Podcast resources:

America and the two-party system:

https://www.niskanencenter.org/can-america-become-a-multiparty-system/

Readings:

1. Drutman (2020 book): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/breaking-the-two-party-doom-loop-9780190913854?cc=us&lang=en#

2. Santucci 2018: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00344893.2018.1502208

Parties and Race

https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-roots-of-the-parties-racial-switch/

Readings:

1. Grant, Keneshia, 2020 http://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009492

2. Heersink, Boris, 2020 https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/american-government-politics-and-policy/republican-party-politics-and-american-south-18651968?format=PB

Primaries and extremism in candidates:

https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-primary-elections-enable-polarized-amateurs/

1. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/changing-how-primaries-work-probably-wont-make-politics-less-divisive/

2. https://rachelporter.org/files/estimating_ideology.pdf

Parties and donor influence:

https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-donor-opinion-distorts-american-parties/

Readings:

1. Broockman and Malhotra https://academic.oup.com/poq/article-abstract/84/1/104/5822054

2. Kujala, J. 2019 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12477

Candidates and Gender: https://www.niskanencenter.org/do-the-parties-favor-white-male-candidates/

Readings:

1. Hassell & Visalvanich 2019. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2703326

2. Haines and Masket 2019. https://www.dropbox.com/s/uak7n993qx7tmp6/Haines-Masket%20-%20How%20Identity%20Politics%20Lost%20-%20MPSA%202019.pdf?dl=0

Protests affecting elections and parties:

https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-protests-change-parties-and-elections/

Readings:

1. Gillion D. Q. 2020 (book) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691181776/the-loud-minority

2. Fisher et al. 2019. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaaw5461

News and Social Media and voting

https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-news-and-social-media-shape-american-voters/

Two Books:

1. Bode et al. https://www.brookings.edu/book/words-that-matter/

2. Benkler et al. https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624

Pandemic Polarization and voting

https://www.niskanencenter.org/republicans-successfully-politicized-ebola-can-they-do-it-again-in-2020/

Readings:

1. Adida et al. 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21565503.2018.1484376

2. Campante et al. 2020 https://www.nber.org/papers/w26897

Presidential congressional coattails: https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-republicans-lost-2018-by-being-too-close-to-trump/

Readings:

1. Bussing et al. 2020 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-020-09615-4

2. Ballard et al. 2020 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lsq.12284

Debates and the vote

https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-presidential-debates-influence-voters/

Readings:

1. Gross et al. 2017 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2926553

2. Stewart et al. 2016 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/please-clap-applause-laughter-and-booing-during-the-2016-gop-presidential-primary-debates/98F04E922E4DAA9D08B9FA0A98FAC4D1

Anger and mobilization

https://www.niskanencenter.org/will-trump-anger-motivate-black-turnout/

1. Phoenix. The Anger Gap (book)

2. Towler, C. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-race-ethnicity-and-politics/article/between-anger-and-engagement-donald-trump-and-black-america/5D84499CFB2B8A412F54BEC803592222

Racial Attitudes and Trump:

https://www.niskanencenter.org/did-americans-racial-attitudes-elect-trump/

1. Grimmer and Marble https://williammarble.co/docs/vb.pdf

2. Identity Crisis.

Race and partisanship

https://www.niskanencenter.org/why-are-black-conservatives-still-democrats/

1. White & Laird “Steadfast Democrats”

2. Philpot “Conservative but Not Republican”

White Identity and Immigration:

https://www.niskanencenter.org/is-white-identity-causing-an-immigration-backlash/

Two Books: Jardina “White Identity Politics” and Kaufman “Whiteshift”

Immigrant Politization

https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-trump-politicized-refugees/

Books:

1. Hamlin 2014. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/let-me-be-a-refugee-9780199373314?cc=us&lang=en&

2. Salehyan 2018. https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/old_uploads/2018/09/NC-Refugee-Paper-SalehyanElec_FINAL.pdf