POL 310

 

Political Parties 

Electronic Readings

 

Abramson, Aldrich, Paolino and Rhode "Third Party and Independent Candidates in American Politics:  Wallace, Anderson, and Perot" 
APSA "Towards A More Responsible Two-Party System"
Barabak "Democrats Rule the Redistricting Roost in California"
Barabak "Redistricting Fuels Partisan Frenzy"
Barabak "States' Hopes for Presidential Primary Power Fade" 
Basu "Reflections on Community Conflicts and the State of India" 
Blondel "Types of Party System"
Brownstein "DNC Moves to Hasten Primary Process in '04"
Campbell and Valen "Party Identification in Norway and the United States"
Cannon "No Time for Politics:  The Black Hole of Television Coverage"
Center "1972 Democratic Convention Reforms and Party Democracy"
Chhibber and Kollman "Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India and the United States"
Chhibber and Misra "Hindus and the Babri Masjid:  The Sectional Basis of Communal Attitudes"
Chhibber, Misra, and Sisson "Order and the Indian Electorate:  For Whom Does Shiva Dance?"
Chhibber and Petrocik "The Puzzle of Indian Politics:  Social Cleavages and the Indian Party System"
Collet "Third Parties and the Two-Party System"
Cooper "Seeing Red Over Green Party Move"
Daadler "In Search of the Center of European Party Systems"
Dalton "Social Bases of Party Support"
Dennis "Trends in Public Support for the American Party System"
Douglas "How Actual Governments Cope with the Paradoxes of Social Choice: Some Anglo-American Comparisons" 

Duverger

"Factors in a Two-Party and Multiparty System"

Downs

"An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy"
DNC 2000 Democratic Party Platform
Epstein and Hadley "On the Treatment of Political Parties in the U. S. Supreme Court: 1900-1986"
IFES Election Guide
IFES "Definitions of Election Terms"
Gordon and Segura "Cross-national Variation in the Political Sophistication of Individuals: Capability or Choice?" 
Gould "A Sociological Perspective on the Eighth General Election in India"
Goyal and Hahn "The Nature of Party Competition in Five Indian States"
Grumm "Theories of Electoral Systems"
Hauser and Singer "The Democratic Rite:  Celebration and Participation in the Indian Elections"
Jackman "Political Institutions and Voter Turnout in Industrial Democracies"
Janda "Presidential Elections in Russia and the United States:  Is Majority Popular Vote Desirable?"
Jankowski "Responsible, Irresponsible and Westminster Parties: A Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation"
Joseph "Neoconservatism in Contemporary Political Science:  Democratic Theory and the Party System"
Joshi and Desai "Towards A More Competitive Party System in India"
Kothari "The Congress 'System' in India"

Lane and Errson

"Party Systems"
Leonard "Divided Government and Dysfunctional Politics"
Lijphart "Proportional Representation Formulas"
Lind "Alice Doesn't Vote Here Anymore"
Lipset and Rokkan "Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments"
Long "Party Government in the United States"
Lowi "Presidential Democracy in America: Toward the Homogenized Regime"
Lowi "Toward A More Responsible Three-Party System"
   
 Mahmood "Rethinking Indian Communalism:  Culture and Counter-Culture"
Malik "The Akali Party and Sikh Militancy:  Move for Greater Autonomy or Succession in Punjab?
 Malik and Singh "Bharatiya Janata Party:  An Alternative to Congress (I)?

Magleby

"Election Advocacy:  Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2000 Congressional Elections"
Mathur "The State and the Use of Coercive Power in India"
Mayer "Patterns of Urban Political Culture in India"
McCloskey, Hoffmann and O'Hara "Issue Conflict and Consensus Among Party Leaders and Followers"
McDonald, Listhaug, and Rabinowitz "Issues and Party Support in Multiparty Systems"
McDonough "Electoral Competition and Participation in India: A Test of Huntington's Hypothesis"
Meyer "How Do Indians Vote?"
Midlarsky "Political Stability of Two-Party and Multi-Party Systems:  Probabilistic Bases for the Comparison of Party Systems"
 Miller and Listhaug  "Political Parties and Confidence in Government:  A Comparison of Sweden, Norway and the United States"
Neher "Asian Style Democracy"
Neto and Cox "Electoral Institutions, Cleavage Structures, and the Number of Parties"
Nigam "India After the 1996 Elections:  Nation, Locality and Representation"
Norpoth "Explaining Party Cohesion in Congress:  The Case of Shared Policy Attitudes"
Ornstein "Reformers Bloodied But Not Bowed"
Padilla "In Politics, Money Talks, And Keeps Talking, Despite Reforms"
Pai "The Transformation of the Indian Party System:  The 1996 Lok Sabha Elections"
PBS "Fixing the System"

Pederson

"Electoral Volatility in Western Europe, 1948-1977"
Pitts "U.S. Election Results Exemplify Separation of Powers"
PR Library "Types of Voting Systems"
Price "Kingly Models in Indian Political Behavior: Culture as a Medium of History"
 Rajashekhara "The Nature of Indian Federalism"
Reynolds and Reilly "Design Principles for Electoral Systems"
Riker "The Number of Political Parties"
Riker "The Two-Party System and Duverger's Law: An Essay on the History of Political Science"
Royed "Testing the Mandate Model in Britain and the United States:  Evidence from the Reagan and Thatcher Eras"
RNC 2000 Republican Party Platform
Scarrow "The Function of Political Parties:  A Critique of the Literature and the Approach"
Schlesinger "On the Theory of Party Organization"
Schlesinger "The New American Political Party"
Schneider "Virtual Unity:  The Morphing of the Party System
Shugart "The Electoral Cycle and Institutional Sources of Divided Presidential Government"
Singh "The Crisis of the Indian State:  From Quiet Developmentalism to Noisy Democracy"
Singh "The Dilemma of the New Indian Party System"
Sundquist "Whither the American Party System?"
Sundquist "Whither the American Party System? -- Revisited"
Swain "Democratic Consolidation?  Environmental Movements in India"
Thakur "Ayodhya and the Politics of India's Secularism:  A Double Standards Discourse"
Tsebelis "A General Model of Tactical and Inverse Tactical Voting"
Vanderbok "Critical Elections, Contained Volatility and the Indian Electorate"
White "E. E. Schattschneider:  A 50-Year Retrospective"
Wildgen "Electoral Formulae and the Number of Parties"
Wilkinson "Israel's Electoral System Called 'A Cancer'"
Wilsford "Getting Students to Think (Comparatively):  Teaching the Introductory Course in the 199os"
Zariski "Party Factions and Comparative Politics: Some Preliminary Observations"
Zeigler "Candidate Nomination in the British Conservative Party"

Duverger

SRC UM Party Id Scale

Blondel

Lijphart

Lipset

Zeigler

Dalton

Pederson

Lane and Errson

Janda

PR and Reform

Types of Voting Systems

Election Terms Guide

Pitts:  US Elections and the Separation of Powers

APSA  Towards a More Responsible Two-Party System

2000 Dem Party Platform

2000 Rep Party Platform

soft money

Design principles for electoral systems

IFES Election Guide

Downs' Eco Approach to Parties

Alice Doesn't Vote Here Anymore