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The Library of Congress American Memory site / The Avalon Project
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U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 (US GPO, 1975) and Statistical Abstract of the United States (US GPO, annual)
Harold W. Stanley and Richard G. Niemi, Vital Statistics on American Politics (Congressional Quarterly Press)
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David F. Trask and Robert W. Pomeroy, III, eds., The Craft of Public History: An Annotated Select Bibliography (Greenwood, 1983)
U.S. Library of Congress, A Guide to the Study of the United States of America (Washington: GPO, 1960).
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Research Tools / Theory Construction / Case Studies / Pitfalls
John Gerring, Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework (Cambridge UP, 2001)
Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research (U of Chicago Press, 1995)
Paul C. Stern, Evaluating Social Science Research (Oxford University Press, 1979)
Paul Diesing, Patterns of Discovery in the Social Sciences (Aldine, Atherton, 1971)
Mary Douglas and Steven Ney, Missing Persons: A Critique of the Social Sciences (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
Henry E. Brady and David Collier, eds., Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards (Rowman and LIttlefirled, 2004)
Evan S. Lieberman, "Causal Inference in Historical Institutional Analysis: A Specification of Periodization Strategies," Comparative Political Studies 34:9 (November, 2001)
Paul Pierson, Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis (Princeton UP, 2005);
Paul Pierson, "Not Just What, but When: Timing and Sequence in Political Processes," SAPD 14:1 (Spring 2000): 72-92; Robert Jervis, "Timing and Interaction in Politics: A Comment on Pierson;" Kathleen Thelen, "Timing and Temporality in the Analysis of Institutional Change;" and Amy Bridges, "Path Dependence, Sequence, History, Theory," SAPD 14:1 (Spring, 2000): 93-112
Paul David, "Clio and the Economics of QWERTY." American Economic Review 75:2 (1985):332-337
Philip E. Tetlock and Aaron Belkin, Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics: Logical, Methodological, and Psychological Perspectives (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)
Richard Ned LeBow, "What's So Different About a Counterfactual?" World Politics 52 (July, 2000): 550-585
Martin Bunzl, "Counterfactual History: A User's Guide," American Historical Review 109:3 (June 2004): 845-858.
Niall Ferguson, ed. Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (Basic Books, 1999).
Robert Crowley, ed. What If? The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been. G.P. Putnam's and Sons, 1999).
[for an excellent example of the use of counterfactuals in American Political Development, see Jack N. Rakove, “The Origins of Judicial Review: A Plea for New Contexts,” Stanford Law Review 49 (May, 1997), 1031--]
Gary Goertz and Harvey Starr, eds., Necessary Conditions: Theory, Methodology, and Applications (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002)
Max Weber, Methodology of the Social Sciences (Free Press, 1949)
H.H Gerth and C. Wright Mills, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (Oxford University Press, 1946)
Charles Tilly, Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons (Russell Sage, 1984)
Jon Elster, Logic and Society: Contradictions and Possible Worlds (Wiley, 1978)
A.M. MacIver, "Levels of Explanation in History," in May Brodbeck, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Macmillan, 1968)
Anthony Giddens, Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis California, 1979) and The Constitution of Society (California, 1984).
John Gerring, “What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for?” APSR 98 (2004): 341-354
Harry Eckstein, "Case Study and Theory in Political Science," in Fred I. Greenstein and Nelson W. Polsby, eds., Handbook of Political Science, Volume 7: Strategies of Inquiry (Addison-Wesley, 1975)
Robert K. Yin, Case Study Research: Design and Methods 3rd ed. (Sage: 2002) and Applications of Case Study Research, 2nd ed. (Sage, 2002).
Robert E. Stake, The Art of Case Study Research (Sage, 1995)
Lindsay J. Whaley, Introduction to Typology: The Unity and Diversity of Language (Sage, 1996).
Alexander L. George, "Case Studies and Theory Development: The Method of Structured, Focused Comparison," in Paul G. Lauren, ed., Diplomacy: New Approaches in History, Theory, and Policy (Free Press, 1979)
Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett, Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences (MIT Press, 2004)
David Collier, "The Comparative Method," in Ada W. Finifter, ed., Political Science: The State of the Discipline II (American Political Science Association, 1993), 105-120.
Charles W. Anderson, "System versus Strategy in Comparative Policy Analysis: A Plea for Contextual and Experiential Knowledge," In W.B. Gwyn and G.C. Edwards III (eds). Perspectives in Public Policy-Making (Tulane University, 1975)
Arend Lijphart, "Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method," APSR 65: 3 (September, 1971), 682 - 695
Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft (Vintage, 1953)
E.H. Carr, What is History? (Penguin, 1990)
John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (Oxford UP, 2002).
James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (Knopf, 1981)
J. Morgan Kousser, "Restoring Politics to Political History," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 12:4 (Spring, 1982), 569-95.
Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Constructing Social Theories (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Francis G. Castles, "Introduction: The Puzzles of Political Economy," in Castles, ed., The Comparative History of Public Policy (Oxford University Press, 1989)
Ian Lustick, "History, Historiography, and Political Science: Multiple Historical Records and the Problem of Selection Bias," APSR 90: 3 (Sept 1996): 605-618.
Ernst Breisach, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. University of Chicago, 1994
Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn, History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997).
Emery Roe, Narrative Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice (Duke U Press, 1994)
Mark C. Smith, Social Science in the Crucible: The American Debate over Objectivity and Purpose, 1918-1941 (Duke U Press, 1994)
Thomas J. Archdeacon, Correlation and Regression Analysis: A Historians Guide (Wisconsin, 1994)
Bill James, "The Meaning of Statistics," from The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (New York: Free Press, 2001), pp. 338-339
The Development of the Political Science Discipline
Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds., Political Science: The State of the Discipline (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002)
Albert Somit and Joseph Tannehaus, The Development of American Political Science (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1967).
