Winter 2010 Course Schedule |
Political Science 157 Class Schedule and
There will be updates to this schedule throughout the quarter. The updates will usually be noted at the bottom of this page to assist you in identifying what has changed. Significant modifications will also be noted in the class forum. Updates will include links to contemporary commentary and video and to sources used or discussed in class. (r) denotes RECOMMENDED Week 1 January 5. Introduction and overview Individual Presidents, Institutions, and a Changing Economic, Technological, and Political Context; Agency vs. Choice; Public Expectations. Thinking about when individual presidents matter and why. Counterfactual reasoning. Historical analogies.
January 7. Institutions of the “Domestic Presidency” Different meanings of "institutions." You are the President. What can you do? What must you do? What must you not do? Where they came from; Why and how they change; How we study them. Read the Constitution before class!!! There will be a quiz on the Constitution IN SECTION.
January 12. Institutions of the “Foreign Policy” Presidency
January 14.Individuals When do individual characteristics matter? What do we need to know?
January 19. Who is Obama? What do we know about him and what do we need to know?
January 21. Strategies and Contexts I:
January 26. Strategies and Context II:
January 28: Strategies and Contexts III:
Week 5. February 2: Strategies and Contexts IV:
Week 6 February 9-11. Organizing to Govern
Week 7 February 16- 18 Leadership of Congress
Week 8 February 23. Leadership of the Courts
February 25. Leadership of the Bureaucracy
Week 9 March 2 The Cabinet and Policy-Making
March 4 The Evolving Role of the Vice President
Week 10 March 9 The Evolving Role of the First Lady
March 11 Wrapping up, Looking Ahead
OTHER
General Chwieroth, "Counterfactuals and the Study of the American Presidency" Presidential Studies Quarterly March 2002 [pdf online] Federalist Papers Online (especially read: Federalist #51) Lebow, "What's So Different About a Counterfactual?" World Politics 2000, pp: 550-558, 574-585. [pdf online NOTE: Entire article is online ] Moe. Terry, “Presidents, Institutions and Theory," in Edwards et al, Researching the Presidency 1993 pp. 337-347, 352-362 [ pdf online ] (balance of this article recommended) Skowronek, Stephen, “Presidential Leadership in Political Time” from Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System [pdf online] Whittington and Carpenter, "Executive Power in American Institutional Development," Perspectives on Politics September 2003 [pdf online] Wood, "Democracy and the Constitution" from How Democratic is the Constitution Goldwin and Schambra eds 1980 [pdf online] Woolley, " Drawing Lines or Defining Variables," [pdf online] Frich, "The Significance of the Pacificus-Helvidius Debates: Toward the Completion of the American Founding" http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1910/112536 [pdf online] Phelps, "George Washington Precedent Setter," in Cronin, ed, Inventing the American Presidency . Chapter 10 [pdf online ] Greenstein “Toward a Modern Presidency” in Pfiffner and Davidson, Understanding the Presidency [pdf online] Healy, "Progress and the Presidency" from The Cult of the Presidency chapter 2 (Cato Institute): 49-77) [pdf online] Dodds and Rozell, “The Press and the Presidency: Then and Now,” from Henderson, ed., The Presidency: Then and Now pp 139-160. [pdf online Taft, Strict Constructionist View [pdf online]
Lincoln Gienapp, “Abraham Lincoln and Presidential Leadership,” from McPherson, ed., We Cannot Escape History: Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth, pp 63-85 [pdf online] Presidents and the Public; Rhetoric
Jacobs and Burns, "The Second Face of the Public Presidency," Presidential Studies Quarterly September 2004. [pdf online] Jacobson, "Partisan Polarization in Presidential Support," from Edwards, ed., Readings in Presidential Politics [pdf online] Kernell “The Truman Doctrine Speech,” Social Science History Fall 1976 [pdf online] Langston, "
Lim, "Five Trends in Presidential Rhetoric: An Analysis of Rhetoric from George Washington to Bill Clinton," Presidential Studies Quarterly June 2002. [pdf online] Martin Medhurst, "Text and Context in the 1952 Presidential Campaign: Eisenhower's "I Shall Go to
Wilson's Precedent-Setting 1913 Speech Presidential Elections
Aldrich Before the Convention chapter 1, chapter 4, chapter 5 Bryce , “Why Great Men are Not Chosen President,” From The American Commonwealth [html online] Dahl, "Myth of the Mandate" Political Science Quarterly Autumn 1990 [pdf online] Election TV Advertisement Historical Collection Erikson, Robert, “The 2000 Presidential Election in Historical Perspective,” Political Science Quarterly 2001 #1 [pdf online] Gregg, Three-Part Defense of the Electoral College [here], [here], and [here] Gurian and Haynes, "Presidential Nomination Campaigns: Toward 2005," PS: Political Science and Politics April 2003 [pdf online] Hillygus and Shields, "Moral Issues and Voter Decision-Making in the 2004 Presidential Election, PS: Political Science and Politics April 2005. [pdf online] Mann, "An Agenda for Election Reform," Brookings Policy Brief #82, June 2001 [pdf online] Noah, "
Retrospective on 2004 Election Forecasts in PS: Political Science and Politics January 2005 [online--this link works only on campus! ]
