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WORK IN THE FIELD OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
 
Books
Information Support, Program Budgeting, and the Congress.
New York: Spartan Books, 1968. (Edited with Robert Chartrand and Michael Hugo.)
The Challenge of Democracy: Government in America.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. (With Jeffrey Berry and Jerry Goldman); 2nd Ed., 1989; 3rd Ed., 1992; 3rd Ed. (Revised Election Printing), 1993; 4th Ed., 1995; 5th Ed., 1997; 6th Ed., 1999; 6th Ed. (1900-2000 update), 2000; 7th Ed., 2001; 8th Ed. 2005; 9th Ed. 2008; 10th Ed. 2009; 11th Ed/ 2012. New publisher: Boston, Wadsworth.
The Challenge of Democracy: Brief Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. (With Jeffrey Berry, Jerry Goldman, and Earl Huff); 2nd Ed., 1994; 3rd Ed., 1998.
The Challenge of Democracy: Brief Edition,4th Ed, 2001; 4th Ed., 2002; 5th Ed., 2004; 6th Ed., 2006;. 7th Ed, 2009.
New publisher: Boston, Wadsworth (With Jeffrey Berry, Jerry Goldman, and Kevin W. Hula)
(translations of the brief edition)
Tbilisi, Georgia: GCI Publishing House, 1996.
[Challenge of Democracy, Translated into Georgian by Revaz Gachechiladze]
Az Amerikai Demokrácia.
Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 1996.
[Challenge of Democracy, Translated into Hungarian by Eszter Csobán]
Hyun Dai Mi Gook Jeong Chi Ui Sae Lo Un Do Jeon
Seoul: 1997
[Korean title for Challenge of Democracy: Government in America].
Vyzva Demokacie: Systém Vlády v USA.
Prague: Sociologické Nakladatelsví, 1998.
[Challenge of Democracy Translated into Czech by Dagmar Busková]
Difficult Path to Democracy
(Moscow: Rosspen, 2006).
[Russian title for Challenge of Democracy, Translated by Anatoly Kulik and Olga Mindrul]
Articles and Book Chapters 
"Legislative Politics in Indiana,"
Bloomington: Bureau of Government Research, Indiana University, 1961. (20 pp. with others) Reprinted in Charles Press and Oliver P. Williams (Eds.), Democracy in the Fifty States. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1966. Pp. 307-320. Reprinted in James B. Kessler (ed.), Empirical Studies of Indiana Politics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970. Pp. 23 43.
"A Comparative Study of Political Alienation and Voting Behavior in Three Suburban Communities,"
in Studies in History and the Social Sciences, Essays in honor of John A. Kinneman. Normal: Illinois State University, 1965. Pp. 53-68.
"Information Systems for Congress,"
in Alfred de Grazia (ed.), Congress: The First Branch of Government. Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1966. Pp. 415-456. Reprinted in part as "Features of An Information Research System for Congress," in Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery Annual Meeting 1966. Washington: Thompson Book Company, 1966. Pp. 361-372.
"Representational Behavior,"
in The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Volume 13. New York: Free Press and MacMillan, 1968. Pp. 74-479.
"Some Theory and Data on Representational Roles and Legislative Behavior,"
in James Kessler (ed.), Empirical Studies of Indiana Politics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970. Pp. 119-142.
"Information Systems for Congress--Revisited,"
Working Papers on House Committee Organization and Operation, Select Committee on Committees, Ninety-Third Congress, June, 1973.
"Primrose Paths to Political Reform: Reforming v. Strengthening American Parties,"
in William J. Crotty (ed.), Paths to Political Reform. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1980. Pp. 309-347.
Articles on "Checks and Balances," "Congress of the United States," "House of Representatives," and "Senate,"
in World Book Encyclopedia, 1983 and 1994.
"American Government and Politics,"
Teacher's Guide to Advanced Placement Courses in American Government and Politics. Philadelphia: College Entrance Examination Board, 1986. Pp. 37-35
"Computer-Augmented Teaching in Large Lecture Courses: The Case of American Government,"
Academic Computing (October, 1987), 34-35 and 42-44.
"[The Preelection Campaign] and [Technology and Organization of Election Campaigns: Foreign and Domestic Experience],"
in V.S. Komarovsky and G.I. Ivanov (eds.), (Moscow: Russian Academy of Public Administration, 1993), pp. 33-48. (Translation of part of Chapter 8 from The Challenge of Democracy, 2nd edition (1989).
"American Government and Politics,"
in Marjorie R. Hershey (ed.) Political Science Course Syllabi Collection, Washington: American Political Science Association, 1991.
"Videopaths to Learning American Government,"
T.H.E. Journal (September, 1990--Macintosh Special Issue), 42-47.
"The American Constitutional Framework and the Structure of American Political Parties,"
in Peter F. Nardulli (ed.), The Constitution and American Political Development: An Institutional Perspective. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Pp. 179-206.
"American Government,"
descriptive material accompanying A Houghton Mifflin Videodisc. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994 (with Richard Johnson).
"Interpreting the Republican Revolution of 1994-95,
" a 48-page supplement to The Challenge of Democracy, 4th Edition, 1995. (with Jeffrey Berry and Jerry Goldman)
"Is the Republican Party a Responsible Party?" IPSA Newsletter, 3 (October, 1995), 1 and 4.
"Pluralism and Democracy,"
June 1, 2006, eJournal USA, publication of the United States State Department.
Book Reviews 
Jerome M. Clubb, William H. Flanigan, and Nancy H. Zingale. Partisan Realignment: Voters, Parties and Government in American History .
(Beverly Hills, California: Sage Library of Social Research, Vol. 108, 1980). In The American Political Science Review, 76 (March, 1982).
Warren E. Miller and M. Kent Jennings. Parties in Transition: A Longitudinal Study of Party Elites and Party Supporters.
(New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1986). In Congress and the Presidency, 15 (Spring, 1988), 107-110.
Papers and Addresses 
"The 1962 Congressional Campaign in Illinois, 13th District."
Paper delivered at the 1962 NCEP National Seminar for Teachers of Politics, Washington, D. C.
"Using Computerized Outlines in Teaching American Government,"
paper prepared for the 1986 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.
"Teaching American Government in an Electronic Classroom,"
paper delivered at the 1989 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, The Atlanta Hilton and Towers, August 31-September 3.
"Developing and Testing a Multimedia Approach to Teaching American Government,"
Paper delivered at the Conference on Interactive Technology Applications in Higher Education, Roosevelt University, October 27, 1989 (with Richard Johnson and William Parod).
"Multimedia in Political Science: Sobering Lessons from a Teaching Experiment,"
Paper delivered at the 1990 EDUCOM Conference, Atlanta, October 14-17.
"The Theory of the Laser Class: Using Videodisc Technology in Teaching American Government,"
paper delivered at the 1990 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, The San Francisco Hilton and Towers, August 30-September 2.
"Suppose No One Won the Election?"
Address at the Symposium on "People, Politics, and Power," Lee College, Baytown, Texas, October 24, 1992.
"American Political Parties and Democratic Theory: Can U.S. Parties Be Changed?"
Address at the University of Vienna, April 14, 1994.
"Do Presidential Campaigns Matter? Predicting the 1996 Election,"
Annual Richard S. and Nancy K. Hartigan Lecture on Politics and Government, Loyola University, Chicago, October 21, 1996.