| Education
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Interests | Selected Publications
Education:
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University
of Virginia
Course Offerings
- POL 113: American Government and Politics
- POL 211: Political Parties, Voters, and Elections
- POL 218: Congress and Policymaking
- POL 221: State Politics
- POL 290: Seminar - Presidential Elections
Professional/Research
Focus
Federalism; State Constitutionalism;
American Political Development
Selected Publications
- The American State Constitutional Tradition (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006, paperback edition 2009)
- The Virginia State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006)
- Keeping the People's Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998)
- John Dinan and Shama Gamkhar, “The State of American Federalism 2008-2009: The Presidential Election, the Economic Downturn, and the Consequences for Federalism,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 39 (Summer 2009): 369-407
- “School Finance Litigation: The Third Wave Recedes,” in Martin West and Joshua Dunn, eds., From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009): 96-120
- “Patterns of Subnational Constitutionalism in Federal Countries” Rutgers Law Journal, 39 (Summer 2008): 837-861
- “The Adoption of Criminal Disenfranchisement Provisions in the U.S.: Lessons from the State Constitutional Convention Debates,” Journal of Policy History 19 (Fall 2007): 282-312
- “The Original Intent and Current Operation of Direct Democratic Institutions,” Albany Law Review 70 (2007): 1035-1043
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