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Canada–US Border Communities: What the People Have to Say (with Leslie R. Alm), American Review of Canadian Studies (2013)
This paper investigates the Canada-U.S. borderlands relationship along the two geographic corridors as bounded by...
Paying for Long-Term Care in the Gem State: A Survey of the Federal and State Laws Influencing How Long-Term Care Services for Idaho’s Growing Aged and Disabled Populations Are - and Will Be - Funded (with Andrew M. Hyer, Elizabeth L. Hannah, and Sarah Toevs), Idaho Law Review (2012)
It is well recognized that as baby-boomers age and people live longer with chronic conditions,...
Canadian Environmental Policy (with Les Alm), Canadian Studies in the New Millennium (forthcoming) (2012)
Canada/U.S. Borderlands: Thunder Bay, Duluth, and Sault Ste. Marie (with Les Alm), Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (2011)
Canadian Environmental Policy: Past and Future (with Les Alm), Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting (2011)
Borders and Borderlands: Canada and the United States (with Leslie R. Alm), Western Social Science Association Meeting (2010)
Capitalism is Cool: Economic Freedom, Sustainability, and Greenhouse Gas Damage (with Indra de Soysa), International Studies Association Meeting (2010)
Turmoil in American Public Policy : Science, Democracy, and the Environment (with Leslie R. Alm and Marc V. Simon) (2010)
Political Institutions in the United States, Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations (2008)
NAFTA is more than a decade old, and will quite possibly expand beyond its three-country...
Democracy, Capitalism, and Income Inequality: Seeking Causal Directions, Comparative Sociology (2007)
Recent research shows that lower levels of income inequality cause higher levels of democracy, and...
Left Out: Trust and Social Capital Among Migrant Seasonal Farmworkers (with Maria L. Chávez and Brian Wampler), Social Science Quarterly (2006)
Objectives. We analyze the levels of trust and social capital among an understudied group: migrant...
Is Spotlighting Enough? Environmental NGOs and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (with Leslie R. Alm), Canadian-American Public Policy (2006)
The initial questions of our survey questionnaire focused on whether ENGOs were familiar with the...
The Mormon Question: Political Culture and Influence of Latter-Day Saints in Idaho (with Leslie R. Alm, W. David Patton, and James B. Weatherby), Virginia Social Science Journal (2006)
Differences That Matter: Canada, the United States and Environmental Policymaking (with Leslie R. Alm), 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 Leslie R. Alm), International Journal of Canadian Studies (2005)
The purpose of this review essay is to provide a starting point for the evaluation...
'Curvilinearity', 'Modeling', 'Skewed', and 'Threshold Effect', The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2004)
Political Culture and Ideology in the Mountain West: Regionalism in the State of Idaho (with Leslie R. Alm, 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,...
Open Borders, Open Regimes? Testing Causal Direction between Globalization and Democracy, 1970-2000 (with Indra de Soysa), ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy No. 67 (2003)
Pessimists on globalization claim that liberalization of markets allows multinational corporations free reign, constraining local...
The Capitalist Political Economy and Human Rights: Cross-National Evidence, The Social Science Journal (2002)
In a growing empirical literature on the determinants of human rights violations, the variable economic...
Democracy’s Effect on Economic Growth: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis, 1951–1980 (with Charles Kurzman and Regina Werum), Studies in Comparative International Development (2002)
The relationship between democracy and economic growth has concerned social scientists since the 17th century,...
Attitudinal Change and Critical Pedagogy: An Exercise in a Political Science and Global Business Course (with Mohan R. Limaye), Journal of Teaching in International Business (2002)
Making students revisit their worldviews through an encounter with discomforting ideas is a valuable teaching...
Globalization, Regimes, and Development, Coping with Globalization: Cross-National Patterns in Domestic Governance and Policy Performance (2002)
Does globalization lead to a higher quality of life? Or, does it lead to more...
Intrastate Regional Differences in Political Culture: A Case Study of Idaho (with Leslie R. Alm, 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,...
Economic Freedom and Democracy: Post–Cold War Tests, European Journal of Political Research (2000)
Current theorizing about the connection between cross–national economic development, capitalist economic structure, and democracy has...
Comparative Democracy and Income Distribution: Shape and Direction of the Causal Arrow, Journal of Politics (1997)
Few research studies examine the effect of income distribution on democracy cross-nationally in a simultaneous...
Comparative Democracy: the Economic Development Thesis (with Michael S. Lewis-Beck), American Political Science Review (1994)
In comparative politics, an established finding--that economic development fosters democratic performance--has recently come under challenge....