Data on Campaign Finance and contributions from Open Secrets.Com Official vote totals and electoral college results President and Congress Bond, Fleisher and Krutz, “An Overview of the Empirical Findings on Presidential-Congressional Relations,” from Thurber, ed, Rivals for Power CQ Press, 1996. [pdf online]
Cohen, "The Impact of the Modern Presidency on Presidential Success in the
Data for the 107 Congress, Senate from Keith Poole's Data Bank showing Kerry is about 16th most liberal. Get more data from Keith right HERE. Fisher, "A Dose of Law and Realism for Presidential Studies," Presidential Studies Quarterly Dec 2002 [pdf online] Gregg, “Whiggism and Presidentialism: American Ambivalence toward Executive Power,” from
Wikipedia Article on "Signing Statements" with some useful links Spitzer, “Is the Separation of Powers Obsolete? The Congressional-Presidential Balance of Power,” from Pfiffner and Davidson, eds., Understanding the Presidency, 313-327 [pdf online] Presidents and the Media Cohen and Nice, “The Evolution of Presidential-News Media Relations” from The Presidency pp 178-195 [ pdf online] FDR's First Inaugural Address (click on link partway down the page on the right) The White House and Executive Office of the President/Advisors Burke, “From President to Presidency,” in The Institutional Presidency 2 nd edition, Johns Hopkins Press, 2000, chapter 1. [pdf online] Dilulio, "A View from Within," from Greenstein, ed, The George W. Bush Presidency. [pdf online] Hult, "The Bush White House in Comparative Perspective," from Greenstein, ed., The George W. Bush Presidency pp 51-77 [pdf online] Kernell, Sam, “The Evolution of the White House Staff,” from Pfiffner, ed., The Managerial Presidency Brooks Cole 1991. [pdf online] Perry, Steve, "Karl Rove's Moment" from bushwarsblog.com. [html online] Pfiffner, "Can the President Manage the Government?" from Pfiffner and Davidson, Understanding the Presidency [online] Ragsdale and Theis, "The Institutionalization of the American Presidency, 1924-92" American Journal of Political Science pp. 1280-1287. [pdf online] Suskind "Why are These Men Laughing?" Esquire January 2003 [html online] Suskind, "Without a Doubt" NYT Magazine 10/17/04 The 9/11 Commission Staff Summary pp 20-29 [pdf, full section online ] Presidential Unilateral Powers Deering and Maltzman, “Politics of Executive Orders” Political Research Quarterly December 1999 [pdf online] Howell, "Power without Persuasion," from Edwards, ed., Readings in Presidential Politics, pp109-133 [online]. Pullman Case (19 pp (Link to Pullman Case) RR 1984 Signing Statement on Deficit Reduction Act In re Neagle [links to another site] Rozell, "FDR and the Prerogative Presidency," from Rozell and Pederson, eds, FDR and the Modern Presidency, pp. 133-146 [pdf online] Presidents and the Courts Dudley , "Judicial Control of the Presidency: Stability and change," from Pfiffner and Davidson, Understanding the Presidency [pdf online] Flemming and Wood, "The Public and the Supreme Court," American Journal of Political Science April 1997 [pdf online]
Mishler and Sheehan, "Supreme Court as Countermajoritiarian Institution," American Political Science Review March 1993 [pdf online] Segal et al, "Buyer Beware?" Political Research Quarterly, September 2000. [pdf online] Yates and Whitford, "Presidential Power and the U.S. Supreme Court," Political Research Quarterly June 1998 [pdf online] Presidents and Public Policy Mallaby, Sebastian, “The Irrelevant Election” Foreign Policy Sept-Oct 2000. [pdf online] Soros, George: "The Bubble of American Supremacy" Atlantic Monthly December 2003 [html online] WRITINGS ON WAR POWERS Adler, "The Constitution and Presidential Warmaking," Pol Sci Quarterly, Spr 1988, pp 29-36. [link] "Standards of Conduct for Interrogation under 18 U.S.C. 2340-2340A. 2002 "Authorization for Use of Military Force," Public Law 107-40 (Sept. 18, 2001) [link online] Blanton, "The President's Daily Brief " [link online only] f (Department of Justice "Terror Memo"; subsequently withdrawn. ), pp. 1-2, (intro) and pp. 31-39 (Commander-in-chief powers) skim remainder as interested[pdf download] Fisher, "The Korean War: On What Legal Basis did Truman Act?" Am. Jnl of Intl Law Jan. 1995. Fisher and Adler, "The War Powers Resolution: Time to Say Goodbye," Pol Sci Quarterly Spr 1998 [link online] Prakash and Ramsey, "The Executive Power over Foreign Affairs," Yale Law Journal Nov 2001 [link online] Yoo, "War and the Constitutional Text," University of Chicago Law Review 2002, pp 1-4, 32-41 (note the link is to the entire article) [pdf online] Yoo and Ho, "The Status of Terrorists," Va. Jnl. Intl. Law August 2003 [pdf online] (Yoo was author of administration memos that seemed to justify extraconstitutional processing of "unlawful combatants" and held that they were not covered by the Geneva Conventions--including provisions prohibiting subjecting captives to harsh interrogation techniques.) The Conflict over National Security Wiretapping George Washington University National Security Archive Collection Some of the key court cases: The Prize Cases, 67 US 635 (1862) United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., 299 U.S. 304 (1936) Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer 343 U.S. 579 (1952) (there were 7 separate opinions on this case including one dissent.) |
