Aug 29

No Book Review Presentations this Week

Sept 5

The States As Political Systems

No Book Review Presentations this Week

Sept 12

Federalism: Why so we have it? Does it work? For whom?

1. Paul E. Peterson, The Price of Federalism. Brookings Institution, 1995. 

2. Thomas Anton,  American Federalism and Public Policy: How the System Works. Random House, 1989. 

Sept 19

The State Legislatures: Diversity, Change and Divided Government.

1. Fiorina, Morris P. Divided Government. MacMillan, 1992. 

2. Barber, James David. The Lawmakers. Yale Univ Press, 1965. 

3. Loomis, Burdett, The New American Politician. Basic Books, 1988.

Sept 26

Running for the Legislature

1.  Alan Ehrenhalt, The United States of Ambition. Times Books, 1991 

Oct 3

Redistricting: Party, Incumbency and Minority Representation

No Book Reviews Presentations this Week

Oct 10

Campaign Finance in the States

1. Anthony Gierzynski, Legislative Party Campaign Committees in the American States. University of Kentucky Press, 1992. 

2.  Michael J. Malbin,  and Thomas L. Gais, The Day After Reform: Sobering Campaign Finance Lessons from the American States. Rockefeller Institute Press, 1998.

Oct 17

Lawmaking: Process and Organization
   1. Tom Loftus. The Art of Legislative Politics CQ Press, 1994. 
   2. Sue Thomas. How Women Legislate. Oxford University  Press, 1994. 
   3.. Royce Hanson, Tribune of the People. University of Minnesota Press, 1989.

Oct 24

Committee Systems in the States
   1. Francis, Wayne L. The Legislative Committee Game A Comparative Analysis of Fifty States.  Ohio State University Press, 1989. 

Oct 31

Parties & Leaders in the Legislatures

1. Leon Epstein, Political Parties in the AmericanMoldUniversity of Wisconsin, 1986. 

2. Jewell, Malcolm E., and Marcia Lynn Whicker Leadership in the American States. University of Michigan Press, 1994. 

3. James Richardson, Willie Brown: A Biography. University of California Press, 1996.

Nov 7

Interest Groups

1. Alan Rosenthal, Drawing the Line: Legislative Ethics in the States. University of Nebraska Press, 1996. 

2. Alan Rosenthal, The Third House: Lobbyists and Lobbying in the States. CQ Press, 1993. 

3. Virginia Gray and David Lowery, The Population Ecology of Interest Representation: Lobbying Communities in the American States. University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Nov 14

The Role of the Governor

1. Diane D. Blair,  Arkansas Politics and Government. Lincoln: University ofNebraska Press, 1988. 

2.Tommy Thompson, . Power to the People: An AmericanState at Work. Harper Collins, 1996.

Nov 21

Thanksgiving Break; no class

Nov 28

Policy I: Taxes and Businesses.

1. Paul Brace,  State Government and Economic Performance. Johns Hopkins, 1993. 

2. Susan Hansen, . The Politics of Taxation: Revenue without Representation. Praeger, 1983.

Dec 5 

Policy II: Welfare and the Citizenry

1. Paul E. Peterson  and Mark C. Rom, Welfare Magnets. Brookings Institution, 1990. 

2. Frank Thompson  and John DeIulio. Medicaid and Devolution: The View from the States. Brookings Institution, 1998.