PART ONE: THINKING ABOUT POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES AND BEYOND.

1. Power and Democracy.

Nelson Polsby, "How to Study Community Power: The Pluralist Alternative".

John Gaventa, "Power and Participation".

2. The State and Capitalism.

G. William Domhoff, "Who Rules America?"

Theda Skocpol, "Political Response to Capitalist Crisis: Neo-Marxist Theories of the

State and the Case of the New Deal".

John L. Campbell and Leon N. Lindberg, "Property Rights and the Organization of

Economic Activity by the State".

3. Institutions, Actors, and Ideas.

Theda Skocpol, "Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research".

James M. Buchanan, "The Economic Theory of Politics Reborn".

Paul J. Quirk, "Deregulation and the Politics of Ideas in Congress".

PART TWO: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL POLICY.

4. The State, Parties, and Elections

Samuel P. Huntington, "Political Modernization: America vs. Europe".

Walter Dean Burnham, "Party Systems and the Political Process".

Martin Shefter, "Party, Bureaucracy, and Political Change in the United States".

Richard M. Valelly, "Vanishing Voters".

5. Social Groups in American Politics.

Richard Oestreicher, "Urban Working-Class Political Behavior and Theories

of American Electoral Politics, 1870-1940".

Paula Baker, "The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political

Society, 1780-1920".

David Vogel, "Why Businessmen Distrust Their State: The Political Consciousness of American Corporate Executives".

Robert Salisbury, "Why No Corporatism in America?"

PART THREE: CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE.

6. Perspectives on Social Movements and Collective Action.

J. Craig Jenkins, "Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements".

Michael Lipsky, "Protest as a Political Resource".

Herbert Kitschelt, "Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movement in Four Democracies".

Dennis Chong, "Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement".

Verta Taylor and Nancy E. Whittier, "Collective Identity in Social Movement

Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization".

7. The Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, and White Backlash

Aldon Morris, "The Black Southern Student Sit-In Movement: An Analysis of Internal Organization".

Doug McAdam, "Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Black Insurgency between 1955 and 1970".

Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, "Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights,

and Taxes on American Politics".

8. Feminism and Anti-Feminism.

Jo Freeman, "The Women's Liberation Movement: Its Origins, Organizations,

Activities, and Ideas".

Kristin Luker, "Motherhood and Morality in America"

Jane J. Mansbridge, "Why We Lost the ERA".

PART FOUR: THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC POLICYMAKING.

9. Institutions, Politics, and Patterns of Policy.

Sven Steinmo, "Political Institutions and Tax Policy in the United States, Sweden, and Britain".

Theda Skocpol, "State Formation and Social Policy in the United States".

10. Contemporary Politics and Policy Choices.

William Julius Wilson, "Race-Neutral Policies and the Democratic Coalition".

Mark A. Peterson, "Institutional Change and the Health Politics of the 1990s".

Stephen Cohen and John Zysman, "Can America Compete?"