Week 13: Interest Groups and the Media

Wednesday, November 18

• Logic of American Politics, Chapter 13.

• Gilens, Martin, and Benjamin I. Page. 2014. “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens.” Perspectives on Politics 12(3): 564–81.

Friday, November 20

• CrashCourse. “Media Institution: Crash Course Government and Politics #44.” 2016. CrashCourse [video], January 16.

• Darr, Joshua P, Matthew P Hitt, and Johanna L Dunaway. 2018. “Newspaper Closures Polarize Voting Behavior.” Journal of Communication 68(6): 1007–28.