Publications - Books

Books:

Governing New York State, 5th Edition. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2006 (co-edited with Jeffrey Stonecash).                           

Community Power in a Postreform City: Politics in New York. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

Politics and Structure: Essentials of American National Government, 6th Ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1994 (with Robert O'Connor and Thomas Ingersoll).

Book Chapters:

New York. Political Encyclopedia of U.S. States and Regions. Congressional Quarterly Press (with Jeffrey M. Stonecash and Jessica Boscirino). 2009.                                                                     

The Two New Yorks in the 21st Century: the City and State. In Robert F. Pecorella and Jeffrey Stonecash, (eds.). Governing New York State 5th Ed. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2006. 

The Politics of State Education Aid: Is Demography Destiny?” In Robert F. Pecorella and Jeffrey Stonecash, (eds.). Governing New York State 5th Ed. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2006. 

Upstate and Downstate. In Peter Eisenstadt (ed.). The Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2005.

The Political and Socioeconomic Contexts of State Governance. In The Guide to the New YorkState Legislature, 3rd Ed. Albany, N.Y.: New York State Assembly, 2001. 

The State Legislature: Constitutional Constraints and Institutional Modernization.” In The Guideto the New York State Legislature, 3rdEd. Albany, N.Y.: New York State Assembly, 2001.

The Two New Yorks Revisited: The City and The State in the 1990s. In Jeff Stonecash (ed.). GoverningNew YorkState 4th ed. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2001.

Federal Mandates, State Policy Coalitions, and Hazardous Waste Management in New York. In Jeff Stonecash, Peter Colby, and John White(eds.). New YorkState Today 3rd ed. Albany,  N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1993.

Fiscal Crises and Regime Change: A Contextual Approach to Urban Politics, in Clarence Stone and Heywood Sanders (eds.), The Politics of Urban Development (Lawrence, Kansas:  University of Kansas Press, 1987).

Community Participation and Modernization: A Study of Political Choices, in Dean L. Yarwood (ed.), Public Administration, Politics, and the People. New York: Longman, 1986 (Reprint).         

Recent Book Reviews:

Brian E. Adams, Citizen Lobbyists: Local Efforts to Influence Public Policy. in The Journal of Urban Affairs, Forthcoming.

 Gerald Benjamin and Richard Nathan, Regionalism and Realism: A Study of Governments in theNew York Metropolitan Area (Brookings), in The Journal of Urban Affairs, Forthcoming. 

Jameson W. Doig, Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at thePort of New York Authority (Columbia University Press), in Publius, Vol, 32, No. 3 (Summer 2002): 138-141. 

Sara Liebschutz et al, New YorkStatePolitics: Competition and Compassion (SUNY Press), in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 92, No. 3 (September 1998): 709-710. 

Julia Vitullo Martin, ed., Breaking Away: The Future of Cities (The Twentieth Century Fund), in Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 32, No 4 March 1997): 583-585.