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CHAPTER 1

1. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651; repr. Indianapolis, IN:
   Bobbs, Merrill, 1958).


2. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Fed-
   eralist Papers, ed. Roy P. Fairfi eld, 2nd ed. (1788; repr. Balti-
   more, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981), p. 160.


3. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, Federalist Papers, p. 18.


4. Examples include E. E. Schattschneider, The Semi-Sovereign
   People: A Realist’s View of Democracy in America (New York:
   Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1960); Larry Bartels, Unequal
   Democracy: The Politics of the New Gilded Age (Princeton:
   Princeton University Press, 2008); Jeff rey A. Segal and How-
   ard Spaeth, The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model
   Revisited (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).


5. Morris Rosenberg, “Some Determinants of Political Apathy,”
   Public Opinion Quarterly 18 (Winter 1954–55): 349–66; Jane
   Mansbridge, Beyond Adversary Democracy (New York: Basic
   Books, 1980); Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding Politics: How Ameri-
   cans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life (New York: Cambridge
   University Press, 1998); Melanie C. Green, Penny S. Visser,
   and Philip E. Tetlock, “Coping with Accountability Cross-
   Pressures: Low-Eff ort Evasive Tactics and High-Eff ort Quests
   for Complex Compromises,” Personality and Social Psychol-
   ogy Bulletin 26, no. 11 (2000): 1380–91.


6. Donald Green, Bradley Palmquist, and Eric Schickler, Parti-
   san Hearts and Minds (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
   2004); Christopher Achen, “Political Socialization and Ratio-
   nal Party Identifi cation,” Political Behavior 24, no. 2 (2002):
   151–70.


7. Robert S. Erikson, Michael B. Mackuen, and James A. Stim-
   son, The Macro Polity (New York: Cambridge University
   Press, 2002).


8. Congressional Budget Offi ce, “Current Budget Projections,”
   available at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10871/budget-
   projections .pdf; The President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2011,
   “Total Executive Branch Civilian Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)
   Employees, 1981–2011,” Table 17.1, available at http://www.white
   house.gov/ omb/budget/Historicals/; Department of Defense,
   “Military Personnel Active and Reserve Forces,” available at

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/mil.pdf;

Paul Light, “Fact Sheet on the New True Size of Govern-

ment,” Brookings Institution, September 5, 2003, available at

http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2003/0905politics_light.aspx;

The Federal Register, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/. (All accessed

7/15/12.)

9. This ranking varies somewhat from year to year and source
   to source. See, for example, The CIA World Factbook, Coun-
   try Comparison: Distribution of Family Income - Gini Index,
   http://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
   rankorder/2172rank.html (accessed 10/19/12).


10. For details, see Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, and David
    W. Rohde, Change and Continuity in the 2008 and 2010 Elec-
    tions (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2011).


11. Morris P. Fiorina, with Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope,
    Culture War?: The Myth of a Polarized America, 2nd ed. (New
    York: Pearson, Longman, 2006), pp. 46–47.


12. Fiorina, Culture War?

CHAPTER 2

1. Jim DeMint, “Constitution of No,” National Review Online,
   June 8, 2010, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/229909/
   constitution-no/jim-demint?pg=2 (accessed 10/16/11).


2. Mark Trumbull, “On Constitution Day, Tea Party and Foes
   Duel over Our Founding Document,” Christian Science
   Monitor, September 17, 2011, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/
   Politics/2011/0917/On-Constitution-Day-tea-party-and
   -foes-duel-over-our-founding-document (accessed 10/16/11).


3. For a good overview of the political thought of the Ameri-
   can Revolution, see Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the
   American Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1993). For an
   excellent summary of the history, see Wood’s The American
   Revolution: A History (New York: Modern Library, 2003).


4. J. W. Peltason, Corwin and Peltason’s Understanding the Con-
   stitution, 7th ed. (Hinsdale, IL: Dryden Press, 1976), p. 12.


5. The pamphlet sold 120,000 copies within a few months of
   publication, a fi gure that would leave today’s Harry Potter
   books in the dust in terms of the proportion of the literate
   public that purchased the pamphlet.