Comparative Party Politics (PS 196)
Spring 2007
Course Info
Syllabus
W 12:00-2:50 p.m.
HSSB 2201
Heather Stoll
hstoll(at)polsci
3715 Ellison Hall
Office Hours: 2:00-4:00 p.m. Thursdays or by appointment
Assigned Readings
Items available from the Reserve Book Service (denoted [RBS] on the syllabus) can be obtained here using the password supplied in
class. Items available electronically (denoted [E] on the syllabus) are available from the following links:
- Abramowitz, Alan and
Kyle Saunders (2005), "Why Can't We All Just Get Along? The Reality of a Polarized America"
- Poole, Keith (2005), "The Decline and Rise of
Party Polarization in Congress"
- Hindman, Matthew (2005), "The Real Lessons of Howard Dean"
- Katz, Richard and Peter Mair (1995), "Changing Models of Party
Organization and Party Democracy"
- Popkin, Samuel (2006), "Changing Media, Changing Politics"
- Riker,
William (1982), "The Two-Party System and Duverger's Law"
- Bartels, Larry (2006), "Is the Water Rising?"
- Pontusson, Jonas (2006), "The American Welfare State in Comparative Perspective"
- Lupia, Arthur and
John Matsusaka (2004), "Direct Democracy"
Note that most of these readings can only be accessed from a
UCSB computer. If you want to download the readings from your home
computer, you will need to set it up as a proxy server through the
library. Instructions on how to do this are posted here.
Handouts