Dorothy Ross, The Origins of American Social Science (Cambridge UP, 1991) and "The Social Science Disciplines." In Theodore M. Porter and Dorothy Ross, eds. The Cambridge History of Science, volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Theodore J. Lowi, "The Politics of Higher Education: Political Science as Case Study," in George J. Graham, Jr. and George W. Carey, eds., The Post-Behavioral Era: Perspectives on Political Science (New York: David McKay Company, 1972)
Ian Shapiro, Rogers M. Smith, and Tarek E. Masoud, eds. Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics (Cambridge UP, 2004)
David M. Ricci, The Tragedy of Political Science: Politics, Scholarship, and Democracy (Yale UP, 1984).
Kristen Renwick Monroe, ed., Perestroika ! The Raucous Revolution In Political Science. (Yale Up, 2005)
James Farr, John S. Dryzek and Stephen T. Leonard, eds., Political Science in History: Research Programs and Political Traditions (Cambridge UP, 1995)
James Farr and Raymond Seidelman, eds., Discipline and History: Political Science in the United States (U of Michigan Press, 1993).
Dennis J. Mahoney, Politics and Progress: The Emergence of American Political Science (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004).
Terence Ball, ed. Idioms of Inquiry: Critique and Renewal in Political Science (State University of New York Press, 1987)
Martin Landau, Political Theory and Political Science (Macmillan, 1972)
David B. Easton, John G. Gunnell, and Michael B. Stein, eds., Regime and Discipline: Democracy and the Development of Political Science (U of Michigan Press, 1995)
John Gunnell, "The Historiography of American Political Science," in David Easton, et al The Development of Political Science (Routledge, 1991)
Gabriel Almond, "Separate Tables: Schools and Sects in Political Science." PS: Political Science and Politics 21 (1988): 828-842 and A Discipline Divided (Sage, 1990)
Bernard Crick, The American Science of Politics (Routledge, 1959)
Anna Haddow, Political Science in American Colleges and Universities, 1636-1900 (1939)
Mary G. Dietz and James Farr, "'Politics Would Undoubtedly Unwoman Her': Gender, Suffrage, and American Political Science" in Helene Silverberg, ed., Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998)
Jurgen Herbst, The German Historical School in American Scholarship: A Study in the Transfer of Culture (Cornell UP, 1965)
Nasser Behnegar, Leo Strauss, Max Weber and the Scientific Study of Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
Richard Hofstader and Walter Paul Metzger, The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States (1955)
John W. Burgess, Reminiscences of An American Scholar (1934)
Barry D. Karl, Charles E. Merriam and the Study of Politics U of Chicago Press, 1974).
Richard M. Merelman, Pluralism at Yale: The Culture of Political Science in America (U of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
Theda Skocpol, "Bringing the State Back In," in Peter Evans, Theda Skocpol, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge University Press, 1985), 3-37; see also Theda Skocpol, “Introduction,” Protecting Soldiers and Mothers (Belknap Press, 1992, pp. 1-62)
Paul Pierson, "Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics," APSR 94:2 (June, 2000): 251-267 and "Not Just What, but When: Timing and Sequence in Political Processes," SAPD 14:1 (Spring 2000): 72-92.
Karen Orren and Steve Skowronek, "The Study Of American Political Development," in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds., Political Science: The State of the Discipline (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002); and Karen Orren, and Stephen Skowronek, 'Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a "New Institutionalism," in Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson (eds.), The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations (Westview Press, 1994)
Ian Shapiro, Stephen Skowronek, and Daniel Galvin, eds., Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State (New York UP, 2006)
David Brian Robertson, "Politics and the Past: History, Behavioralism, and the Return to Institutionalism in American Political Science," in Eric Monkkonen, ed., Engaging the Past: The Uses of History Across the Social Sciences (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), pp. 113-153
Ellen M. Immergut, "The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism," Politics & Society 26: 1 (March, 1998): 5-34
Robert C. Lieberman, "Ideas, Institutions, and Political Order: Explaining Political Change," APSR 96:4 (December 2002): 697-712.
Peter A. Hall and Rosemary C. R. Taylor, “Political Science and the Three Institutionalisms,” Political Studies 44 (1996): 936-957
Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen, and Frank Longstreth, eds., Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Historical Perspective (Cambridge UP, 1992)
B. Guy Peters, Institutional Theory in Political Science: The New Institutionalism (London: Pinter, 199?)
Dennis Kavanagh, "Why Political Science Needs History," Political Studies 39:3, 479-495
Ira Katznelson, "The Doleful Dance of Politics and Policy: Can Historical Institutionalism Make a Difference?" APSR 92:1 (March, 1998): 191-198.
Karen L. Remmer, "Theoretical Decay and Theoretical Development: The Resurgence of Institutional Analysis," World Politics 50:1 (October 1997): 34-61.
Thomas A. Koelble, "The New Institutionalism in Political Science," Comparative Politics 27 (January, 1995), pp. 231-243.
Theodore J. Lowi, "Foreword," and Calvin Jillson, Patterns and Periodicity in American National Politics," in Dodd and Jillson, The Dynamics of American Politics, pp ix-xvii, 1-22
Timothy Mitchell, "The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and their Critics," APSR 85:1 (March, 1991) 77-96.
Gabriel Almond, "The Return to the State," APSR, 82:3 (September, 1988) 853-874
Mary C. Brinton and Victor Nee, eds., The New Institutionalism in Sociology (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998).
David Apter, "Institutionalism Reconsidered," International Social Science Journal 43:3 (August, 1991): 463-48.
Andrew Abbott, "Sequences of Social Events: Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Order in Social Processes," Historical Methods, 16:4 (Fall, 1983): 129-147, and "Conception of Time and Events in Social Science Methods: Causal and Narrative Approaches," Historical Methods, 23:4 (Fall, 1990): 140-150.
Eric Monkkonen, ed., Engaging the Past: The Uses of History Across the Social Sciences (Duke University Press, 1994)
Sanford M. Jacoby, "The New Institutionalism: What Can It Learn From the Old?" Industrial Relations 29:2 (Spring, 1990).
J.P. Nettl, "The State as a Conceptual Variable," World Politics 20:4 (July, 1968), 559-592.
