Curriculum Vitae

Paula D. McClain

Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0067

(919) 660-4303 (office)

(email)

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Analysis Center, The Wharton School	University of Pennsylvania	1982
University of Michigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research		1979
University of Michigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research		1978
Ph.D.	Howard University	1977
M.A.	Howard University	1974
B.A.	Howard University	1972

Areas of Research: Racial politics and Urban politics

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Dean, The Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education, The Graduate School, July 1, 2013 - present

Professor, Department of Political Science, September 2000-present

Joint appointments: Sanford Institute of Public Policy

University of Virginia: Professor, Shannon Center for Advanced Studies, 1997-1998

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia: Professor, Woodrow Wilson Departmen of Government and Foreign Affairs, September 1991-August 2000

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona: Professor, School of Public Affairs, August 1990-August 1991

Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, August 1982-August 1990

Acting Director, Doctorate of Public Administration Program, 1990

University of Pennsylvania: Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate, Analysis Center, The Wharton School, September 1981-July 1982

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, August 1980-August 1981

: Assistant Professor, Departments of Political Science and Afro-American Studies, September 1977-August 1980

Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Consultant, Social Science Research Center, July 1976

Produced a "Social Science Research Resource Manual"

Annapolis, Maryland

Consultant, Adaptive Systems, February-March 1976

Interviewed Pennsylvania State officials concerning CETA Program effectiveness.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Intern, Office of Compliance, November 1971-June 1974

Responsibilities: Research and reply to Congressional inquiries concerning the status of charges, also participated in the briefing and researching of violations of discrimination in the utility of industry.

U.S. Senator Birch Bayh (D. Indiana)

Special Assistant, February 1971-October 1971

Responsibilities: Research and legislation on welfare, child care, drugs and education. Supervisor: Mr. Gordon Alexander.

Trans-Century Corporation

Administrative Assistant, July 1970-February 1971

serving the Project Director and three other staff members of the Peace Corps Transition Center. Responsibilities included processing and preparation of all returned volunteer invitations; drafting part of the Directors correspondence; advising

National Coordinating Council on Drug Abuse Education and Information

Program Coordinator, April 1970-July 1970

Duties included development of programs on drug abuse education and executing various public relations responsibilities.

Office of Senator Mike Gravel (D. Alaska)

Intern, August 1969-April 1970

Main responsibilities included legislative research and a limited amount of casework with various federal departments.

Office of Congressman Howard Pollock (R. Alaska)

Intern, August 1968-August 1969

Main responsibilities included reception duties and legislative research.

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Manning Dauer Award, Southern Political Science Association
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011 Winner of the Best Textbook on topics of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics published in 2010, Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section, American Political Science Association, August, 2011
2011 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Graduate School, Duke University, April, 2011
Frank J. Goodnow Distinguished Service Award, American Political Science Association, August, 2007
Meta Mentor Award, Women’s Caucus for Political Science, American Political Science Association., August, 2007
Frank Goodnow Award, American Political Science Association
Aaron Wildavsky Award for Best Book in Public Policy, Policy Studies Organization, 1997
Award for the Best Scholarship on the Subject of Intolerance in North America, The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, 1996
Award in Recognition of Excellence in Scholarship and Service to the Profession, American Political Science Association, 1995
Best Book Award for Race, Place, and Risk: Black Homicide in Urban America, National Conference of Black Political Scientists, 1995
Miriam Mills Award, Policy Studies Organization, 1994
Distinguished Ph.D. Alumni Award, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Howard University, 1993
National Research Council, National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Fellowship Program, 1993, 1994
Award for Excellence in Teaching, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, 1989-1990
Award for Excellence in Research, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, 1988-1989
Award for Excellence in Service, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, 1987-1988
Outstanding Achievement Award for Service, College of Public Programs, Arizona State University, 1987-1988
"Best Paper on Black Politics Award" with Albert K. Karnig, Western Political Science Association, 1984
Honorable Mention Acknowledgement for the American Association of University Women's Recognition for Young Scholars, 1984
Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research Fellow, San Francisco, CA, 1982-1983
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Atlanta, GA, Southern Fellowships Fund (Ford Foundation), 1981-1982
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Analysis Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1981-1982
one of the Outstanding Young Women of America for 1980, 1980
Visiting Research Student, Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., January-June 1977
Graduate Fellowships for Black Americans, National Fellowships Fund (Ford Foundation), Atlanta, GA, 1976-1977
Departmental Fellowship, Department of Political Science, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1974-75 and 1975-76
Lucy Moten Research Fellowship, Howard University, Washington, D.C., Summer 1974
Phi Sigma Alpha (Gamma Kappa Chapter), Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1972

