Publications

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).

Reports     
Guide to the New York State Legislative, 3rd ed. (editor). Albany: NYS Assembly: 2001.

Community Government. The New York City Charter Revision Commission. New York:  The Urban Research Center, New York University, 1988 (with Joseph Viteritti).

Articles & Chapters
A Preferential Option for the Poor and American Political Culture. Journal of Catholic Social Thought. Forthcoming 2007.

Evaluating Successful Political Internships: A View from the Students’ Seats. Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships (with Jeffrey M. Stonecash) Vol.41, No. 1 (2007): 4-11. 

Forests and Trees: The Role of Academics in Legislative Internships. Journal of Political Science Education, Vol 3, no. 1 (Jan-April 2007): 79-100.

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.

Gubernatorial Powers in New York: The Ongoing Battle.” Government, Law and Policy Journal, volume 7, number 2: 21-24 (with Jeffrey Stonecash) Winter 2005.

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

Equity in State Education Spending: ‘Money Doesn’t Talk, It Swears.’ Vincentian Chair of Social Justice, Volume 5, 1999 Presentations: 2001. Vincentian Center: St. John’s University, 2001.

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

The State Legislature: Constitutional Constraints and Institutional Modernization.” In The Guide to the New York State Legislature, 3rd Ed. 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.).  Governing New York State 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 York State Today 3rd ed. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1993.

Measured Decentralization:  The New York City Community Board System, The National Civic Review, vol. 78, no. 3 (May/June 1989): 202-208 1989.

Community Governance:  A Decade of Experience," in Frank Mauro & Gerald Benjamin (editors), Restructuring the New York City Government: The Reemergence of Municipal Reform New York: Annual Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, 1989.              

Community Empowerment Revisited:  Two Decades of Integrative Reform, State and Local Government Review Vol. 20, No. 2(Spring 1988): 72-79.          

Satisfaction with the Intern Experience: Analysis of the New York Assembly Intern Program, The Journal of Cooperative Education (with Jeff Stonecash & Laurel Winegar), Vol. XXV, No. 1 (Fall 1988): 25-43.            

Remediation and Equity:  A Case Study of Gender Integration. Public Personnel Management Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring 1988): 73-82.         

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 Input and the City Budget:  Geographically Based Budgeting in New York City, Journal of Urban Affairs Vol. 8 (Winter 1986): 57-70.

Gender Integration in The Public Sector:  From Sanitationman to Sanitation Worker, Urban Resources Vol. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1986): 15-23.              

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).       

Decentralization in New York City:  A Study of Community Boards, American Society for Public Administration's, Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management, Occasional Paper, July 1985.   

Resident Participation as Agenda Setting:  A Study of Neighborhood-Based Development Corporations, Journal of Urban Affairs Vol. 7 (Fall 1985): 13-29.                         

Coping with Crises: The Politics of Urban Retrenchment, Polity XVII (Winter 1984): 298-317.      

Community Participation and Modernization: A Study of Political Choices, 44 Public Administration Review (May/June 1984): 224-231 (with Curtis Ventriss).           

Rejoinder to Cooper, 44 Public Administration Review November/December 1984): 556.                                                                             

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

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

Rosalind Greenstein & Wim Wiewel, Urban-Suburban InterDependence (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy), in The Journal of Urban Affairs, Forthcoming

Sara Liebschutz et al, New York State Politics: 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.