State legislatures in the United States have changed in many ways since the drive for reform
began in the 1960s. Using a modification of Squire's legislative professional index, this …

What factors shape decentralization processes in Latin American federations? This work
reviews and statistically analyzes current approaches on the topic, questions some claims of …

Whether and how governors influence public policies in the US is open to question. This
research tests a model of gubernatorial influence on public policymaking in which …

American chief executives are popularly believed to play a crucial leadership role in the
legislative process, but this role is not well understood by scholars. This article develops a …

Reviewers of the state of state politics research often lament the field's lack of theoretical
progress and its fragmented character These conditions per sist yet a review of this research …

This is the first systematic study to explore the determinants of gubernatorial effectiveness
from a contemporary, comparative state perspective. Factor analysis is employed to devise …

Do state interest group systems develop independently of the legislatures they lobby? The
Energy-Stability-Area model developed by Gray and Lowery (1996) implicitly suggests they …

Although formal gubernatorial powers have often been employed as a surrogate measure of
actual gubernatorial influence, the linkage is more complex than that. This article builds and …

Increasingly, attention has turned to state governments and their economies. This new field
of inquiry has been plagued by a paradox. Specifically, while many observers describe …

The index, however, has become a victim of its own subject. The last quarter century has
seen widespread increases in the formal powers of gover-nors (Sabato 1978; Beyle 1983; …