As a companion to Bill Bianco and David Canon’s textbook, American Politics Today, W.W. Norton “interviewed” a group of political scientists, asking them to talk about an area of expertise, how they became a political scientist, and the value of political science generally. Here are the interviews and topics:
* Mark Graber on the living Constitution
* Vincent Hutchings on racial coding in American politics
* David Lewis on executive branch structure and policy-making
* Zoe Oxley on media framing
* David Rohde on political parties and partisanship
* Howard Schweber on civil liberties
* me on party identification and elections
* Jim Stimson on public opinion
* Sean Theriault on political polarization in Congress
* Craig Volden on public policy diffusion
* Susan Webb Yackee on bureaucracy and rule-making
* Bianco and Canon themselves on political science, politics, and their book