POLS 5200 Seminar American State Politics
POLS 520: Seminar in American State Politics
Political Behavior and Participation in the States
Required Readings
{ Wolnger, Raymond E., Benjamin Highton, and Megan Mullin. 2005. \How Post-
registration Laws Aect the Turnout of Citizens Registered to Vote.” State Politics and
Policy Quarterly 5(1):1-23.
{ Tucker, Harvey. 1986. \Contextual Models of Participation in U.S. State Legislative
Elections” Western Politics Quarterly: 67-78.
{ Knack, Stephen. 1995. \Does Motor Voter work? Evidence from State-level Data”
Journal of Politics 57 :796-811.
{ Jackson, Robert. 1997. \The Mobilization of U.S. State Electorates in the 1988 and
1990 Elections” Journal of Politics 59: 520-537.
{ Brown,Robert, Robert Jackson, and Gerald Wright. 1999. \Registration, Turnout, and
State Party Systems” Political Research Quarterly 52: 463-480.
{ Jackson, Robert A. and Thomas M. Carsey 2007. \U.S. Senate Campaigns, Negative
Advertising, and Voter Mobilization in the 1998 Midterm Election.” Electoral Studies
26(1):180-95.
Recommended Readings
{ Hill Kim Quaille. 1994. Democracy in the Fifty States. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press.
{ Bryan, Frank M. 2004. Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How it
Works. University of Chicago Press.
{ Gerber, Elisabeth and Rebecca Morton. 1998. \Primary Election Systems and Repre-
sentation.” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 14: 304-324.
{ Springer, Melanie J. 2012. \State Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout in Presiden-
tial Elections.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 12(3): 252-83.
{ Lowry, Robert, James Alt, and Karen Ferree. 1998. \Fiscal Policy Outcomes and
Electoral Accountability in the American States.” American Political Science Review,
92:759-74.
{ McDonald, Michael P. 2004. \A Comparative Analysis of U.S. State Redistricting Insti-
tutions.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 4(4): 371-396.
{ Kousser, Thad and Megan Mullin. 2007. \Does Voting by Mail Increase Participation?
Using Matching to Analyze a Natural Experiment.” Political Analysis 15: 428-45.
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