2-page, double-spaced paper comparing and contrasting readings of your choosing from the week.
Social Movements
Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, Introduction.
Daniel Q. Gillion, “The Myth of the Silent Majority,” The Atlantic, September 2020. 
Isaac Chotiner, “How Violent Protests Change Politics,” The New Yorker, May 29th, 2020. [Interview with Omar Wasow]
Voting, Campaigns and Elections
Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 2016, pp. 1-51.         
Daniel Hopkins, FiveThirtyEight. “Most voters haven’t changed their mind all year.” November 2, 2016.
Ronald Brownstein, “The Most Complete Picture Yet of the Nation’s Changing Electorate,” The Atlantic, July 1, 2021.
Wayne Steger, “Conditional Party Arbiters: The Limits of Political Party Insiders in Presidential Nominations,” PS, Vol. 49, No. 4, October, 2016, pp. 709-15.