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David R. Mayhew – July 2013
Recommended short pieces on American political development
Carville Earle, “Environment, Disease, and Mortality in Early Virginia,” Journal of Historical Geography 5 (1979), 365-390
Timothy L. Bratton, “The Identity of the New England Indian Epidemic of 1616-19,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 62 (1988), 351-383
David Eltis, “Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery in the Americas: An Interpretation,” American Historical Review 98 (1993), 1399-1423
David Eltis, “The Volume and Structure of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Reassessment,” William and Mary Quarterly 58 (2001), 17-46.
Paul E. Lovejoy, “The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Synthesis,” Journal of African History 23 (1982), 473-502
Christian Warren, “Northern Chills, Southern Fevers: Race-Specific Mortality in American Cities, 1730-1900,” Journal of Southern History 58 (1997), 23-56
H.G. Koenigsberger, “Composite States, Representative Institutions, and the American Revolution,” Historical Research 62 (1989), 135-153
Samuel P. Huntington, “Political Modernization: America vs. Europe,” World Politics 18 (1966), 378-
Richard D. Brown, “Modernization and the Modern Personality in Early America, 1600-1865: A Sketch of a Synthesis,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2 (1972), 201-228
John Patrick Diggins, “Class, Classical, and Consensus Views of the Constitution,” University of Chicago Law Review 55 (1988), 555-570
H. Jefferson Powell, “The Original Understanding of Original Intent,” Harvard Law Review 98 (1985), 885-948
Lance Banning, “James Madison and the Dynamics of the Constitutional Convention,” Political Science Reviewer 17 (1987), 5-48
Jac C. Heckelman and Keith L. Dougherty, “A Spatial Analysis of Delegate Voting at the Constitutional Convention,” Journal of Economic History 73:2 (June 2013), 407-44
William Ewald, “James Wilson and the Drafting of the Constitution,” Journal of Constitutional Law 10:5 (June 2008), 901-1009
Bernard Manin, “Checks, Balances, and Boundaries: The Separation of Powers in the Constitutional Debate of 1787,” ch. 2 in Biancamaria Fontana (ed.), The Invention of the Modern Republic (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Frederick Mosteller, “A Statistical Study of the Writing Styles of the Authors of The Federalist papers,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 131 (1987) 132-140
Donald S. Lutz, “The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought,” American Political Science Review 78 (1984), 189-197
Richard Bellamy, “The Political Form of the Constitution: The Separation of Powers, Rights and Representative Democracy,” Political Studies 44 (1996), 436-456
William E. Scheuerman, “American Kingship? Monarchical Origins of Modern Presidentialism,” Polity 37 (2005), 24-53
Lawrence Lessig and Cass R. Sunstein, “The President and the Administration,” Columbia Law Review 94 (1994), 1-123
Steven G. Calabresi and Joan L. Larsen, “One Person, One Office: Separation of Powers or Separation of Personnel?” Cornell Law Review 79 (1994), 1045-1157
Joseph M. Torsella, “American National Identity, 1750-1790: Samples from the Popular Press,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 112 (1988), 167-187
Robert J. Steinfeld, “Property and Suffrage in the Early American Republic,” Stanford Law Review 41 (1989), 335-376
Donald Ratcliffe, “The Right to Vote and the Rise of Democracy, 1787-1828,” Journal of the Early Republic 33:2 (Summer 2013), 219-54
Stanley L. Engerman & Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World,” Journal of Economic History 65:4 (2005), 891-921
John Markoff, “Where and When Was Democracy Invented?” Comparative Studies in Society and History 41 (1999), 660-690
Daniel H. Deudney, “The Philadelphian System: Sovereignty, Arms Control, and Balance of Power in the American States-Union, circa 1787-1861,” International Organization 49 (1995), 191-228
Joyce Appleby, “The Popular Sources of American Capitalism,” Studies in American Political Development 9 (Fall 1995), 437-457
