Politics in the American States

10. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-60871-998-3
Verlag: CQ Press

Buch, Englisch, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 904 g

Fully updated—and with new coeditor Thad Kousser—the tenth edition brings together the high caliber research you expect from this trusted text, with comprehensive and comparative analysis of the fifty states. Students will appreciate the book's glossary, the fully up-todate tables and figures, and the maps showcasing comparative data. A companion website includes downloadable graphics and data.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Virginia H.

Hanson, Russell L.

Kousser, Thad

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Socioeconomic and Political Context of States - Virginia Gray

Intergovernmental Relations - Russell L. Hanson

Parties and Elections - Thomas M. Holbrook and Raymond J. La Raja

Interest Groups in the States - Anthony J. Nownes and Adam Newmark

The Initiative Process - Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan

Legislative Politics in the States - Keith E. Hamm and Gary F. Moncrief

Governors and the Executive Branch - Margaret Ferguson

State Courts: Politics and the Judicial Process - Melinda Gann Hall

State Corrections Policy - John Wooldredge

Fiscal Policy in the American States - Robert C. Lowry

State Health and Welfare Programs - Mark Carl Rom

The Politics of Education - Michael B. Berkman and Eric Plutzer

The Politics of Higher Education - Robert C. Lowry and Alisa Hickin Fryar

Public Opinion and Morality - Justin Phillips

Environmental Policy - David M. Konisky and Neal D. Woods
Economic Development and Infrastructure Policy - Martin Saiz and Susan E. Clarke
Criminal Justice Policy - John Wooldredge
State Health and Welfare Programs - Mark Carl Rom

Über Autor(innen)

Kousser, Thad
Thad Kousser is professor of political science and co-director of the Yankelovich Center 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 and recent editions of Politics in the American States. Kousser has been awarded the UCSD Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award, has served as coeditor of the journals State Politics and Policy Quarterly and 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.