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The faculty American Politics Reading Group meets every other Wednesday at noon in the UCLA Faculty Center. Journal articles, convention papers, working papers by faculty, and the like are the focus of these meetings. Faculty are encouraged to join the group. E-mail us if you would like more information or to have your name placed on our mailing list.

Date Article Title and Author(s) PDF
6/11/2008"The Decline of the White Working Class and the Rise of a Mass Upper Middle Class (forthcoming in "Red, Blue, and Purple America," Brookings Institution Press, Fall 2008)"
Rudy Teixeira and Alan Abramowitz
5/21/2008"Access and Lobbying: Beyond the Corruption Paradigm"
Dorie Apollonio, Bruce E. Cain, Lee Drutman
4/23/2008"Party Loyalty and the Election of U.S. Senators, 1871--1913"
Wendy Schiller and Charles Stewart III
4/9/2008"Corporate Contributions After BCRA"
Susan Clark Muntean
3/12/2008"Economics, Party, and the Vote: Causality Issues and Panel Data"
Michael Lewis-Beck, et.al.
2/20/2008"Intolerance and Political Repression in the US: A Half-Century After McCarthyism""
James Gibson
2/6/2008"Super-Mega Tuesday Presidential Primaries Post-Mortem"
The Group
11/15/2007"Leading the New Majorities"
Barbara Sinclair
11/1/2007"Does Familiarity Breed Contempt? The Impact of Information on Mass Attitudes Toward Congress"
Jeffrey Monndak, Edward G. Carmines, et. al.
10/18/2007"The War, the President, and the 2006 Midterm Congressional Elections"
Gary C. Jacobson
10/4/2007"George W. Bush, the Republican Party, and the New American Party System"
Sidney M. Miklis and Jesse H. Rhodes