GOVT 120
US Politics: Research Topics:
I. Constitution:
• Is the Constitution a Living Document? (Scalia/Breyer Debate)
• The Constitutionality of Health Care Reform (The Affordable Care act)
• The Obamacare Mandate
• Madison’s Theory of Faction (Hofstadter)
• Framers’ Theory of Constitutional Government (Hofstadter)
• Race, Class and Democracy: The Constitution and the Disenfranchised
• The History of Voting Rights
• Is the Constitution an Economic Document? (Beard/Brown Debate)
• Federalism: States’ rights debate (Elazar)
• The Courts and Redistricting
II. Political Institutions:
• Congress and the NSA: Wiretaps and the Constitution (Rosen)
• Congressional Polarization: Are we divided politically? (Sinclair)
• Declared and Undeclared Wars: Congress and the Decision to Invade Iraq
• Who is the “Decider?: Bush and the Unitary Theory of Executive Power (Ravagan)
• Presidential Power, Obama and the Drone War (Neustadt)
• Politics of the Intelligence Community
• The Politics of the Courts: Federalist 78 and Life Tenure for Judges (Hamilton)
• The Supreme Court and Social Policy: From Brown v. Board to Bush v. Gore to Citizens United
• Patriot Act: Necessary or Unnecessary? (Pearlstein/McCarthy Debate)
• Obama’s Campaigns: How did he win reelection?
• Gender and the Presideny: Why did Hillary Clinton Lose
• Obama’s Presidency
• Trump’s First Year
• Trump and Twitter: How Social Media is changing politics in the US
• Financial Crisis and Regulation
• The Clean Energy Debate
• Campaign Finance Laws
• Dodd-Frank bill (regulation of Wall Street)
• The politics of repealing Obamacare: Who opposes the law and why? (Skocpol)
• Lobbying and Congress: How is influence exercised?
• Politics of Polarization in Congress (Brownstein)
III. Political Participation:
• Who Votes, Who Doesn’t, and Why? (Johnson, Rosenstone and Hansen)
• Elections and Citizens United
• The Rise of Super PACs
• Social Movements and the Collection Action Problem
• Are Parties in Decline in the US? (Burnham)
• Is Civic Engagement (or “Social Capital”) in Decline in the US? (Putnam/Ladd)
• Same-Sex Marriage and the 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012 Elections (PS articles)
• Facebook and the 2008, 2012, 2016 Elections: Explaining Rising Youth Political Involvement
• The Politics of the Tea Party Movement
• The Politics of the Occupy Movement
• The socio-economic of the Trump Base
• “Big Data” and the 2016 Election
• Voter ID Laws
• The Politics of Trolling
• The Politics of Redistricting
• The History and Evolution of political parties
IV. American Political Culture:
• Equality and Inequality in US History: Multiple Traditions Theory (Smith)
• Women and Politics (Swers)
• Race and Politics (West, Reed)
• Race and the 2016 Election
• Gender and the 2016 Election
• Why is there no Socialism in the US? (Sombart/Foner Debate)
• Red v. Blue America: Are we divided culturally?
V. Power:
• Who Governs in the United States? (Dahl)
• The “Faces” of Political Power (Gaventa)
• The Phantom Public: Media, Propaganda and Public Opinion (Lippmann)
• Is the Media Liberal? (Goldberg, Alterman)
• The Politics of Cable News
• Russia and the 2016 Election
• The Politics of Katrina, Irene, Sandy (PS articles)
• Media Coverage of the Invasion of Iraq
• Financial Crisis: Wall Street versus Main Street
• Housing Bubble: Who was at fault?
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