Conferences Organized: Co-Convenor, REGSS Spring Conference: "W(h)ither the Voting Rights Act", April 10, 2006; Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Symposium "Minority Administrators in the West", July 1, 1984

Professional Service

Dept Officer: Department Chair, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, 1994-1997

Dept Committees: Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2010 - present; Chair, Race, Ethnicity and Politics Qualifying Exam, 2010 - present; Chair, Behavior and Identities Field, 2010 - present; Graduate Affairs Committee, 2009 - 2010; Targets of Opportunity Faculty Search Committee, December 2009
Chaired the committee to try to recruit Rodney Hero. We were not successful.; American Politics Search Committee, January 2005; Member, American Politics Search Committee, January 2005; Chair, Race, Ethnicity and Politics Search Committee, 2002-2003

A&S Council: Social Science Representative, Academic Council, 2010 - present

University Committee: Chair, Judicial Review Board, 2010 - present; Member, Provost's Faculty Diversity Committee, 2010 - present; Provost's Faculty Diversity Working Group, 2010 - present; Provost's Faculty Survey Working Group, 2010 - present; Chair, Blair Shepard, Dean of Fuqua, Review Committee, 2010 - present; Member as Past Chair of Academic Council, Board of Trustees Trustee Nominations Committee, 2009 - present; Member, Arts and Science Council Budget Task Force, 2002; Member, University Librarian Search Committee, 1992; Member, Numerous college and departmental committees; Member, Numerous University search committees, college and departmental committees; Member, Provost's Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, 2001-2005; Member, Provost's Diversity Task Force, 2002-2003; Chair, Provost's Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, 2002-2003
(on leave 2003-2004); Member, President's Athletic Department Task Force, 1999-2000; Member, Provost's Promotions and Tenure Committee, 1996-2000; Chair, Director of Carter G. Woodson Center for Afro-American and African Studies Search Committee, 1998-1999; Member, Darden Dean Search Committee, 1996-1997; Member, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service Director Search Committee, 1996; Chair, Director of Carter G. Woodson Center for Afro-American and African Studies Search Committee, 1995-1996; Member, Athletic Director Search Committee, 1995; Member, Provost Search Committee, 1994; Member, College of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1993-1994; Member, Arts and Sciences Dean's Budget Reduction Committee, 1992-1993; Member, Doctorate of Public Administration Executive Committee, 1988-1991; Member, Committee on Law and Social Sciences, 1987-1991; Co-chair, Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Committee, 1989-1990; Member, Campus Environment Team, 1989-1990; Member, College of Public Programs Personnel Committee, 1987-1988; Member, Human Subjects Research Review Board, 1985-1988; Member, Board, Faculty Women's Association, 1984-1988; Member, President's Minority Advisory Council, 1985-1987; Member, Women's Studies Advisory Committee, 1984-1987; Member, Board on Equal Opportunity, 1984-1987; Member, Curriculum Committee, 1978-1981; Member, Institutional Review Board, 1978-1980

University Services: Co-Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Science, 2004 - present; Program Director, Race, Ethnicity and Politics Program, September 2000-present; Director, Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, September 2000-present; Director, Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, 1995 - present; Chair, Academic Council, July 01, 2007 - June 30, 2009; Co-Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences, Social Science Research Institute, January 2005; Director, Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, 1996-2000; Director, Mid-Career Executive Program, 1993-1994; Director, Master of Arts in Public Administration and Public Policy Program, 1992-1994

Papers Refereed: REU Review Panel, National Science Foundation, October 16, 2006; tenure/promotion committees, tenure/promotion committees. January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009, January 01, 2009 - December 31, 2009
I did tenure and promotion reviews for: The Ohio State University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Rochester, Emory University, and Purdue University

Special Projects: Member of the Board, Board of Overseers, American National Election Study, 2006 -
As a member of the Board of Overseers for the American National Election Study, I am pleased that we successfully completed the 2008 American National Election Study. We are now working on the 2012 study.; Co-Editor, Book series for Rowman and Littlefield and the University Press of Virginia, 2000 - present; Reviewer, Tenure and promotin reviews, November 2010; Member of the Committee, Search Committee for new Editor of the American Political Science Review, December 2006

