Additional
Readings in State Politics
These readings include some books
and articles but the list is by no means exhaustive. The readings are organized by topical
area. Some titles overlap areas so they
are repeated.
General Comparative State
and State Characteristics
Blomquist,
William. 1999. “The Policy Process and Large-N Comparative
Studies.”
In Theories of the Policy Process.
Ed. Paul A. Sabatier. Boulder,
CO:
Westview. Pp. 201-232.
Berry,
Frances Stokes, and William D. Berry.
1999. “Innovation and Diffusion
Models in Policy Research.” In Theories
of the Policy Process. Ed. Paul A.
Sabatier. Boulder, CO: Westview. Pp. 169-201.
Brace,
Paul, and Aubrey Jewett. 1995. “The State of State Politics Research.” Political
Research Quarterly. 48:643-681.
Erickson,
Robert S., Gerald C. Wright, and John P. McIver. 1993. Statehouse
Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American
States. New
York:
Cambridge University Press.
Gray,
Virginia. 1973. “Innovation in the States: A Diffusion
Study.” American
Political Science Review 67:1174-85.
Hammons,
Christopher W. 1999. “Was James Madison
Wrong? Rethinking the
American Preference for Short,
Framework-Oriented Constitutions.”
American
Political Science Review 93(4):837-850.
Hero,
Rodney E., and Caroline J. Tolbert.
1996. “A Racial/Ethnic Diversity
Interpretation of Politics and
Policy in the States of the U.S.” American
Journal
of Political Science 40(3):851-871.
Mooney,
Christopher Z. 2001. “State Politics and
Policy Quarterly and the Study of State
Politics: The Editor’s
Introduction.” State Politics and Policy
Quarterly. 1:1-4.
Nardulli,
Peter F. 1990. “Political Subcultures in the American States: An Empirical
Examination of Elazar's
Formulation.” American Politics Quarterly.
18:287-315.
Polsby,
Nelson. 1984. Political
Innovation in America. New Haven,
CT: Yale
University Press.
Savage,
Robert L. 1978. “Policy Innovativeness as a Trait of American
States.”
Journal
of Politics 40(1):212-24.
Walker,
Jack. 1969. “The Diffusion of Innovations Among the
American States.”
American
Political Science Review 68:880-99.
Elections and Direct
Democracy
Atkeson, Lonna Rae, and
Randall W. Partin. 1995. “Economic and Referendum Voting:
A Comparison of Gubernatorial and Senatorial
Elections.” American Political
Science Review 89(1):99-107.
Bowler,
Shaun, David Brockington, and Todd Donovan.
2001. “Election Systems
And Voter Turnout: Experiments in
the United States.” Journal of Politics
63(3):902-915.
Carsey, Thomas M. 1999. Campaign Dynamics: The Race for Governor. Ann Arbor,
MI: University of Michigan Press.
Carsey, Thomas M., and
Gerald C. Wright. 1998. “State and National Factors in
Gubernatorial and Senatorial Elections.” American
Journal of Political
Science 42(3):994-1002.
Cook,
Elizabeth Adell, Ted G. Jelen, and Clyde Wilcox. 1994.
“Issue Voting in
Gubernatorial Elections: Abortion
and Post-Webster Politics.” Journal of
Politics 56(1):187-199.
Chubb John E.
1988. “Institutions, The Economy,
and the Dynamics of State
Elections.” American
Political Science Review 82(1):133-154.
Gerber,
Elisabeth R. 1996. “Legislative Response to the Threat of Popular Initiatives.”
American
Journal of Political Science 40(1):99-128.
Gimpel,
James G. 1998. “Packing Heat at the Polls: Gun Ownership,
Interest Group
Endorsements, and Voting Behavior in
Gubernatorial Elections.” Social
Science Quarterly
79(3):634-48.
Haider-Markel, Donald P.
