing, explaining, and understanding key transformative sequences in American politics, tracing the implications of these transformations for later American politics, and considering alternative possible paths of development. It is an approach and subfield that emphasizes theoretical understandings of the interrelation of polity, society, and economy, while at the same time being concerned with concrete historical and comparative cases that examine key transformations and patterns in American politics. Many compelling movements in contemporary political science statebuilding, the turn to history, legal constructions of the political and economic orders, institutions, political identity, alternative forms of representation, among others have emerged from the renewed interest in political development or are visible within its scholarship. Historicallyaware research is flourishing not only in political science but throughout the social sciences. This course has three major objectives. The first is to introduce various methods to study American political development. Although many, perhaps most, of the individuals working in this area approach matters from a historical-institutional perspective, other approaches are also part of the intellectual mix. Comparing these alternative theoretical approaches will be a major focus of the course. The second major objective is to introduce major substantive debates that have occupied scholars in this field. Third, I hope you will find that exposure to this literature helps you ask better questions and forge stronger answers in your own research, whether that be on policy, institutions, political behavior, or within another discipline. Even if you do not do APD, the ability to think APD will help you craft richer understandings of American politics. For departmental purposes, APD is also well-suited for preparation for the general portion of the American politics prelim as well as being helpful for several subfields themselves. In addition, some students, including those who have American as one of their prelim fields in political science, have built a minor in American political development. Students from other programs as well as other fields in political science have also crafted APD-related minors. There are additional courses one can take in this department, as well as others, to further pursue aspects of American political development, whether you are interested in an APD minor or not. Requirements: Attendance, preparation, and participation are expected and will be taken into account in assigning final grades. Students not submitting a reaction paper for a given week must still read the course material carefully by the date indicated on the syllabus and be prepared to participate in class discussion. As you know, the success of seminars depends critically on members being prepared and participating. Come to class with some questions or topics that piqued your interest in the readings or reaction papers (below). You will write two reaction papers of about 3-4 pages in length. You need not cover each and every reading for the week in these papers. The point is to focus on and analyze what you see as

2 the important, interesting issues in the reading. The paper should be analytical, not a long summary. Because these papers are short, I do expect that they will be tightly focused, thoughtful, and well written. You will post your essay to the class list (cut and paste it into the body of an message) by 3:30pm on the day before class. All seminar members must read these reactions prior to class. You will write a research paper, a research design, or a page literature review. The research paper or design should have some plausible connection to this course. The review would cover a topic of your choice on the syllabus or a related topic. In the literature review, you will assess the state of the field on this topic by reviewing existing literature and identifying promising areas and methods for future research. For any of these three options, you will submit a one-page progress report on October 25. If you have successfully completed your prelims and are working on a dissertation proposal, you may use your proposal as your paper, assuming it has some connection to the content of this course. Papers are due Monday, December 17. Books ordered: Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, (1982) Elisabeth Clemens, The People s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, (1997) Paul Pierson, Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis (2004) Richard Valelly, The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement (2004) Eric Patashnik, Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes are Enacted (2008) Suzanne Mettler, The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy (2011) Daniel DiSalvo, Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics (2012) Copies of these books are on reserve at College Library. Other reading will be available at Learn@UW. A list of recommended reading for the syllabus topics will also be posted at Learn@UW.

3 Schedule: 1. THE DEVELOPMENT APPROACH (9-13) Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek, The Search for American Political Development (2004), chs. 1, 3, pp Paul Pierson, Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis (2004), chs. 1-3 Patricia Strach, All in the Family: The Private Roots of American Public Policy (2007), ch. 3 George Thomas, What is Political Development: A Constitutional Perspective, Review of Politics 73 (2011): Any one of the following: Robert Lieberman, Ideas, Institutions, and Political Order: Explaining Political Change, American Political Science Review 96, 4 (2002): B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre, Desmond S. King, The Politics of Path Dependency: Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism, Journal of Politics 67, 4 (2005): Desmond S. King and Rogers M. Smith, Racial Orders in American Political Development, American Political Science Review 99, 1 (2005): AMERICAN STATEBUILDING (9-20) Ronald P. Formisano, State Development in the Early Republic: Substance and Structure, , in Shafer and Badger, eds., Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, (2001) Daniel DiSalvo, Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics, (2012), ch. 8 Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State, chs. 1, 2, and any parallel chapters (3 & 6, 4 & 7, or 5 & 8) One of the following: Aristide R. Zolberg, International Engagement and American Democracy: A Comparative Perspective, in Katznelson and Shefter, eds., Shaped By War and Trade Colleen Dunlavy, Political Structure, State Policy, and Industrial Change: Early Railroad Policy in the United States and Prussia, in Steinmo, Thelen, and Longstreth, eds., Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis Bryan D. Jones, Tracy Sulkin, and Heather A. Larsen, Policy Punctuations in American Political Institutions, American Political Science Review 97, 1 (2003):

