Articles
Chapter 1
Chapter 8 Elections
527 Groups Campaign Finance Reform
Limits on Campaign Finance 2003
Gerrymandering (should it be automatic)
Chapter 9 interest group
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07fob-wwln-t.html?ref=magazine Laws for sale—2010 article
Think tank history (long but fascinating and informative)
Jack Abramoff (lobbyist who’s currently in jail—Scandal)
Looking positively at Interest Groups (ex-Sen. John Breaux)
Chapter 10 Media
Media Executive Branch Antagonism
Media Bias, is it based on the custormer?
Chapter 11- Congress
Congressional Research Service
Congress and the Courts -Terry Schiavo-
Chapter 12- Executive
Executive Orders and Rule Changes
Right to hire and fire—US Attorney issue 2007
Chapter 13- Bureaucracy
Impact of the Hatch Act->go to jail
An agency under siege (the old INS)
Risking the wrath of your boss
Executive Orders and Regulation
Covering one’s Rear! How to do it
Chapter 14- Supreme Court
New appointees, do they stay the course?
Chapter 18- Civil Liberties