Statehouse Democracy. (book reviews)

This book brings to completion an ambitious project by Erikson, Wright, and McIver. The book integrates, refines, and elaborates their earlier work on partisanship and ideology across the states. This work presents numerous analyses that make a significant contribution to our understanding of state politics. It is a work that anyone interested in differences across the states should read carefully.

The project was apparently a reaction to the "determinants of state public policy" literature of the 1960s and 1970s, which concluded that socioeconomic conditions are the primary ...

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