James Errington and George Rawlyk, “The Loyalist-Federalist Alliance of Upper Canada,” American Review of Canadian Studies 14 (1984), 157-176
Christopher Adamson, “God’s Continent Divided: Politics and Religion in Upper Canada and the Northern and Western United States, 1775-1841,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 36 (1994), 417-446
Alan Taylor, “The Late Loyalists: Northern Reflections of the Early American Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic 27 (2007), 1-34
Barry Wright, “Migration, Radicalism, and State Security: Legislative Initiatives in the Canadas and the United States c. 1794-1804,” Studies in American Political Development 16 (2002), 48-60
O.S. Ireland, “The Crux of Politics: Religion and Party in Pennsylvania, 1778-1789,” William and Mary Quarterly 42 (1985), 453-475
Roger Finke and Rodney Stark, “How the Upstart Sects Won America: 1776-1850,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 28 (1989), 27-44
James L. Huston, “The American Revolutionaries, the Political Economy of Aristocracy, and the American Concept of the Distribution of Wealth, 1765-1900,” American Historical Review 98 (1993), 1079-1105
Peter L. Rousseau and Richard Sylla, “Emerging Financial Markets and Early US Growth,” Explorations in Economic History 42 (2005), 1-26
Richard Sylla, “Financial Foundations: Public Credit, the National Bank, and Securities Markets,” chapter 2 in Douglas A. Irwin & Richard Sylla, Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s (2011)
John Joseph Wallis, “American Government Finance in the Long Run: 1790 to 1990,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (2000), 61-82
Richard Sylla, Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen, “Alexander Hamilton, Central Banker: Crisis Management during the U.S. Financial Panic of 1792,” Business History Review 83:1 (Spring 2009), 61-86
Brian Phillips Murphy, “’A Very Convenient Instrument,’: The Manhattan Company, Aaron Burr, and the Election of 1800,” William and Mary Quarterly 65:2 (April 2008)
William H. Riker, “The Senate and American Federalism,” American Political Science Review 49 (1955), 452-469
C. Edward Skeen, “Vox Populi, Vox Dei: The Compensation Act of 1816 and the Rise of Popular Politics,” Journal of the Early Republic 6 (1986), 153-74
Michael Wallace, “Changing Concepts of Party in the United States: New York, 1815-1828,” American Historical Review 74 (1968), 453-491
Douglas W. Jaenecke, “The Jacksonian Integration of Parties into the Constitutional System,” Political Science Quarterly 101 (1986), 85-107
Fred S. Rolater, “The American Indian and the Origin of the Second American Party System,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 76 (1993), 180-203
Paul F. Bourke and Donald A. DeBarts, “Identifiable Voting Blocs in Nineteenth-Century America: Toward a Comparison of Britain and the United States Before the Secret Ballot,” Perspectives in American History 11 (1977-78), 257-288
Michael Carwardine, “Evangelicals, Whigs and the Election of William Henry Harrison,” Journal of American Studies 17 (1983), 47-75
Michael F. Holt, “The Election of 1840, Voter Mobilization, and the Emergence of the Second American Party System,” from William J. Cooper, Jr., et al. (eds.), A Master’s Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985)
Johanna Nicol Shields, “Whigs Reform the ‘Bear Garden’: Representation and the Apportionment Act of 1842,” Journal of the Early Republic 5 (1985), 355-382
Micah Altman, “Traditional Districting Principles: Judicial Myths vs. Reality,” Social Science History 22 (1998), 159-200
John Gerring, “A Chapter in the History of American Party Ideology: The 19th Century Democratic Party, 1828-1892,” Polity 26 (1994), 729-768
John Gerring, “Party Ideology in America: The National Republican Chapter, 1828-1894,” Studies in American Political Development 11 (1997), 44-108
John Ashworth, “The Democratic-Republicans before the Civil War: Political Ideology and Economic Change,” Journal of American Studies 20 (1986), 375-390
Robert W. Fogel, “Problems in Modeling Complex Dynamic Interactions: The Political Realignment of the 1850s,” Economics and Politics 4 (1992), 215-254.
