Don’t California My Texas! The Red State-Blue State Schism in Public Policy
Shanna Rose is the Alice Tweed Tuohy Associate Professor of Management and Government and director of CMC's public policy major. Her areas of expertise include American politics, public policy, and federalism and she teaches courses on public policy analysis, empirical methods, and state and local politics and policy.
Rose is the author of Responsive States: Federalism and American Public Policy (with Andrew Karch; Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Financing Medicaid: Federalism and the Growth of America’s Health Care Safety Net (University of Michigan Press, 2013). Her latest book manuscript, on the politics of minimum wage policy in the United States, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.
Rose holds a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard University.
Kenneth P. Miller is the Don H. and Edessa Rose Associate Professor of State and Local Government and director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at CMC. He has written extensively on state politics and policy, direct democracy, constitutional law, courts, and political polarization.
Miller is the author or co-author of several books and articles regarding state and national politics, policy, and law. His book Texas vs. California: A History of the Struggle for the Future of America (Oxford 2020) explores why the nation’s two largest states have polarized politically, and how they have assumed leadership of the nation’s red and blue state blocs. His book Direct Democracy and the Courts (Cambridge 2009) analyzes the initiative process within the checks and balances system.
Miller received his B.A. from Pomona College, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Eric Helland is the William F. Podlich Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of over 50 books and articles on topics in law and economics ranging from bounty hunters to judicial elections. His current research focuses on elections, the judiciary, and mass litigation.
This Athenaeum program is the featured 2024-25 Jerome H. Garris Dialogue Series at CMC, modeling constructive dialogue across different perspectives.