Semester: Fall 2006
Meeting Time: Mondays, 2:00-4:30pm
Meeting Place: Tobin 504

Professor: Vin Moscardelli
Office: 332 Thompson Hall
Office Hours: M/W 10:00-11:00, and by appt.

Syllabus is posted on the 3rd floor bulletin board outside room 304, Thompson Hall.

Links to selected articles (must be accessed from an on-campus computer):

• Polsby, Nelson W., and Eric Schickler. 2002. "Landmarks in the Study of Congress Since 1945." Annual Review of Political Science 5.1: 333-67.
• Polsby, Nelson W. 1968. "The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives" The American Political Science Review 62.1(March): 144-168.
• Bensel, Richard. 2000. "Of Rules and Speakers: Toward a Theory of Institutional Change for the U.S. House of Representatives." Social Science History 24.2 (Summer): 349-66.
• Katznelson, Ira, and John S. Lapinski. 2006. "Congress at the Crossroads: Congress and American Political Development.". Perspectives on Politics 4.2(June): 243-60. Note: This is a typescript version of this paper.
• Binder, Sarah. 1996. "The Partisan Basis of Procedural Choice: Allocating Parliamentary Rights in the House, 1789-1990." American Political Science Review 90.1(March): 8-20.
• Fenno, Richard F., Jr. 1962. "The House Appropriations Committee as a Political System." American Political Science Review 56.2(June): 310-24.
• Weingast, Barry R., and William Marshall. 1988. "The Industrial Organization of Congress." Journal of Political Economy 96.1(February): 132-63.
• Hall, Richard L., and Bernard Grofman. 1990. "The Committee Assignment Process and the Conditional Nature of Committee Bias." American Political Science Review 84.4 (December): 1149-66.
• Miller, Warren E. and Donald E. Stokes. 1963. "Constituency Influence in Congress." American Political Science Review 57.1(March): 45-56.
• Fenno, Richard F. 1977. "U.S. House Members in Their Constituencies: An Exploration." American Political Science Review 71.3(September): 883-917.
• Hibbing, John R. 1991. "Contours of the Modern Congressional Career." American Political Science Review 85.2 (June): 405-428.
• Wawro, Gregory J., and Eric Schickler. 2004. "Where's the Pivot? Obstruction and Lawmaking in the pre-Cloture Senate." American Journal of Political Science 48.4(October): 758-74.
• Lee, Frances E. 2000. "Senate Representation and Coalition Building in Distributive Politics." American Political Science Review 94.1(March): 59-72.
• Hall, Richard L. 1987. "Participation and Purpose in Committee Decisionmaking." American Political Science Review 81.1 (March): 105-128.
• Hall, Richard L., and C. Lawrence Evans. 1990. "The Power of Subcommittees" Journal of Politics 52.2 (May): 335-354.
• Hall, Richard L., and Frank W. Wayman. 1990. "Buying Time: Moneyed Interests and the Mobilization of Bias in Congressional Committees." American Political Science Review 84.3(September): 797-820.
• Schickler, Eric, and Andrew Rich. 1997. "Controlling the Floor: Parties as Procedural Coalitions in the House." American Journal of Political Science 41.4(October): 1340-75.
• Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. 1997. "Toward a Theory of Legislative Rules Changes: Assessing Schickler and Rich's Evidence." American Journal of Political Science 41.4(October): 1376-86.
• Schickler, Eric, and Andrew Rich. 1997. "Party Government in the House Reconsidered: A Response to Cox and McCubbins" American Journal of Political Science 41.4(October): 1387-94.
• Aldrich, John, and David W. Rohde. 1997-98. "The Transition to Republican Rule in the House: Implications for Theories of Congressional Politics." Political Science Quarterly 112.4 (Winter): 541-569.
• Wright, Gerald C., and Brian F. Schaffner. 2002. "The Influence of Party: Evidence from the State Legislatures." American Political Science Review 96.2(June): 367-79.
• Jones, Charles O. 1968. "Joseph G. Cannon and Howard W. Smith: An Essay on the Limits of Leadership in the House of Representatives." Journal of Politics 30.3 (August): 617-46.
• Cooper, Joseph, and David W. Brady. 1981. "Institutional Context and Leadership Style: The House from Cannon to Rayburn." American Political Science Review 75.2(June): 411-25.
• Sinclair, Barbara. 1999. "Transformational Leader or Faithful Agent? Principal-Agent Theory and House Majority Party Leadership." Legislative Studies Quarterly 24.3(August): 421-49.
• Strahan, Randall W., and Daniel Palazzolo. 2004. "The Gingrich Effect." Political Science Quarterly 119.1(Spring): 89-114.
• Hird, John A. 1991. "The Political Economy of Pork: Project Selection at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." American Political Science Review 85.2(June): 429-56.

Other links:

• Cohn, Jonathan. 1999. "Irrational Exuberance: When Did Political Science Forget About Politics?" The New Republic, October 25.
• Miller, D.W. 2001. "Storming the Palace in Political Science: Scholars Join Revolt Against the Domination of Mathematical Approaches to the Discipline." The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 21.
• Zoback, Mark. 2004. "Why Must Earthquakes Be This Devastating?" The Washington Post, January 4. [B5].

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