Robert M. Stein is an American political scientist and Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of political science at Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

. He is an expert in urban politics

Urban politics

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 and public policy

Public policy

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.

He co-authored Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy (1995, Cambridge University Press) and authored Urban Alternatives: Public and Private Markets in the Provision of Local Services (1990, Pittsburgh Press).

Biography

Stein was born in New York city

New York City

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, NY. After graduation from Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University

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 in 1972, he pursued graduate study at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and obtained M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 and Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 degree in 1974 and 1977, respectively..

Before joining Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

, Stein taught at University of Georgia

University of Georgia

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 for a short time. At Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

, he has served as Department Chair of Political Science and Dean of School of Social Sciences, among other appointments. He has been Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science since 1996.

Stein has also been editorial board members of American Political Science Review

American Political Science Review

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, American Journal of Political Science

American Journal of Political Science

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, Journal of Politics

Journal of Politics

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, Social Science Quarterly, State and Local Government Review and Urban Affairs Review.

Awards

• Best paper award on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations for “Inter-Local Cooperation and the Distribution of Federal Grants,” by The section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, American Political Science Association
  American Political Science Association
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  , 2004 (with Kenneth Bickers)
• President, Urban Politics Subsection, American Political Science Association
  American Political Science Association
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  , 1999-2000.
• President, Southwestern Political Science Association, 1998.
• Special book award from the Urban Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association
  American Political Science Association
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   for, Urban Alternatives: Private and Public Markets in the Provision of Local Services, 1991.
• Fellowship, U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1978-1979.

Grants

• Independent Response of Complex Urban Infrastructures Subjected to Multiple Hazards, National Science Foundation
  National Science Foundation
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  , October 2007 – October 2010
• The Changing Structure of Federal Aid and the Politics of the Electoral Connection. Funded by the National Science Foundation
  National Science Foundation
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   2001-2002. SES0095997 Co-PI, 2001-2003.
• Selective Universalization of Domestic Public Policy. Funded by the National Science Foundation
  National Science Foundation
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  (SES8921109) 1990-1992.
• Contracting for Municipal Services. Funded by the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. January, 1986-1990.
• The Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation. Funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. September, 1983-1985.
• The Structural Character of Federal Grants-in-Aid. Funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 1982-83.
• The Allocation of Federal Grants-in-Aid. Funded by the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. 1979-1981.
• The Allocation of State-Local Aid: An Examination of Within State Variation. Funded by the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. 1979-1981.

Articles

• “Voting technology, election administration and voter performance,” Election Law Journal, 7:123-135 (April 2008) with Greg Vonnahme, Michael Byrne and Daniel Wallach.
• “Engaging the unengaged voter: Voter centers and voter turnout,” Journal of Politics. 2:487-497 (April 2008) with Greg Vonnahme.
• “Assessing the Micro-Foundations of the Tiebout Model,” Urban Affairs Review, 42:57-80 (September 2006), with Kenneth Bickers and Lapo Salucci.
• “Voting for Minority Candidates in Multi-Racial/Ethnic Communities,” Urban Affairs Review, 41:157-181 (November 2005) with Stacy Ulbig and Stephanie Post.
• “Inter-Local Cooperation and the Distribution of Federal Grant Awards,” Journal of Politics, 66:800-22 (August 2004) with Kenneth Bickers.
• “Language Choice, Residential Stability, and Voting among Latino-Americans,” Social Science Quarterly, 84:412-24, (June 2003), with Martin Johnson and Robert Wrinkle.
• “The Congressional Pork Barrel in a Republican Era,” Journal of Politics, 62:1070-1086 (November, 2000) with Kenneth Bickers.
• “Reconciling Context and Contact Effects on Racial Attitudes,” Political Research Quarterly. 53:285-303 (June, 2000), with Stephanie Shirley Post and Allison Rinden.
• “The Micro Foundations of the Tiebout Model,” Urban Affairs Review 34:76-93 (September, 1998) with Kenneth Bickers.
• “Early Voting,” Public Opinion Quarterly. 62:57-70 (Spring, 1998).
• “Voting Early, But Not Often,” Social Science Quarterly 78:657-677 (September, 1997) with Patricia Garcia-Monet.
• “The Electoral Dynamics of the Federal Pork Barrel,” American Journal of Political Science, 40:1300-1326 (November, 1996) with Kenneth Bickers.
• "Explaining State Aid Allocations: Targeting Within Universalism," Social Science Quarterly, 75:524-540 (September, 1994) with Keith E. Hamm
• "Congressional Elections and the Pork Barrel," Journal of Politics, 56:377-399 (May, 1994) with Kenneth Bickers.
• "Universalism and the Electoral Connection: A Test and Some Doubts," Political Research Quarterly, 47:295-318 (June, 1994) with Kenneth N. Bickers.
• “Response to Weingast's 'Reflections on Distributive Politics and Universalism,'“ Political Research Quarterly: 47:329-334 (June, 1994) with Kenneth N. Bickers.
• "Arranging City Services," Journal of Public Administration: Research and Theory 3:66-93 (Spring, 1993).
• "The Budgetary Effects of Municipal Service Contracting: A Principal-Agent Explanation," American Journal of Political Science. 34:471-502 (May, 1990).
• "Economic Voting for Governor and U.S. Senator: The Electoral Consequences of Federalism," Journal of Politics 52:29-54 (February, 1990).
• "Market Maximization of Individual Preferences and Metropolitan Municipal Service Responsibility," Urban Affairs Quarterly 24:86-116 (September, 1989).
• "A Comparative Analysis of the Targeting Capacity of State and Federal Intergovernmental Aid Allocations: 1977-1982," Social Science Quarterly(1987). With K. Hamm.
• "Municipal Public Employment: An Examination of Intergovernmental Influences." American Journal of Political Science, 28:636-653 (November, 1984).
• "Implementation of Federal Policy: An Extension of the 'Differentiated Theory of Federalism'," Research in Urban Policy, 3:341-348 (1984)

External links

• Homepage at Rice University