by Karl Kurtz
For the last eight years, the state politics and policy section of the American Political Science Association has convened a conference on politics at the state level. This year's conference was entitled "Elections and Representative Democracy in the States". It was held in Philadelphia last week, and over 80 papers were presented. I have never attended this event but have been told by many political scientists that it is the best academic conference for state politics and policy junkies.
Most of these papers are available online and are listed here. Some intriguing titles include "Legislative Regulation of the Initiative," "Candidate Emergence under Clean Elections: Does Public Funding in State Legislative Elections Encourage Citizens to Run for Office?," "Measuring Institutional Power in the American States," and "Uncontested Elections and Legislator Performance, Quality and Effectiveness."
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