Theda Skocpol, "Bringing the State Back In," in Peter Evans, Theda Skocpol, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge University Press, 1985), 3-37; see also Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China (Cambridge UP, 1979).
Stephen D. Krasner, "Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics," Comparative Politics (January, 1984): 223-246, and Stephen D. Krasner, "Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective," Comparative Political Studies 21:1 (1988), pp. 66-94.
Quentin Skinner and Bo Stråth, eds., States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects (Cambridge UP, 2002)
Quentin Skinner, "The State," chapter 5 in Terence Ball, James Farr, and Russell L. Hanson, Political Innovation and Conceptual Change (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction (Hutchinson, 1978).
Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Alan Harding, Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State (Oxford UP, 2002).
Martin van Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge UP, 1999)
Hendrik Spruyt, The Sovereign State and Its Competitors (Princeton UP, 1994)
S.E. Finer, The History of Government (Oxford UP, 1997): Vol. 1: Ancient Monarchies and Empires; Vol. 2. The Intermediate Ages; Vol. 3: Empires, Monarchies, and the Modern State
Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1990 (Blackwell, 1990)
Karen Barkey and Sunita Parikh, “Comparative Perspectives on the State,” Annual Review of Sociology 17 (1991): 523-49
Morton H. Fried, "State (The Institution)," and Frederick M. Watkins, "State (The Concept)," in David L. Sills, ed., International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Macmillan, 1968).
Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 1982).
Clyde W. Barrow, Critical Theories of the State: Marxist, Neo-Marxist, Post-Marxist (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993).
Eric Nordlinger, On the Autonomy of the Democratic State (Harvard University Press, 1981)
Roger Benjamin and Stephen L. Elkin, eds., The Democratic State (University Press of Kansas, 1985).
Bob Jessop, State Theory: Putting the Capitalist State in its Place (Penn State, 1991)
Barbara Geddes, Politician's Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America (University of California, 1994) [Rational choice analysis]
George M. Thomas and John W. Meyer, “The Expansion of the State,” Annual Review of Sociology 10 (1984): 461-482
Nicos Poulantzas, "The Problem of the Capitalist State," New Left Review, 58 (1969): 67-78
Ralph Miliband, The State and Capitalist Society (Quartet, 1969).
Fred Block, "The Ruling Class Does Not Rule," Socialist Revolution 7:3 (1977): 6-28.
Alfred Stepan, The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective (Princeton University Press: 1978).
Martin Carnoy, The State and Political Theory (Princeton University Press, 1984)
David Held, Political Theory and the Modern State: Essays on State, Power, and Democracy (Stanford UP, 1989)
James A. Caporaso, The Elusive State (Sage, 1989)
Anthony Giddens, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration (1984)
Jerald Hage, Robert Hanneman, and Edward T. Gargan, State Responsiveness and State Activism (Unwin-Hyman, 1989).
Roger King, The State in Modern Society: New Directions in Political Sociology (Chatham House, 1986).
Bertrand Badie and Pierre Birnbaum, The Sociology of the State (Chicago, 1983)
Robert Grafstein, "The Problem of Institutional Constraint," Journal of Politics 50:3 (August, 1988), pp. 577-99.
Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Beacon, 1966).
Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Cambridge University Press, 1979)
Charles Bright and Susan Harding, eds., Statemaking and Social Movements: Essays in History and Theory (University of Michigan Press, 1984)
K.H.F. Dyson, The State Tradition in Western Europe (Martin Robertson, 1980).
Peter Evans, "The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization," World Politics 50:1 (October 1997): 62-87.
The Positive Theory of Institutions (See also Rational Choice in Political Economy Bibliography)
Daniel Diermeier and Keith Krehbiel, "Institutionalism as a Methodology," Journal of Theoretical Politics 15:2 (April 2003): 123-144
Barry Weingast, "Political Stability and Civil War: Institutions, Commitment, and American Denmocracy," in Robert H. Bates, Avner Grief, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry Weingast, Analytic Narratives (Princeton UP, 1998)
Kenneth A. Shepsle, "Institutional Equilibrium and Equilibrium Institutions," in Herbert F. Weisberg, ed., Political Science: The Science of Politics (Agathon, 1986)
Kenneth A. Shepsle, "Institutional Arrangements and Equilibrium in Multidimensional Voting Models," American Journal of Political Science (1979), 27-60
Kenneth A. Shepsle, "Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach," Journal of Theoretical Politics 1:2 (1989): 131-147
James Alt and Kenneth Shepsle, eds., Perspectives on Positive Political Economy (Cambridge UP)
Jack Knight, Institutions and Social Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Kenneth A. Shepsle and Barry R. Weingast, eds., Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions (U of Michigan Press, 1995).
Robert H. Bates, Avner Grief, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry Weingast, Analytic Narratives (Princeton UP, 1998)
Robert Keohane, "Rational Choice Explanations," chapter 5 in After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton UP, 1984).
