The Winter 2008 Special Issue of the Journal of Policy History is out, but it seems not to be available on-line. The topic is The Constitution and Public Policy in U.S. History, and co-editors are Julian Zelizer, Princeton, and Bruce Schulman, Boston University. I participated in the superb conference where these papers were presented, and I think readers will find this to be an interesting and high-quality collection.
Here's the table of contents:
Introduction - Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer
Idea or Practice: A Brief Historiography of Judicial Review - Mary Bilder (recently posted on SSRN)
From Blood to Profit: Making Money in the Practice and Imagery of Early America - Christine Desan
Necessities of State: Police, Sovereignty, and the Constitution - Christopher Tomlins
Constitutional Revision and the City: The Enforcement Acts and Urban America, 1870-1894 - David Quigley
"The Least Vaccinated of Any Civilized Country": Personal Liberty and Public Health in the Progressive Era - Michael Willrich
Forging Fiscal Reform: Constitutional Change, Public Policy, and the Creation of Administrative Capacity in Wisconsin, 1880-1920 - Ajay Mehrotra
Woodrow Wilson and a World Governed by Evolving Law - John A. Thompson
The South Confronts the Court: The Southern Manifesto of 1956 - Anthony Badger
State Constitutionalism and the Death Penalty - Alan Rogers
The Equal Rights Amendment Reconsidered: Politics, Policy, and Social Mobilization in a Democracy - Donald T. Critchlow and Cynthia L. Stachecki
Governance and Democracy: Public Policy in Modern America - Morton Keller
