Prepared for Panel 30-3, 'Group Mobilization, Partisanship, Ideas, and Leadership: The Los Angeles and New York Mayoral Elections of 2005', September 2, 2006 at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia

Like other old blue collar cities of the Northeast and Midwest, New York City and its surrounding metropolitan area have faced some serious headwinds from deindustrialization, disinvestment, racial succession, white flight, social and cultural conflict, and many other adverse force. Like many...

With all that is at stake in reforming the government of the nation’s largest state, with responsibility for the welfare of 38 million Californians, we know very little about how to make a constitutional convention work. How large should the convention be? Should delegates be elected or...