Neil K. Komesar, Imperfect Alternatives: Choosing Institutions in Law, Economics, and Public Policy (U of Chicago Press, 1994)
Donald P. Green and Ian Shapiro, Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science (Yale UP, 1994)
Ian Shapiro, The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences (Princeton UP, 2005)
Jeffrey Friedman, The Rational Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered (Yale UP, 1996)
Ira Katznelson and Barry R. Weingast, eds. 2005. Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection Between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Werner Sombart, Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? (Macmillan, 1976; originally 1905)
Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (Harcourt, Brace, 1955)
Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double Edged Sword (WW Norton, 1996) and The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective (Basic, 1963)
Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks, It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States (WW Norton, 2001)
Anthony King, "Ideas, Institutions, and the Policies of Governments: A Comparative Analysis, Parts I and II," and "Ideas, Institutions, and the Policies of Governments: A Comparative Analysis, Part III, "British Journal of Political Science 3 (1973)
Byron E. Shafer, ed., Is America Different? A New Look at American Exceptionalism (Clarendon Press, 1991)
Graham K. Wilson, Only in America? The Politics of the United States in Comparative Perspective (Chatham House, 1998)
David Brian Robertson, Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)
Robert H. Salisbury, "Why No Corporatism in America?" in Philippe C. Schmitter and Gerhard Lembruch, eds., Trends Toward Corporatist Intermediation (Sage, 1979)
Theodore Lowi, "Why No Socialism in the United States," in The Costs of Federalism
Christopher Pierson, "The 'Exceptional United States: First New Nation or Last Welfare State?" Social Policy & Administration 24:3 (November 1990): 186-198
Gary M. Klass, "Explaining America and the Welfare State: An Alternative Theory," British Journal of Political Science 15 (1985)
Sean Wilentz, "Against Exceptionalism: Class Consciousness and the American Labor Movement, 1790-1920," International Labor and Working Class History 26 (1984): 1-24
Charles Lockhart, The Roots of American Exceptionalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Ian Tyrrell, "American Exceptionalism in an Age of International History," American Historical Review 96 (1991): 1031-1055
Michael Kammen, "The Problem of American Exceptionalism: A Reconsideration," American Quarterly, 45 (March 1993), 1-43
Michael McGerr, "The Price of the 'New Transnational History,'" pp. 1056-1067, in American Historical Review, 96 (October 1991): 1031-1055
Deborah L. Madsen, American Exceptionalism. (University Press of Mississippi, 1998)
Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris, American Exceptionalism? US Working-class Formation in an International Context (St. Martin's, 1997)
Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1955)
Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris, eds., American Exceptionalism: US Working Class Formation in an International Context (New York: St. Martin's, 1999)
John Kingdon, America the Unusual (St. Martin's 1999)
American Political Development
Links to H-Net, American Political History site / APSA Politics and History site
Studies in American Political Development (journal, semi-annual)
Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek, The Search for American Political Development (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (New Haven: Yale University Press).
Lawrence Dodd and Calvin Jillson, eds., The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations (Westview Press, 1994).
Lawrence Dodd and Calvin Jillson, eds, New Perspectives on American Politics (Washington: CQ Press, 1994).
Ira Katznelson and Martin Shefter, eds., Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002)
Robert A. Dahl, Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City (Yale UP, 1961)
Richard D. Brown, The Transformation of American Life: 1600-1865 (Hill and Wang, 1976).
James W. Caesar, Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought (Yale UP, 1997).
Oscar and Mary Handlin, The Dimensions of Liberty (Harvard, 1961)
Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought since the Revolution (Harcourt Brace, and World, 1955).
Rowland Berthoff, An Unsettled People: Social Order and Disorder in American History (Harper & Row, 1971).
Barry D. Karl, The Uneasy State (University of Chicago Press, 1983)
Richard Franklin, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Morton Keller, Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America (Cambridge University Press, 1977).
Edward S. Greenberg and Thomas S. Mayer, eds., Changes in the State: Causes and Consequences (Sage, 1990).
Robert Higgs, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (Oxford University Press, 1987)
Theodore Sky, To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power (U of Delaware Press, 2003)
Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman, The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History (Yale UP, 2004)
Stephen D. Krasner, Defending the National Interest (Princeton University Press, 1978).
"Federalism" and "Federation", International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1968)
K.C. Wheare, Federal Government, (Oxford UP, 1951)
Daniel Elazar, Exploring Federalism (University of Alabama Press, 1987), The American Partnership (U of Chicago, 1962), and Americaan Federalism: A View from the States, 3rd ed. (Harper & Row, 1984)
Daniel Elazar and John Kincaid, eds., Covenant, Polity, and Constitutionalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 1983)
William H. Riker, Federalism: Origin, Operation, Significance (Little, Brown, 1964) and "Federalism," in Fred I. Greenstein and Nelson W. Polsby, eds., Handbook of Political Science: Government Institutions and Processes (Addison-Wesley, 1975)
Ivo Duchacek, Comparative Federalisms
Michael Burgess, Comparative Federalism: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2006)
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Studies in Comparative Federalism: Australia, Canada, the United States and West Germany (ACIR, 1981)
Herman Bakvis and William M. Chandler, eds., Federalism and the Role of the State (U of Toronto Press, 1987)
Ronald Watts, Comparing Federal Systems in the 1990s (McGill-Queen’s UP, 1997)
Edward McWhinney, Comparative Federalism: States’ Rights and National Power, 2nd ed. (U of Toronto Press, 1965).
Ann L. Griffiths, ed. Handbook of Federal Countries, 2002 (McGill-Queens UP, 2002)
Keith Banting, The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism
Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman, The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States (Princteton UP, 2004)
Arthur Macmahon, Federalism: Mature and Emergent (New York: Columbia University Press, 1962)
Keith E. Whittington, "Dismantling the Modern Sate? The Changing Structural Foundations of Federalism," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 25:4 (Summer, 1998), 483-527
Martha Derthick, The Influence of Federal Grants (Harvard UP, 1970), Uncontrollable Spending for Social Services (Brookings, 1975), and Keeping the Compound Republic: Essays on American Federalism (Brookings, 2002)
David Brian Robertson, "The Bias of American Federalism: The Limits of Welfare State Development in the Progressive Era," Journal of Policy History 1 (1989): 261-291 and Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), chapter 2 and passim.
Forrest McDonald, States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 (UP of Kansas, 2000).
Harry N. Scheiber, "Federalism and the American Economic Order, 1789-1910," Law and Society Review 10:1 (Fall, 1975), pp. 57-118; "American Federalism and the Diffusion of Power: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives," University of Toledo Law Review 9 (1975), 619-680; "Federalism and the Legal Process: Historical and Contemporary Analysis of the American System," Law and Society Review 14:3 (Spring, 1980), pp. 663-722.