Other: Member, Organizational Membership, current
American Political Science Association Midwest Political Science Association National Conference of Black Political Scientists Western Political Science Association Southwest Political Science Association Southern Political Science Association International Political Science Association IPSA Research Committee on Socio-Political Pluralism Policy Studies Organization Women's Caucus for Political Science Homicide Research Working Group; Article Reviewer, current
American Journal of Political Science Western Political Quarterly National Political Science Review American Politics Quarterly Women and Politics Journal of Criminal Justice Social Science Quarterly Journal of Policy History American Review of Politics Policy Studies Review Urban Affairs Quarterly Economic Development Quarterly International Studies Quarterly The Social Science Journal Journal of Politics Policy Studies Journal American Political Science Review; Manuscript reviewer, current
Prentice-Hall, Inc. Longman, Inc. Scott, Foresman and Co. Harper Collins SUNY Press Temple University Press Oxford University Press Wesview Press Holt, Rinehart and Winston Yale University Press University Press of Virginia University of Chicago Russell Sage Foundation; Proposal Reviewer, current
National Science Foundation National Institute of Justice; Co-Editor with Luis R. Fraga, Race, Ethnicity and Politics (Book Series) University Press of Virginia, present; Co-Editor with Joseph Stewart, Jr., The Spectrum Series: Race and Ethnicity in National and Domestic Politics (Book Series), Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, present; Member, Editoiral Board, Dilemmas in American Politics Series, Westview Press, present; Member, Editorial Board, Women and Politics Series, University of Nebraska Press, present; Program Co-Chair, 2003 World Congress, Durham, South Africa, 2003; Member, Advisory Committee, Consortium of Social Science Associations, American Political Science Association, 2001-present; Member, Committee of Visitors, CAREER Program, National Science Foundation, 2001; Member, Committee of Visitors, Social Science Programs, National Science Foundation, 2000; Chair, Annual Meeting Program, Midwest Political Science Association, 1999; Member, Advisory Committee, The Decade of Behavior, 1998 - present; Member, Committee of Visitors, Political Science Program, National Science Foundation, 1997; Member, Program Committee, Western Political Science Association, 1995; Chair, Lifetime Achievement Award Committee, Urban Politics Organized Section, 1994; Co-Chair, 1993 Annual Meeting Program, American Political Science Association, 1993; Co-chair Public Policy and Public Administration section, National Conference of Black Political Scientists, 1991; Member, Program Committee, Western Political Science Association, 1991; Member, Program Committee, Southwest Political Science Association, 1991
Chair, Public Policy and Public Administration section, 1991; Member, Editorial Board, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 1990-present; Member, Best Book Award Committee, Policy Studies Organization, 1990; Program chair, National Conference of Black Political Scientists, 1989; Member, Best Book Award Committee, Policy Studies Organization, 1989; Member and Section Co-Chair, Program Committee, Section, "Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective, APSA, 1988; Member, Editorial Board, American Politics Quarterly, 1987-present; Member, Nominating Committee, National Conference of Black Political Scientists, 1985; Member, Nominating Committee, Women's Caucus for Political Science, 1985; Member, Breckenridge Paper Award Committee, Midwest Political Science Association, 1984; President-elect, President, Past-President, President-elect, President, Past-President. Midwest Political Science Association. 2013 - 2017, 2013-17; President-elect, Southern Political Science Association, 2004-2005; Vice President, International Political Science Association, 2000-2003; Member, Executive Committee, International Political Science Association, 1997-2003; Member, Advisory Committee, Directorate of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation, 1999-2002; Member, Executive Committee, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, 1998-2002; Vice President-elect, Southern Political Science Association, 2000-2001
(Program Chair, 2002); Chair, Committee on the Status of Blacks, Southern Political Science Association, 1998-2000; Member, Advisory Committee on African-Americans in a Diversifying Nation, 1995-2000
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies/National Planning Association; Book Review Editor, National Political Science Review, 1987-2000; Chair, Harold D. Lasswell Award, American Political Science Association, 1998-1999; Member, Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Committee, Southern Political Science Association, 1998-1999; Temporary Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Minority Programs, American Political Science Association, 1997-1998; Member, Task Force on Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, 1996-1998; Member, Executive Council, Urban Politics Organized Section, 1995-1998; Member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Political Science, 1994-1997; Member, Editorial Board, Policy Studies Journal, 1992-1997; Member, Editorial Board, American Review of Politics, 1996-2003; Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Homicide Studies, 1996-2001; Chair, Vicar Search Committee, Trinity Episcopal Church, Charlottesville, VA, 1995-1996; Senior Warden, Trinity Episcopal Church, Charlottesville, VA, 1995-1996; Member, Advisory Panel for the Political Science Program, Social, Behavioral and Economic Research, 1994-1996
Division of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate, National Science Foundation; Vestry, Trinity Episcopal Church, Charlottesvile, VA, 1993-1996; Member, Editoiral Board, Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1992-1996; Member, Editorial Board, American Political Science Review, 1995-2001; Junior Warden, Trinity Episcopal Church, Charlottesville, VA, 1994-1995; Member, Executive Council, Southern Political Science Association, 1992-1995; Member, Council for International Exchange of Scholars(Fulbright), Political Science Review Panel, 1992-1995; Vice President, Administrative Committee, American Political Science Association, 1993-1994; Member, Nominating Committee, American Political Science Association, 1990-1992; Member, Executive Council, Western Political Science Association, 1989-1992; Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Politics, 1991-1996; Member, Urban Crime Task Force, Phoenix Police Department, 1989-1991; Member, National Advisory Committee for project "Liberal Education, Study in Depth, and the Arts and Sciences Major", Association of American Colleges, 1988-1991; Literature Review Editor, Policy Studies Review, 1987-1991; Member, Publications Committee, Policy Studies Organization, 1987-1991; President, National Conference of Black Political Scientists, 1989-1990; Member, Membership Committee, Women's Caucus for Political Science, 1988-1990; Member, Phoenix Bicentennial Commission, 1987-1990; Member, Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, Western Political Science Association, 1986-1990; President-elect, National Conference of Black Political Scientists, 1988-1989; Chair, Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, Western Political Science Association, 1988-1989; Member, Executive Council, American Society for Public Administration-Arizona Chapter, 1987-1989; Member, Executive Council, National Conference of Black Political Scientists, 1986-1988; Member, Leonard D. White Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 1986-1987; Member, Board of Directors, Phoenix Black Theatre Troupe, 1986-1987; Member, Executive Council, American Political Science Association, 1985-1987
(Administrative Committee, 1986-1987); Member, Board of Directors, Phoenix Urban League, 1982-1987; Member, Outside Review Committee, Arizona State Department of Corrections, 1982-1984; Member, Editorial Board, PS, 1980-1983

