Acknowledgements

Series Preface

Introduction

PART I THE NATURE OF AMERICAN POLITICAL SOCIETY

Ira Katznelson (1978)

1 `Considerations on Social Democracy in the United States', Comparative Politics, 11, pp. 77-99.

Rogers M. Smith (1993)

2 `Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America', American Political Science Review, 87, pp. 549-66.

Seymour Martin Lipset (1986)

3 `Historical Traditions and National Characteristics: A Comparative Analysis of Canada and the United States', Canadian Journal of Sociology, 11, pp. 113-55.

Sidney Verba

Gary R. Orren (1985)

4 `The Meaning of Equality in America', Political Science Quarterly, 100, pp. 369-87.

PART II ETHNICITY, RACE AND POLITICS

Eric Foner (1990)

5 `Blacks and the US Constitution 1789-1989', New Left Review, 183, pp. 63-74.

Desmond King (1996)

6 `The Segregated State? Black Americans and the Federal Government', Democratization, 3, pp. 65-92.

Steven P. Erie (1980)

7 `Two Faces of Ethnic Power: Comparing the Irish & Black Experiences', Polity, 13, pp. 261-84.

Charles V. Hamilton (1979)

8 `The Patron-Recipient Relationship and Minority Politics in New York City', Political Science Quarterly, 94, pp. 211-27.

Kenneth R. Mladenka (1989)

9 `Blacks and Hispanics in Urban Politics', American Political Science Review, 83, pp. 165-91.

Richard M. Merelman (1994)

10 `Racial Conflict and Cultural Politics in the United States', Journal of Politics, 56, pp. 1-20.

PART III GENDER AND POLITICS

Paula Baker (1984)

11 `The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780-1920', American Historical Review, 90, pp. 620-47.

Janet Clark (1991)

12 `Getting There: Women in Political Office', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 515, May, pp. 63-76.

Virginia Sapiro (1991)

13 `Feminism: A Generation Later', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 514, March, pp. 10-22.

Sylvia Bashevkin (1994)

14 `Facing a Renewed Right: American Feminism and the Reagan/Bush Challenge', Canadian Journal of Political Science, XXVII, pp. 669-98.

PART IV FEDERALISM, THE STATES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Ira Sharkansky (1969)

15 `The Utility of Elazar's Political Culture', Polity, 12, pp. 66-83.

Robert S. Erikson

John P. McIver

Gerald C. Wright, Jr. (1987)

16 `State Political Culture and Public Opinion', American Political Science Review, 81, pp. 797-813.

Ronald L. Watts (1987)

17 `The American Constitution in Comparative Perspective: A Comparison of Federalism in the United States and Canada', Journal of American History, 174, pp. 769-91.

Demetrios Caraley (1986)

18 `Changing Conceptions of Federalism', Political Science Quarterly, 101, pp. 289-306.

Joseph F. Zimmerman (1993)

19 `Congressional Regulation of Subnational Governments', PS: Political Science & Politics, 26, June, pp. 177-81.

Desmond S. King

Ted Robert Gurr (1987)

20 `Federal Responses to Urban Fiscal Stress and Decline in the United States', British Journal of Political Science, 17, pp. 109-17.

PART V THE SUPREME COURT

Richard Hodder-Williams (1992)

21 `Six Notions of "Political" and the United States Supreme Court', British Journal of Political Science, 22, pp. 1-20.

Robert A. Dahl (1957)

22 `Decision-Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy-Maker', Journal of Public Law, 6, pp. 279-95.

Mark Silverstein

Benjamin Ginsberg (1987)

23 `The Supreme Court and the New Politics of Judicial Power', Political Science Quarterly, 102, pp. 371-88.

Tracey E. George

Lee Epstein (1992)

24 `On the Nature of Supreme Court Decision Making', American Political Science Review, 86, pp. 323-37.

Henry J. Abraham (1986)

25 `Contemporary Judicial Processes and a Democratic Society', Political Science Quarterly, 101, pp. 277-88.

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