By David Houghton

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General reading

David McKay, American Politics and Society, 5th edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001)

David McKay, David Houghton and Andrew Wroe, Controversies in American Politics and Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002)

Gillian Peele, Christopher J. Bailey, Bruce Cain and B. Guy Peters (eds), Developments in American Politics 4 (London: Palgrave, 2002)

Constitution and Supreme Court

Samuel H Beer, To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1993)

Harold J. Spaeth and Edward C Smith, The Constitution of the United States, 13th edition (New York: HarperCollins, 1991)

Richard Hodder-Williams, The Politics of the US Supreme Court (London: Allen & Unwin, 1980)

David O'Brien, Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics (New York: WW Norton, 1993)

Congress

Michael Foley and John Owens, Congress and the Presidency: Institutional Politics in a Separated System (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996)

Anthony King, Running Scared (New York: Basic Books, 1997)

Roger H Davidson and Walter J Oleszek, Congress and its Members, 4th edition (Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 1994)

Burdett Loomis, The Contemporary Congress, 3rd edition (New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2000)

Gordon Jones and John Marini, Imperial Congress: Crisis in the Separation of Powers (New York: Pharos Books, 1988)

David Mayhew, Congress: The Electoral Connection (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994)

Presidency

James Pfiffner, The Modern Presidency, 3rd edition (Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2000)

Fred Greenstein, The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton (Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000)

Fred Greenstein (ed), Leadership in the Modern Presidency (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988)

Michael Nelson (ed), The Presidency and the Political System, 6th edition (Washington DC: CQ Press, 2000)

Arthur Schlesinger, The Imperial Presidency (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1973)

Richard Rose, The Postmodern President, 2nd edition (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1991)

Federalism

Paul Peterson, The Price of Federalism (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1995)

John Donahue, Disunited States (New York: Basic Books, 1997)