Publications

2026 2025 APSA CONTRIBUTORS Paul Frymer · Scholar only — 2026 The Invisible Farmworker: Racial Political Economy, Policy Development, and the Second Dimension of Power Paul Frymer · Polity · Scholar only 1 2025 2024 APSA Paul Frymer · Scholar only — 2025 Right to work or right to vote? labor policy and american democracy Paul Frymer · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only 7 2022 American Political Development and the Crises in American Politics. Paul Frymer · Studies in American Political Development · Scholar only 2 2021 Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy. By Mettler, Suzanne and Lieberman, Robert C. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2020. 304 p. $28.99 cloth, $17.99 paper. Paul Frymer · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2021 Labor unions and white racial politics Paul Frymer · American Journal of Political Science · Scholar only 214 2021 Unions can help white workers become more racially tolerant Paul Frymer · The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy · Scholar only 7 2020 JOHNSON K.* 3 Paul Frymer · STUDIES IN AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT · Scholar only — 2019 The 1994 Electoral Aftershock: Dealignment or Realignment in the South Paul Frymer · Midterm · Scholar only 11 2019 The Law of the Workplace Paul Frymer · The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice: Studies Inspired by the Work · Scholar only 2 2018 Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP Paul Frymer · Journal of American History · Scholar only — 2017 Building an American empire: The era of territorial and political expansion Paul Frymer · Princeton University Press · Scholar only 293 2017 Homesteading and Manufacturing Whiteness Paul Frymer · Building an American Empire · Scholar only — 2017 The n Camb Paul Frymer · Political Science & Politics · Scholar only — 2016 Citizenship and Race Paul Frymer · The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism · Scholar only — 2016 Rights through knowledge and reason: Civil rights aspirations in the progressive-era department of labor Paul Frymer · The Progressives' Century: Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and · Scholar only 3 2016 The People Against Themselves: Rethinking Popular Constitutionalism Paul Frymer · Law & Social Inquiry · Scholar only 16 2016 Why Aren't Political Scientists Interested in Native American Politics? Paul Frymer · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only 5 2014 A rush and a push and the land is ours”: Territorial expansion, land policy, and US state formation Paul Frymer · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only 93 2013 Grassroots Not Astroturf: The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism Paul Frymer · New Labor Forum · Scholar only — 2012 Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don't Kill the US Constitutional System Paul Frymer · Pol. Sci. Q · Scholar only — 2012 Property Law and American Empire Paul Frymer · U. Haw. L. Rev · Scholar only 14 2012 Teachers Unions and Public Education: A Discussion of Terry Moe's Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools Paul Frymer · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only 5 2011 Building an American empire: Territorial expansion in the antebellum era Paul Frymer · UC Irvine L. Rev · Scholar only 28 2011 Debating the causes of party polarization in America Paul Frymer · California Law Review · Scholar only 35 2011 Statues, Courts, and Democracy in America Paul Frymer · Tulsa L. Rev · Scholar only 6 2011 Uneasy alliances: Race and party competition in America Paul Frymer · Princeton University Press · Scholar only 730 2010 Labor and American politics Paul Frymer · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only 15 2010 Reading Greenstone's Labor in American Politics in Light of Labor's Decline Paul Frymer · Polity · Scholar only 2 2010 Uneasy Alliances (With New Afterword): Race and Party Competion Paul Frymer · Princeton University Press · Scholar only — 2009 Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party Paul Frymer · The Journal of African American History · Scholar only 1 2008 Black and blue: African Americans, the labor movement, and the decline of the Democratic party Paul Frymer · Princeton University Press · Scholar only 332 2008 Law and American Political Development Paul Frymer · Law & Social Inquiry · Scholar only 49 2008 Race’s reality: the NAACP confronts racism and inequality in the labor movement, 1940–65 Paul Frymer · Race and American Political Development · Scholar only 7 2007 Affirmative action in American labor unions: Necessary but problematic for the cause of civil rights Paul Frymer · Revue française d’études américaines · Scholar only 13 2006 Distinguishing Formal from Institutional Democracy Paul Frymer · Md. L. Rev · Scholar only 14 2006 New Orleans is not the exception: re-politicizing the study of racial inequality Paul Frymer · Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race · Scholar only 122 2005 Race, parties, and democratic inclusion Paul Frymer · The politics of democratic inclusion · Scholar only 17 2005 Racism revised: Courts, labor law, and the institutional construction of racial animus Paul Frymer · American Political Science Review · Scholar only 80 2005 Schmooze Thoughts: Towards Understanding the Merits of Juristocracy in Comparison with Other Political Institutions Paul Frymer · Scholar only — 2004 Race, Labor, and the Twentieth-Century American State Paul Frymer · Politics & Society · Scholar only 38 2003 Acting when elected officials won't: federal courts and civil rights enforcement in US labor unions, 1935–85 Paul Frymer · American political science review · Scholar only 208 2003 The Modern Presidency and Civil Rights: Rhetoric on Race from Roosevelt to Nixon Paul Frymer · The Journal of Southern History · Scholar only — 2003 The rise of instrumental affirmative action: Law and the new significance of race in America Paul Frymer · Conn. L. Rev · Scholar only 93 2002 The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality Paul Frymer · Journal of American History · Scholar only — 2001 Political parties, representation, and federal safeguards Paul Frymer · Nw. UL Rev · Scholar only 45 2000 Uneasy alliances, race and party competition in America Paul Frymer · Political Science Quarterly · Scholar only — 1998 Coalition-building and the politics of electoral capture during the Nixon administration: African Americans, labor, Latinos Paul Frymer · Studies in American Political Development · Scholar only 74 1997 Party elites, ideological voters, and divided party government Paul Frymer · Legislative Studies Quarterly · Scholar only 50