Political Science Article and Book Reviews

“When a leader is in the Democratic party he's a boss; when he's in the Republican party he's a leader” Harry S Truman

Jamieson and Waldman, The Press Effect. Pew Report “News Interest and Knowledge” http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=1356 Baumgartner, ...

Fowler, James (2006) “Altruism and Turnout” Journal of Politics 68 (3) 674-683. Baldassare, Mark. 2006. “California’s Exclusive Electorate”...

The thrust of this research is to identify the circumstances under which the California Supreme Court is likely to declare a law unconstitut...

There was an article entitled, “Legislators, Initiatives, and Representation,” written by E. Gerber which we read in preparation for this cl...

This book was somewhat of a cross between an easy read and a research book. The main point of the book is that if there is an implicit appea...

If the court has reached the merits of a petitioner’s claims, in a habeas or direct appeal proceeding, and had found constitutional error, t...