MEDIA COMMENTARY 

For a set of links to recent media commentary please click through to my Storify page.

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Books

Pennsylvania Politics and Policy: A Commonwealth Reader, Volume 2. With Michelle J. Atherton, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019.

Pennsylvania Politics and Policy: A Commonwealth Reader, Volume 1. With Michelle J. Atherton, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018.

Refereed Journal Articles

“Partisan Fractures in U.S. Federalism’s COVID-19 Policy Responses.” with John Kincaid, State and Local Government Review, Forthcoming. 

“Trying Not to Lose Ground: State and Local Government Advocacy During Passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 49 (Summer 2019): 407-436.

“Does Anyone Care About the Poor?: The Role of Redistribution in Mayoral Policy Agendas”, with Michelle Atherton, Nicole Crossey,  Andrea Stickley and Meghan Rubado, State and Local Government Review  47:4 (December 2015): 240-254.

“Federalism and the Pennsylvania Legislature: Partisanship and Intergovernmental Priorities”, with Justin Gollob, Commonwealth: A Journal of Political Science 16:1 (September 2013): 21-40.

“Hippies, Feminists and NeoCons: Using the Big Lebowski to Find the Political in the Non-Political”, PS: Political Science & Politics 46:1 (January 2013): 129-136.

“The Effectiveness of Intergovernmental Lobbying Mechanisms in the American Federal System”, with Justin Gollob, Régionalisme & Fédéralisme / Regionalism & Federalism 12: 2012.

“Telegrams to Washington: Using Memorials to Congress as a Measure of State Attention to the Federal Policy Agenda”, with Justin Gollob, State and Local Government Review, 42:3 (Fall 2010): 235-245.

“The Pennsylvania Policy Database Project: A Model for Comparative Analysis”, with Joseph McLaughlin, Paul Wolfgang, Justin Gollob, Jason Bossie, Jay Jennings and Michelle Atherton, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, 10:3 (Fall 2010): 320-336.

“Hardball: Local Government’s Foray Into Sports Franchise Ownership”, with Joseph Wm. Meder, Journal of Urban Affairs, 24:3 (Fall 2002), 353-368.

“Intergovernmental Lobbying for the Passage of TEA-21” with Joseph R. Marbach, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 32:1 (Winter 2002), 45-64.

Book Chapters

“Pennsylvania Government: An Overview”, with Michelle Atherton, in J. Wesley Leckrone and Michelle Atherton, editors, Pennsylvania Politics and Policy: A Commonwealth Reader, Volume 2, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019.

“Researching Pennsylvania Online”, with Michelle Atherton, in J. Wesley Leckrone and Michelle Atherton, editors, Pennsylvania Politics and Policy: A Commonwealth Reader, Volume 1, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018.

“Federalism, American Public Policy, and the Roberts Court”, in Ives Gandra  da Silva Martins, Carlos Valder do Nascimento and Dirceo Torrecillas Ramos, editors, Studies in Contemporary Constitutional Law, Ilheus-Bahia, Brazil: Editora da UESC, 2014.

“American Federalism in Practice: Intergovernmental Cooperative Tension”, in Dirceo Torrecillas Ramos, editor, The Current Federalist  – A Theory of Federalism, Brazil: Arraes Publishers Limited, 2013.

“The United States Senate”, in Joerg Luther, Paolo Passaglia and Rolando Tarachi, editors,  A World of Second Chambers, Turin, Italy: Centre for Studies on Federalism, Fall 2006.

Invited Policy Briefs

“Federalism and the COVID-19 Crisis in the United States of America”, with John Kincaid, Forum of Federations, April 2020.

“The Politics of Educational Change: What Can We Learn from the School Consolidation Acts of 1961 and 1963?”, Center on Regional Politics, Temple University, Policy Brief, March 2015.

Other Publications

“Think Coding is Hard? Try Finding the Data: A Mixed Methods Case Study of Analyzing Mayors’ Speeches”, with Michelle Atherton, Sage Research Methods Cases, 2018.

“Reaching Consensus and Informing Citizens Through a Wikipedia Assignment”, WikiEdu Blog, February 2, 2018.

“Despite Rising Inequality, Mayors are Still Focusing on Economic Development – Not Redistribution – to Help the Poor”, with Michelle Atherton, London School of Economics US Centre American Politics and Policy Blog, July 12, 2016.

“Experiential Learning in an Inter-Disciplinary, Multiple University Collaboration”. The New American Colleges and University Newsletter. September 10, 2013.

COURSES TAUGHT

POLS 101: American Government and Politics

POLS 201: American State and Local Government

POLS 203: The (Dis)United States: Conflict and Consensus in American Politics

POLS 205: Public Policy

POLS 207: Power and Influence: Interest Groups in American Politics

POLS 208: The Politics and Policy of Higher Education Costs (Honors)

POLS 215: Environmental Politics and Policy

POLS 313: The American Presidency

POLS 314: Congress

POLS 320: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

POLS 394/395: Political Science Practicum

POLS 410/411: Senior Research

PA 503: Public Policy Analysis 

PA 630: Urban Management and Politics

PA 650: Legislative Policy and Process

PA 694: Public Administration Internship