in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. Key died at Beth Israel Hospital in Brookline, Massachusetts. Publications The Techniques of Political Graft in the United States, 1934, 1936. The Administration of Federal Grants to States, Public Administration Service, 1937, Johnson Reprint Corp., 1972. (With Winston M. Crouch) The Initiative and the Referendum in California, University of California Press, 1939. The Problem of Local Legislation in Maryland, 1940. Politics, Parties, and Pressure Groups, Crowell, 1942, 2nd edition, 1947, 3rd edition, 1952, 4th edition, 1958, 5th edition, 1964; online free (With Alexander Heard) Southern Politics in State and Nation (Knopf, 1949, new edition, University of Tennessee Press, 1984). online A Primer of Statistics for Political Scientists, Crowell, 1954, 1966. online "A Theory of Critical Elections." 1955. Journal of Politics 17(1): 3–18. American State Politics: An Introduction, Knopf, 1956, Greenwood Press, 1983. online Public Opinion and American Democracy, Knopf, 1961. online (With Milton C. Cummings) The Responsible Electorate: Rationality in Presidential Voting, 1936–1960, Belknap Press, 1966. online References Further reading Fitzgerald, Keith. "History, institutions, and political culture: V.O. Key as an exemplar for a revived research program." Political Science Reviewer (December 31, 2000). Lucker, Andrew M. V. O. Key Jr.: The Quintessential Political Scientist (2001). Maxwell, Angie, and Todd G. Shields, eds. Unlocking V.O. Key Jr.: "Southern Politics" for the Twenty-First Century (University of Arkansas Press; 2011) 231 pages Ness, Gary C. "The Southern Politics Project and the Writing of Recent Southern History." South Atlantic Quarterly 1977 76(1): 58–72. Uslaner, Eric M. "Comparative State Policy Formation, Interparty Competition, and Malapportionment: a New Look at 'V. O. Key's Hypotheses'". Journal of Politics 1978 40(2): 409–432. Fulltext at Jstor and Ebsco Wlezien, Christopher. "V O Key, Jr., Public Opinion and American Democracy." in The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration (2015). American political scientists 1908 births 1963 deaths University of Texas at Austin alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty Harvard University faculty American people of Ukrainian descent People from Lamesa, Texas 20th-century political scientists Members of the American Philosophical Society