Publications of Paula D. McClain    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

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Books

  1. McClain, PD; Johnson Carew, JD. CAN WE ALL GET ALONG?: RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES IN AMERICAN POLITICS, SEVENTH EDITION. January, 2018. 1-374 pp. [doi]  [abs]
  2. P.D. McClain and Joseph Stewart, Jr.. "Can We All Get Along?" Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics 6th edition. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2014), 2014.
  3. McClain, PD; Joseph Stewart, J. "Can We All Get Along?" Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2014), 2014.
  4. McClain, PD; Tauber, SC. American Government in Black and White, 2nd edition. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 2013.
  5. Alt, J; Chambers, S; Garrett, G; Levi, M; McClain, PD. The Encyclopedia of Political Science. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2010, October, 2010. (This encylclopedia consists of five volumes with a total of 1801 pages.)
  6. McClain, PD; Tauber, SC. American Government in Black and White. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010, February, 2010.
  7. McClain, PD. Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy. Edited by McClain, PD. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
  8. McClain, PD; Rose, HM. Race, Place, and Risk: Black Homicide in Urban America. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1990. (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.)
  9. McClain, PD. Urban Minority Administrators: Politics, Policy and Style. Edited by McClain, PD; Karnig, AK. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.
  10. McClain, PD. Alienation and Resistance: The Political Behavior of Afro-Canadians. San Francisco, CA: R & E Research Associates, 1979.