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Lecture, “Race, Politics and the American Political System,”, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College, April 17, 2013; Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture, “Race, Immigration and Intergroup Relations: Results from Three Southern Cities,”, Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina, March 28, 2013; Keynote Address, North Carolina Political Science Association, Raleigh, NC, February 22, 2013; Lecture and workshop, Postdoctoral and Dissertation Fellows’ Mentoring Program, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, February 16 - 17, 2012; “Diversity in the Discipline,”, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, October 12, 2011; Intergroup Relations in Three Southern Cities, Purdue University, May 04, 2011; "An Era of Change or Politics as Usual? Can Women Find Commonality in Politics Across Race and Culture?", Charlotte, NC, May 19, 2009; An Era of Change or Politics as Usual? Can Women Find Commonality in Politics Across Race and Culture?, Charlotte, NC, 19 May 2009; "Diversity and Equality in the 21st Century America", Vienna, Salzburg, and Linz, Austria, February, 2009; Diversity and Equality in the 21st Century America, Vienna, Salzburg, and Linz, Austria, 1 February 2009; "Teaching the Dynamics of Race and Gender", The Reinvention Center’s National Conference,, November 13, 2008; Teaching the Dynamics of Race and Gender, The Reinvention Center’s National Conference,, 13 November 2008; “The New Politics: A Town Hall Conversation on Race, Class, and Gender in Today’s Electorate,”, Smith College,, April 16, 2008; “Latino National Survey Junior Scholars Conference,”, Center for American Studies, Cornell University, November 1-2, 2007; “Black Americans and Latino Immigrants in a Southern City: Friendly Neighbors or Economic Competitors?”, Princeton University, October 19, 2006; “Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants’ Views of Black Americans.”, The American Empirical Series, Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society (SIQSS), Stanford University, May 31, 2006; Panel and Conference Participant, “Immigrant Political Incorporation,”, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University,, April 21, 2005; Keynote Address, “Alabama Public Affairs Forum: Advancing Women and Minorities in Public Administration.”, Auburn University Montgomery, April 04, 2005; Presented invited paper co-authored with Victoria M. DeFrancesco, 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, Conference on “Immigration to the United States: New Sources and Destinations,” Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY, February 3, 2005; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, March 17, 2004; Delmos Jones Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center, February 5, 2004; Department of Political Science, University of Southern California, April 28, 2003; Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, February 21, 2003; Department of Political Science, Texas A & M University, April 27, 2001; Department of Political Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, April 26, 2001; Department of Politics, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, January 27, 2000; Department of Political Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 9-10, 1998; Department of Politics, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, April 28-May 3, 1998; Department of Political Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, January 29-31, 1997; Department of Political Science, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, November 11-14, 1997; Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture, Department of Government, Colby College, April 2, 1997; Hobart and William Smith Colleges, November 1995; Guest lecturer, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, August 1-2, 1990; Guest lecturer, Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, American Political Science Association, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 13-14, 1989; "Redefining America: Race, Migration and the Politics of Inclusion,", Georgetown University, April 10-11, 2008; "Redefining America: Race, Migration and the Politics of Inclusion,", Georgetown University, April 10-11, 2008; Lecture and workshop, Postdoctoral and Dissertation Fellows’ Mentoring Program, Pennsylvania State University, February 16-17, 2012; Lecture and workshop, Postdoctoral and Dissertation Fellows’ Mentoring Program, Pennsylvania State University, February 1617, 2012; Panel and Conference Participant, “Immigrant Political Incorporation,”, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, April 21-23, 2005; “Immigrant Political Incorporation, Workshop I,”, Center for American Political Studies and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University,, September 14-15, 2007

