SELECTED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Daniel A. Smith and Caroline J. Tolbert. 2004. Educated by Initiative: The Effects of Direct Democracy on Citizens and Political Organizations in the American States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Todd Donovan, Christopher Z. Mooney, and Daniel A. Smith. 2008. State and Local Politics: Institutions and Reform. Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning/ Wadsworth.

Daniel A. Smith. 1998. Tax Crusaders and the Politics of Direct Democracy. NY: Routledge.

Todd Donovan, Christopher Z. Mooney, and Daniel A. Smith. 2009. State and Local Politics: Institutions and Reform, The Essentials. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning/ Wadsworth.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

Todd Donovan, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Daniel A. Smith. 2009. “Political Engagement, Mobilization, and Direct Democracy,” Public Opinion Quarterly 73: 98-118.

Caroline J. Tolbert, Daniel A. Smith, and John Green. 2009. “Strategic Voting and Legislative Redistricting Reform: District and Statewide Representational Winners and Losers.” Political Research Quarterly 62: 92-109.

Daniel A. Smith and Dustin Fridkin. 2008. “Delegating Direct Democracy: Interparty Legislative Competition and the Adoption of the Initiative in the American States,” American Political Science Review 102: 333-50.

Todd Donovan, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Daniel A. Smith. 2008. “Priming Presidential Votes by Direct Democracy,” Journal of Politics 70: 1217-31.

Eric Heberlig, Bruce Larson, Daniel A. Smith, and Kristen Soltis. 2008. “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner: Direct versus Brokered Member Campaign Contributions to the NRCC.” American Politics Review 36 433-450.

Daniel A. Smith. 2008. “Was Rove Right? Ohio’s Gay Marriage Ban and the 2004 Presidential Election,” in Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, eds., Direct Democracy’s Impact on American Political Institutions. New York: Palgrave.

Todd Donovan and Daniel A. Smith. 2008. “Identifying and Preventing Signature Fraud on Ballot Measure Petitions,” in Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall, and Susan D. Hyde, eds., Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation. Washington, DC: Brookings.

Daniel A. Smith. 2008. “Direct Democracy and Election and Ethics Laws,” in Bruce Cain, Todd Donovan, and Caroline Tolbert, eds, Democracy in the States: Experiments in Elections Reform. Washington, DC: Brookings.

Daniel A. Smith and Caroline Tolbert. 2007. “The Instrumental and Educative Effects of Ballot Measures: Research on Direct Democracy in the American States,” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 7 (4): 417-446.

Daniel A. Smith. 2007. “Representation and the Spatial Bias of Direct Democracy,” University of Colorado Law Review 78 (4): 1395-1434.

Daniel A. Smith and Caroline J. Tolbert, and Daniel Bowen. 2007. “The Educative Effects of Direct Democracy: A Research Primer for Legal Scholars,” University of Colorado Law Review 78 (4): 1371-94.

Daniel A. Smith, Matthew DeSantis, and Jason Kassel. 2006. “Same-Sex Marriage Ballot Measures and the 2004 Presidential Election,” State and Local Government Review 38 (2): 78-91.

Caroline J. Tolbert and Daniel A. Smith. 2006. “Representation and Direct Democracy in the United States,” Representation: The Journal of Representative Democracy 42 (1): 25-44.

Raymond J. La Raja, Susan E. Orr, and Daniel A. Smith. 2006. “Surviving BCRA: State Party Finance in 2004,” in John Green and Daniel Coffey, The State of the Parties (5^th edition). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Daniel A. Smith. 2006. “Initiatives and Referendums: The Effects of Direct Democracy on Candidate Elections,” in Steven Craig, ed., The Electoral Challenge: Theory Meets Practice. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

Daniel A. Smith (with Sure Log). 2005. “Orange Crush: Mobilization of Bias, Ballot Initiatives, and the Politics of Professional Sports Stadia,” in David McCuan and Stephen Stambough, Initiative-Centered Politics. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Daniel A. Smith. 2005. “The Initiative to Party: The Role of Parties in State Ballot Initiatives,” in David McCuan and Stephen Stambough, Initiative-Centered Politics. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Elizabeth Garrett and Daniel A. Smith. 2005. “Veiled Political Actors and Campaign Disclosure Laws in Direct Democracy,” Election Law Journal 4 (4) 295-328.

Caroline J. Tolbert and Daniel A. Smith. 2005. “The Educative Effects of Ballot Initiatives on Voter Turnout,” American Politics Research 33 (2): 283-309.

Daniel A. Smith. 2004. “Peeling Away the Populist Rhetoric: Toward a Taxonomy of Anti-Tax Ballot Initiatives,” Public Budgeting and Finance 24 (4): 88-110.

