Contributors

Spring 2018 Edition

Eduardo Alemán is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. He specializes in the comparative analysis of political institutions and Latin American politics. His current work focuses on executive-legislative relations, parliamentary procedures, and agenda control in Latin American legislatures. He is also interested in how electoral incentives influence legislative behavior. Professor Alemán has published articles in such journals as World Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, and Latin American Research Review.
Sarah E. Anderson is an Associate Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara who studies how the public and politics influences policy with work published in such journals as Legislative Studies Quarterly and Public Administration Review. Her current research focuses on how the public drives agencies’ wildfire prevention and why legislators reject compromise. Those interests are reflected in her experience in Washington, D.C., where she worked as a U.S. congressman’s legislative assistant. In addition to a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University, she holds an M.S. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.S. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Hanna Bäck is Professor of Political Science at Lund University, and has previously held a position as junior professor at University of Mannheim. Her research concentrates mainly on political parties and coalition politics in parliamentary democracies, focusing on topics such as coalition formation, portfolio allocation, cabinet reshuffles, policymaking in multiparty governments, legislative behavior, and intra-party politics. She also does research on political behavior, and has been associate editor of the journal Political Psychology. One of her current research projects focuses on anti-immigrant attitudes and affective polarization. Bäck is one of the authors (with Marc Debus) of the book Political Parties, Parliaments and Legislative Speechmaking, published in 2016 by Palgrave Macmillan. Her recent work has been published in European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Party Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science and Research Methods, Political Studies, and Public Choice.
William Bernhard is professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the coauthor of Pricing Politics.
Daniel M. Butler is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His research uses experiments to understand representation. His work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and other journals. He received his PhD from Stanford in 2007.
Royce Carroll is Reader in Comparative Politics at the University of Essex. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California at San Diego in 2007. His research focuses on democratic institutions and the role of representation in the policy-making process, particularly legislative politics and the politics of coalitions within and between political parties. His recent publications focus on political parties and on the measurement of preferences and ideology.
Jeffrey J. Harden is Associate Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in American politics and political methodology. His research agenda in American politics focuses on political representation, public policy diffusion, and state politics. His methodology interests include interpretation and communication of statistical models, network inference, and simulation. He is the author of Multidimensional Democracy: A Supply and Demand Theory of Representation in American Legislatures (Cambridge, 2016) and co-author of Indecision in American Legislatures (Michigan, 2018). He has also published articles in several journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Political Analysis.
Justin Kirkland is an Associate Professor of Politics and Policy at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the direction of Thomas Carsey. Prior to his time at UVA, Justin was a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. His research focuses on legislative politics, representation, state politics, and social network analysis.
Gregory Koger is a professor of political science at the University of Miami. Koger specializes in legislative politics and political parties. After earning his B.A. at Willamette University, Koger worked as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House, then earned his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2002. Gregory Koger is the author of Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate; and Strategic Party Government, written with Matthew Lebo, with both books published by the University of Chicago Press. Filibustering was awarded the 2011 Fenno Prize for the best book on legislative studies. Koger has also published research articles on parties, lobbying, and Congress in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Political Research, the British Journal of Political Science, PS: Political Science and Politics, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics.
Valeria Palanza holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. Currently, she is Assistant Professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Políticas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research interests focus on issues of democracy, institutional arrangements, and the legislative process. Her most recent publications appear in Comparative Political Studies, Revista de Ciencia Política, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Her book Checking Presidential Power: Executive Decrees and the Legislative Process in New Democracies will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year.
Molly Reynolds is a fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings. She studies Congress, with an emphasis on how congressional rules and procedure affect domestic policy outcomes. She is the author of the book, Exceptions to the Rule: The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate, which explores creation, use, and consequences of the budget reconciliation process and other procedures that prevent filibusters in the U.S. Senate. Current research projects include work on the congressional budget process, especially the consequences of broader partisan dynamics on the consideration of the yearly budget resolution and appropriations bills, and on the consequences of federalism for national policymaking in the current period of unified Republican party control. She also supervises the maintenance of Vital Statistics on Congress, Brookings’s long-running resource on the first branch of government. Reynolds received her Ph.D. in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan and her A.B. in government from Smith College.
Jesse Richman received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, and taught at Vanderbilt University before coming to Old Dominion University in 2006. At ODU he is
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies and teaches courses in the fields of American politics, research methods, and game theory. His research interests include state legislative politics, Congress, voting participation, and political economy. His research has appeared in a variety of journals including the American Political Science Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and the Review of Law and Economics. He is also the coauthor of two books.
Sebastián M. Saiegh is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. from New York University, and has previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests cut across the fields of comparative politics, positive political theory and political economy. Saiegh has a regional focus on Latin America, and he is an expert on Argentine politics. His work addresses a number of different topics, including statutory policy-making, legislative politics, sovereign borrowing, electoral forensics, civil war exposure, and sports analytics.
Tracy Sulkin is professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author, most recently, of The Legislative Legacy of Congressional
Campaigns.
Danielle Thomsen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. During the 2018-2019 academic year, she will be a research scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. Her research focuses on American politics, the U.S. Congress, and gender and politics. She is the author of Opting Out of Congress: Partisan Polarization and the Decline of Moderate Candidates. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, and State Politics & Policy Quarterly. Her next project is about how to measure a political candidacy and how to evaluate political competition in American elections.
Craig Volden is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a professor of public policy and politics, with appointments in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics. He studies legislative politics and the interaction among political institutions, including within American federalism. His most recent book, Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers (winner of the 2015 Fenno Prize and the 2015 Gladys M. Kammerer Award), co-authored with Alan Wiseman, explores the effectiveness of individual members of Congress in overcoming policy gridlock. He has published numerous articles in such journals as: American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; Journal of Politics; Legislative Studies Quarterly; Public Administration Review; Journal of Public Policy; and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. His current projects include studies of innovation and policy diffusion across states and localities, and an analysis of the legislative effectiveness of individual members of Congress. He is Co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking (thelawmakers.org).
Derek Willis is a news applications developer at ProPublica, focusing on politics and elections. He previously worked as a developer and reporter at The New York Times,
a database editor at The Washington Post, and at the Center for Public Integrity and Congressional Quarterly. He began his journalism career at The Palm Beach Post. He is a co-founder of OpenElections, a project to collect and publish election results from all 50 states.
Alan E. Wiseman is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, where he is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Economy, the Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor, and Professor of Political Science and Law (by courtesy). He received his Ph.D. in Business (Political Economics) from Stanford University in 2001. He has research and teaching interests in American political institutions and positive political economy, focusing on legislative politics, regulation and bureaucratic policy making, and business-government relations. He is coauthor (with Craig Volden) of Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers (Cambridge University Press). His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. He is co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking (www.thelawmakers.org).

