Politics in the American States

A Comparative Analysis
Eleventh Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-5063-6362-2
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 232 mm

Fully updated for all major developments in the study of state level politics, including capturing the results of the 2016 elections, the authors bring insight and uncover the impact of key similarities and differences on the operation of the same basic political systems. Students will appreciate the book’s glossary, the fully up-to-date tables and figures, and the maps showcasing comparative data.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Virginia H.

Hanson, Russell L.

Kousser, Thad

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Preface
Contributors
1 The Socioeconomic and Political Context of States - Virginia Gray
2 Intergovernmental Relations - Russell L. Hanson
3 Parties and Elections - Thomas M. Holbrook and Raymond J. La Raja
4 Interest Groups in the States - Adam J. Newmark and Anthony J. Nownes
5 Public Opinion and Morality - Justin H. Phillips
6 The Initiative Process - Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan
7 Legislative Politics in the States - Keith E. Hamm and Nancy Martorano Miller
8 Governors and the Executive Branch - Margaret Ferguson
9 State Courts: Politics and the Judicial Process - Melinda Gann Hall
10 State Corrections Policy - Richard C. Fording
11 Fiscal Policy in the American States - Robert C. Lowry
12 State Health and Welfare Programs - Colleen M. Grogan, Michael K. Gusmano, and Richard C. Fording
13 The Politics of Education - Michael B. Berkman and Eric Plutzer
14 The Politics of Higher Education - Robert C. Lowry and Alisa Hicklin Fryar
15 Environmental Policy - David M. Konisky and Neal D. Woods
16 Economic Development and Infrastructure Policy - Joshua M. Jansa
17 State Bureaucracies - Cynthia J. Bowling
18 Economic and Political Inequality - Elizabeth Rigby
Glossary of Key Terms
Name Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kousser, Thad
Thad Kousser is professor of political science and department chair at the University of California, San Diego. He has served as a legislative aide in the California, New Mexico, and U.S. senates. He is the author of Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism, coauthor of The Power of American Governors and The Logic of American Politics, and coeditor of The New Political Geography of California. Kousser has been awarded the UCSD Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award, has served as coeditor of State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and serves as coeditor for state and local politics of Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Hanson, Russell L.
Russell L. Hanson is professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington, where he has taught since 1980. He is interested in American federalism and has published articles on political culture, economic development, and social policy in the American states. Among his edited books are Reconsidering the Democratic Public (1993) and Governing Partners: State–Local Relations in the United States (1998). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Western Political Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and Economic Development Quarterly.

Gray, Virginia H.
Virginia Gray is the Robert Watson Winston Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches and does research on state politics, public policy, and interest groups. She has published numerous refereed articles and books on these topics, most recently The Organizational Ecology of Interest Communities: Assessment and Agenda (2015), coedited with David Lowery and Darren Halpin. In 2007, she was recognized with the Career Achievement Award of the State Politics and Policy Organized Section of the American Political Science Association, and in 2013, the Virginia Gray Book Award was created by the State Politics Section in her honor.