Journal Articles

  1. McClain, PD. "Crises, race, acknowledgement: The centrality of race, ethnicity, and politics to the future of political science." Perspectives on Politics 19.1 (March, 2021): 7-18. [doi]  [abs]
  2. McClain, PD. "“Trump and racial equality in America? No pretense at all!”." Policy Studies 42.5-6 (January, 2021): 491-508. [doi]  [abs]
  3. McClain, PD; Ayee, GYA; Means, TN; Reyes-Barriéntez, AM; Sediqe, NA. "Race, power, and knowledge: tracing the roots of exclusion in the development of political science in the United States." Politics, Groups, and Identities 4.3 (July, 2016): 467-482. [doi]
  4. McClain, PD. "Review Symposium, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer–And Turned its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson." Perspectives on Politics 9.3 (September, 2011): 651-654. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Martin, PP; McClain, PD; Simpson, A. "PAUL LIONEL PURYEAR, SR.." PS: Political Science & Politics 43.4 (October, 2010): 806-807. [doi]  [abs]
  6. McClain, PD; Johnson Carew, JD; Walton, E; Watts, CS. "Group Membership, Group Identity, and Group Consciousness: Measures of Racial Identity in American Politics?." Annual Review of Political Science 12 (August, 2009).
  7. McClain; Paula, D; Jessica, JC; Eugene, W; Jr; Candis, SW. "“Group Membership, Group Identity and Group Consciousness: Evolving Racial Identity in American Politics.”." Annual Review of Political Science 12 (June 2009).1 (June, 2009): 471-485. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  8. McClain, PD; Lyle, ML; Perez, EO; Johnson Carew, JD; Walton, E; Watts, CS; Lackey, GF; Clealand, DP; Nunnally, SC. "Black and White Americans and Latino Immigrants: A Preliminary Look at Attitudes in Three Southern Cities." (2009).  [abs]
  9. McClain, P; Lyle, ML; Carter, NM; Soto, VMD; Lackey, GF; Cotton, KD; Nunnally, SC; Scotto, TJ; Grynaviski, JD; Kendrick, JA. "“Black Americans and Latino Immigrants in a Southern City: Friendly Neighbors or Economic Competitors?”." The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 4.1 (March, 2007): 97.-117.. [doi]  [abs]
  10. McClain, PD. "“Racial Intergroup Relations in a Set of Cities: A Twenty-Year Perspective.”." Journal of Politics 68.4 (November, 2006): 757-770.
  11. McClain, PD. "Presidential address. "Racial intergroup relations in a set of cities: A twenty-year perspective"." Journal of Politics 68.4 (November, 2006): 757-770. [doi]  [abs]
  12. McClain, PD; Carter, NM; DeFrancesco Soto, VM; Lyle, ML; Grynaviski, JD; Nunnally, SC; Scotto, TJ; Kendrick, JA; Lackey, GF; Cotton, KD. "Racial distancing in a Southern city: Latino immigrants' views of black Americans." Journal of Politics 68.3 (August, 2006): 571-584. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  13. McClain, PD. "Context Matters! Race, Representation and Public Opinion (a review essay)." Dubois Review: Social Science Research on Race 2.1 (Spring, 2005): 145-150. [doi]
  14. McClain, PD; DeFrancesco, V; Lyle, ML; Niambi Carter, GFL; Gryvaniski, JD; Cotton, KD; Nunnally, S; Scotto, T; Kendrick, JA. "Black Elites and Latino Immigrant Relations in a Southern City: Do Black Elites and the Black Masses Agree?." (February, 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.)
  15. McClain, PD; Carter, NM; Brady, MC. "Gender and Black Presidential Politics: From Chisholm to Moseley Braun." The Journal of Women, Politics and Policy 27.1 (2005): 51-68.
  16. Meier, KJ; McClain, PD; Polinard, JL; Wrinkle, RD. "Divided or together? Conflict and cooperation between African Americans and Latinos." Political Research Quarterly 57.3 (January, 2004): 399-409. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  17. McClain, P. "Social Capital and Diversity: An Introduction." Perspectives on Politics 1.1 (2003): 101-102. [doi]  [author's comments]
  18. Mcclain, PD; Gibson, JL. "IPSA Goes to Africa, 2003." PS Political Science and Politics 35.3 (January, 2002): 641-646. [doi]
  19. Rose, HM; McClain, PD. "Race, Place and Risk Revisited: A Perspective on the Emergence of a New Structural Paradigm." Homicide Studies: An Interdisciplinary and International Journal 2.2 (May, 1998): 101-129. [doi]  [abs]
  20. McClain, PD; Tauber, SC. "Black and Latino Socioeconomic and Political Competition: Has a Decade Made a Difference?." American Politics Quarterly 26.2 (April, 1998): 101-116.  [abs]
  21. McClain, PD; Tauber, SC. "Black and latino socioeconomic and political competition: Has a decade made a difference?." American Politics Research 26.2 (January, 1998): 237-252. [doi]  [abs]
  22. Sugrue, TJ. "The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit." Virginia Quarterly Review (October, 1997).
  23. McClain, PD. "Reading more About the Civil Rights Movement: Recommendations from Colleagues Across Disciplines." PS: Political Science and Politics 30.3 (September, 1997): 472-473. [doi]
  24. McClain, PD. "Black Politics in the Crossroads? Or, in the Cross-Hairs." American Political Science Review 90.4 (December, 1996): 867-873. [doi]
  25. Perry, HL; Parent, W. "Blacks and the American Political System." American Review of Politics (Spring, 1996): 76-79.
  26. McClain, PD. "Thirty Years of Urban Policies: Frankly, my Dears, We Don't Give a Damn!." Urban Affairs Review 30.5 (May, 1995): 641-644. [doi]