1999. “AIDS and Gay Civil Rights: Politics and Policy at the Ballot Box.” The American Review of Politics
20(Winter):349-75.
Holbrook,
Thomas M. and Emily Van Dunk. 1993. “Electoral Competition in the
American States.” American Political Science Review
87(4):955-62.
Jackson, Robert A.
1997. “The Mobilization of U.S. State
Electorates in the 1988 and
1990 Elections.” Journal of Politics 59(2):520-537.
Jewell,
Malcolm E., and Sarah M. Morehouse.
2001. 4th ed. Political Parties
and
Elections In American States. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
Joslyn,
Mark R., and Donald P. Haider-Markel.
2000. “Guns in the Ballot Box:
Information, Groups, and Opinion in
Ballot Initiative Campaigns.” American
Politics Quarterly 28(3):355-78.
Lascher,
Edward L., Jr., Michael G. Hagen, and Steven A. Rochlin. 1996. “Gun Behind
the Door? Ballot Initiatives, State
Policies and Public Opinion.” Journal of
Politics
58(3):760-775.
Lublin,
David, D. Stephen Voss. 2000. “Racial
Redistricting and Realignment in
Southern State Legislatures.” American
Journal of Political Science 44(4):
792-810.
Lupia,
Arthur. 1994. “Shortcuts Versus Encyclopedias: Information
and Voting
Behavior in California Insurance
Reform Elections.” American Political Science
Review 88(1):63-76.
Moncrief,
Gary, Peverill Squire, and Malcolm E. Jewell. 2001. Who Runs for the
Legislature? Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Niemi,
Richard G., Harold W. Stanley, and Ronald J. Vogel. 1995. “State Economies
and State Taxes: Do Voters Hold
Governors Accountable?” American Journal
of Political Science 39(4):936-957.
Oliver,
J. Eric. 1996. “The Effects of
Eligibility Restrictions and Party Activity on
Absentee Voting and Overall
Turnout.” American Journal of Political Science
40(2):498-513.
Svoboda, Craig, J. 1995.
“Retrospective Voting in Gubernatorial Elections: 1982 and
1986.” Political
Research Quarterly 48(1):135-150.
Tompkins,
Mark E. 1988. “Have Gubernatorial Elections Become More
Distinctive
Contests?” Journal
of Politics 50(1):192-205.
Voss,
D. Stephen, and Penny Miller. 2001. “Following a False Trail: The Hunt for
White Backlash in Kentucky’s 1996
Desegregation Vote.” State Politics and
Policy Quarterly 1(1):62-80.
Executive Branch
Adams,
Greg D., and Peverill Squire. 2001. “A
Note on the Dynamics and Idiosyncrasies
of Gubernatorial Popularity.” State
Politics and Policy Quarterly 1(4):380-93.
Carsey,
Thomas M. 1999. Campaign
Dynamics: The Race for Governor. Ann
Arbor,
MI: University of Michigan Press.
Carsey, Thomas M., and
Gerald C. Wright. 1998. “State and National Factors in
Gubernatorial and Senatorial Elections.” American
Journal of Political
Science 42(3):994-1002.
Ferguson,
Margaret Robertson. 2003. “Chief Executive Success in the Legislative
Arena.” State
Politics and Policy Quarterly 3(2):158-182.
Niemi,
Richard G., Harold W. Stanley, and Ronald J. Vogel. 1995. “State Economies
and State Taxes: Do Voters Hold
Governors Accountable?” American Journal
of Political Science 39(4):936-957.
Orth,
Deborah A. 2001. Accountability in a
Federal System: The Governor, the
President, and Economic
Expectations.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 1
(4):412-32.
Svoboda, Craig, J. 1995.
“Retrospective Voting in Gubernatorial elections: 1982 and 1986.” Political
Research Quarterly 48(1):135-150.
Tompkins, Mark E. 1988.
“Have Gubernatorial Elections Become More Distinctive Contests?” Journal
of Politics 50(1):192-205.
