Gerald Gamm
Biographic Data
| ID | 1067348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald Gamm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | Gamm |
| SIGNATURE | GAMM G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1971-9448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Culture War and Partisan Polarization: State Political Parties, 1960–2018
Partisan polarization on “culture war” issues has become a defining feature of contemporary American politics. This was not always the case; for the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, social issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights played no role in politics. Where and when did the partisan divide begin? Did the initiative come from state or national parties? Was there a critical moment, or was position change incremental? We have constru…
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics
Examining historical budget and spending patterns from state legislatures, we show that inequality evident in other realms of American politics had a profound, dollars‐and‐cents, impact on the expenditures that flowed to political districts. Given the salience of race, class, and immigration status to American politics, we would expect that distributive spending reflects the same biases that shape voting patterns, representation, and policymaking…
Notes from the Editors: A Bigger Pie
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Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Prosperity: Party Competition and Policy Outcomes in 50 States
We ask whether party competition improves economic and social well-being, drawing on evidence from the 50 American states for the period 1880-2010. Today, strident party competition and partisan polarization are blamed for many of the ills of national and state politics. But a much deeper political science tradition points to the virtues of competitive party politics. In this historical analysis, we find that states with competitive party systems…
Apsa Committees
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The Evolution of American Legislatures: Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619-2009
Journal Article The Evolution of American Legislatures: Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619–2009 Get access The Evolution of American Legislatures: Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619–2009. By Peverill Squire. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. 440 pp. $80.00.) Gerald Gamm Gerald Gamm University of Rochester Rochester, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
No Strength in Numbers: The Failure of Big-City Bills in American State Legislatures, 1880-2000
Do big cities exert more power than less populous ones in American state legislatures? In many political systems, greater representation leads to more policy gains, yet for most of the nation's history, urban advocates have argued that big cities face systematic discrimination in statehouses. Drawing on a new historical dataset spanning 120 years and 13 states, we find clear evidence that there is no strength in numbers for big-city delegations i…
Broad Bills or Particularistic Policy? Historical Patterns in American State Legislatures
When do lawmakers craft broad policies, and when do they focus on narrow legislation tailored to a local interest? We investigate this question by exploring historical variation in the types of bills produced by American state legislatures. Drawing on a new database of 165,000 bills-covering sessions over 120 years in thirteen different states-we demonstrate the surprising prominence of particularistic bills affecting a specific legislator's dist…
Urban Politics in the State Arena
We seek to explain how states govern big cities. Political scientists' accounts of urban politics either fail to treat the state systematically or place state hostility at the center of such an account. Accounts by historians, by contrast, offer tools political scientists can use to theorize urban politics in the state arena. We use those tools, and we find that cities can manage the legislative process. This power starts with bill introduction a…
Pockets of Expertise: Institutional Capacity in Twentieth-Century State Legislatures
We examine the development of legislative capacity in U.S. state legislatures in the twentieth century. This capacity can be derived from the legislators themselves, or from institutions and practices. We consider both sources as we provide an account of the ragged and piecemeal development of legislative capacity in the states. We argue that most state legislatures have been neither entirely professional nor amateur, but rather have existed some…
Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed
Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed
Journal Article Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed. By Gerald Gamm. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xii, 384 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-93070-3.) Get access Suellen Hoy Suellen Hoy University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Page 1130, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675432 Publis…
Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed
Across the country, white ethnics have fled cities for suburbs. But many stayed in their old neighbourhoods. When the busing crisis erupted in Boston in the 1970s, Catholics were in the forefront of resistance. Jews, 70,000 of whom has lived in Roxbury and Dorchester in the early 1950s, were invisible during the crisis. They were silent because they departed the city more quickly and more thoroughly than Boston's Catholics. Only scattered Jews re…
The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840-1940
April 01 1999 The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840–1940 Gerald Gamm, Gerald Gamm Assistant Professor of Political Science and History, University of Rochester. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Robert D. Putnam Robert D. Putnam Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Harvard University. He is the author of Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton, 1993); Bowling Alone…
Representing Urban Interests: The Local Politics of State Legislatures
[New York] city is ruled entirely by the hayseed legislators at Albany. I've never known an up-State Republican who didn't want to run things here. . . . We've got to eat and drink what they tell us to eat and drink, and have got to choose our time for eatin' and drinkin' to suit them. If they don't feel like takin' a glass of beer on Sunday, we must abstain. If they have not got any amusements up in their backwoods, we mustn't have none. We've g…
Creatures of the State: State Politics and Local Government, 1871-1921
Local politics is not self-contained. The authors break with existing scholarship to argue that the study of local politics requires the systematic study of state legislative politics. The state-local relationship cannot be easily characterized in terms of either interference or deference. Rather, U.S. local government and state politics appear to have been thoroughly intertwined in the period they examine. For evidence, they present a new and sy…
What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations
For Irish Americans as well as for Chicago’s other ethnic groups, the local parish once formed the nucleus of daily life. Focusing on the parish of St. Sabina’s in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Auburn-Gresham, Eileen McMahon takes a penetrating look at the response of Catholic ethnics to life in twentieth-century America. She reveals the role the parish church played in achieving a cohesive and vital ethnic neighborhood and shows how ethn…
The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940.
