California Journal of Politics and Policy

Parent: Institute of Governmental Studies

eScholarship stats: History by Item for May through August, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-08	2026-07	2026-06	2026-05
5k75w7xw	Alaska’s New Electoral System: Countering Polarization or “Crooked as Hell”?	878	296	152	258	172
9df708cc	The Unprecedented Federal Fiscal Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on State Budgets	765	450	126	85	104
8j3364gg	Alaska Electoral Reform: The Top 4 Primary and Ranked-Choice-Voting	749	196	95	221	237
9mq6n7qx	How Can We Increase Turnout among Low Propensity Voters?	554	82	98	152	222
8tm3s6hz	Overvoting and the Equality of Voice under Instant-Runoff Voting in San Francisco	492	97	121	121	153
2gm5854x	Does More Choice Lead to Reduced Racially Polarized Voting? Assessing the Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting in Mayoral Elections	461	101	64	76	220
31n4c090	You Have to Create the Right Pipeline: Why California Has Never Elected a Woman Governor	446	142	45	130	129
5zt6b4r1	Some General Consequences of California's Top-Two Primary System	415	129	46	83	157
80z056t7	FUNDING TRANSPORTATION IN CALIFORNIA: A HISTORY OF CRISES	409	181	63	48	117
4559k9p6	Eminent Domain and High-Speed Rail in California: Sustaining Popular Support for Large-scale Transportation Infrastructure in the Aftermath of Kelo v. City of New London	398	75	59	122	142
4fz2810r	Purple California: Politics and Regional Realities in the Golden State	386	60	38	140	148
18t4z8dz	Failed State: Political Corruption and the Collapse of Democracy in Bell, California	368	48	49	124	147
4sj0d8z9	The Growing Presence of Faith-Based Hospitals, Supplemental Tables	344	126	31	111	76
3rf6v988	Time to Yell “Cut?” An Evaluation of the California Film and Production Tax Credit for the Motion Picture Industry	343	83	59	91	110
09c4q90x	Examining Racist Nativist Microagressions on DACAmented College Students in the Trump Era	338	62	62	88	126
3p47457r	The 2023 Nevada Budget: Record Surpluses, Cautious Optimism, and Bipartisan Support for K-12 Education and State Employees	337	94	67	56	120
7s02m0r3	California and the American Human Development Index	335	53	64	93	125
9nz678jb	Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story	334	61	66	77	130
6hd670ns	Should Newsom Stay or Should He LAO? California’s 2024-2025 Budget	329	65	31	100	133
4q4301rg	Purple Rain: Temperamental Politics and Budgets in Arizona	325	98	72	58	97
9kq704cf	Candidate Ethnicity and Latino Voting in Co-Partisan Elections	324	49	42	73	160
9qn4k1df	Navigating the Aftermath of the Maui Wildfires: Hawai‘i’s FY 2025 Budget	323	78	60	81	104
89g5x6vn	Voter Behavior in California’s Top Two Primary	321	60	39	72	150
4d90d2x0	The Growing Presence of Faith-Based Hospitals in California Restricts Access to Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare	312	57	61	76	118
10x1f4mn	Politics and the English Language in California: Bilingual Education at the Polls	311	71	56	65	119
2hx8h87n	DACA, DAPA, and Discretionary Executive Power: Immigrants Outside the Law	311	76	59	86	90
11c7417t	Lilliputians at the Gate: Small Individual Campaign Donations and Political Polarization in Western State Legislatures	303	48	41	62	152
4wv4t689	The Origins of and Need to Control Supermax Prisons	303	129	49	32	93
6b67z7ng	Examining Child Deprivation Across California and How It Could Be Addressed with Early Childhood Education	297	59	115	50	73
27n2n1tg	Redistricting California: An Evaluation of the Citizens Commission Final Plans	295	58	43	45	149
1q2817cz	The Myth of the Independent Voter, California Style	294	113	78	23	80
8013559g	Accounting for California Water	294	85	61	62	86
1br934wp	Two Factions Walk into a Budget Session	293	47	33	78	135
9fv871vj	No Space in Paradise: Hawai‘i’s FY 2024 Budget and the Cost-of-Living Crisis	290	92	37	47	114
5b94w71z	THE LONG SHADOW OF THE TAXPAYER’S BILL OF RIGHTS: COLORADO’S 2024–2025 BUDGET AND ECONOMY	288	80	24	49	135
1xj0q3qg	COVID-19 Relief Measures had Few Durable Post-Pandemic Effects on Renters	287	67	41	68	111
8rt3194v	Don’t Go Chasing Windfalls: California’s 2021-2022 Budget	286	57	59	64	106
76t2f4sh	Honey, I Shrunk the Surplus: California’s 2023-2024 Budget	284	51	53	66	114
0685t8n2	Water in the West	281	56	50	60	115
6509g9b6	Proposition 14 and California’s Minor Parties: A Case Study of Electoral Reform and Party Response	278	47	28	111	92
1n48f1rj	Why California’s ‘Three Strikes’ Fails as Crime and Economic Policy, and What to Do	265	41	28	58	138
6pr2f7gr	A New Vision for California’s Healthcare System: Integrated Care with Aligned Financial Incentives	258	55	44	63	96
6cx5w2qr	The California Judiciary	255	63	56	42	94
4wd447bs	Reining in the California Paparazzi: An Analysis of the California Legislature's Attempts to Safeguard Celebrity Privacy	252	55	21	59	117
86h7g93n	Looking Past The Hype: 10 Questions Everyone Should Ask About California’s Prison Realignment	252	80	36	56	80
2jj0s1dn	The Economic Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in California	251	67	31	56	97
52054713	The Day After Tomorrow: The Politics of Public Employee Benefits	248	100	18	42	88
0nk0g9q9	On a Roll, or Is It a Slide? Alaska’s Budgeting Process in 2024	247	61	53	35	98
17d520j7	Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion in California	247	54	28	65	100
3898b89s	How Geopolitics Cleaved California's Republicans and United Its Democrats	241	69	30	79	63

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