Judicial Branch
Brace,
Paul, Melinda Gann Hall, and Laura Langer.
2001. “Placing State Supreme
Courts in State Politics.” State
Politics and Policy Quarterly 1(1): 81-108.
Gann
Hall, Melinda. 2001. “State Supreme
Courts in American Democracy: Probing
The Myths of Judicial Reform.” American
Political Science Review 95(2):
315-330.
Kilwein,
John C., and Richard A. Brisbin, Jr.
1997. “Policy Convergence in a
Federal
Judicial System: The Application of
Intensified Scrutiny Doctrines by State
Supreme Courts.” American
Journal of Political Science 41(1):122-148.
Ringquist,
Evan J., and Craig E. Emmert. 1999. “Judicial Policymaking
In Published and Unpublished
Decisions: The Case of Environmental
Civil Litigation.” Political
Research Quarterly 52(1):7-37.
Legislatures
Berkman
Michael B. and Robert E. O’Connor. 1993. “Do Women Legislators
Matter?: Female Legislators and
State Abortion Policy.” American
Politics Quarterly 21(1):102-24.
Bullock, C. III.
(1987). Redistricting and changes
in the partisan and racial
composition
of southern legislatures. State and
Local Government Review,
19,
62-67.
Bullock, C. III., and Gaddie, R. K. (1993).
Changing from multimember to single-
Member
districts: partisan, racial, and gender consequences. State and Local
Government
Review, 25, 155-63.
Caldeira, G. A., & Patterson, S. C. (1982). Bringing home the votes: electoral
outcomes
in state legislative races. Political
Behavior, 4, 33-67.
Carey, J. M., Niemi, R. G., & Powell, L. W.
(2000). Incumbency and the probability
of
reelection
in state legislative elections. The
Journal of Politics, 62,
671-700.
Donnay, P. D., & Ramsden, G. P. (1995).
Public financing of legislative elections:
lessons
from Minnesota. Legislative Studies
Quarterly, 20, 351-364.
Fiorina, Morris P.
1999. “Further Evidence of the
Partisan Consequences of Legislative
Professionalism.” American
Journal of Political Science 43(3):974-977.
Gierzynski, A., & Breaux, D. (1993). Money and the party vote in state
house elections.
Legislative
Studies Quarterly, 18,
515-533.
Gierzynski, A., & Breaux, D. (1991). Money and votes in state legislative
elections.
Legislative
Studies Quarterly, 16,
203-217.
Grofman, B., & Handley, L. (1991).
The impact of the voting rights act on black
political
representation in southern state legislatures.
Legislative Studies
Quarterly,
16, 111-128.
Grofman, B., Migalski, M., & Noviello, N.
(1986). Effects of multimember districts
on
black
representation in state legislatures. Review
of Black Political Economy,
14,
65-78.
Hedge,
David, James Button, and Mary Spear.
1996. “Accounting for the Quality
of
Black Legislative Life: The View
from the States.” American Journal of
Political Science 40(1):82-98.
Hogan, R. E. (2003). The
effects of primary divisiveness on general election outcomes in
state legislative
elections American Politics Research, 31, 27-47.
Holbrook, T. M., & Tidmarch, C. M. (1993).
The effects of leadership positions on
Votes
for incumbents in state legislative elections. Political Research Quarterly,
46,
897-909.
Jewell, M. E. (1994). State
legislative elections: what we know and don't know.
American
Politics Quarterly, 22,
483-509.
King,
James. 2000. “Changes in Professionalism in U.S. State
Legislatures.” Legislative
Studies
Quarterly 25:327-343.
King, J. D. (2002).
Single-member districts and the representation of women in
American state
legislatures: the effects of electoral system change. State Politics
and Policy
Quarterly, 2, 161-175.
Lublin,
David, D. Stephen Voss. 2000. “Racial
Redistricting and Realignment in
Southern State Legislatures.” American
Journal of Political Science 44(4):
792-813.