William Graebner, "Federalism and the Progressive Era: A Structural Interpretation of Reform," Journal of American History 64:2 (September, 1977): 331-357
Samuel H. Beer, "Federalism, Nationalism, and Democracy in America," APSR 72:1 (March, 1978), 9-19, and To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism (Belknap, 1993)
Robert F. Nagel, The Implosion of American Federalism (Oxford UP, 2001)
Forrest McDonald, States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000)
David M. Potter and Thomas G. Manning, Nationalism and Sectionalism in America, 1775-1877 (Henry Holt & Co., 1949)
Morton Grodzins, The American System: A New View of Government in the United States
W. Brooke Graves, American Intergovernmental Relations
Susan Rose-Ackerman, "Does Federalism Matter? Political Choice in a Federal Republic," Journal of Political Economy 89:1 (February, 1981), pp. 152-165
Deil Wright, Understanding Intergovernmental Relations (Brooks/Cole, 1988)
Wallace E. Oates, The Political Economy of Federalism (DC Heath, 1977)
Thomas J. Anton, American Federalism and Public
Policy: How the System Works (Random House, 1989)
Paul E. Peterson, The Price of Federalism (Brookings, 1995)
Russell L. Hanson, ed., Governing Partners: State-Local Relations in the U.S. (WestviewPress, 1997)
U.S. Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, The Condition of Contemporary Federalism: Conflicting Theories and Collapsing Constraints (GPO, 1981)
W. Mark Crain, Volatile States: Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economies (U of Michigan Press, 2003).
Daphne A. Kenyon, Interjurisdictional Tax and Policy Competition: Good or Bad for the Federal System? (Washington, D.C.: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1991)
Daphne A. Kenyon and John Kincaid, eds., Competition Among State and Local Governments: Efficiency and Equity in American Federalism (Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1991)
Michael A. Bailey and Mark Carl Rom, "A Wider Race? Interstate Competition across Health and Welfare Programs", Journal of Politics 66:2 (May 2004).
Scott J. Basinger and Mark Hallerberg, "Remodeling the Competition for Capital: How Domestic Politics Erases the Race to the Bottom," APSR 98:2 (May 2004), pp. 261-276.
Richard L. Reeves, "Federalism and Environmental Regulation: A Public Choice Analysis," Harvard Law Review 115:2 (December 2001), 555-641.
Wallace E. Oates and Robert M. Schwab, "Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions: Efficiency Enhancing or Distortion Inducing," Journal of Public Economics 33 (1988): 333-354
James A. Gardner, Introduction to Symposium Issue, "The New Judicial Federalism: A New Generation: The "States-as-Laboratories" Metaphor in State Constitutional Law," Valparaiso University Law Review 30 (Spring, 1996): 475-91
Allan Nevins, The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775-1789 (Kelley, 1969)
Jon C. Teaford, The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
Ballard
C. Campbell, The Growth of American Government: Governance from the
Cleveland Era to the Present (Indiana University Press, 1995).
John Kincaid, ed., Political Culture, Public Policy and the American States (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982)
Robert Erikson, Gerald Wright, and John P. McIver, Statehouse Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
David Osborne, Laboratories of Democracy: A New Breed of Governors Creates Models for National Growth (Harvard Business School Press, 1990)
Ann O'M. Bowman and Richard Kearney, The Resurgence of the States (Prentice-Hall, 1986).
James G. Gimpel and Jason E. Schuknecht, Patchwork Nation: Sectionalism and Political Change in American Politics U of Michigan Press, 2003)
Journals: State Politics and Policy Quarterly * Publius * State and Local Government Review * Governing
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Link to Constitutional Convention delegate biographies / Journal of the Federal Convention / The Federalist Papers
Link to State Debates on the Adoption of the Constitution /
Link to Annals of Congress, 1789-1793 / Senator William Maclay's U.S. Senate Journal, 1789-1795
Links to Journal of the U.S. House of Representatives and Journal of the U.S. Senate
Links to American Founders Online / the Papers of James Madison, the Papers of George Washington, and the Papers of James Wilson
Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Yale University Press, 1966);
James H. Hutson, ed., Supplement to Max Farrand's the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Yale University Press, 1987)
Wilbourn E. Benton, ed. 1787: Drafting the Constitution (Texas A&M, 1986), 2 vols. [Concordance between Constitutional articles and the notes of participants at the constitutional convention]
Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, The Founders' Constitution (Chicago, 1985). 5 Vols.
John R. Vile, The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's Founding. (ABC-CLIO, 2005)
Michael Kammen, ed., The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History (Penguin, 1986).
Congressional Research Service, The Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation (US GPO, 1987) Senate Docs. 99-16, 100-9.
U.S. Library of Congress, Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, Volumes 1-26 (U.S.GPO)
Gordon S. Wood, The Confederation and the Constitution: The Critical Issues (edited, Little, Brown) and The Creation of the American Republic (Norton, 1969)
Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996)
Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)
David C. Hendrickson, Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding (UP of Kansas, 2003)
Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. Carter II, eds., Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity (U of North Carolina Press, 1987)
David Brian Robertson, The Constitution and America's Destiny (Cambridge UP, 2005) and "Madison's Opponents and Constitutional Design," APSR (2005)
Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier, Decision at Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 (Random House, 1987)
Clinton Rossiter, 1787: The Grand Convention (Macmillan,1966)
John P. Roche, "The Founding Fathers: A Reform Caucus in Action," APSR 55:4 (December, 1961), pp. 799-816
Lance Banning, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic (Cornell UP, 1995)
Richard K. Matthews, If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason (Kansas, 1995).
Samuel Kernell, ed. James Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican Government (Stanford UP, 2003)
James Morton Smith, ed. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826, 3 vols. (Norton, 1995)
Richard B. Morris, Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the Constitution (New American Library, 1985) and The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789 (Harper and Row, 1987)
Calvin C. Jillson, Constitution Making: Conflict and Consensus in the Federal Convention of 1787 (Agathon, 1988)
Thornton Anderson, Creating the Constitution: The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress (Pennsylvania State UP, 1993)
Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (Macmillan, 1913)
Forrest McDonald, We, The People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution (Phoenix Bks, 1963)
Joseph M. Lynch, Negotiating The Constitution: The Earliest Debates Over Original Intent (Cornell UP, 1999)
Richard Beeman, Stephan Botein, and Edward C. Carter II, eds. Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity (U of North Carolina Press, 1987).
