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1 BOOKS John Dinan State Constitutional Politics: Governing by Amendment in the American States (University of Chicago Press, 2018) The Virginia State Constitution, 2 nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2014) The American State Constitutional Tradition (University Press of Kansas, 2006; paperback edition with a new foreword, 2009) Keeping the People s Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights (University Press of Kansas, 1998) ARTICLES The U.S. Supreme Court and Federalism in the Twenty-first Century, State and Local Government Review 49 (September 2017): Twenty-first Century Debates and Developments Regarding the Design of State Constitutional Amendment Processes Arkansas Law Review 69 (2016): State Constitutional Amendments and American Constitutionalism Oklahoma City University Law Review 41 (Spring 2016): State Constitutional Initiative Processes and Governance in the Twenty-first Century Chapman Law Review 19 (Winter 2016): Policy Provisions in State Constitutions: The Standards and Practice of State Constitution making in the Post-Baker v. Carr Era, Wayne Law Review 60, 1 (2014): John Dinan and Jac Heckelman, Support for Repealing Prohibition: An Analysis of State-Wide Referenda on Ratifying the 21st Amendment Social Science Quarterly 95 (September 2014): Implementing Health Reform: Intergovernmental Bargaining and the Affordable Care Act Publius: The Journal of Federalism 44 (Summer 2014): State Constitutional Amendments and Individual Rights in the Twenty-First Century Albany Law Review 76, 4 (2013): Jac Heckelman and John Dinan, Empirical Evidence Regarding Regional Political Convergence in the United States, Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 43, 2 (2013):

2 Shaping Health Reform: State Government Influence in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 41 (Summer 2011): State Constitutional Amendment Processes and the Safeguards of American Federalism, Penn State Law Review 115 (Spring 2011): Contemporary Assertions of State Sovereignty and the Safeguards of American Federalism, Albany Law Review 74, 4 (2011): The Political Dynamics of Mandatory State Constitutional Convention Referendums: Lessons from the 2000s Regarding Obstacles and Pathways to their Passage, Montana Law Review 71 (Summer 2010): John Dinan and Jac Heckelman, Convergence and Divergence in State Political Behavior, , Social Science Journal 47 (September 2010): John Dinan and Shama Gamkhar, The State of American Federalism : The Presidential Election, the Economic Downturn, and the Consequences for Federalism, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 39 (Summer 2009): Accounting for Success and Failure of Southern State Constitutional Reform, , Charleston Law Review 3 (Spring 2009): Patterns of Subnational Constitutionalism in Federal Countries, Rutgers Law Journal, 39 (Summer 2008): The State of American Federalism, : Resurgent State Influence in the National Policy Process and Continued State Innovation, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 38 (Summer 2008): The Adoption of Criminal Disenfranchisement Provisions in the U.S.: Lessons from the State Constitutional Convention Debates, Journal of Policy History 19 (Fall 2007): Court-Constraining Amendments and the State Constitutional Tradition Rutgers Law Journal 38 (Summer 2007): The Meaning of State Constitutional Education Clauses: Evidence from the Constitutional Convention Debates, Albany Law Review 70, 3 (2007): The Original Intent and Current Operation of Direct Democratic Institutions, Albany Law Review 70, 3 (2007): Tim Conlan and John Dinan, Federalism, the Bush Administration, and the Transformation of American Conservatism, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 37 (Summer 2007):

3 Jac C. Heckelman and John Dinan, Voting on Voting with the Feet: A Cross-County Analysis of the Tennessee Popular Referenda to Secede from the Union, Constitutional Political Economy 18 (June 2007): John Dinan and Dale Krane, The State of American Federalism 2005: Federalism Resurfaces in the Political Debate, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 36 (Summer 2006): John Dinan and Jac C. Heckelman, The Anti-Tobacco Movement in the Progressive Era: A Case Study of Direct Democracy in Oregon, Explorations in Economic History 42 (October 2005): Strengthening the Political Safeguards of Federalism: The Fate of Recent Federalism Legislation in the U.S. Congress, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 34 (Summer 2004): Consequences of the Rehnquist Court s Federalism Decisions for Congressional Lawmaking, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 34 (Spring 2004): The Pardon Power and the American State Constitutional Tradition, Polity XXXV (April 2003): Congressional Responses to the Rehnquist Court s Federalism Decisions, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 32 (Summer 2002): 1-24 Rights and the Political Process: Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Aftermath of Washington v. Glucksberg, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 31 (Fall 2001): 1-21 The Earth Belongs Always to the Living Generation : The Development of State Constitutional Amendment and Revision Procedures, Review of Politics 62 (Fall 2000): The State Constitutional Tradition and the Formation of Virtuous Citizens, Temple Law Review 72 (Fall 1999): Framing a People s Government : State Constitution Making in the Progressive Era, Rutgers Law Journal 30 (Summer 1999): The Rehnquist Court s Federalism Decisions in Perspective, Journal of Law & Politics 15 (Spring 1999): State Government Influence in the National Policy Process: Lessons from the 104 th Congress, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 27 (Spring 1997): Can State Courts Produce Social Reform? School Finance Equalization in Kentucky, Texas, and New Jersey, Southeastern Political Review 24 (September 1996):

4 CHAPTERS The Supreme Court and the Affordable Care Act: The Consequences of the NFIB v. Sebelius decision for Health Care Policy, in Christopher P. Banks, ed., Controversies in American Federalism and Public Policy (Routledge, 2018) State Constitutionalism in Mark Tushnet, Mark A. Graber, and Sanford Levinson, eds., Oxford Handbook of the United State Constitution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015): Relations Between State and National Governments, in Donald Haider-Markel, ed., Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014): 7-26 The Past, Present, and Future Role of State Constitutions, in Richard Niemi and Joshua Dyck, eds., Guide to State Politics and Policy (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2014): The Consequences of Drafting Constitutions for Constituent States in Federal Countries, in Michel Seymour, ed., Multinational Federalism: Problems and Prospects (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012): State Constitutions and American Political Development, in Michael Burgess and G. Alan Tarr, eds., Constitutional Dynamics in Federal Systems: Sub-national Perspectives (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2012): Les processus de modification des constitutions infranationales: Tendances et evolutions [Patterns and developments in subnational constitutional amendment processes], in Eugenie Brouillet and Louis Massicotte, eds., Comment changer une constitution? Les nouveaux processus constituants [How to change a constitution? New Processes for Constitution-Making (Quebec City: Laval University Press, 2011): Ideas, Interests, Institutions, and the Development of American Federalism, in Richard A. Harris and Daniel J. Tichenor, eds., A History of the U.S. Political System: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions, 3 vols. (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2010), vol. 1: 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): The Development of the Virginia Constitution, in George E. Connor and Christopher W. Hammons, eds., The Constitutionalism of American States (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008): United States of America, in Katy Le Roy and Cheryl Saunders, ed., Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Governance in Federal Countries (Toronto: McGill-Queen s University Press, 2006):

5 Congressional Power and the States: The Context and Consequences of the Supreme Court s Federalism Decisions, in Katy J. Harriger, ed., Separation of Powers: Documents and Commentary (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2003): Martha Derthick and John J. Dinan, Progressivism and Federalism, in Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur, eds. Progressivism and the New Democracy (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999):

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