Daniel A. Smith. 2004. “Strings Attached: Outside Money in Colorado’s Seventh Congressional District,” in David Magleby and Quin Monson, eds., The Last Hurrah? Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 180-204.

Daniel A. Smith. 2003. “Overturning Term Limits: The Legislature’s Own Private Idaho?” PS: Political Science and Politics 36 (2): 215-220.

Daniel A. Smith and Caroline J. Tolbert. 2003. “Educated by Initiative,” Campaigns and Elections, August 31.

Daniel A. Smith. 2003. “Distorted by Outside Money: National Parties and the Race for Colorado’s Seventh Congressional District,” PS: Political Science and Politics 36 (3) PSOnline E-Symposium.

Caroline J. Tolbert, Ramona McNeal, and Daniel A. Smith. 2003. “Enhancing Civic Engagement: The Effect of Direct Democracy on Political Participation and Knowledge,” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 3 (1): 23-41.

Daniel A. Smith. 2003. “Ballot Initiatives and the (Sub)Urban/Rural Divide in Colorado,” in Daphne T. Greenwood, ed., Colorado’s Future: Meeting the Needs of a Changing State. Colorado Springs: Center for Colorado Policy Studies.

Daniel A. Smith and Joseph Lubinski. 2002. “Direct Democracy during the Progressive Era: A Crack in the Populist Veneer?” Journal of Policy History 14 (4): 349-83.

Daniel A. Smith. 2002. “Direct Democracy and Its Critics,” in Peter Woolley and Albert Papa, eds., American Politics: Core Argument/Current Controversy. 2^nd ed.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Jonathan Temin and Daniel A. Smith.  2002. “Media Matters: Evaluating the Role of the Media in Ghana’s 2000 Elections,” African Affairs 101: 585-605. 

Daniel A. Smith. 2002. “Consolidating Democracy? The Structural Underpinnings of Ghana’s 2000 Elections,” Journal of Modern African Studies 40 (4): 1-30.

Daniel A. Smith. 2002. “Ghana’s 2000 Elections: Consolidating Multi-Party Democracy,” Electoral Studies 21 (3): 519-26.

Daniel A. Smith and Caroline Tolbert. 2001. “The Initiative to Party: Partisanship and Ballot Initiatives in California,” Party Politics 7 (6): 739-57.

Caroline Tolbert, John Grummel, and Daniel A. Smith. 2001. “The Effect of Ballot Initiatives on Voter Turnout in the American States,” American Politics Research 29 (6): 625-48.

Daniel A. Smith. 2001. “Homeward Bound? Micro-Level Legislative Responsiveness to Ballot Initiatives,” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 1 (1): 50-61.

Daniel A. Smith. 2001. “Campaign Financing of Ballot Initiatives in the American States,” in Larry Sabato, Bruce Larson, and Howard Ernst, eds., Dangerous Democracy? The Battle Over Ballot Initiatives in America. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Daniel A. Smith. 2001. “Special Interests and Direct Democracy: An Historical Glance,” in M. Dane Waters, ed., The Battle Over Citizen Lawmaking. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Daniel A. Smith and Jonathan Temin. 2001. “The Media and Ghana’s 2000 Elections,” in Joseph Ayee, ed., Deepening Democracy in Ghana: Politics of the 2000 Elections, Volume 1 (“Thematic Studies”). Accra: Freedom Publications Ltd. 

Daniel A. Smith. 2001. “The Politics of Upper East and the 2000 Ghanaian Elections,” in Joseph Ayee, ed., Deepening Democracy in Ghana: Politics of the 2000 Elections, Volume 2 (“Constituency Studies”). Accra: Freedom Publications Ltd.

Daniel A. Smith and Robert J. Herrington. 2000. “The Process of Direct Democracy: Colorado’s 1996 Parental Rights Amendment,” Social Science Journal 37 (2): 179-94. 

Daniel A. Smith. 1999. “Reevaluating the Causes of Proposition 13,”Social Science History 23 (2): 173-210.

Daniel A. Smith, Kevin M. Leyden, and Stephen A. Borrelli. 1998. “Predicting the Outcomes of Presidential Commissions: Evidence from the Johnson and Nixon Years,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 28 (2): 269-85.

Daniel A. Smith. 1996. “Populist Entrepreneur: Douglas Bruce and the Tax and Government Limitation Moment in Colorado, 1986-1992,” Great Plains Research 6 (2): 269-94. 

Daniel A. Smith. 1993: “Removing the Pluralist Blinders: Labor-Management Councils and Industrial Policy in the American States,” Economic Development Quarterly 7 (4): 373-89.