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Books
- 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]
- 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.
- McClain, PD; Joseph Stewart, J. "Can We All Get Along?" Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2014), 2014.
- McClain, PD; Tauber, SC. American Government in Black and White, 2nd edition. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 2013.
- 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.)
- McClain, PD; Tauber, SC. American Government in Black and White. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010, February, 2010.
- McClain, PD. Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy.
Edited by McClain, PD. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
- 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.)
- McClain, PD. Urban Minority Administrators: Politics, Policy and Style.
Edited by McClain, PD; Karnig, AK. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.
- McClain, PD. Alienation and Resistance: The Political Behavior of Afro-Canadians. San Francisco, CA: R & E Research Associates, 1979.
Journal Articles
- 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]
- McClain, PD. "“Trump and racial equality in America? No pretense at all!”." Policy Studies 42.5-6 (January, 2021): 491-508. [doi] [abs]
- 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]
- 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]
- Martin, PP; McClain, PD; Simpson, A. "PAUL LIONEL PURYEAR, SR.." PS: Political Science & Politics 43.4 (October, 2010): 806-807. [doi] [abs]
- 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).
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- McClain, PD. "“Racial Intergroup Relations in a Set of Cities: A Twenty-Year Perspective.”." Journal of Politics 68.4 (November, 2006): 757-770.
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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]
- McClain, P. "Social Capital and Diversity: An Introduction." Perspectives on Politics 1.1 (2003): 101-102. [doi] [author's comments]
- Mcclain, PD; Gibson, JL. "IPSA Goes to Africa, 2003." PS Political Science and Politics 35.3 (January, 2002): 641-646. [doi]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- Sugrue, TJ. "The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit." Virginia Quarterly Review (October, 1997).
- 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]
- McClain, PD. "Black Politics in the Crossroads? Or, in the Cross-Hairs." American Political Science Review 90.4 (December, 1996): 867-873. [doi]
- Perry, HL; Parent, W. "Blacks and the American Political System." American Review of Politics (Spring, 1996): 76-79.
- 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]
- 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]
- McClain, PD. "The Voting Rights Act After Shaw v. Reno." PS Political Science Politics 28.1 (January, 1995): 24-26. [doi]
- Swain, CM. "Black Faces, Black Interests." Journal of Politics 56 (November, 1994): 1145-1148.
- Grofman, B; Davidson, C. "Controversies in Minority Voting: The Voting Rights Act in Perspective." Contemporary Sociology 22 (May, 1993): 391-392.
- 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]
- McClain, PD; Perry, HW. "Lucius J. Barker: An Accomplished Career Despite No Crystal Stair." PS: Political Science and Politics 25 (December, 1992): 752-756.
- McClain, PD. "Reconceptualizing Urban Violence: A Policy Analytic Approach." National Political Science Review 3 (1992): 9-24.
- McClain, PD. "Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Minority Group Influence: An Introduction." Policy Studies Review 9.2 (Winter, 1990): 263-272. [doi] [abs]
- McClain, PD; Karnig, AK. "Black and Hispanic Socioeconomic and Political Competition." American Political Science Review 84.2 (June, 1990): 535-545. [doi] [abs]
- McClain, PD. "LERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 9.4 (January, 1990): 819-819. [doi]
- McClain, PD. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 9.3 (January, 1990): 603-603. [doi]
- Hanes Walton, J. "When the Marching Stopped: The Politics of Civil Rights Regulatory Agencies." American Political Science Review 83 (September, 1989): 1039-1040.
- 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]
- McClain, PD. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 9.2 (January, 1989): 389-389. [doi]
- McClain, PD. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 9.1 (January, 1989): 169-184. [doi]
- McClain, PDM. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 8.4 (January, 1989): 929-929. [doi]
- 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]
- McClain, PD. "Arizona 'High Noon: The Recall and Impeachment of Evan Mecham." PS: Political Science and Politics 21.3 (Summer, 1988): 628-638. [doi]
- McClain, PD. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 8.2 (January, 1988): 469-469. [doi]
- McClain, PD. "LITERATURE REVIEW." Review of Policy Research 8.1 (January, 1988): 179-198. [doi]
- McClain, PD. "BOOK REVIEW FORUM." Review of Policy Research 7.4 (January, 1988): 851-851. [doi] [abs]
- McClain, PD. "A. COMMENTS." Review of Policy Research 7.3 (January, 1988): 683-683. [doi]
- McClain, PD. "Contemporary Women: Policy, Participation and Poverty." Policy Studies Review 6.1 (1987): 247-250. [doi]
- McClain, PD; Pijawka, DK. "Agenda Setting and Non-Decisionmaking: Decommissioning Nuclear Generating Stations." Policy Studies Review 5.4 (May, 1986): 742-756. [doi] [abs]
- Lester, D. "Gun Control: Issues and Answers." Journal of Criminal Justice 14 (1986): 571-572.
- 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.
- McClain, PD. "Urban Neighborhoods, Black Residents and Homicide Risk." Urban Geography 5.3 (1984): 210-222. [doi] [abs]
- 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]
- McClain, PD. "Firearms Ownership, Gun Control Attitudes and Neighborhood Environment." Law and Policy Quarterly 5.3 (July, 1983): 299-323. [doi] [abs]
- 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]
- McClain, PD. "Black female homicide offenders and victims: Are they from the same population?." Death Education 6.3 (Fall, 1982): 265-278. [doi] [abs]
- 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.
- McClain, PD. "Cause of Death - Homicide: A Research Note on Black Females as Homicide Victims." Victimology 7 (1982): 204-212.
- 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]
- McClain, PD. "Social and Environmental Characteristics of Black Female Homicide Offenders." The Western Journal of Black Studies 5 (Fall, 1981): 224-230.
- McClain, PD. "Political Alienation: Some Social/Psychological Aspects of the Political Culture of Afro-Canadians." Ethnicity 6 (December, 1979): 358-372.
Chapters in Books
- 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]
- Fulkerson, MMC. "Foreword." Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Ed. Grofman, B Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, January, 2015: ix-x. [doi]
- Swaminathan, MS. "Foreword." January, 2013: xxii-xxiii. [doi]
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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]
- 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
- 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
- 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
- P. McClain. ""Foreward"." Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Ed. Bernard Grofman Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000
- 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
- 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
- P.D. McClain. "Foreward." The Almanac of Women and Minorities in American Politics.
Ed. Mart Martin Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- McClain, PD; Rose, HM. Black Homicide and the Urban Environment. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Mental Health, 1981.
- McClain, PD. Wisconsin’s Approach to Assist Urban and Other Distressed Areas. National Academy of Public Administration, 1979.
Papers Accepted
- 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]
