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

Ch. 1 Racial, Economic, and Gender Inequity in the States – Jamila Michener
Ch. 2 Policy Diffusion and Innovation – Scott J. La Combe
Ch. 3 Parties and Elections in the American States – Joseph Coll, Michael Ritter, Caroline Tolbert
Ch. 4 Interest Groups in the States – Anthony J. Nownes, Adam J. Newmark
Ch. 5 Public Opinion, Representation, and America’s Culture Wars – Justin H. Phillips
Ch. 6. Direct Democracy – Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan
Ch. 7 Legislative Politics in the States – Nancy Martorano Miller, Keith E. Hamm
Ch. 8 Governors and the Executive Branch – Margaret Ferguson, Thad Kousser
Ch. 9 Politics and the Judicial Process – Brent D. Boyea
Ch. 10 Criminal Justice in State and Nation – Brandon R. Davis
Ch. 11 Fiscal Policies: Taxes and Spending in the States – William W. Franko, Christopher Witko
Ch. 12 State Health and Welfare Programs – Colleen M. Grogan, Michael K. Gusmano, Richard C. Fording
Ch. 13 The Politics of Education – A. Lee Hannah, Michael B. Berkman, Eric Plutzer
Ch. 14 Broadband Policy: Geographic Inequality and the Role of the States – Karen Mossberger, Clement Mensah Damoah
Ch. 15 Environmental Policy – David M. Konisky, Neal D. Woods
Ch. 16 Housing Policy – Prentiss A. Dantzler, Zachary D. Wood
Ch. 17 Race and Politics in the American States – Candis Watts Smith
Ch. 18 Economic and Political Inequality – Elizabeth Rigby

Caroline Tolbert is a Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. She was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for her research on voting and state election laws. She is coauthor of Accessible Elections: How State Governments Can Help Americans Vote (2020) and Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities (2021), both with Oxford University Press. The latter won the 2022 Goldsmith Prize for the best book from the Shorenstein Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She is coauthor of three other books on technology and politics, including Digital Cities, Digital Citizenship, and Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide. Digital Citizenship was ranked one of 20 best-selling titles by the American Library Association. She has published widely on political participation, voter turnout, elections, and public opinion. Funded by the National Science Foundation and others, her work seeks to strengthen American democracy and increase participation in politics.