Doctoral Theses Directed: Efren O. Perez, (2006 - May 12, 2008); Efren O. Perez, No Way José: The Nature and Sequence of U.S. Anti-Immigrant Opinion., (August 01, 2003 - May 12, 2008); Niambi M. Carter, The Black/White Paradigm Revisited: African-Americans Between Race and Immigration in Durham, N.C., (August 01, 2000 - May 09, 2007); James A. Kendrick, "'Kith and Kin' Black British Political Behavior (I cannot recall the exact title), (December 30, 2003 - January 06, 2006); Shayla C. Nunnally, "Racial Socialization and Political Trust", (December 30, 2003 - May 12, 2005)

Publications

Books

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

Monographs

McClain, PD; Hall, JS, 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.
McClain, PD; Rose, HM, Black Homicide and the Urban Environment (1981), Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Mental Health.
McClain, PD, Wisconsin’s Approach to Assist Urban and Other Distressed Areas (1979), National Academy of Public Administration.

Chapters in Books

Brady, DW; Hanlon, AR; McClain, PD; Pitney, JJ, The ethical dilemma for professors, in Trumping Ethical Norms: Teachers, Preachers, Pollsters, and the Media Respond to Donald Trump (January, 2018), pp. 75-108.
Fulkerson, MMC, Foreword, in Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, edited by Grofman, B (January, 2015), pp. ix-x, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
Swaminathan, MS, Foreword (January, 2013), pp. xxii-xxiii.
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., in .Just Neighbors? Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States., edited by Telles, E; Rivera-Salgado, G; Sylvia Zamora, E (2011), Russell Sage Foundation.
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?, in New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Voting,, edited by Junn, J; Haynie, KL (2008), Cambridge University Press.
McClain, PD, “North Carolina’s Response to Latino Immigrants and Immigration.”, in Immigration’s New Frontiers: Experiences from the New Gateway States, edited by Greg Anrig, J; Wang, TA (November, 2006), pp. 7-32, Century Foundation.
McClain, PD; Carter, NM; Brady, MC, Gender and Black presidential politics: From Chisholm to Moseley Braun, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, vol. 27 no. 1-2 (December, 2005), pp. 51-68, Informa UK Limited.
McClain, PD; Brady, MC; Carter, NM; Soto, VMD; Perez, EO, Rebuilding Black Voting Rights Before the Voting Rights Act, in The Voting Rights Act: Security The Ballot, edited by Valelly, RM (2005), Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press.
Rose, HM; McClain, P, 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 Hawkins, DF (2003), Cambridge University Press.
McClain, PD; Tauber, SC, Racial Minority Group Relations in a Multiracial Society, in In Governing American Cities: Immigrants and Inter-Ethnic Coalitions, Competition, and Conflict., edited by Jones-Correa, M; ed, (2001), (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001).
P. McClain, "Foreward", in Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, edited by Bernard Grofman (2000), Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
McClain, P; Joseph Stewart, J, 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 Jackson, JS; Zuckerman, M (2000), Washington D.C.: National Policy Association.
McClain, P, Urban Crime in the United States and Western Europe: A Comparison, in In Handbook on Urban Studies., edited by Paddison, R; ed, UOG (2000), (London: Sage Publications, 2000).
P.D. McClain, Foreward, in The Almanac of Women and Minorities in American Politics, edited by Mart Martin (1999), Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
McClain, PD; Tauber, SC, Wilder’s 1992 Presidential Campaign: A Deracialized Strategy?, in African American Politics and Power, edited by Walton, H (1997), New York: Columbia University Press.
McClain, PD, 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 Rich, WC (1996), New York: Praeger.
McClain, PD, Place Specific and Place-Based Homicide Risk Analysis, in Questions and Answers in Lethal and Non-Lethal Violence 1993, edited by Block, CR; Block, RL (1993), pp. 131-135, Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice (Proceedings of the Second Annual Workshop of the Homicide Research Working Group.).
McClain, PD, Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers, in Black Women in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia, Volume II, edited by Hine, DC; Brown, EB; Terborg-Penn, R (1993), pp. 936-937, Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing Inc..
McClain, PD, Racial Minorities and Agenda Setting: Is There Access and Influence?, in Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy, edited by McClain, PD (1993), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
McClain, PD, Urban Violence: Agendas, Politics, and Problem Redefinition, in Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy, edited by McClain, PD (1993), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
McClain, PD, Minority Group Access and Policy Agenda Setting: An Introduction, in Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy, edited by McClain, PD (1993), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
McClain, PD; Garcia, JA, Expanding Disciplinary Boundaries: Black, Latino and Minority Group Politics in Political Science, in Political Science: The State of the Discipline, 2nd edition, edited by Finifter, AW (1993), pp. 247-279, Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association.
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.
Karnig, AK; McClain, PD, Minority Administrators: Lessons from Practice, in Urban Minority Administrators: Politics, Policy and Style, edited by Karnig, AK; McClain, PD (1988), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
McClain, PD, Saturday Night Specials and Gun Regulation: A Feasible Policy Option, in Firearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy, edited by Kates, DB (1984), New York: Ballinger.
McClain, PD; Hall, JS, 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.
McClain, PD, Introduction to Development Implications of the New Immigration, in Sourcebook on the New Immigration, Book II, edited by Bryce-Laporte, RS (1979), New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books.

