American Politics
The Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy seeks outstanding graduate students to apply for the Dean’s Scholar Award in American Politics. This field includes course work and research in such areas as American political institutions (Congress, the Presidency, the courts, state and local governments), parties and elections, American political development and related historical approaches to American politics, ethnic politics, and federalism.
Scholars in American Politics pursue their research from a variety of methodological perspectives:
Scott Barclay
Courts and judicial processes
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Thomas Church
Law and public policy, environmental politics |
Jose Cruz
Ethnic politics, Latino politics |
James Fossett
Health policy, federalism, intergovernmental relations |
Sally Friedman
Legislative politics, women and politics |
Anne Hildreth
Parties and elections, public opinion |
Alethia Jones
Public policy, American political development |
Michael Malbin
Congress and legislative politics, campaign finance |
Bruce Miroff
Political leadership and the American presidency, American political development |
Robert Nakamura
Policy implementation, environmental politics |
Julie Novkov
American political development, women and politics |
Patricia Strach
Public policy, American political development |
Frank Thompson
Health policy, comparative public administration |
Joseph Zimmerman
State and local politics, federalism |
Selected Publications in American Politics:
Jose Cruz, Identity and Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998)
Sally Friedman, Dilemmas of Representation: Local Politics, National Factors, and the Home Styles of Modern US Congress Members (Albany: SUNY Press, 2007)
John Gunnell, Imagining the American Polity: American Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004)
Susan Herbst, Reading Public Opinion: Political Actors View the Democratic Process (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998)
Michael Malbin (ed.), The Election after Reform: Money, Politics and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (New York: Roman and Littlefield, 2006)
Michael Malbin (ed.), Life After Reform: When the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Meets Politics (New York: Roman and Littlefield, 2004)
Bruce Miroff, Icons of Democracy: American Leaders as Heroes, Aristocrats, Dissenters, and Democrats (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000)
Bruce Miroff, Raymond Seidelman and Todd Swanstrom, The Democratic Debate: An Introduction to American Politics, 4th ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Patricia Strach, All in the Family (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007)
Joseph Zimmerman, Interstate Cooperation: Compacts and Administrative Agreements (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002)
Joseph Zimmerman, Interstate Economic Relations (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004)
Congressional Preemption: Regulatory Federalism (Albany: SUNY Press)
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