Why is Making of New Deal Democrats so significant? One of the major controversies in the study of American elections has to do with the nature of electoral realignments. One school argues that a realignment involves a major shift of voters from one party to another, while another school argues that the process consists largely of mobilization of previously inactive voters. The debate is crucial for understanding the nature of the New Deal Almost…
The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940
Journal Article The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920–1940. By Gerald H. Gamm. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. xii + 277 pp. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $15.95.) Get access Howard W. Allen Howard W. Allen Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 372–373, https…
The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940
Emergence of Legislative Institutions: Standing Committees in the House and Senate, 1810-1825
By the 1820s the federal government of the United States had begun to assume a form we would recognize today. In Washington the experiment in government under the Constitution was swiftly becoming enshrined in mature institutions, the most important of which was probably the Congress. Between 1810 and 1825 the two houses of the legislative branch underwent dramatic and lasting transformations in their organizational arrangements. In 1810 the Hous…
Broad Bills or Particularistic Policy? Historical Patterns in American State Legislatures
When do lawmakers craft broad policies, and when do they focus on narrow legislation tailored to a local interest? We investigate this question by exploring historical variation in the types of bills produced by American state legislatures. Drawing on a new database of 165,000 bills-covering sessions over 120 years in thirteen different states-we demonstrate the surprising prominence of particularistic bills affecting a specific legislator's dist…
The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840-1940
April 01 1999 The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840–1940 Gerald Gamm, Gerald Gamm Assistant Professor of Political Science and History, University of Rochester. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Robert D. Putnam Robert D. Putnam Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Harvard University. He is the author of Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton, 1993); Bowling Alone…
Emergence of Legislative Institutions: Standing Committees in the House and Senate, 1810-1825
By the 1820s the federal government of the United States had begun to assume a form we would recognize today. In Washington the experiment in government under the Constitution was swiftly becoming enshrined in mature institutions, the most important of which was probably the Congress. Between 1810 and 1825 the two houses of the legislative branch underwent dramatic and lasting transformations in their organizational arrangements. In 1810 the Hous…
No Strength in Numbers: The Failure of Big-City Bills in American State Legislatures, 1880-2000
Do big cities exert more power than less populous ones in American state legislatures? In many political systems, greater representation leads to more policy gains, yet for most of the nation's history, urban advocates have argued that big cities face systematic discrimination in statehouses. Drawing on a new historical dataset spanning 120 years and 13 states, we find clear evidence that there is no strength in numbers for big-city delegations i…
Creatures of the State: State Politics and Local Government, 1871-1921
Local politics is not self-contained. The authors break with existing scholarship to argue that the study of local politics requires the systematic study of state legislative politics. The state-local relationship cannot be easily characterized in terms of either interference or deference. Rather, U.S. local government and state politics appear to have been thoroughly intertwined in the period they examine. For evidence, they present a new and sy…
Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Prosperity: Party Competition and Policy Outcomes in 50 States
We ask whether party competition improves economic and social well-being, drawing on evidence from the 50 American states for the period 1880-2010. Today, strident party competition and partisan polarization are blamed for many of the ills of national and state politics. But a much deeper political science tradition points to the virtues of competitive party politics. In this historical analysis, we find that states with competitive party systems…
Representing Urban Interests: The Local Politics of State Legislatures
[New York] city is ruled entirely by the hayseed legislators at Albany. I've never known an up-State Republican who didn't want to run things here. . . . We've got to eat and drink what they tell us to eat and drink, and have got to choose our time for eatin' and drinkin' to suit them. If they don't feel like takin' a glass of beer on Sunday, we must abstain. If they have not got any amusements up in their backwoods, we mustn't have none. We've g…
Urban Politics in the State Arena
We seek to explain how states govern big cities. Political scientists' accounts of urban politics either fail to treat the state systematically or place state hostility at the center of such an account. Accounts by historians, by contrast, offer tools political scientists can use to theorize urban politics in the state arena. We use those tools, and we find that cities can manage the legislative process. This power starts with bill introduction a…
Pockets of Expertise: Institutional Capacity in Twentieth-Century State Legislatures
