This is a diverse list of books, articles, and academic papers across the scope of Political Science and Sociology. Please go through the list carefully and select those items that look most interesting to you. Remember, if you are interested in the topic and you enjoy reading it you are more likely to retain its information. The summer vacation is a great time to catch up on those essential reads you didn’t find time for during term time, read more broadly, and maybe discover a new interest or passion.

• Adamic, Lada, & Glance, Natalie. (2005). The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election. Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Link Discovery; 21-25 Aug. 2005, 36-43.
• Aldrich, J. H. (1993) Rational Choice and Turnout. American Journal of Political Science, 37(1): 246–278. http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2111531.pdf
• Bail, Christopher A, Argyle, Lisa P, Brown, Taylor W, Bumpus, John P, Chen, Haohan, Hunzaker, M B Fallin, . . . Volfovsky, Alexander. (2018). Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 115(37), 9216-9221. — SOLO Link
• Biggs, Michael. 2006. “Who Joined the Sit-Ins and Why: Southern Black Students in the Early 1960s.” Mobilization 11(3): 241–56.
• Fisher, Stephen D, Rory Fitzgerald, and Wouter Poortinga. 2018. “Climate Change.” In British Social Attitudes: the 35th Report, Social divisions in beliefs and behaviour, eds. Daniel Phillips, John Curtice, M Phillips, and J Perry. London: The National Centre for Social Research, 1–27. — Online PDF
• Goffman, E. (1968). Stigma : Notes on the management of spoiled identity (Pelican books). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
• Heath, Anthony F et al. 2013. The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain. Oxford University Press. —- Link
• McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin , L., & Cook, J. M. (2001). Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks. Annual Review of Sociology, 27(1), 415-444. — SOLO Link
• Olson, M. (1971). The logic of collective action; public goods and the theory of groups. (Harvard economic studies ; v. 124). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. — SOLO link
• Robert J. Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect, 2012.