Charles A. Kromkowski, Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700-1870 (Cambridge UP, 2002).
William Winslow Crosskey, Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States (U of Chicago Press, 1953) and William Winslow Crosskey and William Jeffrey, Jr., Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States, Vol. III: The Political Background of the Federal Convention (University of Chicago Press, 1980).
M.N.S. Sellers, American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States Constitution (New York University Press, 1994)
Benson Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution (Simon and Schuster, 1997).
James Kirby Martin, Men in Rebellion: Higher Government Leaders and the Coming of the American Revolution (Rutgers UP, 1973)
Merrill Jensen, The Articles of Confederation (Wisconsin, 1963)
Calvin Johnson, Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders' Constitution, (Cambridge UP, 2005)
Barry Schwartz, George Washington: The Making of an American Symbol (Free Press, 1987)
Robert Lowry Clinton, God and Man in the Law: The Foundations of Anglo-American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 1997)
Ann Lyon, Constitutional History of the United Kingdom (London: Cavendish Publishing, 2003)
Russell L. Hanson, The Democratic Imagination: Conversations with Our Past (Princeton UP, 1986)
Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007)
Cathy Matson and Peter Onuf, A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America (U of Kansas Press, 1990).
Peter Onuf, A History of the Northwest Ordinance (Indiana UP, 1987)
John J. Dinan, The American State Constitutional Tradition (UP of Kansas, 2006)
Willi Paul Adams, The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era (Expanded ed.; Rowman and Littlefield, 2002)
Alan Tully, Forming American Politics: Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania (Johns Hopkins, 1994)
E. Wilder Spaulding, New York in the Critical Period, 1783-1789 (Columbia UP, 1932)
Christopher Collier, Roger Sherman’s Connecticut: Yankee Politics and the American Revolution (Wesleyan UP, 1971)
Jacob E. Cooke, ed., The Federalist (Wesleyan University Press, 1961). [preferred edition]
Herbert Storing, ed., The Complete Anti-Federalist (University of Chicago Press, 1980)
Herbert J. Storing, What the Anti-Federalists Were For (University of Chicago Press, 1981)
David J. Siemers, Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time (Stanford UP, 2002)
David Epstein, The Political Theory of the Federalist (University of Chicago Press, 1984).
Christopher M. Duncan, The Anti-Federalists and Early American Political Thought (Northern Illinois U, 1995)
Bernard Grofman and Donald Wittman, eds., The Federalist Papers and the New Institutionalism (Agathon, 1989)
William H. Riker, The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution (Yale UP, 1996).
Symposium on the Federalist Papers, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 16:1 (Winter, 1993)
Akhil Reed Amar, America's Constitution: A Biography (New York: Random House)
Seymour Martin Lipset, The First New Nation: The United States in Historical Perspective (Basic Books, 1963)
M.J.C. Vile, Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers, (Clarendon Press, 1967).
Peter F. Nardulli, ed., The Constitution and American Political Development (U of Illinois Press, 1992).
Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States (Columbia, 1908).
E.S. Corwin, The Constitution and What it Means Today (Princeton UP, 1973).
C. Herman Pritchett, The American Constitution (McGraw-Hill, 1968)
Keith E. Whittington, Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review (U of Kansas Press, 2001)
Johnathan O'Neill, Originalism in American Law and Politics: a Constitutional History, (Johns Hopkins UP, 2005)
Samuel H. Beer, To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism (Belknap, 1993)
Sheldon S. Wolin, The Presence of the Past: Essays on the State and the Constitution (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).
Loren P. Beth, The Development of the American Constitution, 1877-1917 (Harper and Row, 1971).
Paul L. Murphy, The Constitution in Crisis Times, 1918-1969 (Harper and Row, 1969)
Robert A. Goldwin and William A. Schambra, eds., How Capitalistic is the Constitution? (American Enterprise Institute, 1982), How Democratic is the Constitution? (AEI, 1984) and How Federal is the Constitution? (AEI, 1987).
John R. Manley and Kenneth F. Dolbeare, The Case Against the Constitution (M.E. Sharpe, 1987)
Robert A. Goldwin and Art Kaufman, eds., Separation of Powers: Does it Still Work? (American Enterprise Institute, )
Bradford Wilson and Peter W. Schramm, eds. Separation of Powers and Good Government (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994)
John R. Vile, ed. Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 1787-2001 , 3 vols., ed., (Law Book Exchange, 2002)
Richard Labunski, James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights (Oxford UP, 2006)
Constitutions and Institutional Engineering
Martin A. Reddish, The Constitution as Political Structure (Oxford, 1995)
Giovanni Sartori, Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry Into Structures, Incentives, and Outcomes (New York U Press, 1994)
Sotirios A. Barber and Robert P. George, eds., Constitutional Politics: Essays on Constitution Making, Maintenance, and Change (Princeton University Press, 2002).
Andrew MacIntyre, The Power of Institutions: Political Architecture and Governance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
David Easton, The Analysis of Political Structure (Routledge, 1990)
John Dearlove, "Bringing the Constitution Back In: Political Science and the State," Political Studies 37:4 (December, 1989), 521-539
William H. Riker (1980) "Implications from the Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of Institutions," APSR 74:2 (June, 1980) 432-446, and Comments and Replies by Peter C. Ordeshook, Douglas W. Rae, and Riker, pp. 447-458.
Jack Knight, Institutions and Social Conflict (Cambridge, 1992)
R. Kent Weaver and Bert A. Rockman, eds., Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad (Brookings, 1993).
Roland M. Czada and Adrienne Windhoff-Heritier, eds., Political Choice: Institutions, Rules, and the Limits of Rationality (Westview, 1990)
John E. Jackson, ed., Institutions in American Society: Essays in Market, Political, and Social Organizations (University of Michigan Press, 1990)
Terry M. Moe, "Interests, Institutions, and Positive Theory: The Politics of the NLRB," in SAPD 2 (1987), pp. 236-299.
Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen, and Frank Longstreth, eds., Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis (Cambridge, 1992)
Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge, 1990)
Vincent Ostrom, The Political Theory of a Compound Republic
Walter W. Powell and Paul J. DiMaggio, The New Institutionalism and Organizational Analysis (Chicago, 1991)
PERIODS OF
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
The Early American Republic: Founding to Civil War
Links to Antebellum History
American State Papers, 1789-1838 / American Election Returns, 1787-1825
The Abraham Lincoln papers / John C. Calhoun's Disquisition on Government
H-SHEAR / Journal of the Early Republic
Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (Belknap, 2000)
Richard R. John, "Governmental Institutions as Agents of Change: Rethinking American Political Development in the Early Republic, 1787-1835," Studies in American Political Development 11:2 (1997): 347-380 and Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (Harvard UP, 1995).
Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton UP, 2000)
Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 (Oxford UP, 1993)
James Rogers Sharp, American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (Yale UP, 1993)
Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (U of North Carolina Press, 1999)
Richard Buel, Securing the Revolution: Ideology in American Politics, 1789-1815 (Cornell UP, 1972)
James A. Henretta, Michael Kammen, and Stanley N. Katz, eds. The Transformation of Early American History: Society, Authority, and Ideology (Knopf, 1991).
Vernon L. Parrington, The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860 (Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1927)
James S. Young, The Washington Community, 1800-1828 (Columbia UP, 1966)
Kenneth R. Bowling, The Creation of Washington, D.C.: The Idea and Location of the American Capital (George Mason University Press, 1991)
Peter J. Kastor, The Louisiana Purchase: Emergence of an American Nation (Washington: CQ Press, 2002)
Alan S. Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power And Persuasion On The Frontier Of The Early American Republic (Knopf, 1995)
Scott A. Silverstone, Divided Union: The Politics of War in the Early American Republic (Cornell UP, 2004)
Henry Adams, History of the United States of America [1801-1817, 9 volumes], (C. Scribner's Sons, 1889-91)
Leonard White, The Jeffersonians (Macmillan, 1948)
Marshall Smelser, The Democratic Republic, 1801-1815 (Harper and Row, 1968)
David Hackett Fischer, The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy (Harper and Row, 1965)
George Dangerfield, The Awakening of American Nationalism 1815-1828 (Harper and Row, 1965)
R.B. Bernstein, Thomas Jefferson (Oxford UP, 2003)
Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997)
Fawn M. Brodie, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (WW Norton, 1974)
James F. Simon, What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States (Simon & Schuster, 2002)
Craig Thompson Friend, Along the Maysville Road: the Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West (U of Tennessee Press, 2005)
Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Alfred A. Knopf, 1945 [originally 1835 & 1840])
André Jardin, Tocqueville: A Biography (Johns Hopkins, 1998)
Ken Masugi, ed., Interpreting Tocqueville's Democracy in America (Rowman and Littlefield, 1991)
Sheldon S. Wolin, Tocqueville between Two Worlds (Princeton UP, 2001).
Leonard White, The Jacksonians (Macmillan, 1954)
Marvin Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion (Stanford UP, 1957)
Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 (Harper & Row, 1977); Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832 (Harper & Row, 1981); Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 (Harper & Row, 1984)
Arthur M. Schleslinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson (Little, Brown, 1945)
James C. Curtis, Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication (Little, Brown 1976) Donald B. Cole, The Presidency of Andrew Jackson (UP of Kansas, 1993)
Richard B. Latner, The Presidency of Andrew Jackson: White House Politics 1829-1837 (U of Georgia Press, 1979)
Harry L. Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America, New York : Hill and Wang, 1990
Charles Sellars, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (Oxford UP, 1992).
Richard R. John, Spreading The News: The American Postal System From Franklin To Morse (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995)
Richard J. Ellis, The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States' Rights and the Nullification Crisis (Oxford UP, 1987)
William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836 (New York, 1966) and The Road to Disunion: Sessessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (Oxford UP, 1990).
David Grimsted, American Mobbing,1828-1861: Toward Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Matthew Crenson, The Federal Machine: The Beginnings of Bureaucracy in Jacksonian America (Johns Hopkins, 1975)
Joel Silbey, Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
Amy Bridges, A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics (Cornell UP, 1984).
Robert V. Remini, Martin Van Buren and the Democratic Party (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951)
Jerome Mushkat and Joseph G. Rayback, Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology, (Northern Illinois UP, 1997).
Merrill D. Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun (Oxford UP, 1987).
John C. Calhoun, A Disquisition on Government (Bobbs-Merrill, 1953)
Harry L. Watson, Jacksonian Politics and Community Conflict: The Emergence of the Second American Party System in Cumberland County, North Carolina (LSU Press, 1981)
Kenneth J. Winkle, The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio (New York: Cambridge UP, 1988)
J. Mills Thornton III, Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800-1860 (LSU Press, 1978)
Richard Franklin Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Michael F. Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (Oxford UP, 1999)
Robert William Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (Norton, 1989).
Thomas Bender, ed., The Antislavery Debate Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (California, 1992)
Lex Renda, Running on the Record: Civil-War Era Politics in New Hampshire (UP of Virginia, 1997).
J. David Greenstone, The Lincoln Persuasion: Remaking American Liberalism (Princeton, 1993)
William Freehling, The Road to Disunion, vol. 1, Sessessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (Oxford, 1990)
Michael Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850's (Norton, 1978)
Joel H. Silbey, The Partisan Imperative: The Dynamics of American Politics Before the Civil War (Oxford, 1985) and A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860-1868 (Norton, 1977).
Lex Renda, Running on the Record: Civil War-Era Politics in New Hampshire (U of Virginia Press, 1997)
James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford, 1988)
The State of Courts and Parties, 1865-1900
Links to Gilded Age & Progressive Era resources / H-Net, Gilded Age and Progressive Era site
Richard F. Bensel, Sectionalism and American Political Development (Wisconsin, 1984) and The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 (New York: Cambridge UP, 2001)
James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (Macmillan, 1894)
Woodrow Wilson, Congressional Government (World Publishing, 1885)
Rebecca Edwards, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905 (Oxford UP, 2005)
Richard Cherny, American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868-1900 (1997)
Martin Shefter, "Trade Unions and Political Machines: The Organization and Disorganization of the American Working Class in the Late Nineteenth Century," in Martin Shefter, Political Parties and the State: The American Historical Experience (Princeton, 1994).
