Politics in the American States, 10th Edition
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.
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The Best Job in Politics: Exploring How Governors Succeed as Policy Leaders
Governors—both in, and now out office—see the job as the best in politics. Why is that? Drawing on a survey of former governors, personal interviews, as well as gubernatorial memoirs and biographies, Rosenthal shows students how and why governors succeed as policy leaders and makes a case as to why some governors are better at leveraging the institutional advantages of the office.
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Politics in the American States, 10th Edition
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Bio(s)
Virginia Gray, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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 articles and books on these topics, including The Population Ecology of Interest Representation (with David Lowery) and Minnesota Politics and Government (with Daniel Elazar and Wyman Spano). In 2007, Gray received the APSA State Politics and Policy Career Achievement Award, which is awarded every two years to a political scientist who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the study of politics and public policy in the American states.
Russell L. Hanson, Indiana University
Russell L. Hanson is professor of political science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has taught since 1980. He is interested in federalism and American political development, and has published several articles on political culture and policymaking in the states. Among the books he has edited are Governing Partners: State-Local Relations in the United States and Reconsidering the Democratic Public (with George Marcus).
Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego
Thad Kousser is associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego and director of the California Constitutional Reform Project at Stanford
University’s Lane Center for the West. He has served as a legislative aide in the California, New Mexico, and United States Senates. He is the author of
Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism, which won the APSA Legislative Studies Section’s Alan Rosenthal Prize, and the co-editor of
The New Political Geography of California, 10th edition. He is also co-author (with Samuel Kernell and Gary C. Jacobson) of
The Logic of American Politics, 5th edition. He has been awarded the UCSD Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and serves as co-editor of the journal
State Politics and Policy Quarterly.Alan Rosenthal, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University
Alan Rosenthal is professor of public policy and political science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. He has written extensively on state legislatures and state politics. His books include: The Third House--Lobbyists and Lobbying in the States (Revised ed. 2001); The Decline of Representative Democracy (1998); Heavy Lifting--The Job of the American Legislature (2004); and Engines of Democracy--Politics and Policymaking in State Legislatures(2009). In recognition of the contribution his published work and career has made to "the art of government through the application of social science research" he was given a lifetime achievement award by the American Political Science Association.
Rosenthal has worked with legislatures across the country. In 2006 he was given an award for lifetime achievement from NCSL and SLLF. In his home state, New Jersey, he chaired the Ad Hoc Commission on Legislative Ethics and Campaign Finance. In 1992 and 2001 he was selected to chair the New Jersey Congressional Redistricting Commission and in 2011 he was chosen to serve as the eleventh member of the State Legislative Apportionment Commission. He also has chaired the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards, a committee of the New Jersey Legislature. In 1993 he received the Governor's award for Public Service in New Jersey.
