Political Sociology

Bell, Daniel. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. New York: Basic Books, 1973. ch. 6, pp. 339-368.
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Dahl, Robert. Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1961, chs. 1,8,19,24,27,28; pp. 1-10, 89-103, 223-228, 270-275, 305-328.

Dalton, Russel J. Citizen Politics in Western Democracies. Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House, 1988, chs. 4,7, pp.59-76, 127-150.

Downs, Anthony. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row, 1957, chs. 8, pp. 114-141.

Elazar, Daniel J. "The American Cultural Matrix.", in The Ecology of American Political Culture, eds. Daniel J. Elazar and Joseph Zikmund II. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1975, pp. 13-42.
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Inglehart, Ronald. Culture Shift. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. pp. 15-83; 371-392.
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Klingemann, Hans-Dieter, Richard I Hofferbert, Ian Budge. Parties, Policies, and Democracy. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994, pp.2, 246-253.

Lipset, Seymour M., and Stein Rokkan. Party Systems and Voter Alignments. New York: Free Press, 1967, "Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments: An Introduction" pp. 23-56.

Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1996. American Exceptionalism. New York: WW Norton, pp. 17-76; 176-208.
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Offe, Claus. "Challenging the Boundaries of Institutional Politics: Social Movements Since the 1960s" in Challengning the Boundaries of the Political. Charles S. Maier, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. pp. 63-106.
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Olson, Mancur, Jr. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1965, ch.1, pp. 5-52.

Putnam, Robert D. Making Democracy Work. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993, ch.3 pp. 63-82; ch. 5 pp. 121-162.
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Rokkan, Stein. "Differences of State Formation and Nation Building: A Possible Paradigm for Research on Variations within Europe", in Charles Tilly, ed. The Formation of National States in Western Europe. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1975, pp. 575-591.
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Schumpeter, Joseph. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. New York: harper and Row, 1942, pp. 235-249, 263-289.
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Thompson, Michael, Richard Ellis and Aaron Wildavsky. Cultural Theory. Boulder: Westview, 1990, pp. 21-23, 103-108, 207-209, 215-220.
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Tilly, Chalres. From Mobilization to Revolution. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley, 1978, pp. 12-35.

Wildavsky, Aaron, and Carolyn Webber. A History of Taxation and Expenditure in the Western World. New York: Simon Schuster, 1986, ch. 10 ("A Cultural Theory of Governmental Growth and [Un]Balanced Budgets"), pp. 560-614.
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