We examine the development of legislative capacity in U.S. state legislatures in the twentieth century. This capacity can be derived from the legislators themselves, or from institutions and practices. We consider both sources as we provide an account of the ragged and piecemeal development of legislative capacity in the states. We argue that most state legislatures have been neither entirely professional nor amateur, but rather have existed some…
What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations
For Irish Americans as well as for Chicago’s other ethnic groups, the local parish once formed the nucleus of daily life. Focusing on the parish of St. Sabina’s in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Auburn-Gresham, Eileen McMahon takes a penetrating look at the response of Catholic ethnics to life in twentieth-century America. She reveals the role the parish church played in achieving a cohesive and vital ethnic neighborhood and shows how ethn…
The Evolution of American Legislatures: Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619-2009
Journal Article The Evolution of American Legislatures: Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619–2009 Get access The Evolution of American Legislatures: Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619–2009. By Peverill Squire. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. 440 pp. $80.00.) Gerald Gamm Gerald Gamm University of Rochester Rochester, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
The Culture War and Partisan Polarization: State Political Parties, 1960–2018
Partisan polarization on “culture war” issues has become a defining feature of contemporary American politics. This was not always the case; for the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, social issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights played no role in politics. Where and when did the partisan divide begin? Did the initiative come from state or national parties? Was there a critical moment, or was position change incremental? We have constru…
The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940
Journal Article The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920–1940. By Gerald H. Gamm. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. xii + 277 pp. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $15.95.) Get access Howard W. Allen Howard W. Allen Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 372–373, https…
Emergence of Legislative Institutions: Standing Committees in the House and Senate, 1810-1825
By the 1820s the federal government of the United States had begun to assume a form we would recognize today. In Washington the experiment in government under the Constitution was swiftly becoming enshrined in mature institutions, the most important of which was probably the Congress. Between 1810 and 1825 the two houses of the legislative branch underwent dramatic and lasting transformations in their organizational arrangements. In 1810 the Hous…
The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940.
Why is Making of New Deal Democrats so significant? One of the major controversies in the study of American elections has to do with the nature of electoral realignments. One school argues that a realignment involves a major shift of voters from one party to another, while another school argues that the process consists largely of mobilization of previously inactive voters. The debate is crucial for understanding the nature of the New Deal Almost…
The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940
Journal Article The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920–1940. By Gerald H. Gamm. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. xii + 277 pp. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $15.95.) Get access Howard W. Allen Howard W. Allen Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 372–373, https…
The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940
What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations
For Irish Americans as well as for Chicago’s other ethnic groups, the local parish once formed the nucleus of daily life. Focusing on the parish of St. Sabina’s in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Auburn-Gresham, Eileen McMahon takes a penetrating look at the response of Catholic ethnics to life in twentieth-century America. She reveals the role the parish church played in achieving a cohesive and vital ethnic neighborhood and shows how ethn…
Creatures of the State: State Politics and Local Government, 1871-1921
Local politics is not self-contained. The authors break with existing scholarship to argue that the study of local politics requires the systematic study of state legislative politics. The state-local relationship cannot be easily characterized in terms of either interference or deference. Rather, U.S. local government and state politics appear to have been thoroughly intertwined in the period they examine. For evidence, they present a new and sy…
Representing Urban Interests: The Local Politics of State Legislatures
[New York] city is ruled entirely by the hayseed legislators at Albany. I've never known an up-State Republican who didn't want to run things here. . . . We've got to eat and drink what they tell us to eat and drink, and have got to choose our time for eatin' and drinkin' to suit them. If they don't feel like takin' a glass of beer on Sunday, we must abstain. If they have not got any amusements up in their backwoods, we mustn't have none. We've g…
Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed
Across the country, white ethnics have fled cities for suburbs. But many stayed in their old neighbourhoods. When the busing crisis erupted in Boston in the 1970s, Catholics were in the forefront of resistance. Jews, 70,000 of whom has lived in Roxbury and Dorchester in the early 1950s, were invisible during the crisis. They were silent because they departed the city more quickly and more thoroughly than Boston's Catholics. Only scattered Jews re…
The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840-1940
April 01 1999 The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840–1940 Gerald Gamm, Gerald Gamm Assistant Professor of Political Science and History, University of Rochester. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Robert D. Putnam Robert D. Putnam Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Harvard University. He is the author of Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton, 1993); Bowling Alone…
Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed
Journal Article Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed. By Gerald Gamm. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xii, 384 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-93070-3.) Get access Suellen Hoy Suellen Hoy University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Page 1130, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675432 Publis…
Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed
Pockets of Expertise: Institutional Capacity in Twentieth-Century State Legislatures
We examine the development of legislative capacity in U.S. state legislatures in the twentieth century. This capacity can be derived from the legislators themselves, or from institutions and practices. We consider both sources as we provide an account of the ragged and piecemeal development of legislative capacity in the states. We argue that most state legislatures have been neither entirely professional nor amateur, but rather have existed some…
Urban Politics in the State Arena
We seek to explain how states govern big cities. Political scientists' accounts of urban politics either fail to treat the state systematically or place state hostility at the center of such an account. Accounts by historians, by contrast, offer tools political scientists can use to theorize urban politics in the state arena. We use those tools, and we find that cities can manage the legislative process. This power starts with bill introduction a…
Broad Bills or Particularistic Policy? Historical Patterns in American State Legislatures
When do lawmakers craft broad policies, and when do they focus on narrow legislation tailored to a local interest? We investigate this question by exploring historical variation in the types of bills produced by American state legislatures. Drawing on a new database of 165,000 bills-covering sessions over 120 years in thirteen different states-we demonstrate the surprising prominence of particularistic bills affecting a specific legislator's dist…
The Evolution of American Legislatures: Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619-2009
Journal Article The Evolution of American Legislatures: Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619–2009 Get access The Evolution of American Legislatures: Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619–2009. By Peverill Squire. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. 440 pp. $80.00.) Gerald Gamm Gerald Gamm University of Rochester Rochester, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
No Strength in Numbers: The Failure of Big-City Bills in American State Legislatures, 1880-2000
Do big cities exert more power than less populous ones in American state legislatures? In many political systems, greater representation leads to more policy gains, yet for most of the nation's history, urban advocates have argued that big cities face systematic discrimination in statehouses. Drawing on a new historical dataset spanning 120 years and 13 states, we find clear evidence that there is no strength in numbers for big-city delegations i…
Apsa Committees
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Prosperity: Party Competition and Policy Outcomes in 50 States
We ask whether party competition improves economic and social well-being, drawing on evidence from the 50 American states for the period 1880-2010. Today, strident party competition and partisan polarization are blamed for many of the ills of national and state politics. But a much deeper political science tradition points to the virtues of competitive party politics. In this historical analysis, we find that states with competitive party systems…
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics
Examining historical budget and spending patterns from state legislatures, we show that inequality evident in other realms of American politics had a profound, dollars‐and‐cents, impact on the expenditures that flowed to political districts. Given the salience of race, class, and immigration status to American politics, we would expect that distributive spending reflects the same biases that shape voting patterns, representation, and policymaking…
Notes from the Editors: A Bigger Pie
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Culture War and Partisan Polarization: State Political Parties, 1960–2018
Partisan polarization on “culture war” issues has become a defining feature of contemporary American politics. This was not always the case; for the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, social issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights played no role in politics. Where and when did the partisan divide begin? Did the initiative come from state or national parties? Was there a critical moment, or was position change incremental? We have constru…
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