  27. McClain, PD; Stewart, J; Jr. "W(h)ither the Voting Rights Act after Shaw v. Reno: Advancing to the Past?." PS: Political Science and Politics 28.1 (March, 1995): 24-26. [doi]
  28. McClain, PD. "The Voting Rights Act After Shaw v. Reno." PS Political Science Politics 28.1 (January, 1995): 24-26. [doi]
  29. Swain, CM. "Black Faces, Black Interests." Journal of Politics 56 (November, 1994): 1145-1148.
  30. Grofman, B; Davidson, C. "Controversies in Minority Voting: The Voting Rights Act in Perspective." Contemporary Sociology 22 (May, 1993): 391-392.
  31. McClain, PD. "The Changing Dynamics of Urban Politics: Black and Hispanic Municipal Employment--Is There Competition?." Journal of Politics 55.2 (May, 1993): 399-414. [doi]  [abs]
  32. McClain, PD; Perry, HW. "Lucius J. Barker: An Accomplished Career Despite No Crystal Stair." PS: Political Science and Politics 25 (December, 1992): 752-756.
  33. McClain, PD. "Reconceptualizing Urban Violence: A Policy Analytic Approach." National Political Science Review 3 (1992): 9-24.
  34. McClain, PD. "Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Minority Group Influence: An Introduction." Policy Studies Review 9.2 (Winter, 1990): 263-272. [doi]  [abs]
  35. McClain, PD; Karnig, AK. "Black and Hispanic Socioeconomic and Political Competition." American Political Science Review 84.2 (June, 1990): 535-545. [doi]  [abs]
  36. McClain, PD. "LERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 9.4 (January, 1990): 819-819. [doi]
  37. McClain, PD. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 9.3 (January, 1990): 603-603. [doi]
  38. Hanes Walton, J. "When the Marching Stopped: The Politics of Civil Rights Regulatory Agencies." American Political Science Review 83 (September, 1989): 1039-1040.
  39. McClain, PD. "Urban Black Neighborhood Environment and Homicide: A Research Note on a Decade of Change in Four Cities -- 1970-1980." Urban Affairs Quarterly 24.4 (June, 1989): 584-596. [doi]  [abs]
  40. McClain, PD. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 9.2 (January, 1989): 389-389. [doi]
  41. McClain, PD. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 9.1 (January, 1989): 169-184. [doi]
  42. McClain, PDM. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 8.4 (January, 1989): 929-929. [doi]
  43. McClain, PD. "BOOK REVIEW FORUM ON THE DEATH PENALTY: MORALITY, LAW, AND PUBLIC POLICY." Review of Policy Research 8.3 (January, 1989): 717-723. [doi]
  44. McClain, PD. "Arizona 'High Noon: The Recall and Impeachment of Evan Mecham." PS: Political Science and Politics 21.3 (Summer, 1988): 628-638. [doi]
  45. McClain, PD. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 8.2 (January, 1988): 469-469. [doi]
  46. McClain, PD. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 8.1 (January, 1988): 179-198. [doi]
  47. McClain, PD. "BOOK REVIEW FORUM." Review of Policy Research 7.4 (January, 1988): 851-851. [doi]  [abs]
  48. McClain, PD. "A. COMMENTS." Review of Policy Research 7.3 (January, 1988): 683-683. [doi]
  49. McClain, PD. "Contemporary Women: Policy, Participation and Poverty." Policy Studies Review 6.1 (1987): 247-250. [doi]
  50. McClain, PD; Pijawka, DK. "Agenda Setting and Non-Decisionmaking: Decommissioning Nuclear Generating Stations." Policy Studies Review 5.4 (May, 1986): 742-756. [doi]  [abs]
  51. Lester, D. "Gun Control: Issues and Answers." Journal of Criminal Justice 14 (1986): 571-572.
  52. Karnig, AK; McClain, PD. "The New South and Black Economic and Political Development: Changes from 1970-1980." Western Political Quarterly 38 (December, 1985): 539-550.
  53. McClain, PD. "Urban Neighborhoods, Black Residents and Homicide Risk." Urban Geography 5.3 (1984): 210-222. [doi]  [abs]
  54. McClain, PD. "Possible Outcomes of a 1984 Black Presidential Candidacy." PS 16.3 (Summer, 1983): 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).) [doi]
  55. McClain, PD. "Firearms Ownership, Gun Control Attitudes and Neighborhood Environment." Law and Policy Quarterly 5.3 (July, 1983): 299-323. [doi]  [abs]
  56. McClain, PD. "Determinants of Black and White Attitudes Toward Gun Regulation: A Research Note." Journal of Criminal Justice 11.1 (February, 1983): 77-81. [doi]  [abs]
  57. McClain, PD. "Black female homicide offenders and victims: Are they from the same population?." Death Education 6.3 (Fall, 1982): 265-278. [doi]  [abs]
  58. McClain, PD. "Environment of Risk and Racial Attitudes Toward Gun Regulation: A Test of the Social Reality Thesis." Journal of Enviornmental Systems 12 (1982): 229-248.
  59. McClain, PD. "Cause of Death - Homicide: A Research Note on Black Females as Homicide Victims." Victimology 7 (1982): 204-212.
  60. McClain, PD. "Black Females and Lethal Violence: Has Time Changed the Circumstances Under Which They Kill?." Omega: Journal of Death and Dying 13.1 (1982): 13-25. [doi]  [abs]
  61. McClain, PD. "Social and Environmental Characteristics of Black Female Homicide Offenders." The Western Journal of Black Studies 5 (Fall, 1981): 224-230.
  62. McClain, PD. "Political Alienation: Some Social/Psychological Aspects of the Political Culture of Afro-Canadians." Ethnicity 6 (December, 1979): 358-372.

