Sandra
K. Davis
Associate
Professor
Department of Political Science
Teaching and Research Interests
Research Focus: US Environmental Politics and Policy, especially water politics in western states and public participation in public lands policy.
Teaching Interests: US Environmental Politics; Water politics: Politics of Sustainability: Political Parties, Elections, Public participation and Interest Groups; and American Politics.
On Environmental Affairs Interdisciplinary Program Faculty Council. This is a 21 credit certificate that undergraduates may take to demonstrate that they have completed an integrated set liberal arts, science and other environmental courses.
Course designed and teacher of online U.S. Environmental Politics and Policy course.
Graduate and Undergraduate Colorado State University Courses:
Undergraduate:
American Government and Politics
First Year Seminar: Water in the American West
Political Parties and Interest Groups
U.S. Environmental Politics and Policy (on campus and on line sections)
Capstone Seminar: Parties, Interest Groups and the Initiative
Graduate:
Governmental Politics in the U. S.
Politics of Environment and Sustainability
Environmental Politics in the U. S.
Seminar: Politics of Water
The Politics of Water Scarcity in Western States. Social Science Journal. 38 (#4): 527-524.
A Nonmetric Test of Spatial Theories of Elections. Political Methodology. 10 (November 1984): 1-27
Wilderness Preservation at What Price? An Empirical Assessment (with Charles E. Davis). In Phillip O. Foss, ed., Federal Lands Policy. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987)
A Test of Candidate Equilibrium. Political Behaviors 9 (Issue 1, 1987): 29-48.
Interest Groups and the Implementation of Public Lands Programs: Conformity or Capture? (with Charles E. Davis). Journal of Environmental Systems 16 (Issue 4, 1986-87): 237-257.
An Analysis of the Goals and Strategies of Political Action Committees. Polity. 21 (Fall, 1988): 167-182.
Analyzing Change in Public Lands Policymaking (with Charles E. Davis). Policy Students Journal (Fall 1988), 1-22.
State Implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (with Charles E. Davis and Denise Peacock). Policy Studies Review (Issue 2, 1989).
Pubic Involvement in Wyoming Pubic Lands Decision Making. In Michael S. Hamilton, ed., Regulatory Federalism, Natural Resource and Environmental Management (Washington, D.C.: American Society for Public Administration, 1990)
Water Politics in Colorado: Change or Business as Usual? In Richard Lowitt, ed., Politics in Postwar American West (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995).
Implementing Groundwater Policy: Contaminating the Message (John Redifer, co-author). Society and Natural Resource 9 (1996): 177-189.
Fighting over Public Lands: Interest Groups, States, and the Federal Government. In Charles E. Davis, ed., Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics. (Boulder: Westview, 1997).
State Enforcement of the Federal Hazardous Waste Program (Charles Davis, co-author). 1999. Polity 31 (Spring): 451-68.
Fighting over Public Lands: Interest Groups, Sate and the Federal Government. In Charles E. Davis, ed., Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics, 2nd ed (Boulder: Westview. 2001). (Update version of article).
Ph. D. Ohio State University
MA University of Houston
BA Colorado State University
April 23, 2001
