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PARTIES AND ELECTIONS POLITICAL SCIENCE 255 Professor
Dan Hofrenning |
Required Texts
Graber, Doris A. 2001. Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Jacobson, Gary C. 2001. The Politics of Congressional Elections. New York: Longman.
Malbin, Michael J. and Thomas L. Gais. The Day After Reform: Sobering Campaign Finance Lessons from the American States. Albany, NY: The Rockefeller Institute Press, Distributed by The Brookings Institution Press.
Smith, Bradley A. 2001. Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
**selected articles available for purchase or via the WWW.
**Students are expected to follow the Wellstone-Coleman Senate race in detail via the StarTribune. You can read online or get the paper copy.
READING SCHEDULE
September 6- Introductions
Week of September 9
M - Jacobson, chs. 1 & 2
W - Jacobson, ch. 3
F - Jacobson, ch. 4
Week of September 16 (2)
no class Monday
W - Campaign Analysis #1
F - Jacobson, ch. 5
Week of September 23
M - Jacobson, ch. 6
W - catch-up
F - Graber, ch. 1
Week of September 30
M - Exam
W - Campaign Analysis, #2
F - Graber, ch. 2
Week of October 7
M - Graber, ch. 3
W - Graber, ch. 4
F - no class, attend political lectures
Week of October 14
M - **Roderick Hart, SEDUCING AMERICA: HOW TELEVISION CHARMS THE MODERN VOTER, ch. 3.
W - **Pippa Norris, A VIRTUOUS CIRCLE, ch. 10
F - ** Presentation #3
Fall Break
Week of October 21 (2)
W - **Samuel Popkin, THE REASONING VOTER, ch. 2
F -
Week of October 28
M - Reflections on Paul Wellstone
W - **Kathleen Hall Jamieson and David Birdsell, PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES, chs. 5 & 6.
F - Campaign Analysis #4
Week of November 4
M - **Roderick Hart, CAMPAIGN TALK
ELECTION DAY
W - Campaign Analysis #5
F - **Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar, GOING NEGATIVE, chs. 1 & 5.
Week of November 11
M - Jacobson, ch. 8
W - Smith chs 1 & 2
F - Smith ch. 3
Week of November 18
M - Smith, ch. 4
W - Malbin/Gais, chs. 1 & 2
F- Malbin/Gais, chs. 4
Week of November 25 (1)
M - Malbin/Gais, ch. 5
Thanksgiving Break
Week of December 2
M - Malbin/Gais, ch. 5
W - Smith, read ch. 6, skim ch. 7
F - Smith, ch. 10
Week of December 9 (2)
M- McCain Feingold Readings
W- McCain Feingold Readings
Final Exam as scheduled. Students must take the exam at the scheduled time.