Lecture Slides

The table below contains lecture topics and their accompanying slides.

There are no lecture slides for sessions 17 and 26.

SES # TOPICS
Part I: Foundations
1 Course Introduction (PDF)
2 Analytic Foundations (PDF)
3 The American Political Tradition (PDF)
4 The Constitution I (PDF)
5 The Constitution II (PDF)
Part II: Institutions
6 Congress I: Ambitious Politicians (PDF)
7 Congress II: Internal Organization (PDF)
8 The Presidency (PDF)
9 The Bureaucracy (PDF)
10 The Judiciary (PDF)
11 Federalism (PDF)
Part III: Mass Behavior
12 Citizens and Politics (PDF)
13 Public Opinion (PDF)
14 Parties and Partisanship (PDF)
15 Political Choice (PDF)
16 Campaigns and Elections (PDF)
17 The U.S. in Comparative Perspective
Part IV: American Politics as a System
18 Political Participation (PDF)
19 Politics and Policy (PDF)
20 Political Geography (PDF)
21 Parties and the U.S. Political System (PDF)
Part V: Substantive Debates
22 Polarization and Extremism (PDF)
23 Money and Organized Interests (PDF)
24 The Politics of Economic Inequality (PDF)
25 Race and Racism (PDF)
26 Immigration and Multiculturalism