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Books

  1. P.D. McClain, Alienation and Resistance: The Political Behavior of Afro-Canadians (1979), San Francisco, CA: R & E Research Associates .
  2. Urban Minority Administrators: Politics, Policy and Style, edited by P.D. McClain and Albert K. Karnig (1988), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press .
  3. P.D. McClain with Harold M. Rose, Race, Place, and Risk: Black Homicide in Urban America (1990), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press (Winner of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists' 1995 Best Book Award for a previously published book that has made a substantial and continuing contribution..) .
  4. Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy, edited by P.D. McClain (1993), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press .
  5. P.D. McClain, "Can We All Get Along?" Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics (2006), Boulder: Westview Press .

Monographs

  1. P.D. McClain, Wisconsin's Approach to Assist Urban and Other Distressed Areas (1979), National Academy of Public Administration .
  2. P.D. McClain with Harold M. Rose, Black Homicide and the Urban Environment (1981), Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Mental Health .
  3. P.D. McClain with John Stuart Hall, Representation, Participation and the New Pheonix District Election System, in Urban Villages/Council Districts, the Future -- or Frustration? (1984), Tempe, AZ: School of Public Affairs .

Chapters in Books

  1. P.D. McClain, Introduction to Development Implications of the New Immigration, in Sourcebook on the New Immigration, Book II, edited by Roy S. Bryce-Laporte (1979), New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books .
  2. P.D. McClain, Saturday Night Specials and Gun Regulation: A Feasible Policy Option, in Firearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy, edited by D. B. Kates (1984), New York: Ballinger .
  3. P.D. McClain and Albert K. Karnig, Introduction: Minority Administrators - Another Frontier, in Urban Minority Administrators: Politics, Policy and Style, edited by Albert K. Karnig and Paula D. McClain (1988), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press .
  4. Albert K. Karnig and Paula D. McClain, Minority Administrators: Lessons from Practice, in Urban Minority Administrators: Politics, Policy and Style, edited by Albert K. Karnig and Paula D. McClain (1988), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press .
  5. P.D. McClain and John A. Garcia, Expanding Disciplinary Boundaries: Black, Latino and Minority Group Politics in Political Science, in Political Science: The State of the Discipline, 2nd edition, edited by Ada W. Finifter (1993), pp. 247-279, Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association .
  6. P.D. McClain, Minority Group Access and Policy Agenda Setting: An Introduction, in Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy, edited by Paula D. McClain (1993), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press .
  7. P.D. McClain, Urban Violence: Agendas, Politics, and Problem Redefinition, in Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy, edited by Paula D. McClain (1993), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press .
  8. P.D. McClain, Racial Minorities and Agenda Setting: Is There Access and Influence?, in Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy, edited by Paula D. McClain (1993), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press .
  9. P.D. McClain, Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers, in Black Women in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia, Volume II, edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (1993), pp. 936-937, Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing Inc. .
  10. P.D. McClain, Coalition and Competition: Patterns of Black-Latino Relations in Urban Poltiics, in From Polemics to Practice: Forging Political Coalitions Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities, edited by Wilbur C. Rich (1996), New York: Praeger .
  11. P.D. McClain and Steven C. Tauber, Wilder's 1992 Presidential Campaign: A Deracialized Strategy?, in African American Politics and Power, edited by Hanes Walton (1997), New York: Columbia University Press .
  12. P.D. McClain, Foreward, in The Almanac of Women and Minorities in American Politics, edited by Mart Martin (1999), Boulder, CO: Westview Press .
  13. P.D. McClain, Foreward, in Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, edited by Bernard Grofman (2000), pp. ix-xiii, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia .
  14. P. McClain, Urban Crime in the United States and Western Europe: A Comparison, in In Handbook on Urban Studies., edited by R. Paddison, University of Glasgow (ed. (2000), (London: Sage Publications, 2000) .
  15. P. McClain, "Foreward", in Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, edited by Bernard Grofman (2000), Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia .
  16. P. McClain and Joseph Stewart, Jr., An Overview of Black American Politics and Participation Since the Civil Rights Movement, in New Directions: African Americans in a Diversifying Nation, pp. 207-239, edited by James S. Jackson and Marilyn Zuckerman (2000), Washington D.C.: National Policy Association .
  17. McClain, Paula D., and Steven C. Tauber, Racial Minority Group Relations in a Multiracial Society, in In Governing American Cities: Immigrants and Inter-Ethnic Coalitions, Competition, and Conflict., edited by Michael Jones-Correa, (ed.) (2001), (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001) .
  18. Harold M. Rose and P. McClain, Homicide Risk and Level of Victimization in Two Concentrated Povery Enclaves: A Black/Hispanic Comparison, in Violent Crime: Assessing Race and Ethnic Difference, edited by Darnell F. Hawkins (2003), Cambridge University Press .
  19. McClain, Paula D., Michael C. Brady, Niambi M. Carter, Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, and Efren O. Perez, Rebuilding Black Voting Rights Before the Voting Rights Act, in The Voting Rights Act: Security The Ballot, edited by Richard M. Valelly (2005), Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press .
  20. P.D. McClain, “North Carolina’s Response to Latino Immigrants and Immigration.”, in Immigration's New Frontiers: Experiences from the New Gateway States, edited by Greg Anrig, Jr., and Tova Andrea Wang (November, 2006), pp. 7-32, Century Foundation .
  21. P. McClain, Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, Monique L. Lyle, Niambi M. Carter, Gerald F. Lackey, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, Kendra Davenport Cotton, Shayla C. Nunnally, Thomas J. Scotto, and J. Alan Kendrick., “Black Elites and Latino Immigrant Relations in a Southern City: Do Black Elites and the Black Masses Agree?, in New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Voting,, edited by Jane Junn and Kerry L. Haynie. (2008), Cambridge University Press, .

