Microsoft Word - Volume15.doc Published JOINTLY by The Pennsylvania PoliTical science associaTion AND The legislaTive office for research liaison Pennsylvania house of rePresenTaTives COMMONWEALTH of political science C O M M O N W EALTH : A JO U R N AL O F PO LITIC AL SC IEN C E • VO L. 15, N O . 2, SEPTEM BER 2009 VOL. 15, nO. 2, SEPTEMBER 2009 The Pennsylvania Political Science Association (PPSA) was founded in 1939 to further scholarship within the discipline. The Legislative Office for Research Liaison (LORL) was founded in 1976 by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to provide research linkage to the academic community. a journal i COMMONWEALTH: A Journal of Political Science EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Gerard J. Fitzpatrick, Ursinus College ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes University Donald G. Tannenbaum, Gettysburg College Michael R. King, Legislative Office for Research Liaison, Pennsylvania House of Representatives BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes University MANAGING EDITOR: Michael E. Cassidy, Office of the Democratic Caucus Chair, Pennsylvania House of Representatives EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD Aryeh Botwinick Temple University M. Margaret Conway University of Florida Roger H. Davidson University of Maryland Jean B. Elshtain University of Chicago Richard F. Fenno University of Rochester Marianne Githens Goucher College Susan W. Hammond American University Samuel Krislov University of Minnesota G. Calvin Mackenzie Colby College Michael J. Malbin State University of NY, Albany Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. Harvard University Kenneth F. Mott Gettysburg College Craig N. Murphy Wellesley College Steven A. Peterson The Pennsylvania State University Mark P. Petracca University of California, Irvine Kathy Ferguson University of Hawaii at Manoa Bruce M. Russett Yale University J. David Singer University of Michigan ii PENNSYLVANIA POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Officers and Executive Council 2009-2010 PRESIDENT Paula Holoviak Kutztown University FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Stanley Berard Lock Haven University TREASURER Thomas Brogan Albright College SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Brooke Harlowe Lock Haven University SECRETARY & WEBMASTER Fran Moran New Jersey City University EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 2007-2010 Term Joseph Rish King’s College Michael Dillon LaSalle University 2008-2011 Term Kyle Kreider Wilkes University Joseph Melusky St. Francis University 2009-2012 Term Steven Peterson Penn State - Harrisburg John Kennedy West Chester University of Pennsylvania EX OFFICIO MEMBERS PAST PRESIDENT Thomas J. Baldino Wilkes University PAST PRESIDENT Joseph Melusky St. Francis University EDITORIAL STAFF OF COMMONWEALTH: A JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Gerard J. Fitzpatrick Ursinus College ASSOCIATE EDITOR & BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Thomas J. Baldino Wilkes University ASSOCIATE EDITOR & SPECIAL ISSUE EDITOR Michael R. King LORL, PA House of Representatives ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR POLITICAL THEORY Donald G. Tannenbaum Gettysburg College MANAGING EDITOR Michael Cassidy Office of the Democratic Caucus Chair PA House of Representatives iii LEGISLATIVE OFFICE FOR RESEARCH LIAISON (LORL) Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Harrisburg, PA 17120-2218 Hon. Keith R. McCall The Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon. Todd Eachus The Majority Leader Hon. H. William DeWeese The Majority Whip Hon. Samuel H. Smith The Minority Leader Hon. Mike Turzai The Minority Whip 2009-2010 LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH LIAISON (LCRL) Hon. James R. Roebuck, Jr. LORL Committee Chair Hon. H. Scott Conklin Hon. Stephen P. Samuelson Dr. Richard DiEugenio Special Assistant to the President for Governmental Affairs The Pennsylvania State University Hon. Samuel H. Smith Republican Leader Hon. Kate Harper LORL Committee Secretary Hon. Duane Milne Dr. James Moran III Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs PA State System of Higher Education 2009-2010 UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH LIAISON (UCRL) Dr. Richard L. Rosen Associate Professor of History and Politics Drexel University Dr. Grant D. Venerable, II Vice President for Academic Affairs Lincoln University Dr. Richard DiEugenio Special Assistant to the President for Governmental Affairs The Pennsylvania State University Dr. Michael G. Hagan Director, Institute for Public Affairs Temple University Dr. Michael R. King LORL Executive Director Dr. George E. Klinzing Vice Provost for Research University of Pittsburgh Dr. Kathleen Howley Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs PA State System of Higher Education Mr. Ronald Uroda Vice President for Research AICUP Dr. Andrew Rudczynski Associate Vice President of Finance and Executive Director of Research Services University of Pennsylvania iv Contents Volume 15, Number 2.......................................... September 2009 About the Authors................................................................................v In the COMMONWEALTH by Gerard J. Fitzpatrick, Editor ...........vi Articles The Unlikely Election and Service of John Inscho Mitchell, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1881-1887 ..................................1 David R. White, Francis Marion University Judicial Selection and the Underrepresentation of Women on The Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas.................................15 Heather Frederick, Slippery Rock University The Removal of Carl Romanelli from Pennsylvania’s 2006 U.S. Senate Ballot ..........................................................................37 Blyden Potts, Shippensburg University Viewing Representative Behavior through the Lens of Social and Political Identity .............................................................................65 Robin Lauermann, Messiah College The “Greening” of Local Governments .............................................89 Arthur M. Holst, Philadelphia Water Department Book Reviews Adams, Brian L. Citizen Lobbyists: Local Efforts to Influence Public Policy .....101 James Yoho, J.D., Ph.D., Independent Scholar v Adams, Carolyn; Bartelt, David; Elesh, David; Goldstein, Ira; with Freely, Joshua; and Schmitt, Michelle. Restructuring the Philadelphia Region: Metropolitan Divisions and Inequality.............................................................103 Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University Dilworth, Richardson (editor). Social Capital in the City: Community and Civic Life in Philadelphia ................................................................................105 Kyle L. Kreider, Wilkes University Lamis, René M. The Realignment of Pennsylvania Politics Since 1960: Two-Party Competition in a Battleground State ........................107 Daniel Mallison, Villanova University Madonna, G. Terry. Pivotal Pennsylvania: Presidential Politics from FDR to the Twenty-First Century ................................................................110 Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes University Pickering, Kathleen; Harvey, Mark; Summers, Gene; Mushinski, David. Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity.................................................111 E. Brooke Harlowe, Lock Haven University Warren, Kenneth. Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America....................114 John H. Hepp, IV, Wilkes University vi About the Authors Heather Frederick, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of political science at Slippery Rock University. She received her doctoral degree from West Virginia University. Her primary research interests focus on barriers to the representation of women in American governmental institutions. She is especially interested in women’s PACs and female congressional candidates. Arthur M. Holst, Ph.D., is Business and Government Affairs Manager for the Philadelphia Water Department. He received his doctoral degree from Temple University. His research interests include local government, public works, and the environment. Robin Lauermann, Ph.D., is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Politics at Messiah College. She received her doctoral degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her current research focuses on political behavior in the areas of representation and political engagement. Blyden B. Potts, Ph.D., is an adjunct assistant professor at Shippensburg University, in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan. His research interests include structured inequality, lifestyle, formal organizations, and social capital and social networks. In 2006, he was a leader in the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) ballot access signature effort. From 2007 to 2008 he was Secretary of the GPPA. David R. White, Ph.D., is an associate professor of political science at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Arizona. His research interests include congressional development, particularly in the U.S. Senate, and the origins and growth of “presidential advance” (the White House office and staff that prepare and manage presidential trips and public events).