Working Papers

 

Fording, Richard C., Joe Soss, and Sanford F. Schram. “Distributing Discipline: Race, Politics, and Punishment at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform.” Invited to revise and resubmit at American Journal of Sociology.

 

Kim, Byungkyu, and Richard C. Fording. “Second-Order Devolution and the Implementation of  TANF Work Sanctions: A Multilevel Analysis of the Impact of Decentralization in Policy Implementation.” Under review.

 

Fording, Richard C., and HeeMin Kim. “Do Voter Preferences Matter between Elections?: Democratic Performance in Western Democracies.” Under review.

 

Fording, Richard C., and John Cotter. “Black Faces, White Racists and the Mobilization of American Hate Groups.” Under review.

 

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

 

Soss, Joe, Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram. “The Organization of Discipline: From Performance Management to Perversity

and Punishment.”  Forthcoming at Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

 

Kim, Byungkyu, and Richard C. Fording. “Second-Order Devolution and the Implementation of TANF.” Winner of the SPPQ Best

PaperAward, for best paper on state politics presented at a conference in 2008. Forthcoming at State Politics and Policy

Quarterly.

 

Berry, William D., Richard C. Fording, Evan J. Ringquist, Russell L. Hanson and Carl Klarner. “Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the American States: A Re-appraisal.”  Forthcoming at State Politics and Policy Quarterly.

 

Powell, Jr., G. Bingham, Powell,  HeeMin Kim, and Richard C. Fording. “Party Systems and Substantive Representation: Static and Dynamic Performance.” Forthcoming at Comparative Politics.

 

Schram, Sanford F., Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording and Linda Houser. 2009. “Deciding to Discipline: A Multi-Method Study of Race, Choice, and Punishment at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform .” American Sociological Review, 74(3), 398-422.

 

Soss, Joe, Richard C. Fording, and Sanford F. Schram. 2008. “The Color of Devolution: Race, Federalism, and the Politics of Social Control.”  American Journal of Political Science 52, 3 (July): 536-553.

 

Schram, Sanford F., Richard C. Fording and Joe Soss.  2008. “Neoliberal Poverty Governance: Race, Place and the Punitive Turn in

U.S. Welfare Policy.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 1, 1 (April): 17-36.

 

Berry, William D., Evan J. Ringquist, Richard C. Fording and Russell L. Hanson. 2007. “The Measurement and Stability of State Citizen Ideology: A Rejoinder.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 7(2):160-166.

 

Berry, William D., Evan J. Ringquist, Richard C. Fording and Russell L. Hanson. 2007. “The Measurement and Stability of State Citizen Ideology.” 2007. State Politics and Policy Quarterly  7(2):111-132.

 

Fording, Richard C., Joe Soss, and Sanford F. Schram. 2007. “Devolution, Discretion and the Impact of Local Political Values on TANF Sanctioning.” Social Service Review 81(2):285-316.

 

Fording, Richard C., and William D. Berry. 2007. “The Historical Impact of Welfare Programs on Poverty in the American States.”

Policy Studies Journal 35(1):37-60.

 

Yates, Jeff, and Richard C. Fording. 2005. “Politics and State Punitiveness in Black and White.” Journal of Politics 67(4): 1099-1121.

 

Fording, Richard C., Penny Miller and Dana Patton. 2003. “Reform or Resistance? Local Government Response to State-Mandated Ethics Reform.” Publius 33 (Spring): 1-16.

 

Fording,  Richard C. 2003. “ ‘Laboratories of Democracy’ or Symbolic Politics? The Racial Origins of Welfare Reform.” In S.F. Schram, J. Soss, and R.C. Fording, eds. Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2003.

 

Berry, William D., Richard C. Fording and Russell Hanson. 2003. “Reassessing the 'Race to the Bottom' in State Welfare Policy.” Journal of Politics 65 (May): 327-49.

 

Kim, HeeMin and  Richard C. Fording. 2003. “Voter Ideology in Western Democracies: An Update.” European Journal of Political Research 42:95-105.

 

Kim, HeeMin and Richard C. Fording. 2002. “Government Partisanship in Western Democracies, 1946-1998.” European Journal of Political Research 41(2): 187-206.

 

Kim, HeeMin and Richard C. Fording. 2001. “Economic Performance, International Tension, and Ideological Swing in Western Democracies: A Comparative Analysis, 1952-1989.” Political Behavior 23(1): 53-73.

 

Fording, Richard C. 2001. “The Political Response to Black Insurgency: A Critical Test of Competing Theories of the State.” American Political Science Review 95(1):115-130. [Reprinted in Crime and Criminal Justice (The International Library of Essays in Law and Society), William T. Lyons, Jr., ed. Ashgate Publishing Co.]

 

Kim, HeeMin and Richard C. Fording. 2001. “The Political Significance of Tactical Voting: An Analysis of British Elections,” Comparative Political Studies 34(3):294-311.

 

Kim, HeeMin and Richard C. Fording. 2001. “Extending the Estimates to Governments and Electors,” in Mapping Preferences: Parties, Electors, and Governments, 1945-1998, Ian Budge, et al., eds., London: Oxford University Press.

 

Berry, William D., Richard C. Fording and Russell Hanson. 2000. “An Annual Cost of Living Index for the American States, 1960-95.” Journal of Politics 62(2): 550-567.

 

Kim, HeeMin and Richard C. Fording. 1998.“Voter Ideology in Western Democracies, 1946-89.” European Journal of Political Research 33:73-97.

 

Berry, William D., Evan J. Ringquist, Richard C. Fording and Russell L. Hanson. 1998.“Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the American States, 1960-93.”  American Journal of Political Science, 42:327-48.

 

Berry, William D., and Richard C. Fording. 1997.“Measuring State Tax Capacity and Effort.” Social Science Quarterly, 78:158-66.

 

Fording, Richard C. 1997. “The Conditional Effect of Violence as a Political Tactic: Mass Insurgency, Electoral Context and Welfare Generosity in the American States.” 1997. American Journal of Political Science, 41:1-29. [Lead Article]