Journal Articles

  1. P.D. McClain, Political Alienation: Some Social/Psychological Aspects of the Political Culture of Afro-Canadians, Ethnicity, vol. 6 (December, 1979), pp. 358-372 .
  2. P.D. McClain, Social and Environmental Characteristics of Black Female Homicide Offenders, The Western Journal of Black Studies, vol. 5 (Fall, 1981), pp. 224-230 .
  3. P.D. McClain, Cause of Death - Homicide: A Research Note on Black Females as Homicide Victims, Victimology, vol. 7 (1982), pp. 204-212 .
  4. P.D. McClain, Environment of Risk and Racial Attitudes Toward Gun Regulation: A Test of the Social Reality Thesis, Journal of Enviornmental Systems, vol. 12 (1982-1983), pp. 229-248 .
  5. P.D. McClain, Black Females and Lethal Violence: Has Time Changed the Circumstances Under Which They Kill?, Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, vol. 13 (1982-1983), pp. 13-25 .
  6. P.D. McClain, Black Female Homicide Victims and Offenders: Are They From the Same Population?, Death Education, vol. 6 (Fall, 1982), pp. 265-278 .
  7. P.D. McClain, Determinants of Black and White Attitudes Toward Gun Regulation: A Research Note, Journal of Criminal Justice, vol. 11 (February, 1983), pp. 77-81 .
  8. P.D. McClain, Possible Outcomes of a 1984 Black Presidential Candidacy, PS, vol. 16 (Summer, 1983), pp. 497-499 (Reprinted in F.D. Jones, M.O. Adams with S. Anderson and T. Tollerson, Readings in American Political Issues, (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt 1987)..) .
  9. P.D. McClain, Firearms Ownership, Gun Control Attitudes and Neighborhood Environment, Law and Policy Quarterly, vol. 5 (July, 1983), pp. 299-323 .
  10. P.D. McClain, Urban Neighborhoods, Black Residents and Homicide Risk, Urban Geography, vol. 5 (1984), pp. 210-22 .
  11. A.K. Karnig and P.D. McClain, The New South and Black Economic and Political Development: Changes from 1970-1980, Western Political Quarterly, vol. 38 (December, 1985), pp. 539-550 .
  12. P.D. McClain and David K. Pijawka, Agenda Setting and Non-Decisionmaking: Decommissioning Nuclear Generating Stations, Policy Studies Review, vol. 5 (May, 1986), pp. 742-756 .
  13. P.D. McClain, Contemporary Women: Policy, Participation and Poverty, Policy Studies Review, vol. 6 (Autumn 1987), pp. 247-250 .
  14. P.D. McClain, Arizona 'High Noon: The Recall and Impeachment of Evan Mecham, PS: Political Science and Politics, vol. 21 (Summer, 1988), pp. 628-638 .
  15. P.D. McClain, Urban Black Neighborhood Environment and Homicide: A Research Note on a Decade of Change in Four Cities -- 1970-1980, Urban Affairs Quarterly, vol. 24 (June, 1989), pp. 584-596 .
  16. P.D. McClain and Albert K. Karnig, Black and Hispanic Socioeconomic and Political Competition, American Political Science Review (June, 1990), pp. 535-545 .
  17. P.D. McClain, Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Minority Group Influence: An Introduction, Policy Studies Review, vol. 9 (Winter, 1990), pp. 263-272 .
  18. P.D. McClain, Reconceptualizing Urban Violence: A Policy Analytic Approach, National Political Science Review, vol. 3 (1992), pp. 9-24 .
  19. P.D. McClain and H. W. Perry, Lucius J. Barker: An Accomplished Career Despite No Crystal Stair, PS: Political Science and Politics, vol. 25 (December, 1992), pp. 752-756 .
  20. P.D. McClain, Place Specific and Place-Based Homicide Risk Analysis, in Questions and Answers in Lethal and Non-Lethal Violence 1993, edited by Carolyn Rebecca Block and Richard L. Block (1993), pp. 131-135, Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice (Proceedings of the Second Annual Workshop of the Homicide Research Working Group.) .
  21. P.D. McClain, The Changing Dynamics of Urban Politics: Black and Hispanic Municipal Employment--Is There Competition?, Journal of Politics, vol. 55 (May, 1993), pp. 399-414 .
  22. P.D. McClain and Joseph Stewart, Jr., W(h)ither the Voting Rights Act after Shaw v. Reno: Advancing to the Past?, PS: Political Science and Politics, vol. 28 (March, 1995), pp. 24-26 .
  23. P.D. McClain, Thirty Years of Urban Policies: Frankly, my Dears, We Don't Give a Damn!, Urban Affairs Review (May, 1995), pp. 641-644 .
  24. P.D. McClain, Black Politics in the Crossroads? Or, in the Cross-Hairs, American Political Science Review, vol. 90 (December, 1996), pp. 867-873 .
  25. P.D. McClain, Reading more About the Civil Rights Movement: Recommendations from Colleagues Across Disciplines, PS: Political Science and Politics (September, 1997), pp. 472-473 .
  26. P.D. McClain and Steven C. Tauber, Black and Latino Socioeconomic and Political Competition: Has a Decade Made a Difference?, American Politics Quarterly, vol. 26 (April, 1998), pp. 101-116 .
  27. Harold M. Rose and P.D. McClain, Race, Place and Risk Revisited: A Perspective on the Emergence of a New Structural Paradigm, Homicide Studies: An Interdisciplinary and International Journal, vol. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 101-129 .
  28. P. McClain, Social Capital and Diversity: An Introduction, Perspectives on Politics, vol. 1 no. 1 (2003), pp. 101-102  [author's comments].
  29. Kenneth J. Meier, Paula D. McClain, J. L. Polinard, and Robert D. Wrinkle., Divided or Together? Conflict and Cooperation between African Americans and Latinos, Political Research Quarterly 57 (September 2004):399-409. (September, 2004)  [abs].
  30. P.D. McClain, Niambi M. Carter, Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, Monique L. Lyle, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, Shayla C. Nunnally, Thomas J. Scotto, J. Alan Kendrick, Gerald F. Lackey, and Kendra Davenport Cotton., “Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants’ Views of Black Americans.”, Journal of Politics, vol. 68 no. 3 (August, 2006), pp. :571-584. .
  31. P.D. McClain, “Racial Intergroup Relations in a Set of Cities: A Twenty-Year Perspective.”, Journal of Politics, vol. 68 no. 4 (November, 2006), pp. 757-770 .
  32. P. McClain, Monique L. Lyle, Niambi M. Carter, Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, Gerald F. Lackey, Kendra Davenport Cotton, Shayla C. Nunnally, Thomas J. Scotto, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, and J. Alan Kendrick., “Black Americans and Latino Immigrants in a Southern City: Friendly Neighbors or Economic Competitors?”, The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, vol. 4 no. 1 (March, 2007), pp. 97-117. .