Samuel DeCanio, “Religion and Nineteenth-Century Voting Behavior: A New Look at Some Old Data,” Journal of Politics 69:2 (May 2007), 339-50
Jeffrey L. McNairn, “Publius of the North: Tory Republicanism and the American Constitution in Upper Canada, 1848-54,” Canadian Historical Review 77 (1996), 504-537
Scott W. See, “’An unprecedented influx,’ Nativism and Irish Famine Immigration to Canada,” American Review of Canadian Studies, winter 2000, 429-453
Samuel Kernell, “The Early Nationalization of Political News in America,” Studies in American Political Development 1 (1986), 255-278
John C. Hudson, “North American Origins of Middlewestern Frontier Populations,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 78 (1988), 395-413
Kenneth S. Greenberg, “Representation and the Isolation of South Carolina,” Journal of American History 64 (1977), 723-743
Michael D. Pierson, “’All Southern Society Is Assailed by the Foulest Charges’: Charles Sumner’s ‘The Crime against Kansas’ and the Escalation of Republican Anti-slavery Rhetoric,” New England Quarterly 68 (1995), 531-557
Gary J. Kornblith, “Rethinking the Coming of the Civil War: A Counterfactual Enterprise,” Journal of American History 90 (2003), 76-105
Marc Egnal, “The Beards Were Right: Parties in the North, 1840-1860,” Civil War History 47 (2001), 30-56
David Hacker, “A Census-Based Account of the Civil War Dead,” Civil War History 57:4 (December 2011), 307+
Paul F. Paskoff, “Measures of War: A Quantitative Examination of the Civil War’s Destructiveness in the Confederacy,” Civil War History 54:1 (2008), 35-62
James L. Huston, “Property Rights in Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War,” Journal of Southern Politics 65 (1999), 249-286
Richard Graham, “Slavery and Economic Development: Brazil and the United States South in the Nineteenth Century,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 23 (1981), 629-655
Shearer Davis Bowman, “Antebellum Planters and Vormarz Junkers in Comparative Perspective,” American Historical Review 85 (1980), 779-808
David R. Good, “Uneven Development in the Nineteenth Century: A Comparison of the Habsburg Empire and the United States,” Journal of Economic History 46 (1986), 137-151
Steven Hahn, “Class and State in Postemancipation Societies: Southern Planters in Comparative Perspective,” American Historical Review 95 (1990), 75-98
Stanley L. Engerman, “Economic Adjustments to Emancipation in the United States and British West Indies,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 13 (1982), 191-220
Richard Zuczek, “The Last Campaign of the Civil War: South Carolina and the Revolution of 1876,” Civil War History 42 (1996), 18-31
Adam Fairclough, “Was the Grant of Black Suffrage a Political Error? Reconsidering the Views of John W. Burgess, William A. Dunning, and Eric Foner on Congressional Reconstruction,” Journal of the Historical Society 12:2 (June 2012), 155-88
Adam Fairclough, “Congressional Reconstruction: A Catastrophic Failure,” Journal of the Historical Society 12:3 (September 2012), 271-82
Jennifer L. Hochschild and Brenna Marea Powell, “Racial Reorganization and the United States Census, 1850-1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race,” Studies in American Political Development 22:1 (spring 2008), 59-96
S. Engelbourg and G. Schachter, “Two ‘Souths’: the United States and Italy since the 1860’s,” Journal of European Economic History 15 (1986), 563-589
Carl V. Harris, “Right Fork or Left Fork? The Section-Party Alignments of Southern Democrats in Congress, 1873-1897,” Journal of Southern History 42 (1976), 471-506
Charles Stewart III and Barry Weingast, “Stacking the Senate, Changing the Nation: Republican Rotten Boroughs, Statehood Politics, and American Political Development,” Studies in American Political Development 6 (1992), 223-271