Reingold,
Beth. 1996. “Conflict and Cooperation:
Legislative Strategies and Concepts
of Power among Female and Male State
Legislators.” Journal of Politics
58(2):464-485.
Rosenthal,
Alan. 1998. The
Decline of Representative Democracy: Process,
Participation, and Power in American State Legislatures. Washington,
DC: CQ Press.
Thompson,
J. A., & Moncrief, G. F. eds. (1998).
Campaign Finance in State Legislative
Elections. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly.
Tucker, H. J., & Weber, R. E. (1987). State
legislative election outcomes: contextual
effects
and legislative performance effects. Legislative
Studies Quarterly,
12,
537-553.
Bureaucracy
Chaney,
Carole Kennedy, and Grace Hall Saltzstein.
1998. “Democratic Control
and Bureaucratic Responsiveness: The
Police and Domestic Violence.”
American
Journal of Political Science 42(3):745-68.
Hunter,
Susan, and Richard W. Waterman.
1996. Enforcing the Law: The Case of the
Clean Water Acts. Armonk, NY:
M. E. Sharpe.
Keiser,
Lael R., and Jo Soss. 1998. “With Good Cause: Bureaucratic Discretion
and the Politics of Child Support
Enforcement.” American Journal of
Political Science 42(4):1133-56.
Keiser,
Lael R., Vicky M. Wilkins, Kenneth J. Meier, and Catherine A. Holland.
2002. “Lipstick and Logarithms: Gender,
Institutional Context, and
Representative Bureaucracy.” American
Political Science Review 96(3):
553-564.
Laumann,
Julie, and Paul Teske. 2003. “Principals, Agents, and the Impact of
Regulatory Federalism on the
Savings-and-Loans Crisis of the 1980s.” State
Politics and Policy Quarterly 3(2):139-157.
Potoski,
Matthew. 2002. “Designing Bureaucratic
Responsiveness: Administrative
Procedures and Agency Choice in State
Environmental Policy.” State Politics
And Policy Quarterly 2(1):1-23.
Scholz,
John T., and B. Dan Wood. 1998. “Controlling the IRS: Principals,
Principles, and Public
Administration.” American Journal of Political
Science
42(1):141-62.
Scholz,
John T., and Feng Heng Wei. 1986. “Regulatory Enforcement in a
Federalist System.” American
Political Science Review 80:1249-70.
Wood,
B. Dan. 1991. “Federalism and Policy Responsiveness: The
Clean Air Case.”
Journal
of Politics 53:
Parties and Interest Groups
Barrilleaux,
Charles. 1997. “A Test of the
Independent Influences of Electoral
Competition and Party Strength in a
Model of State Policymaking”
American
Journal of Political Science 41(4):1462-1466.
Elling,
Richard C. 1979. “State Party Platforms
and State Legislative Performance:
A Comparative Analysis.” American
Journal of Political Science 23(2):383-405.
Gray,
Virginia, and David Lowery. 2002. “State Interest Group Research and the
Mixed Legacy of Belle Zeller.” State
Politics and Policy Quarterly
2(4):388-410.
Haider-Markel,
Donald P. 1997. “Interest Group Survival: Shared Interests
Versus
Competition for Resources.” Journal
of Politics 59(3):903-12.
Jewell,
Malcolm E., and Sarah M. Morehouse.
2001. 4th ed. Political Parties
and
Elections In American States. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
Social Policy
Haas-Wilson,
Deborah. 1993. “The Economic Impact Of State Restrictions On
Abortion: Parental Consent And
Notification Laws And Medicaid Funding
Restrictions.” Journal
of Policy Analysis & Management 12(3):498-512.
Haider-Markel,
Donald P. 2001. “Policy Diffusion as a
Geographical Expansion of the
Scope of Political Conflict:
Same-Sex Marriage Bans in the 1990s.” State
Politics and Policy Quarterly 1(1):5-26.