Papers Published

  1. P.D. McClain, Niambi M. Carter, and Michael C. Brady, Gender and Black Presidential Politics: From Chisholm to Moseley Braun, The Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, vol. 27 no. 1 (2005), pp. 51-68 .
  2. P.D. McClain, Context Matters! Race, Representation and Public Opinion (a review essay), Dubois Review: Social Science Research on Race, vol. 2 no. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 145-150 .

Papers Accepted

  1. P.D. McClain, Niambi Carter, Victoria DeFrancesco, Monique Lyle, Shayla C. Nunnally, Thomas J. Scotto, J. Alan Kendrick, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, Gerald F. Lackey, and Kendra Davenport Cotton, Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants' Views of Black Americans, Journal of Politics (forthcoming August, 2005)  [abs].

Papers Submitted

  1. P.D. McClain, Victoria DeFrancesco, Monique L. Lyle, Niambi Carter, Gerald F. Lackey, Jeffrey D. Gryvaniski, Kendra Davenport Cotton, Shayla Nunnally, Thomas Scotto and J. Alan Kendrick, Black Elites and Latino Immigrant Relations in a Southern City: Do Black Elites and the Black Masses Agree? (February 3, 2005) (Submitted for a conference on "Immigration to the United States: New Sources and Destinations," sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation, February 3-4, 2005, New York, New York..) .

Book Reviews

  1. David Lester, Gun Control: Issues and Answers, Journal of Criminal Justice, vol. 14 (1986), pp. 571-572 .
  2. Hanes Walton, Jr., When the Marching Stopped: The Politics of Civil Rights Regulatory Agencies, American Political Science Review, vol. 83 (September, 1989), pp. 1039-1040 .
  3. Bernard Grofman and Chandler Davidson, Controversies in Minority Voting: The Voting Rights Act in Perspective, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 22 (May, 1993), pp. 391-392 .
  4. Carol M. Swain, Black Faces, Black Interests, Journal of Politics, vol. 56 (November, 1994), pp. 1145-1148 .
  5. Huey L. Perry and Wayne Parent, Blacks and the American Political System, American Review of Politics (Spring, 1996), pp. 76-79 .
  6. Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, Virginia Quarterly Review (October, 1997) .

Other

  1. P.D. McClain and Joseph Stewart, Jr., "Can We All Get Along? Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics" (2005)  [abs].