Chapters in Books

  1. Brady, DW; Hanlon, AR; McClain, PD; Pitney, JJ. "The ethical dilemma for professors." Trumping Ethical Norms Teachers Preachers Pollsters and the Media Respond to Donald Trump. January, 2018: 75-108. [doi]  [abs]
  2. Fulkerson, MMC. "Foreword." Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Ed. Grofman, B Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, January, 2015: ix-x. [doi]
  3. Swaminathan, MS. "Foreword."  January, 2013: xxii-xxiii. [doi]
  4. McClain, PD; Lackey, GF; Peréz, EO; Carter, NM; Carew, JJ; Eugene Walton, J; Watts, CS; Lyle, ML; Nunnally, SC. "Intergroup Relations in Three Southern Cities.." .Just Neighbors? Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States.. Ed. Telles, E; Rivera-Salgado, G; Sylvia Zamora, E Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
  5. McClain, P; Soto, VMD; Lyle, ML; Carter, NM; Lackey, GF; Grynaviski, JD; Cotton, KD; Nunnally, SC; Scotto, TJ; Kendrick, JA. "“Black Elites and Latino Immigrant Relations in a Southern City: Do Black Elites and the Black Masses Agree?." New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Voting,. Ed. Junn, J; Haynie, KL Cambridge University Press,, 2008
  6. McClain, PD. "“North Carolina’s Response to Latino Immigrants and Immigration.”." Immigration’s New Frontiers: Experiences from the New Gateway States. Ed. Greg Anrig, J; Wang, TA Century Foundation, November, 2006: 7-32.
  7. McClain, PD; Carter, NM; Brady, MC. "Gender and Black presidential politics: From Chisholm to Moseley Braun."  Informa UK Limited, December, 2005: 51-68. [doi]  [abs]
  8. McClain, PD; Brady, MC; Carter, NM; Soto, VMD; Perez, EO. "Rebuilding Black Voting Rights Before the Voting Rights Act." The Voting Rights Act: Security The Ballot. Ed. Valelly, RM Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2005
  9. Rose, HM; McClain, P. "Homicide Risk and Level of Victimization in Two Concentrated Povery Enclaves: A Black/Hispanic Comparison." Violent Crime: Assessing Race and Ethnic Difference. Ed. Hawkins, DF Cambridge University Press, 2003
  10. McClain, PD; Tauber, SC. "Racial Minority Group Relations in a Multiracial Society." In Governing American Cities: Immigrants and Inter-Ethnic Coalitions, Competition, and Conflict.. Ed. Jones-Correa, M; ed, (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001), 2001
  11. P. McClain. ""Foreward"." Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Ed. Bernard Grofman Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000
  12. McClain, P; Joseph Stewart, J. "An Overview of Black American Politics and Participation Since the Civil Rights Movement." New Directions: African Americans in a Diversifying Nation. Ed. Jackson, JS; Zuckerman, M pp. 207-239Washington D.C.: National Policy Association, 2000
  13. McClain, P. "Urban Crime in the United States and Western Europe: A Comparison." In Handbook on Urban Studies.. Ed. Paddison, R; ed, UOG (London: Sage Publications, 2000), 2000
  14. P.D. McClain. "Foreward." The Almanac of Women and Minorities in American Politics. Ed. Mart Martin Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999
  15. McClain, PD; Tauber, SC. "Wilder’s 1992 Presidential Campaign: A Deracialized Strategy?." African American Politics and Power. Ed. Walton, H New York: Columbia University Press, 1997
  16. McClain, PD. "Coalition and Competition: Patterns of Black-Latino Relations in Urban Poltiics." From Polemics to Practice: Forging Political Coalitions Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Ed. Rich, WC New York: Praeger, 1996
  17. McClain, PD. "Place Specific and Place-Based Homicide Risk Analysis." Questions and Answers in Lethal and Non-Lethal Violence 1993. Ed. Block, CR; Block, RL Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice, 1993: 131-135. Proceedings of the Second Annual Workshop of the Homicide Research Working Group
  18. McClain, PD. "Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers." Black Women in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia, Volume II. Ed. Hine, DC; Brown, EB; Terborg-Penn, R Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1993: 936-937.
  19. McClain, PD. "Racial Minorities and Agenda Setting: Is There Access and Influence?." Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy. Ed. McClain, PD Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993
  20. McClain, PD. "Urban Violence: Agendas, Politics, and Problem Redefinition." Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy. Ed. McClain, PD Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993
  21. McClain, PD. "Minority Group Access and Policy Agenda Setting: An Introduction." Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy. Ed. McClain, PD Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993
  22. McClain, PD; Garcia, JA. "Expanding Disciplinary Boundaries: Black, Latino and Minority Group Politics in Political Science." Political Science: The State of the Discipline. Ed. Finifter, AW 2nd editionWashington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 1993: 247-279.
  23. P.D. McClain and Albert K. Karnig. "Introduction: Minority Administrators - Another Frontier." Urban Minority Administrators: Politics, Policy and Style. Ed. Albert K. Karnig and Paula D. McClain Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988
  24. Karnig, AK; McClain, PD. "Minority Administrators: Lessons from Practice." Urban Minority Administrators: Politics, Policy and Style. Ed. Karnig, AK; McClain, PD Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988
  25. McClain, PD. "Saturday Night Specials and Gun Regulation: A Feasible Policy Option." Firearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy. Ed. Kates, DB New York: Ballinger, 1984
  26. McClain, PD; Hall, JS. "Representation, Participation and the New Pheonix District Election System." Urban Villages/Council Districts, the Future – or Frustration?. Tempe, AZ: School of Public Affairs, 1984
  27. McClain, PD. "Introduction to Development Implications of the New Immigration." Sourcebook on the New Immigration, Book II. Ed. Bryce-Laporte, RS New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1979

Monographs

  1. McClain, PD; Hall, JS. Representation, Participation and the New Pheonix District Election System. Urban Villages/Council Districts, the Future -- or Frustration?. Tempe, AZ: School of Public Affairs, 1984.
  2. McClain, PD; Rose, HM. Black Homicide and the Urban Environment. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Mental Health, 1981.
  3. McClain, PD. Wisconsin’s Approach to Assist Urban and Other Distressed Areas. National Academy of Public Administration, 1979.

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]

Paula D. McClain

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