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1. PUBLICATION
   

2. Rothman, Steven B. 2008. Comparatively Evaluating Potential Dissertation and Thesis Projects. PS: Political Science & Politics 41 (2):367-369. (A summary version of the article is available online.)  The supplemental excel sheet is available for download.
   

3. COURSE SYLLABI
   

4. U.S. Foreign Policy I
   

5. Genocide in the Modern Age
   

6. Qualitative Methodology Graduate Student Organized Seminar (co-organized with Leif Hoffmann)
   

7. OTHER
   

8. Teaching Statement
   

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A few non-canonical readings I have found especially interesting or informative:

Meta-theory:

Hacking, Ian. 1999. The Social Construction of What? Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Smith, Steve, Ken Booth, and Marysia Zalewski. 1996. International Theory: Positivism and Beyond. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Brady, Henry E, and Jason Seawright. 2004. Framing Social Inquiry: From Models of Causation to Statistically Based Causal Inference, 28-Aug, at Chicago.

Public Choice Theory:

Bartlett, Randall. 1973. Economic Foundations of Political Power. New York: Free Press.

Schattschneider, E. E. 1975. The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America. Hinsdale: Dryden Press.

Research Design:

Barzun, Jacques, and Henry F. Graff. 2004. The Modern Researcher. 6th ed. Belmont: Thomson/Wadsworth.

Brady, Henry E., Michael C. Herron, Walter R. Jr. Mebane, Jasjeet Singh Sekhon, Kenneth W. Shotts, and Jonathan Wand. 2001. Law and Data: The Butterfly Ballot Episode. PS: Political Science & Politics 34 (1):59-69.

Carmines, Edward G., and Richard A. Zeller. 1979. Reliability and Validity Assessment. Beverly Hills: SAGE Publications.

Goertz, Gary. 2005. Social Science Concepts: A User's Guide. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Tufte, Edward R. 2001. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd ed. Cheshire: Graphics Press.

Ziliak, Stephen T., and Deirdre N. McCloskey. 2004. Size Matters: The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review. Journal of Socio-Economics 33 (5):527-546.

Psychology and Decision Making

Cosmides, Leda, and John Tooby. 1994. Better Than Rational: Evolutionary Psychology and the Invisible Hand. The American Economic Review 84 (2):327.

Gigerenzer, Gerd, and Reinhard Selten. 2001. Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Lave, Charles A., and James G. March. 1975. An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences. New York: Harper & Row.

Simon, Herbert Alexander. 1983. Reason in Human Affairs, Harry Camp lectures at Stanford University ; 1982. Stanford: Stanford University Press.