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Canada–US Border Communities: What the People Have to Say (with Ross E. Burkhart), American Review of Canadian Studies (2013)
This paper investigates the Canada-U.S. borderlands relationship along the two geographic corridors as bounded by...
Elite Interviewing: Canada-US Borderlands, SSPA’s Speaker Series, Boise State University (2012)
This presentation discusses the process of interviewing from a study on the Canada-U.S. borderlands relationship...
Canadian Environmental Policy (with Ross Burkhart), Canadian Studies in the New Millennium (forthcoming) (2012)
Canada/U.S. Borderlands: Thunder Bay, Duluth, and Sault Ste. Marie (with Ross Burkhart), Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (2011)
Canadian Environmental Policy: Past and Future (with Ross Burkhart), Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting (2011)
Turmoil in American Public Policy: Science, Democracy, and the Environment (with Ross E. Burkhart and Marc V. Simon), Faculty Authored Books (2010)
This book explores the intricacies of the science-policy linkage that pervades environmental policymaking in a...
Linear Correlation and Regression (with Susan G. Mason), Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration (2008)
Political Culture, Voting Power, and Public Participation in Cross Border Institutions (Moderator/Discussant), Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting (2007)
The Policy Process and the American West: An Environmental Perspective, Environmental Politics and Policy in the West (2007)
Public policy making in the United States rests in a seemingly inexhaustible set of concepts...
Is Spotlighting Enough? Environmental NGOs and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (with Ross E. Burkhart), Canadian-American Public Policy (2006)
The initial questions of our survey questionnaire focused on whether ENGOs were familiar with the...
Scientists’ Perceptions of Objectivity and Advocacy: Making the Linkage of Science to Environmental Policy, Journal of Environmental Systems (2006)
There is no question that science plays a profound role in American public policymaking and...
The Mormon Question: Political Culture and Influence of Latter-Day Saints in Idaho (with Ross E. Burkhart, W. David Patton, and James B. Weatherby), Virginia Social Science Journal (2006)
Differences That Matter: Canada, the United States and Environmental Policymaking (with Ross E. Burkhart), AmeriQuests (2006)
Does the way Canada, as a nation state, approach international environmental policymaking make a difference...
Canada and the United States: Approaches to Global Environmental Policy-Making (with Ross E. Burkhart), International Journal of Canadian Studies (2005)
The purpose of this review essay is to provide a starting point for the evaluation...
Borderland Patterns of Scientific Identity: Canada, the United States, and Acid Rain (with Whitney Parker), Journal of Borderlands Studies (2004)
This study uses the Canada-United States borderlands (as defined by its sensitivity to cross-border acid...
Political Culture and Ideology in the Mountain West: Regionalism in the State of Idaho (with Ross E. Burkhart, W. David Patton, and James B. Weatherby), The Social Science Journal (2004)
Analysis of conflict in state politics based on intrastate regionalism is an important, yet neglected,...
Science and Policy: The View from the World of Scientists, Journal of Environmental Systems (2003)
Given the fundamentally different aims of science and politics, questions continue to swirl around the...
Alberta and Idaho: An Implicit Bond (with Leah Taylor), American Review of Canadian Studies (2003)
The study of regionalism has long been an important element of scholarly work in both...
Intrastate Regional Differences in Political Culture: A Case Study of Idaho (with Ross E. Burkhart, W. David Patton, and James B. Weatherby), State and Local Government Review (2001)
Recent research suggests that regional differences in political attitudes exist over long periods of time,...
Natural Scientists, Social Scientists, and the Environment: A Cross Border Analysis (with Marc V. Simon), Journal of Borderlands Studies (2000)
This study uses interviews with 64 Canadian and 65 United States scientists to compare and...
Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries: The Role of Scientists in the U.S.-Canadian Acid Rain Debate, Faculty Authored Books (2000)
Examines the science-policy linkage that defined the policy debate over acid rain in the United...
Scientists and Environmental Policy: A Canadian-US Perspective, Canadian-American Public Policy (1999)
For this research project, both natural scientists (33 each from the United States and Canada)...
Scientists, Politics, and Environmental Policymaking: The U.S.-Canadian Acid Rain Debate, Handbook of Global Environmental Policy and Administration (1999)
The culmination of separate and bilateral acid rain policies in Canada and the United States...
Lost Credibility?: Scientists, Advocacy and Acid Rain, Journal of Environmental Systems (1998)
Shortly after the passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the March 1991 signing...
Scientists and Acid Rain Policy in Canada and the United States, Science, Technology, & Human Values (1997)
The acid rain issue came into prominence because scientists kept telling the world of acid...
The Rural-Urban Linkage to Environmental Policy Making in the American West: A Focus on Idaho (with Stephanie L. Witt), The Social Science Journal (1997)
In a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of politics and public policy in the American West,...
County Government and the Public Lands: A Review of the County Supremacy Movement in Four Western States (with Stephanie L. Witt), Public Lands Management in the West: Citizens, Interest Groups and Values (1997)
The Correlates of Tolerance: Analyzing the Statewide Votes on Anti-Gay Initiatives (with Stephanie L. Witt), Anti-Gay Rights: Assessing Voter Initiatives (1997)
Voters in four states-- Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, and Maine--have voted on statewide anti-gay initiatives in...
The Rural-Urban Environmental Conflict in the American West: A Four-State Study (with Stephanie L. Witt), Spectrum: Journal of State Government (1996)
Investigates the rural-urban linkage to environmental policymaking in a four-state region of the West namely...
Women Forest Rangers: Revisiting Kaufman's The Forest Ranger (with Franklin O. Carroll and John C. Freemuth), Journal of Forestry (1996)
Wendy L. Milner and Susan Odell became pioneers in USDA Forest Service line management in...
Environmental Policy in the Intermountain West: The Rural-Urban Linkage (with Stephanie L. Witt), State and Local Government Review (1995)
Located in the broader framework of the American West, the Intermountain West faces an uncertain...
Policy Windows and Two-Level Games: Explaining the Passage of Acid-Rain Legislation in the Clean Air Act of 1990 (with Marc V. Simon), Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (1995)
Because of the transboundary nature of most environmental problems, environmental policy often lies at the...
The Glass Ceiling in the USDA Forest Service: Willing to Conform, Demanding Change (with Franklin O. Carroll and W. David Patton), Public Administration Quarterly (1995)
Despite the rapid growth in the employment of women in the U.S. workforce, women continue...
Acid Rain and the Key Factors of Issue Maintenance, Environmental Professional (1994)
The purpose of this research project is to analyze the maintenance of the acid rain...
Policy Elite Perceptions: Canada, the United States and Acid Rain, Journal of Environmental Systems (1994)
This study investigates the perceptions of policy elites (researchers/scientists and members of the affected governments,...
Agenda Setting and Acid Precipitation in the United States (with Charles Davis), Environmental Management (1993)
The objective of this research was to analyze the retention of acid precipitation as a...
The Long Road Toward Influence: Canada as an American Interest Group, Journal of Borderlands Studies (1993)
In reading the literature about Canada-U.S. environmental relations with respect to acid deposition over the...
Regional Influences and Environmental Policymaking: A Study of Acid Rain, Policy Studies Journal (1993)
A four-region classification of states is used to examine the impact of regionalism on the...