(Part 2) Top products from r/PoliticalScience

I don't know if this is anything near what you're looking for but a few days ago, just for kicks and giggles, I wrote down a short list of models to conduct meetings

From Wiki: > Of the 99 state legislative chambers in the United States (two for each state except Nebraska, which has a unicameral legislature),

Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure governs parliamentary procedures in 70;


Jefferson's Manual governs 13,


and Robert's Rules of Order governs four.

The United States Senate follows the Standing Rules of the United States Senate, while the United States House of Representatives follows Jefferson's Manual.

Mason's Manual, originally written by constitutional scholar and former California Senate staff member Paul Mason in 1935, and since his death revised and published by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), governs legislative procedures in instances where the state constitution, state statutes, and the chamber's rules are silent.


According to the NCSL, one of the many reasons that most state legislatures use Mason's Manual instead of Robert's Rules of Order is because Robert's Rules applies best to private organizations and civic groups that do not meet in daily public sessions. Mason's Manual, however, is geared specifically toward state legislative bodies.

Martha's rule of order
Good for small meetings like HOA

http://camblog.topssoft.com/coming-to-consensus-marthas-rules-of-order

Bourinot's Rules of Order
Used in the Canadian parliament

Democratic Rules of Order
http://democraticrules.com/compare.html

GuideStar Consensus Rules of Order
Model:

1. Someone presents an idea. It could be a formal proposal, but most of the time it's just an idea, not yet fully formed.
   
   
2. The idea is passed around and the pros and cons are discussed.
   
   
3. As a result of the discussion—the more input, the better—the idea is often modified.
   
   
4. If a general agreement seems to be emerging (this is where good listening and facilitation skills are helpful), you can test for consensus by restating the latest version of the idea or proposal to see if everybody agrees.
   
   
5. If anyone dissents, you return to the discussion to see if you can modify the idea further to make it acceptable to everyone.
   
   https://www.guidestar.org/Articles.aspx?path=/rxa/news/articles/2008/going-for-consensus-not-roberts-rules.aspx
   
   DEMOCRACY 2.0 by C.D. Madson
   Intended for small organizations/meetings
   
   lightweight version of Roberts rules of order
   
   https://solonacademy.com/democracy20/
   
   Modern Parliamentary Procedure by Ray Keesey
   http://www.apadivisions.org/division-31/publications/parliamentary-procedure.pdf
   
   The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure by Alice Sturgis
   https://www2.humboldt.edu/senate/sites/default/files/SturgisSummary.pdf
   
   Larry Susskind Consensus Building
   Outlined in his book, “Breaking Robert's rules” (https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Roberts-Rules-Meeting-Consensus/dp/0195308360
   
   http://spectrum.mit.edu/summer-2007/breaking-roberts-rules/
   
   Dynamic Facilitation by Jim Rough
   http://www.tobe.net/
   
   Roberts' Rules of Order
   http://www.dummies.com/careers/business-skills/roberts-rules-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/
   
   Erskine May
   Used in Westminster
   
   Edit: formatting

I'll take number 4.

My favorite intro book on media and politics is Media Politics: A Citizen's Guide by Shanto Iyengar. It's a great textbook for teaching undergrads and covers pretty much everything.

For general theories of how political elites interact with the media, I would recommend Cook's Governing with the News, Patterson's Out of Order, and Zaller's A Theory of Media Politics (It's an unpublished manuscript, so just Google it and it'll come up.)

There's a ton of great work on the concept of media bias, but I'll give you two older works that I think capture the intersection of journalistic norms and coverage really well. Check out Gans's Deciding What's News and Schudson's Discovering the News. There's also work that looks at how economic forces lead to bias. See Hamilton's All the News That's Fit to Sell for an intro to that.

On media effects on behavior, start with Iyengar and Kinder's News that Matters. Beyond that, I'm partial to Graber's Processing the News, Soroka's Negativity in Democratic Politics, and Ladd's Why Americans Hate the Media and How it Matters.

If you're interested in how recent changes to the media environment (cable TV, internet, etc.) have affected things, I would recommend Prior's Post-Broadcast Democracy, Arceneaux and Johnson's Changing Minds or Changing Channels, Levendusky's How Partisan Media Polarize America, and Hindman's The Myth of Digital Democracy.

Finally, I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend some Lippmann or some Edelman. Those are for more high-minded/theory-driven thinking about how the media constructs our realities.

I know that's a lot, but there's a ton of stuff I'm cutting out as is (nothing about selective exposure or motivated reasoning, barely touching on the framing literature). If you have any more specific questions about American media, I can probably narrow it down some more.

Oh, and a couple quick recommendations on the other questions (which aren't really my specialty). I really liked Democracy for Realists by Achen and Bartels. Frances Lee's new book on political messaging in Congress is pretty interesting. And I'm a subscriber to the legislative subsidy school of thought on interest groups.

