Why States Matter introduces students to the very tangible and constantly evolving implications, limitations, and foundations of America's state political institutions, and accessibly explains the ways that the political powers of the states manifest themselves in the cultures, economies, and lives of everyday Americans, and always will.
Gary F. Moncrief is University Foundation Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Boise State University.
Peverill Squire holds the Hicks and Martha Griffiths Chair in American Political Institutions at the University of Missouri.