Lecture Slides

Note: There are no lecture slides for lectures 1, 22, and 24.

I. Introduction 

Lecture 2: Sources of American Discontent (PDF)

II. Fundamentals: Democracy, Elections, and Representation

Lecture 3: Representation and Responsiveness (PDF)

Lecture 4: Collective Action and Interest Groups (PDF)

Lecture 5: Electoral Geography and Voting Rights (PDF)

III. American Political Institutions

Lecture 6: Introduction to Institutional Analysis (PDF)

Lecture 7: The Constitution (PDF)

Lecture 8: Congress I: The Electoral Connection (PDF)

Lecture 9: Congress II: Pivotal Politics (PDF)

Lecture 10: The Presidency (PDF)

Lecture 11: The Bureaucracy (PDF)

Lecture 12: The Judiciary (PDF)

Lecture 13: Parties (PDF)

Lecture 14: Federalism and State Politics (PDF)

IV. Political Behavior

Lecture 15: The Rational Voter? (PDF)

Lecture 16: Microfoundations of Public Opinion (PDF)

Lectures 17 and 18: Retrospective Voting and Partisanship (PDF)

V. Where We Are

Lecture 19: Polarization (PDF)

Lecture 20: Money in Politics (PDF)

Lecture 21: Gender Politics (PDF)

Lecture 23: Racial Politics (PDF)

Lecture 25: Immigration (PDF)

 

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