Politics in the American States

Virginia Gray is the Robert Watson Winston Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches and does research on state politics, public policy, and interest groups. She has published numerous articles and books on these topics, including The Population Ecology of Interest Representation (with David Lowery) and Minnesota Politics and Government (with Daniel Elazar and Wyman Spano). In 2007 Gray received the APSA State Politics and Policy Career Achievement Award, which is awarded every two years to a political scientist who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the study of politics and public policy in the American states. Russell L. Hanson is professor of political science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has taught since 1980. He is interested in federalism and American political development and has published several articles on political culture and policymaking in the states. Among the books he has edited are Governing Partners: State Local Relations in the United States and Reconsidering the Democratic Public (with George Marcus).Gray, Virginia is the author of 'Politics in the American States', published 2007 under ISBN 9780872893429 and ISBN 0872893421.