4 3. EXPLAINING AND EVALUATING INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE (9-27) Pierson, Politics in Time, chs. 4-5 Valelly, The Two Reconstructions, ch. 10 Stephen Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush (1993), chs. 1-3 (you can read one of the profiles of presidents in chapters 4 through 7 if you want to see the framework applied to specific presidencies) Eric Schickler, Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress, chs. 1, 5 Ronald F. King and Susan Ellis, Partisan Advantage and Constitutional Change: The Case of the Seventeenth Amendment, Studies in American Political Development 10 (1996): Daniel Wirls, Regionalism, Rotten Boroughs, Race, and Realignment: The Seventeenth Amendment and the Politics of Representation, Studies in American Political Development 13 (1999): 1-30 Sara Brandes Crook and John R. Hibbing, A Not-so-distant Mirror: The 17 th Amendment and Institutional Change, American Political Science Review 91 (1997): William Bernhard and Brian R. Sala, The Remaking of an American Senate: The 17 th Amendment and Ideological Responsiveness, Journal of Politics 68, 2 (2006): THE CHANGING REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS (10-4, will be rescheduled) Elisabeth Clemens, The People s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, (1997), chs. 1, 2, 5, 7, 8 Daniel DiSalvo, Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics, (2012), chs. 1-3, 7 One of the following: Daniel J. Tichenor and Richard A. Harris, Organized Interests and American Political Development, Political Science Quarterly 117, 4 (2002): Anna L. Harvey, The Political Consequences of Suffrage Exclusion: Organizations, Institutions, and the Electoral Mobilization of Women, Social Science History 20 (1996): Doug McAdam, The Decline of the Civil Rights Movement, in Jo Freeman and Victoria Johnson, eds., Waves of Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties (1999) Benjamin Highton and Cindy D. Kam, The Long-Term Dynamics of Partisanship and Issue Orientations, Journal of Politics 73, 1 (2011): REVOLUTION, CONSTITUTION, AND POLITICAL CULTURE (10-11) The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America, ch. 1 Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, (1969), pp , chs. 10, 13 Rogers Smith, Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America, American Political Science Review 87 (1993): David Brian Robertson, Madison s Opponents and Constitutional Design, American Political Science Review 99, 2 (2005): Colleen A. Sheehan, Madison v. Hamilton: The Battle Over Republicanism and the Role of Public Opinion, American Political Science Review 98, 3 (2004): David Brian Robertson, Federalism and the Making of America (2012), ch. 2

5 6. CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION (10-18) Philip Abbott, The Lincoln Propositions and the Spirit of Secession, in Studies in American Political Development 10 (1996): Richard F. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, (1990), ch. 2 Richard M. Valelly, The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement (2004), chs. 2-5 Charles Stewart and Barry Weingast, Stacking the Senate, Changing the Nation: Republican Rotten Boroughs, Statehood Politics, and American Political Development, Studies in American Political Development 6 (1992) Sidney M. Milkis and Daniel J. Tichenor, Reform s Mating Dance: Presidents, Social Movements, and Racial Realignments, Journal of Policy History 23, 4 (2011): (first half) 7. CORPORATE ECONOMY, RADICAL MOMENT: THE LATE 19 TH CENTURY (10-25, will be rescheduled) Morton Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, ch. 4 Gerald Berk, Alternative Tracks, pp and ch. 4 Valelly, The Two Reconstructions, ch. 6 Lawrence Goodwyn, The Populist Moment (1978), tba Victoria Hattam, Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States, pp , ch PROGRESSIVISM IN ECONOMY, SOCIETY, AND POLITY (11-1) Daniel Rodgers, In Search of Progressivism, Reviews in American History 10 (1982): Michael J. Sandel, Democracy s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (1996), ch. 7 Mary Odem, City Mothers and Delinquent Daughters: Female Juvenile Justice Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, in Deverell and Sitton, eds., California Progressivism Revisited Eileen McDonagh, The Welfare Rights State and the Civil Rights State : Policy Paradox and State Building in the Progressive Era, Studies in American Political Development 7 (1993): Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race, ch. 6 Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote, ch. 6 Stephen Ansolabehere, John Mark Hansen, Shigeo Hirano, and James M. Snyder Jr., More Democracy: The Direct Primary and Competition in U.S. Elections, Studies in American Political Development 24, 2 (2010):