Berkman Michael B. and
Robert E. O’Connor. 1993. “Do Women Legislators Matter?: Female Legislators and
State Abortion Policy.” American Politics
Quarterly 21(1):102-24.
Krueger, Brian S., and Paul D. Mueller. 2001.
“Moderating Backlash: Racial
Mobilization,
Partisan Coalitions, and Public Policy in the American States.”
State Politics and Policy Quarterly
1(2):165-179.
Meier,
Kenneth J. 1994. The Politics of Sin:
Drugs, Alcohol, and Public Policy.
Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
Meier, Kenneth, J. and
Deborah R. McFarlane. 1993. “The Politics of Funding Abortion: State Response
to the Political Environment.” American
Politics Quarterly 21(1): 81-101.
Meier,
Kenneth J., Donald P. Haider-Markel, Anthony J. Stanislawski, and
Deborah R. McFarlane. 1996. “The Impact of State-Level Restrictions
on Abortion.” Demography 33:307-12.
Mooney,
Christopher Z., and Mei-Hsien Lee.
1995. “Legislating Morality in
the
American States: The Case of Pre-Roe Abortion Regulation Reform.” American
Journal of Political Science 39(3):599-627.
Norrander,
Barbara. 2000. “The Multi-Layered Impact of Public Opinion
on
Capital Punishment Implementation in
the American States.” Political
Research Quarterly 53(4):771-794.
Norrander,
Barbara and Clyde Wilcox. 1999. “Public Opinion and Policymaking in
the States: The Case of Post-Roe
Abortion Policy.” Policy Studies Journal
27(4):707-22.
Wright,
Jr., Gerald C., Robert S. Erikson, and John P. McIver. 1987. “Public Opinion
and Policy Liberalism in the
American States.” American Journal of Political
Science
31(4):980-1001.
Taxing, Spending, and
Economic Policy
Berry,
Frances Stokes, and William D. Berry. 1990. "State Lottery Adoptions as
Policy
Innovations: An Event History
Analysis." American Political
Science Review
84(2):395-416.
Berry,
Frances, and William D. Berry. 1992.
“Tax Innovation in the States:
Capitalizing on Political
Opportunity.” American Journal of Political Science
36(3):715-42.
Berry,
Frances, and William D. Berry.
1994. “The Politics of Tax
Increases in the
States.” American Journal of Political Science 38(3):855-859.
Laumann,
Julie, and Paul Teske. 2003. “Principals, Agents, and the Impact of
Regulatory Federalism on the
Savings-and-Loans Crisis of the 1980s.” State
Politics and Policy Quarterly 3(2):139-157.
Health and Welfare Policy
Barrilleaux,
Charles J., and Mark E. Miller. 1988.
“The Political Economy of State
Medicaid Policy.” American
Political Science Review 82(4):1089-1107.
Berry,
William D., Richard C. Fording, and Russell L. Hanson. 2003.
“Reassessing
The “Race to the Bottom” in State
Welfare Policy.” Journal of Politics
65(2):327-349.
Dye,
Thomas R. 1980. “Taxing, Spending, and Economic Growth in the
American
States.” Journal
of Politics 42(4):1085-1107.
Lieberman,
Robert, and Greg Shaw. 2000. “Looking
Inward, Looking Outward: The
Politics of State Welfare Innovation
Under Devolution.” Political Research
Quarterly 53(2):215-240.
Morgan,
David R., and Kenneth Kickham.
2001. “Children in Poverty: Do
State
Policies Matter?” Social
Science Quarterly 82(3):478-493.
Palley,
Marian L. 1997. “Presidential Address: The
Intergovernmentalization of
Health Care Reform: The Limits of
the Devolution Revolution.” Journal
of
Politics 59(3):657-679.
