Grades will be determined on the following basis:
 Participation  20% 
 Paper            40%
 Final Exam     40%
Notes:  Participation includes class participation and attendance of at least two job talks in American politics.  The final exam will be given at the regular time scheduled by the registrar’s office. 

The following Books are available for purchase:
 Congress and the Bureaucracy. By R. Douglas Arnold.  1979.
 Legislative Leviathan.  By Gary Cox and Matthew McCubbins.  1997. 
 Congress and the Administrative State. By Lawrence C. Dodd and Richard L. Schott.
1979.
Home Style.  By Richard F. Fenno.  1978
Participation in Congress.  By Richard Hall.
Congressmen’s Voting Decisions.  By John W. Kingdon.  1988.
Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking.  By Keith Krehbiel.
Yeas and Nays:  Normal Decision-Making in the U.S. House of Representatives.  By 
Donald R. Matthews and James A. Stimson.  1975. 
Congress and the Electoral Connection.  By David R. Mayhew.  1974.
The Transformation of the U.S. Senate.  By Barbara Sinclair.
Classics in Congressional Politics.  Herbert F. Weisberg, Eric S. Heberlig, and Lisa M. 
Campoli, eds.
The Washington Community.  By James Sterling Young.  1966.

There is also a reading packet available from Cop-Ez in Bricker Hall and are indicated with a * below.  Otherwise the articles are in Weisberg, Herberlig, and Campoli. 
 Readings 

The Historical Congress

January 5th  The Washington Community.  By James Sterling Young.  1966. 
The Study of Congress: Methodologies and the Pursuit of Theory 
How do legislatures change? Contemporary issue: Term Limits
“The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives” – Nelson Polsby (From APSR 62:144-68)
“Congress and the Quest for Power” – Lawrence C. Dodd (From Congress 
Reconsidered, ed. L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer, CQ Press, 1977)
 

Bicameral Perspectives

January 12th Home Style.  By Richard F. Fenno.  1978
 Congress and the Electoral Connection.  By David R. Mayhew.  1974.
What is representation? Contemporary issue: Districting and Majority-Minority 
Districts
How do candidacies affect elections? Contemporary issue: Divided 
Government

January 19th The Transformation of the U.S. Senate.  By Barbara Sinclair.
 *The United States Senate: A Bicameral Perspective.  By Richard F. Fenno. 
1982.  (out-of-print; in reading packet)
 

Inside the Modern Congress

January 26th Congressmen’s Voting Decisions.  By John W. Kingdon.  1988.
  Yeas and Nays:  Normal Decision-Making in the U.S. House of 
Representatives.  By Donald R. Matthews and James A. Stimson.  1975. 
How do legislators decide how to vote? Contemporary issue: Presidential 
Leadership and Its Limits
“Voting Change in Congress” – Herbert B. Asher and Herbert F. Weisberg   (From AJPS 22:391-425)
Contemporary perspective: “Strategies for Coalition Leaders” – R. Douglas 
Arnold (From The Logic of Congressional Action, ch. 5, pp. 88-118, Yale 
University Press, 1990)

February 2nd  Participation in Congress.  By Richard Hall.
Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking.  By Keith Krehbiel.

February 9th Legislative Leviathan.  By Gary Cox and Matthew McCubbins.  1997. 
  *Melissa Collie.  1998.  “Universalism and the Parties in the U.S. House of 
Representatives, 1921-80.”  American Journal of Political Science, 32: 
 865-883.
Is party leadership personal or contextual?
“Two Strategies of Leadership: Johnson and Mansfield” – John G. Stewart  (From 
Congressional Behavior, ed. N.W. Polsby, Random House, 1971)
“Institutional Context and Leadership Style” – Joseph Cooper and David W. 
Brady (From APSR 75:411-25)

February 16th *Kenneth Shepsle.  1979.  “Institutional Arrangements and Equilibrium In
Multidimensional Voting Models.”  American Journal of Political 
Science, 23: 27-59.
*Keith Kehbiel, Kenneth Shepsle, and Barry Weingast.  1987.  “Why are 
Congressional Committees Powerful?”  American Political Science Review, 81: 929-48.
*Melissa Collie and Joseph Cooper.  1989.  “Multiple Referral and the ‘New’ 
Committee System in the U.S. House of Representatives.”  In Lawrence 
C. Dodd and Bruce Oppenheimer, ads., Congress Reconsidered, 4th Ed.  Washington: CQ Press.
  *Smith.  1988.  “An Essay on Sequence, Position, Goals, and Committee Power.” 
Legislative Studies Quarterly.  151-76.
What affects committee power and success?
“The House Appropriations Committee as a Political System” – Richard F. 
Fenno, Jr. (From APSR 56:310-24)
“Policy Content, Committee Membership, and Behavior” – Barbara Hinckley 
(From AJPS 19:543-57)

February 23rd How do legislatures operate?
“The Folkways of the Senate” – Donald R. Matthews (From U.S. Senators 
and Their World, ch. 5, pp. 92-117, University of North Carolina 
Press, 1960)
“The Learning of Legislative Norms” – Herbert B. Asher (From APSR 
67:499-513) 
Contemporary perspective: “Multiple Paths: The Legislative Process in the 
House of Representatives” – Barbara Sinclair  (From Unorthodox 
Lawmaking, ch. 2, pp. 9, 20-31, CQ Press, 1997)
 

Congress in the Institutional System

March 2nd Congress and the Bureaucracy. By R. Douglas Arnold.  1979.
  *Kathleen Bawn.  1995.  “Political Control Versus Expertise:  Congressional 
Choices About Administrative Procedures.”  APSR.  62-73.

March 9th Congress and the Administrative State. By Lawrence C. Dodd and Richard L. 
Schott. 1979.
*Mathew McCubbins and Thomas Schwartz.  1984.  “Congressional Overnight 
Overlooked: Police Patrols vs. Fire Alarms.”  American Journal of Political Science, 28: 165-179.
 Term Papers

The term paper for the semester should be a critical bibliography of congressional research in one of the following areas:

Recruitment and careers
Voting in congressional elections
Money in congressional elections
Congressional leadership
Staff
Committees
Structure and Procedure
Norms
Coalitions
Voting
Historical Research
Presidential relations and influence
Constitutional issues and separation of power
Congressional oversight
Congressional influence on policy
Congressional budgeting

The following deadlines will be of interest:
 January 28th  1-2 page statement of topic you will be examining and questions 
you have regarding it.
February 11th  Preliminary list of references
March 11th  Paper due
 

Two Important Considerations (inserted here at request of OSU lawyers):

Academic Honesty.  All of the work you do in this course is expected to be your own.  Absolutely no cheating or plagiarism (using someone else's words or ideas without proper citation) will be tolerated.  Any cases of cheating or plagiarism will be reported to the university committee on academic misconduct and handled according to university policy.

Disability.  Students with disabilities are responsible for making their needs known to the instructor, and seeking available assistance, in a timely manner.  Course materials are available in alternative formats upon request.  For such materials please contact Mr. Wayne DeYoung, 2140 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall, 292-2880.