Robert S. Salisbury, “The Republican Party and Positive Government, 1860-1890,” Mid-America 68 (1986), 15-34
William E. Nelson, “Officeholding and Powerwielding: An Analysis of the Relationship between Structure and Style in American Administrative History,” Law and Society Review 10 (1976), 187-233
Ronald N. Johnson and Gary D. Libecap, “Patronage to Merit and Control of the Federal Government Labor Force,” Explorations in Economic History 31 (1994), 91-119
Werner Troesken, “Patronage and Public-Sector Wages in 1896,” Journal of Economic History 59 (1999), 424-446
Richard H. Steckel and Carolyn M. Moehling, “Rising Inequality: Trends in the Distribution of Wealth in Industrializing New England,” Journal of Economic History 61 (2001), 160-183
John Reynolds, “’The Silent Dollar’: Vote Buying in New Jersey,” New Jersey History 98 (1980), 191-211
William Alan Blair, “A Practical Politician: The Boss Tactics of Matthew Stanley Quay,” Pennsylvania History 56 (1989), 77-92
John F. Reynolds, “The Hustling Candidate and the Advent of the Direct Primary: A California Case Study,” Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era 12:1 (January 2013), 31-64
Russell Korobkin, “The Politics of Disfranchisement in Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 74 (1990), 20-58
Paula Baker, “The Culture of Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Community and Political Behavior in Rural New York,” Journal of Social History 18 (1984-85), 167-193
Samuel M. Kipp III, “Old Notables and Newcomers: The Economic and Political Elite of Greensboro, North Carolina, 1880-1920,” Journal of Social History 43 (1977), 373-394
Terrence J. McDonald, “San Francisco: Socioeconomic Change, Political Culture, and Fiscal Policies, 1870-1906,” pp. 39-67 in T.J. McDonald and Sally K. Ward, The Politics of Urban Fiscal Policy (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1984)
Martin Shefter, “The Electoral Foundations of the Political Machine: New York City, 1884-1897,” pp. 263-298 in Joel Silbey, et al. (eds.), American Electoral History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978)
Peter McCaffery, “Style, Structure, and Institutionalization of Machine Politics: Philadelphia, 1867-1933,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 22 (1992), 435-452
Tracy A. Campbell, “Machine Politics, Police Corruption, and the Persistence of Vote Fraud: The Case of the Louisville, Kentucky, Election of 1905,” Journal of Policy History 15 (2003), 269-300
Lawrence H. Larsen & Nancy J. Hulston, “Criminal Aspects of the Pendergast Machine,” Missouri Historical Review 91:2 (1997), 168-80
Terrence J. McDonald, “The Problem of the Political in Recent American Urban History: Liberal Pluralism and the Rise of Functionalism,” Social History 10 (1985), 323-345
Christine Meisner Rosen, “Business, Bureaucracy, and Progressive Reform in the Redevelopment of Baltimore after the Great Fire of 1904,” Business History Review 63 (1989), 283-328
Gavin Wright, “The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940,” American Economic Review 80 (1990), 651-668
James A. Dunn, Jr., “Railroad Policies in Europe and the United States: The Impact of Ideology, Institutions, and Social Conditions,” Public Policy 25 (1977), 205-240
Gyung-Ho Jeong, Gary J. Miller & Andrew C. Sobel, “Political Compromise and Bureaucratic Structure: The Political Origins of the Federal Reserve System” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 25:2 (2008), 472-98
Miguel Cantillo Simon, “The Rise and Fall of Bank Control in the United States: 1890-1939,” American Economic Review 88 (1998), 1077-93
Robert Bussel, “’Business Without a Boss’: The Columbia Conserve Company and Workers’ Control, 1917-1943,” Business History Review 71 (1997), 417-443
Daniel Scott Smith, “Differential Mortality in the United States before 1900,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 13 (1983), 735-759