Philip Rocco, author of COUNTING LIKE A STATE - an in-person Boswell event

Boswell Book Company welcomes Philip Rocco, Marquette University Associate Professor of Political Science, for an event featuring his thought-provoking new book, Counting Like a State: How Intergovernmental Partnerships Shaped the 2020 US Census.

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Rocco’s illuminating study of the 2020 Census pulls back the curtain on the administrative state to reveal how something as complex and centralizing as a census takes place within a decentralized, federalist system. Drawing on analyses of interviews with hundreds of public officials and quantitative analyses of state and local census activities, Counting Like a State allows scholars and practitioners to better understand what facilitates as well as what impedes effective intergovernmental partnerships for census taking.

“Rocco has produced a highly readable and thought-provoking analysis of the importance of state and local governments in the effective conduct of the modern US census - a linchpin for our democracy... He makes a strong case for strengthening the intergovernmental partnerships that are so vital for a fair and accurate count.”—Constance F. Citro, coauthor of The Nation’s Data at Risk

Philip Rocco is coauthor of Obamacare Wars: Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care Act.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Boswell Book Company, 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, United States