TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 40, Issue 3 (July 2008)

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Articles

Spectacular Resistance: The Billionaires for Bush and the Art of Political Culture Jamming

Margaret E Farrar and Jamie L Warner

Polity 40: 273-296; advance online publication, February 18, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300104

Gay Marriage as a Religious Right: Reframing the Legal Debate over Gay Marriage in the United States

Debra L DeLaet and Rachel Paine Caufield

Polity 40: 297-320; advance online publication, February 18, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300103

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Polity Forum: Politics, History, and The State of the State

Introduction

Laura S Jensen

Polity 40: 321-325; doi:10.1057/pol.2008.10

The Old Institutionalism and the New

Stuart McConnell

Polity 40: 326-331; advance online publication, May 5, 2008; doi:10.1057/pol.2008.5

Rethinking the Early American State

Richard R John

Polity 40: 332-339; advance online publication, May 5, 2008; doi:10.1057/pol.2008.3

A State of Legislatures

William J Novak

Polity 40: 340-347; advance online publication, May 5, 2008; doi:10.1057/pol.2008.6

The State in a Blue Uniform

Andrew J Polsky and William D Adler

Polity 40: 348-354; advance online publication, May 5, 2008; doi:10.1057/pol.2008.7

American Political Development, State-Building, and the "Security State": Reviving a Research Agenda

Bartholomew H Sparrow

Polity 40: 355-367; advance online publication, May 12, 2008; doi:10.1057/pol.2008.8

Finding the American State: Transcending the "Statelessness" Account

Desmond King and Robert C Lieberman

Polity 40: 368-378; advance online publication, May 5, 2008; doi:10.1057/pol.2008.4

Government, the State, and Governance

Laura S Jensen

Polity 40: 379-385; doi:10.1057/pol.2008.9

Valor and Valkyries: Why the State Needs Valhalla  FREE

Richard F Bensel

Polity 40: 386-393; advance online publication, May 5, 2008; doi:10.1057/pol.2008.2

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Review Essay

Appointing Federal Judges: Law, Politics, and Democracy

Gerard J Fitzpatrick

Polity 40: 394-409; advance online publication, February 18, 2008; doi:10.1057/pol.2008.1