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State Policy
Recent Scholarship
Binding Choices: Tax Elections and Federal/State Conformity
: Field, Heather M. (Social Science Research Network), 2012
Highlights
: Examines more closely the conformity of state tax laws to federal laws and the binding of the state taxpayer to their federal tax choices
Broad Bills or Particularistic Policy? Historical Patterns in American State Legislatures
: Gamm, Gerald and Kousser, Thad (American Political Science Review), 2010
Highlights
: Explores the factors causing state legislatures to create narrow legislation tailored to local interests as opposed to broad policies
Determinants of Policy Introduction and Bill Adoption: Examining Minimum Wage Increases in the American States, 1997-2006, The
: Whitaker, Eric A.; Herian, Mitchel N.; Larimer, Christopher W. and Lang, Michael (Policy Studies Journal), 2012
Highlights
: Examines the factors that influence legislative efforts to pass wage increases
Immigrants Across the U.S. Federal Laboratory: Explaining State-Level Innovation in Immigration Policy
: Boushey, Graeme and Luedtke, Adam (State Politics and Policy Quarterly), 2011
Highlights
: Explores incentives and political pressures that lead to immigration policy adoption and innovation among the states
Public Opinion and Dynamic Representations in the States: the Case of Environmental Attitudes
: Johnson, Martin; Brace, Paul and Arceneaux, Kevin (Social Science Quarterly), 2005
Highlights
: Investigates the relationship between environmental conditions, attitudes, and policies in the states
Public Welfare Spending and Private Social Services in U.S. States
: Lowery, Robert C. (State Politics and Policy Quarterly), 2013
Highlights
: Focuses on the relationship between public transfers or Medicaid and other public welfare such as contracts and grants to private social services providers
Road to S.B. 1070: How Arizona Became Ground Zero for the Immigrants' Rights Movement & the Continuing Struggle for Latino Civil Rights in America
: Campbell, Kristina M. (Harvard Latino Law Review), 2011
Highlights
: A criticism of the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act that argues that institutional capacity has been used to oppress minorities in Arizona and other states
Urban Politics in the State Arena
: Burns, Nancy; Evans, Laura; Gamm, Gerald and McConnaughy, Corrine (Studies in American Political Development), 2009
Highlights
: Seeks to explain how states govern big cities