Journal Articles

McClain, PD, Crises, race, acknowledgement: The centrality of race, ethnicity, and politics to the future of political science, Perspectives on Politics, vol. 19 no. 1 (March, 2021), pp. 7-18.
McClain, PD, “Trump and racial equality in America? No pretense at all!”, Policy Studies, vol. 42 no. 5-6 (January, 2021), pp. 491-508.
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, vol. 4 no. 3 (July, 2016), pp. 467-482, Informa UK Limited.
McClain, PD, Class Politics, American-Style, Perspectives on Politics, vol. 9 no. 3 (September, 2011), pp. 651-654, Cambridge University Press (CUP).
Martin, PP; McClain, PD; Simpson, A, PAUL LIONEL PURYEAR, SR., Ps: Political Science & Politics, vol. 43 no. 4 (October, 2010), pp. 806-807, Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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, vol. 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, vol. 12 (June 2009) no. 1 (June, 2009), pp. 471-485, ANNUAL REVIEWS.
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).
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, vol. 4 no. 1 (March, 2007), pp. 97.-117., Cambridge University Press (CUP).
McClain, PD, Presidential address. "Racial intergroup relations in a set of cities: A twenty-year perspective", Journal of Politics, vol. 68 no. 4 (November, 2006), pp. 757-770, University of Chicago Press.
McClain, PD, “Racial Intergroup Relations in a Set of Cities: A Twenty-Year Perspective.”, Journal of Politics, vol. 68 no. 4 (November, 2006), pp. 757-770.
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, vol. 68 no. 3 (August, 2006), pp. 571-584, University of Chicago Press.
McClain, PD, 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, Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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, vol. 27 no. 1 (2005), pp. 51-68.
Meier, KJ; McClain, PD; Polinard, JL; Wrinkle, RD, Divided or together? Conflict and cooperation between African Americans and Latinos, Political Research Quarterly, vol. 57 no. 3 (January, 2004), pp. 399-409, SAGE Publications.
McClain, P, Social Capital and Diversity: An Introduction, Perspectives on Politics, vol. 1 no. 1 (2003), pp. 101-102.
Mcclain, PD; Gibson, JL, IPSA Goes to Africa, 2003, Ps: Political Science & Politics, vol. 35 no. 3 (January, 2002), pp. 641-646, Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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, vol. 2 no. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 101-129, SAGE Publications.
McClain, PD; Tauber, SC, Black and Latino Socioeconomic and Political Competition: Has a Decade Made a Difference?, American Politics Quarterly, vol. 26 no. 2 (April, 1998), pp. 101-116.
McClain, PD; Tauber, SC, Black and latino socioeconomic and political competition: Has a decade made a difference?, American Politics Research, vol. 26 no. 2 (January, 1998), pp. 237-252, SAGE Publications.
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, vol. 30 no. 3 (September, 1997), pp. 472-473, Cambridge University Press (CUP).
McClain, PD, Black Politics in the Crossroads? Or, in the Cross-Hairs, American Political Science Review, vol. 90 no. 4 (December, 1996), pp. 867-873, Cambridge University Press (CUP).
Perry, HL; Parent, W, Blacks and the American Political System, American Review of Politics (Spring, 1996), pp. 76-79.
McClain, PD, Thirty Years of Urban Policies: Frankly, my Dears, We Don't Give a Damn!, Urban Affairs Review, vol. 30 no. 5 (May, 1995), pp. 641-644, SAGE Publications.
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, vol. 28 no. 1 (March, 1995), pp. 24-26.
McClain, PD, The Voting Rights Act After Shaw v. Reno, Ps: Political Science & Politics, vol. 28 no. 1 (January, 1995), pp. 24-26, JSTOR.
Swain, CM, Black Faces, Black Interests, Journal of Politics, vol. 56 (November, 1994), pp. 1145-1148.
Grofman, B; Davidson, C, Controversies in Minority Voting: The Voting Rights Act in Perspective, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 22 (May, 1993), pp. 391-392.
McClain, PD, The Changing Dynamics of Urban Politics: Black and Hispanic Municipal Employment--Is There Competition?, Journal of Politics, vol. 55 no. 2 (May, 1993), pp. 399-414, University of Chicago Press.
McClain, PD; Perry, HW, Lucius J. Barker: An Accomplished Career Despite No Crystal Stair, Ps: Political Science and Politics, vol. 25 (December, 1992), pp. 752-756.