Political psychology, although typically considered a subfield, covers a wide range of variables (e.g., personality, decision-making, behavior, beliefs, emotion, conflict) from multiple levels of analysis (e.g., individual, group, state, system). Given that your thesis will inevitably consume a great deal of your time and effort, you'll want to focus on an area of political psychology that you find particularly interesting. Here are some resources that can help you pinpoint a topic:

• Political Psychology (the most prominent academic journal dedicated to political psychology)
• Political psychology (Wikipedia) [the list of prominent political psychologists toward the bottom of the page provides a decent starting point]
• The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (Huddy, Sears, & Levy)
• Introduction to Political Psychology (Cottam, Dietz-Uhler, Elena Mastors, & Preston)
• Political Psychology: Neuroscience, Genetics, and Politics (Marcus)

However, it occurs to me that providing you a few links and telling you to "read!" might not be the most helpful approach, since I'm pointing you toward a forest when you eventually need to locate a specific tree. Does your college/university offer any courses that relate to political psychology? If so, I would consider taking them (or at least reaching out to the professors that offer them). [Note: Even if there aren't classes dedicated to the subject, your university likely has related courses (e.g., American politics, social psychology) that might be useful]. In my opinion, taking courses or talking to professors will likely benefit you even more than independent reading.

And lastly, since you asked, here are some specific areas of research (that I find intriguing), along with relevant recent publications (that I have enjoyed):

• The structure and determinants of political ideologies: 1, 2, 3, 4
• Personality characteristics in the political domain 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• The dynamics of political information processing: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• The efficacy of biological and neuroscientific explanations of political behavior: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Maybe one the aforementioned topics will interest you. If not, there are plenty other research foci out there (you might have noticed that I failed to include a topic related to foreign policy, a literature to which I haven't paid much attention recently). Best of luck!

The presidential primaries started out as optional, non-binding referenda held by the parties to see how candidates selected by party elites would fare in elections. There have been various reforms that made them more binding over the years, but historically they were generally just a way to weed out the unelectable candidates.

The early voting states vote early due to historical accident more than anything else, but now there are interests vested in keeping them early. Iowa set their caucus date early when the Democrats made major primary reforms in 1968 and they've been there since. As the primaries have become more important, the influence of going first has grown and Iowa and NH have worked to make sure they keep voting early by moving their dates up whenever someone tries to leapfrog them.

I'd recommend reading The Party Decides if you're interested in the primaries. The analysis doesn't include 2016, there might be something more recent that takes it into account, but I'd recommend it anyway.

There are some real introduction to poli sci textbooks out there, but they are really pretty dry. For instance, I used something like this book when I took a intro to political science course, but it doesn't exactly inspire the level of interest more specific books might. It's useful though because it covers domestic politics, international politics, and political theory and philosophy.

If you just want to look into the US, then Logic of American Politics is a pretty good, albeit dense, place to start. If you want a more global perspective, I'd try out something more like this. I don't really know a good intro to IR or Theory book, but if you're interested in war and how countries interact then look into international relations and if you want to think more about what is "good", "just", or how things should work you might want to look at political theory.

Consider looking into Hobbes and Marx and Nozick and maybe Rawls, just to add a bit to your list of political theory basis. I mean, there's tons more, but those are a few I think are super interesting and would probably help.

Anyways, here are a few books I read for an undergrad polisci topic on American foreign policy towards Asia:

The International Politics of the Asia Pacific by Michael Yahuda.

Obama and China's Rise: An Insider's Account of America's Asia Strategy by Jeffrey A. Bader.

International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific by Ikenberry and Mastanduno.

I think you'd probably be interested in the Oxford Handbook series. I know there are several, but it looks like this one is the overview volume: http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-Political-Science-Handbooks/dp/0199604452. Hope this helps!

Some from my shelf

Arsenals of Folly

The Cold War

On China

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

NATO's Return to Europe

On War

Bonus: The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War

Robert Heinemans introduction to political science is brief and helpful. A little outdated, but It's good stuff.

I've heard this book is supposed to be solid, in terms of Chinese foreign relations. Haven't read it myself though.

I just listened to a Radio War Nerd podcast about this. Unfortunately it's paywalled behind a $5-a-month patreon, though I would certainly recommend the podcast to anyone interested in geopolitics. The interview was with Max Abrahms, who has a book coming out called Rules for Rebels, a quantitative analysis of which factors contribute to the success or failure of a rebel group

https://www.amazon.in/Political-Philosophy-Short-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0192803956

Is this the book you are referring to?

https://www.amazon.ca/Politics-Canada-Culture-Institutions-Behaviour/dp/0131296418

Revel for The Struggle for Democracy, 2018 Elections and Updates Edition -- Access Card (12th Edition) https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0135202760/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_8nxzDbR0Q92BE

> No, people of all political positions come to hold their beliefs because of emotions, rather than rationality.

It's "rational" to pay workers as little as you can so that more profit can be made for shareholders. But I would argue that it's morally abhorrent. That's a political belief informed by ideology - even if it's rational.

I also think you're discounting emotion entirely - and that's really not something you should do.

Try this: https://www.amazon.com/Descartes-Error-Emotion-Reason-Human/dp/014303622X

And remember:

>You aren't allow to criticize something you haven't read.