Soss,
Joe, Sanford F. Schram, Thomas P. Vartanian, and Erin O'Brien. 2001. “Setting
The Terms of Relief: Explaining
State Policy Choices in the Devolution
Revolution.” American
Journal of Political Science 45(2):378-395.
Stream,
Christopher. 1999. “Health Reform in the States: A Model of
State Small
Group Health Insurance Market
Reforms.” Political Research Quarterly 52(3):
499-526.
Tompkins,
Gary L. 1975. “A Causal Model of State Welfare
Expenditures.” Journal
of Politics 37(2):392-416.
Regulation and Environmental
Policy
Bacot,
A. Hunter, and Roy A. Dawes. 1997. “State Expenditures and Policy
Outcomes in Environmental Program
Management.” Policy Studies Journal
25(3):355-370.
Brehm,
John, and James T. Hamilton. 1996.
“Noncompliance in Environmental
Reporting: Are Violators Ignorant,
or Evasive, of the Law?” American Journal
of
Political Science 40(2):444-477.
Cawley,
R. McGreggor. 1993. Federal
Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion
and Environmental
Politics. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
Cline,
Kurt D. 2003. “Influences on Intergovernmental
Implementation: The States
and Superfund.” State
Politics and Policy Quarterly 3(1):66-83.
Cohen,
Nevin. 1997. “The Politics of Environmental Risk:
Perceptions of
Risk Assessment in the State
Legislatures.” Policy Studies Journal 25(3):
470-484.
Cooney,
Catherine M. 1996. “Twenty States Join
Federal Government to Facilitate
Innovative Technology Use.” Environmental
Science & Technology
30(10):432.
Davis,
Sandra K. 1997. “Fighting Over Public Lands: Interest Groups,
States, and the
Federal Government.” In Western
Public Lands and Environmental Politics,
ed. Charles Davis. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Gerber,
Brian J., and Paul Teske. 2000. “Regulatory Policymaking in the American
States: A Review of Theories and
Evidence.” Political Research Quarterly
53(4):849-86.
Hedge,
David M., and Michael J. Scicchitano.
1994. “Regulating in Space and Time:
The Case of Regulatory Federalism” The Journal of Politics 56(1):134-153.
Helland,
Eric. 1998. “Environmental protection in the federalist
system: the political
Economy of NPDES inspections.” Economic Inquiry 36(2):305-320.
Laumann,
Julie, and Paul Teske. 2003. “Principals, Agents, and the Impact of
Regulatory Federalism on the
Savings-and-Loans Crisis of the 1980s.” State
Politics and Policy Quarterly 3(2):139-157.
Lowry,
William. 1992. The
Dimensions of Federalism: State Governments and
Pollution Control Policies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Morris,
John C. 1997. “The Distributional Impacts of Privatization
in National
Water-Quality Policy.” Journal
of Politics 59(1):56-72.
Potoski,
Matthew. 2002. “Designing Bureaucratic
Responsiveness: Administrative
Procedures and Agency Choice in
State Environmental Policy.” State
Politics
And Policy Quarterly 2(1):1-23.
Ringquist,
Evan J. 1993. Environmental
Politics at the State Level. Armonk,
NY:
M. E. Sharpe.
Crime Policy
Bruce,
John M., and Clyde Wilcox. 1998. “Gun Control Laws in the States:
Political and Apolitical
Influences.” In The Changing Politics of
Gun
Control. Eds. John M. Bruce and Clyde Wilcox. Lanham, MD: Rowman
& Littlefield. Pp. 139-154.
Caldeira,
Greg A., and Andrew T. Cowart. 1980.
“Budgets, Institutions, and Change:
Criminal Justice Policy in
America.” American Journal of Political Science
24(3): 413-438.
Gibson,
James L. 1989. “The Policy Consequences of Political Intolerance: Political
Repression During the Vietnam War
Era.” Journal of Politics 51(1):13-35.
