Steven Smith 
Principles and Practice of American Politics [EPUB ebook] 
Classic and Contemporary Readings

Preface
About The Editors
Chapter 1. Designing Institutions
1-1 From The Logic of Collective Action — Mancur Olson Jr.
1-2 Governing the Commons — Elinor Ostrom
1-3 What is Political Science For? — Jane Mansbridge
Chapter 2. The Constitutional Framework
2-1 Federalist No. 10 — James Madison
2-2 Federalist No. 51 — James Madison
2-3 “The True Principles of Republican Government”: Reassessing James Madison’s Political Science — Samuel Kernell
Chapter 3. Federalism
3-1 Federalism: Sorting Out Who Does What — Donald F. Kettl
3-2 How America’s “Devolution Revolution” Reshaped Its Federalism — Thad Kousser
Chapter 4. Civil Rights
4-1 Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) — Supreme Court of the United States
4-2 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) — Supreme Court of the United States
4-3 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978) — Supreme Court of the United States
4-4 Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U.S. 181 (2023) — Supreme Court of the United States
4-5 Racial Authoritarianism in U.S. Democracy — Weaver and Prowse
Chapter 5. Civil Liberties
5-1 Free Speech and National Security — Geoffrey R. Stone
5-2 Roe v. Wade (1973) — Supreme Court of the United States
5-3 Dobbs v. Jackson Women′s Health Organization (2022) — Supreme Court of the United States
5-4 The Real World of Constitutional Rights: The Supreme Court and the Implementation of the Abortion Decisions — Gerald N. Rosenberg
Chapter 6. Congress
6-1 Legislating in Polarized Times — Sarah A. Binder
6-2 Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign — Frances E. Lee
6-3 Beneath the Surface: Partisanship, Bipartisanship, and Committee Activity — Steven S. Smith
6-4 Disrupted: The Appropriations Process, Partisan Polarization, and Partisanship — Steven S. Smith
6-5 Diversifying: Gender, Race, and Congressional Representation — Steven S. Smith
6-6 Why 435? Reapportionment and the Size of the House — Steven S. Smith
Chapter 7. The Presidency
7-1 From Presidential Power — Richard E. Neustadt
7-2 From Going Public — Samuel Kernell
7-3 Power without Persuasion — William Howell
Chapter 8. The Bureaucracy
8-1 The Rise of the Bureaucratic State — James Q. Wilson
8-2 Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols versus Fire Alarms — Mathew D. Mc Cubbins and Thomas Schwartz
Chapter 9. The Judiciary
9-1 From A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law — Antonin Scalia
9-2 From Active Liberty — Stephen Breyer
9-3 Federalist No. 78 — Alexander Hamilton
9.4 On the Nature of Supreme Court Decision Making — Tracey George and Lee Epstein
Chapter 10. Public Opinion
10-1 Analyzing and Interpreting Polls — Herbert Asher
10-2 The Polarized Electorate — Alan I. Abramowitz
10-3 The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion — John Zaller
10-4 Democracy Hypocrisy: Examining America’s Fragile Democratic Convictions — Joe Goldman, Lee Drutman, and Oscar Pocasangre
Chapter 11. Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
11-1 Voter turnout, 2018-2022 — Pew Research Center
11-2 No Compromise: The Electoral Origins of Legislative Gridlock — Gary C. Jacobson
11-3 Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government — Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels
11-4 Election Reform: Past, Present, and Future — Richard Hasen
Chapter 12. Political Parties
12-1 From Why Parties? — John H. Aldrich
12-2 Doom-Loop Partisanship — Lee Drutman
12-3 Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity — Lilliana Mason
Chapter 13. Interest Groups
13-1 Lobbying as Legislative Subsidy — Richard L. Hall and Alan V. Deardorff
13-2 The Growth of Corporate Lobbying — Lee Drutman
13-3 Democracy in America? — Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens
Chapter 14. News Media
14-1 Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election — Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow
14-2 (Almost) Everything in Moderation: New Evidence on Americans′ Online Media Diets — Andrew M. Guess
14-3 Local News, Information, and the Nationalization of U.S. Elections — Daniel J. Moskowitz
Appendix: Constitution of the United States — U.S. Constitution

Steven S. Smith is professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He also is the Kate M. Gregg Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences and former Director of the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University. In addition to Wash U, he has been on the faculties of the University of Minnesota, George Washington University, and Northwestern University, and was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He is the author or coauthor of Politics Over Process: Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress (2017),  The American Congress (10 editions, 1995-2019),  The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Parliamentary Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate (2014),  Party Influence in Congress (2007), The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma (2001),  Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the United States Senate (1997),  Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate (1989),  Managing Uncertainty in the House of Representatives: Adaptation and Innovation in Special Rules (1988),  Committees in Congress (1984, 1990, 1997).