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Politics in the American States [EPUB ebook] 
A Comparative Analysis

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

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.