Morton Keller, Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America (Belknap, 1977).
Leonard White, The Republican Era, 1869-1901 (Macmillan, 1958)
Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order (Hill and Wang, 1967)
John A. Garraty, The New Commonwealth, 1877-1890 (Harper and Row, 1968)
William J. Novak, The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (U of North Carolina Press, 1996)
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Harper and Row, 1988) and Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (Oxford UP, 1995).
Brooks D. Simpson, The Reconstruction Presidents (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998)
Robert C. Lieberman, "The Freedmen's Bureau and the Politics of Institutional Structure," Social Science History 18:3 (Fall 1994): 405-437
John M. Dobson, Politics in the Gilded Age: A New Perspective on Reform (Praeger, 1972).
Roy Morris Jr., Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden and the Stolen Election of 1876 (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
Joanne Retiano, The Tariff Question in the Gilded Age: The Great Debate of 1888 (Penn State, 1994)
William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold" Speech, July 9, 1896
Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History (Basic: 1995)
Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America (Oxford University Press, 1976)
John Hicks, The Populist Revolt (University of Minnesota Press, 1931)
William Holmes, ed., American Populism (Hill and Wang, 1994)
Gretchen Ritter, Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865–1896 (Cambridge UP, 1999)
Robert F. Durden, The Climax of Populism: The Election of 1896 (U of Kentucky Press, 1965)
Paul W. Glad, McKinley, Bryan, and the People (Lippincott, 1964)
Michael Kazin, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (Knopf, 2006).
J. Morgan Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Restrictions and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910 (Yale University Press, 1974)
Richard L. McCormick, The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics form the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era (Oxford University Press, 1986).
William G. Ross, A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937 (Princeton, 1993)
Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Belknap, 1992)
David Brian Robertson, Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)
Amy Bridges, Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest (Princeton UP)
Alan Dawley, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution (Princeton UP, 2003)
Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life (EP Dutton, 1909).
John Milton Cooper, The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt (Harvard UP, 1983)
Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1979) and Theodore Rex (Random House, 2001)
Arthur S. Link, Wilson (Princeton University Press, 5 vols., 1947-1965) and Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917 (Harper and Row, 1954).
Morton Keller, Regulating a New Economy (Harvard, 1990) and Regulating a New Society: Public Policy and Social Change in America, 1900-1933 (Harvard, 1994)
Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916 (Free Press, 1963)
Richard Hofsteader, The Age of Reform (Knopf, 1956)
John M. Jordan, Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939.( University of North Carolina Press, 1994).
Arthur Bentley, The Process of Government (University of Chicago Press, 1908).
Kenneth Finegold, Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland and Chicago (Princeton, 1995)
Lewis J. Gould, ed. The Progressive Era (Syracuse UP, 1974)
Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920 (North Carolina, 1995)
Sidney Milkis and Daniel Tichenor, "The Progressive Party, Social Reformers, and the Politics of "Direct Democracy"," Studies in American Political Development 8:2 (1994)
Eileen Lorenzi McDonagh, "Representative Democracy and State Building in the Progressive Era," APSR 86:4 (December, 1992), pp 938-950
David Brian Robertson, "Policy Entrepreneurs and Policy Divergence: John R. Commons and William Beveridge," Social Service Review, 62:3 (1988): 504-531.
William Graebner, "Federalism and the Progressive Era: A Structural Interpretation of Reform," Journal of American History 64:2 (September, 1977): 331-357.
William Deverell and Tom Sitton, eds., California Progressivism Revisited (California, 1994)
Link to the New Deal Network / H-Net, New Deal site
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919-1933, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume I; The Coming of the New Deal: 1933-1935, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume II; The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume III (Houghton Mifflin, 1957)
William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 (Harper & Row, 1963) and The New Deal: A Documentary History (Harper & Row, 1968).
Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur, The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002)
David E. Hamilton, The New Deal (Houghton, Mifflin, 1999)
Anthony J. Badger, The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940 (Ivan R. Dee, 2002)
Alan Lawson, A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis (Johns Hopkins UP, 2006)
Roger Biles, A New Deal for the American People (Northern Illinois UP, 1991)
Eliot A. Rosen, Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery (University of Virginia Press, 2005)
Barton J. Bernstein, "The New Deal: The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform," in Barton J. Bernstein, ed., Toward a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History (1968)
Ronald Radosh, "The Myth of the New Deal," in Murray Rothbard and Ronald Radosh, eds., A New History of Leviathan: Essays on the Rise of the American Corporate State (EP Dutton, 1972)
Jerold S. Aueerbach,"New Deal, Old Deal, or Raw Deal: Some Thoughts on New Left Historiography," Journal of Southern History 35 (1960): 18-30
Paul F. Conkin, The New Deal, 2nd ed (Harlan Davidson, 1975)
James T. Patterson, Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 (University of Kentucky Press, 1967)
Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (Princeton University Press, 1989)
Eric F. Goldman, Rendezvous with Destiny (Knopf, 1952)
Daniel Scroop, Mr. Democrat: Jim Farley, the New Deal, and the Making of American Politics (U of Michigan Press, 2006)
Steven Fraser, Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (1991)
James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1956)
Mark J. Rozell, FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy (Praeger, 1997)
John Braeman,The New Deal (Ohio State UP, 1975); vol. 1: The National Level; vol. 2: The State and Local Levels
Albert U. Romasco, The Politics of Recovery: Roosevelt's New Deal (Oxford UP, 1983)
Otis L. Graham, The New Deal (Little, Brown, 1973)
Robert Himmelberg,The Great Depression and the New Deal (Greenwood Press, 2001)
Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995)
Ronald Edsforth, The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression (Blackwell Publishers, 2000)
Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny (Little, Brown, 1990)
Katie Louchheim, The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak (Harvard UP, 1983)
Joseph P. Lash, Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal (1988)
Howard Zinn, (ed), New Deal