The measure of legislative professionalization I developed was first published a quarter
century ago. Since then, updates have appeared periodically. In this note, I briefly document …

This essay provides a critical review of the field of immigration policy studies from the
perspective of measurement and modeling. It serves to contextualize and broaden the views …

The Great Recession of late 2007 through 2009 had profound negative economic impacts
on the US states, with 49 states experiencing revenue decreases in their 2009 budgets …

There has been a burst of research on immigrant health in the United States and an
increasing attention to the broad range of state and local policies that are social …

The fourth edition of this widely-used textbook introduces students to what it means to be a
Latino American culturally and politically at a time of unprecedented challenges for …

Background Many conceptual frameworks that touch on immigration and health have been
published over the past several years. Most discuss broad social trends or specific …

The identification of substantively similar policy proposals in legislation is important to
scholars of public policy and legislative politics. Manual approaches are prohibitively costly …

Over the last 20 years, policymaking related to immigrant populations has increasingly been
conducted at the state-level. State immigrant polices may influence immigrant poverty by …

Building upon existing literature, we offer a particular model of network policy diffusion—
which we call sustained organizational influence. Sustained organizational influence …

Most accounts of the provincial role in Canadian immigration focus on the experience of
Quebec. In Province Building and the Federalization of Immigration in Canada, Mireille …