McClain, PD, Reconceptualizing Urban Violence: A Policy Analytic Approach, National Political Science Review, vol. 3 (1992), pp. 9-24.
McClain, PD, Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Minority Group Influence: An Introduction, Policy Studies Review, vol. 9 no. 2 (Winter, 1990), pp. 263-272, WILEY.
McClain, PD; Karnig, AK, Black and Hispanic Socioeconomic and Political Competition, American Political Science Review, vol. 84 no. 2 (June, 1990), pp. 535-545, Cambridge University Press (CUP).
McClain, PD, LERATURE REVIEW, Review of Policy Research, vol. 9 no. 4 (January, 1990), pp. 819-819, WILEY.
McClain, PD, LITERATURE REVIEW, Review of Policy Research, vol. 9 no. 3 (January, 1990), pp. 603-603, WILEY.
Hanes Walton, J, When the Marching Stopped: The Politics of Civil Rights Regulatory Agencies, American Political Science Review, vol. 83 (September, 1989), pp. 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, vol. 24 no. 4 (June, 1989), pp. 584-596, SAGE Publications.
McClain, PD, LITERATURE REVIEW, Review of Policy Research, vol. 9 no. 2 (January, 1989), pp. 389-389, WILEY.
McClain, PD, LITERATURE REVIEW, Review of Policy Research, vol. 9 no. 1 (January, 1989), pp. 169-184, WILEY.
McClain, PDM, LITERATURE REVIEW, edited by McClain, PD, Review of Policy Research, vol. 8 no. 4 (January, 1989), pp. 929-929, WILEY.
McClain, PD, BOOK REVIEW FORUM ON THE DEATH PENALTY: MORALITY, LAW, AND PUBLIC POLICY, Review of Policy Research, vol. 8 no. 3 (January, 1989), pp. 717-723, WILEY.
McClain, PD, Arizona 'High Noon: The Recall and Impeachment of Evan Mecham, Ps: Political Science and Politics, vol. 21 no. 3 (Summer, 1988), pp. 628-638, Cambridge University Press (CUP).
McClain, PD, BOOK REVIEW FORUM, Review of Policy Research, vol. 7 no. 4 (January, 1988), pp. 851-851, WILEY.
McClain, PD, LITERATURE REVIEW, Review of Policy Research, vol. 8 no. 2 (January, 1988), pp. 469-469, WILEY.
McClain, PD, LITERATURE REVIEW, Review of Policy Research, vol. 8 no. 1 (January, 1988), pp. 179-198, WILEY.
McClain, PD, A. COMMENTS, Review of Policy Research, vol. 7 no. 3 (January, 1988), pp. 683-683, WILEY.
McClain, PD, Contemporary Women: Policy, Participation and Poverty, Policy Studies Review, vol. 6 no. 1 (1987), pp. 247-250, WILEY.
McClain, PD; Pijawka, DK, Agenda Setting and Non-Decisionmaking: Decommissioning Nuclear Generating Stations, Policy Studies Review, vol. 5 no. 4 (May, 1986), pp. 742-756, WILEY.
Lester, D, Gun Control: Issues and Answers, Journal of Criminal Justice, vol. 14 (1986), pp. 571-572.
Karnig, AK; McClain, PD, The New South and Black Economic and Political Development: Changes from 1970-1980, Western Political Quarterly, vol. 38 (December, 1985), pp. 539-550.
McClain, PD, Urban Neighborhoods, Black Residents and Homicide Risk, Urban Geography, vol. 5 no. 3 (1984), pp. 210-222, Informa UK Limited.
McClain, PD, Firearms Ownership, Gun Control Attitudes and Neighborhood Environment, Law and Policy Quarterly, vol. 5 no. 3 (July, 1983), pp. 299-323, WILEY.
McClain, PD, Possible Outcomes of a 1984 Black Presidential Candidacy, Ps, vol. 16 no. 3 (Summer, 1983), pp. 497-499, Cambridge University Press (CUP) (Reprinted in F.D. Jones, M.O. Adams with S. Anderson and T. Tollerson, Readings in American Political Issues, (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt 1987)..).
McClain, PD, Determinants of Black and White Attitudes Toward Gun Regulation: A Research Note, Journal of Criminal Justice, vol. 11 no. 1 (February, 1983), pp. 77-81, Elsevier BV.
McClain, PD, Black female homicide offenders and victims: Are they from the same population?, Death Education, vol. 6 no. 3 (Fall, 1982), pp. 265-278, Informa UK Limited.
McClain, PD, Black Females and Lethal Violence: Has Time Changed the Circumstances Under Which They Kill?, Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, vol. 13 no. 1 (1982), pp. 13-25, SAGE Publications.
McClain, PD, Environment of Risk and Racial Attitudes Toward Gun Regulation: A Test of the Social Reality Thesis, Journal of Enviornmental Systems, vol. 12 (1982), pp. 229-248.
McClain, PD, Cause of Death - Homicide: A Research Note on Black Females as Homicide Victims, Victimology, vol. 7 (1982), pp. 204-212.
McClain, PD, Social and Environmental Characteristics of Black Female Homicide Offenders, The Western Journal of Black Studies, vol. 5 (Fall, 1981), pp. 224-230.
McClain, PD, Political Alienation: Some Social/Psychological Aspects of the Political Culture of Afro-Canadians, Ethnicity, vol. 6 (December, 1979), pp. 358-372.