6 9. THE NEW DEAL AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE AMERICAN STATE (11-8) Louis M. Hacker, The Shaping of the American Tradition, pp Theda Skocpol and Kenneth Finegold, State Capacity and Economic Intervention in the Early New Deal, Political Science Quarterly 97 (1982): Valelly, The Two Reconstructions, ch. 7 Margaret Weir, Ideas and Politics: The Acceptance of Keynesianism in Britain and the United States, in Peter A. Hall, ed., The Political Power of Economic Ideas (1989) Suzanne Mettler, Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy (1998), chs. 1-2 Ira Katznelson and Quinn Mulroy, Was the South Pivotal? Situated Partisanship and Policy Coalitions during the New Deal and Fair Deal, Journal of Politics 74, 2 (2012): Eric Shickler and Devin Caughey, Public Opinion, Organized Labor, and the Limits of New Deal Liberalism, , Studies in American Political Development 25, 2 (2011): LIBERAL ASCENDANCE, CONSERVATIVE ASCENDANCE (11-15) Valelly, The Two Reconstructions, chs. 8-9 Eric M. Patashnik, Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes are Enacted (2008), chs. 2, 3, 5, 7 or 8, 9 David Brian Robertson, Federalism and the Making of America (2012), ch. 9 R. Shep Melnick, From Tax and Spend to Mandate and Sue: Liberalism after the Great Society, in Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur, eds., The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism (2005) Walter Dean Burnham, Into the 1980s with Ronald Reagan, in Burnham, The Current Crisis in American Politics (1982) Mark A. Smith, Intellectuals, Rhetoric, and Context: The Move to Economic Arguments by Conservative Writers, Studies in American Political Development 20, 1 (2006): 1 17 Joseph Daniel Ura and Christopher R. Ellis, Partisan Moods: Polarization and the Dynamics of Mass Party Preferences, Journal of Politics 74, 1 (2012):

7 11. SOCIAL POLICY AND THE WELFARE STATE (11-29) Theda Skocpol, The Origins of Social Policy in the United States: A Polity-Centered Analysis, in Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson, eds., The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches & Interpretations (1994) Suzanne Mettler, The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy (2011), chs. 1-3 One of the following: Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Business Power and Social Policy: Employers and the Formation of the American Welfare State, Politics and Society 30 (2002): Nelson Lichtenstein, From Corporatism to Collective Bargaining: Organized Labor and the Eclipse of Social Democracy in the Postwar Era, in Fraser and Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, Jacob S. Hacker, Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States, American Political Science Review 98, 2 (2004): Joe Soss and Sanford F. Schram, A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback, American Political Science Review 101, 1 (2007): Philipp Rehm, Jacob S. Hacker, and Mark Schlesinger, Insecure Alliances: Risk, Inequality, and Support for the Welfare State, American Political Science Review 106, 2 (2012): RELIGION IN AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT (12-6) Frank Lambert, The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America, tba Samuel P. Huntington, American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony (1981), p. 64, chs. 5-6 James A. Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (2003), Introduction, chs. 5, 14 Eldon J. Eisenach, Emerging Patterns in America s Political and Religious Self-Understanding, Studies in American Political Development 18, 1 (2004): One of the following: Michael P. Young, Confessional Protest: The Religious Birth of U.S. National Social Movements, American Sociological Review 67, 5 (2002): Kevin M. Schultz, Religion as Identity in Postwar America: The Last Serious Attempt to Put a Question on Religion in the United States Census, Journal of American History 93, 2 (2006): Geoffrey C. Layman and Edward G. Carmines, Cultural Conflict in American Politics: Religious Traditionalism, Postmaterialism, and U.S. Political Behavior, Journal of Politics 59, 3 (1997):

8 13. THINKING ABOUT THE PRESENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PAST (12-13) Suzanne Mettler, The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy (2011), ch. 5 Jacob S. Hacker, The Road to Somewhere: Why Health Reform Happened, Perspectives on Politics 8, 3 (2010): Kevin P. Donnelly and David A. Rochefort, The Lessons of Lesson Drawing : How the Obama Administration Attempted to Learn from Failure of the Clinton Health Plan, Journal of Policy History 24, 2 (2012): Three of the following: Sidney M. Milkis, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Emily J. Charnock, What Happened to Post- Partisanship? Barack Obama and the New American Party System, Perspectives on Politics 10,1 (2012): Elizabeth F. Cohen, Reconsidering US Immigration Reform: The Temporal Principle of Citizenship, Perspectives on Politics 9, 3 (2011): Vanessa Williamson, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, 9, 1 (2011): Ron Formisano, Populist Currents in the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Journal of Policy History 22, 2 (2010): Eileen McDonagh, It Takes a State: A Policy Feedback Model of Women's Political Representation, Perspectives on Politics 8, 1 (2010): 69-91