Links to Selected Publications
Books & Book Chapters
Forthcoming. Fischer, Marilyn, Carol Nackenoff, and Wendy Chmielewski, eds. 2009. Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
1999. Gendered citizenship : alternative narratives of political incorporation in the United States, 1875-1925. In The liberal tradition in American politics: reassessing the legacy of American liberalism, ed. David F. Ericson and Louisa Bertch Green, 137-168. New York: Routledge.
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1994. The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Articles
2006. "Is There a Political Tilt to "Juristocracy"?" Maryland Law Review. 65 (1): 139-151. Read it.
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2005. "Locke, Alger, and Atomistic Individualism Fifty Years Later: Revisiting Louis Hartz' Liberal Tradition in America". Studies in American Political Development 19 (2): 206-215.
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1992. Of factories and failures: Exploring the Invisible Factory Gates of Horatio Alger, Jr. Journal of Popular Culture 25 (4): 63-80.
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1983. Economic Dualism and What It Means to American Labor Force Participants. The Journal of Politics 45(1): 110-142.
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1982. O'Connor's Sectoral Model of the United States Economy: Examining Some Political Consequences. British Journal of Political Science 12(2): 227-239.
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Book Reviews
2007. Become the change we seek! Review of Taking action, saving lives: Our duties to protect environmental and public health by K. Shrader-Frechette. America 197 (9): 34-37.
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2006. In the hot seat. Review of The Weather makers: How man is changing the climate and what it means for life on earth by T. Flannery. America 195 (8): 30-31.
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2005. Politics Over Policy. Review of One Nation, Uninsured, by Jill Quadagno. America (September 12).
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2004. Protecting the Planet. Review of Red Sky at Morning, by James Gustave Speth. America (October 4).
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2002. Review of Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive and New Deal Years, by Julie Novkov. American Political Science Review 96(4): 830-831.
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1999. Charter of liberty. Review of The Bill of Rights : Creation and Reconstruction, by Akhil Reed Amar. America 180 (15): 27-29.
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1999. Contested Terrain: Understanding the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. Review of The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics, by Michael Goldfield; Facing up to the American Dream, by Jennifer Hochschild; Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State, by Robert C. Lieberman; Voting Hopes or Fears? by Keith Reeves; and Reaching beyond Race, by Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines. Polity 31 (4): 683-691.
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1999. East Coast Men of Conscience. Review of Mugwumps: Public Moralists of the Gilded Age, by David M. Tucker. The Review of Politics 61(3): 549-551.
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1998. Review of African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965, edited by Ann D. Gordon and How Long? How Long?: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights, by Belinda Robnett. The American Political Science Review 92(3): 705-707.
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Other
2004. Supremology: Has William Rehnquist lost his court?. Round table discussion moderated by Roger Cossak.
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