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).

Papers In Preparation

P. McClain, Inter-minority Group Competition (August, 2004) (2000 data collection. The data collection has been completed and we are in the process of analyzing the data. We hope to have a paper ready for submission by the end of 2005..).
P. McClain, The Durham Project Intergroup Relations (research in progress) (This is a new project that involves several different projects, but the primary one is to construct a questionnaire assessing black, Latino, and white attitudes toward each other using Durham as the pilot study site. The sample will be drawn by Genysus, a sampling outfit that specializes in drawing minority samples. The plan is to construct the questionnaire during the fall 2001 semester, have it translated into Spanish, and once we have received approval from the IRB, to be in the field during Spring semester 2002. Although the data from Durham will be analyzed and will lead to publications, the overall goal is to use the pilot study as the foundation for a large grant proposal to either a private foundation or the National Science Foundation. At this point, six political science graduate students are involved in the project..).
P. McClain, Inter-minority Group Political and Social Economic Competition (research in progress) (This is an extension of previous research using 1990 census and other data sources to examine the pattern of inter-minority group relations in a set of US cities. There are 98 cities that reached the 10 percent black and 10 percent Latino threshold. This is twice the number of cities in 1980. Data on Asian Americans and American Indians were also collected, when available, for the cities..).
P. McClain, American Governments (research in progress) (This project is an American government textbook to be published by Addison Wesley Longman. This text emphasizes that fact that there is no one American government, but there are thousands of American governments. It also argues that not all citizens are treated equally and equitably by government and that ascribed characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic class and citizenship status, among others, often results in different treatment from government. This text is being co-authored with Steven C. Tauber, University of South Florida..).

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