Haider-Markel,
Donald P. 1998. “The Politics of Social
Regulatory Policy: State and
Federal Hate Crime Policy and
Implementation Effort.” Political Research
Quarterly 51(1):69-88.
Haider-Markel,
Donald P., and Sean P. O’Brien. 1997.
“Creating a “Well Regulated
Militia”: Policy Responses to
Paramilitary Groups in the American States.”
Political
Research Quarterly 50(3):551-565.
Kathlene,
Lyn. 1995. “Alternative Views of Crime:
Legislative Policymaking in
Gendered Terms.” Journal
of Politics 57(3):696-723.
Lott,
John R. 2000. 2nd ed. More
Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun
Control Laws. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Ludwig,
Jens, and Philip J. Cook. Eds. 2003. Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on
Crime and Violence. Washington,
DC: Brookings.
Meier,
Kenneth J. 1994. The
Politics of Sin: Drugs, Alcohol, and Public Policy.
Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc.
Meier,
Kenneth J. 1992. “The Politics of Drug Abuse: Laws,
Implementation, and
Consequences.” The
Western Political Quarterly
45:41-69.
Meier,
Kenneth J., and Thomas M. Holbrook.
1992. “‘I Seen My Opportunities and I
Took Em’: Political Corruption in
the American States.” Journal of Politics
54(1):135-155.
Mooney,
Christopher Z., and Mei-Hsien Lee.
1999. “Morality Policy
Reinvention:
State Death Penalties.” The
Annals of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science 566:80-93.
Mooney,
Christopher Z., and Mei-Hsien Lee.
1999. “The Temporal Diffusion of
Morality Policy: The Case of Death
Penalty Legislation in the American
States.” Policy
Studies Journal 27(4):766-780.
Mooney,
Christopher Z., and Mei-Hsien Lee.
2000. “The Influence of Values on
Consensus and the Contentious
Morality Policy: U.S. Death Penalty Reform,
1956-1982.” Journal
of Politics 62(1):223-39.
Nice,
David C. 1992. “The States and the Death
Penalty.” Western Political
Quarterly
45:1037-1048.
Preuhs,
Robert R. 2001. “State Felon Disenfranchisement Policy.” Social
Science
Quarterly 82(4):733-48.
Smith,
Kevin B. 1997. “Explaining Variation in
State-Level Homicide Rates: Does
Crime Policy Pay?” Journal
of Politics 59(2):350-367.
Yunker,
James A. 2001. “A New Statistical
Analysis of Capital Punishment
Incorporating U.S. Postmoratorium
Data.” Social Science Quarterly
82(2):297-311.
Education Policy
Chubb,
John E., and Terry M. Moe. 1988. “Politics, Markets, and the Organization of
Schools.” American
Political Science Review 82(4):1065-1087.
Fraga,
Luis Ricardo, Kenneth J. Meier, and Robert E. England. 1986.
“Hispanic
Americans and Educational Policy:
Limits to Equal Access.” Journal of Politics
48(4):850-876.
Mintrom,
Michael, and Sandra Vergari. 1998. “Policy Networks and Innovation
Diffusion: The Case of State
Education Reforms.” Journal of Politics
60(1):126-48.
Schneider,
Mark, Paul Teske, Christine Roch, and Melissa Marschall. 1997. “Networks
to Nowhere: Segregation and
Stratification in Networks of Information about
Schools.” American
Journal of Political Science 41(4):1201-1223.
Smith,
Kevin B. 1994. “Policy, Markets, and Bureaucracy:
Reexamining School
Choice.” Journal
of Politics 56:475-91.
Tweedie,
Jack, Dennis D. Riley, John E. Chubb, and Terry M. Moe. 1990.
“Should
Market Forces Control Educational
Decision Making?” American Political
Science
Review 84(2):549-567.
Wood,
B. Dan, and Nick A. Theobald. 2003. “Political Responsiveness and Equity
In Public Education Finance.” Journal
of Politics 65(3):718-738.