 

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abrajano Marisa Abrajano is professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. She received her Ph.D. in politics from New York University in 2005 and BA from UCLA in 1999. Her research is in the field of American politics, particularly in the areas of racial and ethnic politics in the US, Latino politics and campaigns and elections. She is the author of three books:  Campaigning to the New American Electorate: Television Advertising to Latinos (Stanford University Press), which received the the best book award in Latino Politics by the American Political Science Association. She is also the co-author of New Faces, New Voices: The Hispanic Electorate in America (with R. Michael Alvarez) published by Princeton University Press. Her latest book, with Zoltan Hajnal, is entitled White Backlash: Race, Immigration and Politics and was the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Ralphe Bunche Book Award. Her other work has been published in leading journals in the discipline.
bailey Michael Bailey is the Colonel William J. Walsh Professor of American Government in the Department of Government and the Interim Dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is the co-author with Forrest Maltzman of The Constrained Court: Law, Politics and the Decisions Justices Make from Princeton University Press and the author of two statistics books, Real Stats and Real Econometrics. Bailey teaches and conducts research on American politics and political economy. His work covering trade, Congress, election law and the Supreme Court, methodology and inter-state policy competition has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, World Politics, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and elsewhere.
Tiffany D. Barnes is an Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Kentucky. She received her PhD from Rice University in 2012. She employs both quantitative and qualitative research approaches to examine how institutions shape the political behavior of citizens and elites. Her book, Gendering Legislative Behavior: Institutional Constraints and Collaboration, (Cambridge University Press 2016) won the Alan Rosenthal Prize from the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association in 2017. Her other peer-reviewed work appears in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Governance, Politics & Gender, and Election Law Journal.
bateman David Bateman is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. His research focuses on Congress, American Political Development, and voting rights. He has published articles in Studies in American Political Development, American Journal of Political Science, and the Forum. His forthcoming co-authored book, Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction, examines the role of southern members of Congress in shaping national policy from the end of Reconstruction until the New Deal. He is currently revising a manuscript entitled Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing a Mass Electorate in the USA, UK, and France, which compares the development of political rights across these three countries.
bonica Adam Bonica an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His research is at the intersection of data science and politics with substantive focuses on money in politics, campaigns and elections, and judicial politics. His research has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and JAMA Internal Medicine.
box Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier is Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology. (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1993.) She was recently selected as a member of the 2017 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was an inaugural Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology. The Box-Steffensmeier Graduate Student Award, given annually by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is named after her in recognition of her contributions in political methodology and her support of women in the field. She served as the faculty representative to the Ohio State Board of Trustees in 2013 and 2014. She currently serves as the Divisional Dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Dean for Graduate Affairs for the College of Arts and Science. She is the co-editor with David Canon of the Legislative Politics and Policymaking Series at the University of Michigan Press.
Charles Campisano is currently a law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at The Ohio State University focusing on judicial politics, federal courts, the federal judicial selection process, and Congress. Charles went on to graduate from Capital University Law School where he researched and wrote about Energy Law and the constitutional issues surrounding the oil and gas industry.
caughey Devin Caughey is an associate professor (without tenure) of political science and the Silverman Family Career Development Chair at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working primarily in the fields of American politics and political methodology, he has published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, World Politics, and Studies in American Political Development. His honors include the APSA State Politics Section Best Journal Article Award, the Warren Miller Prize for best article published in Political Analysis, and the Walter Dean Burnham Award for best dissertation in the field of Politics and History. His book The Unsolid South, which examines within-party competition and congressional representation in the one-party American South, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press.
carroll Royce Carroll is Reader in Comparative Politics at the University of Essex. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California at San Diego in 2007. His research focuses on democratic institutions and the role of representation in the policy-making process, particularly legislative politics and the politics of coalitions within and between political parties. His recent publications focus on political parties and on the measurement of preferences and ideology.
carson Jamie L. Carson is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 2004. He earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2003 and was a fellow in the Political Institutions and Public Choice Program, now located at Duke University. Carson’s research focuses on congressional politics and elections, American political development, and separation of powers and has appeared in the American Political Science ReviewAmerican Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. He is co-author of The Politics of Congressional Elections with Gary Jacobson and Change & Continuity in the 2016 Elections with John Aldrich, Brad Gomez, and David Rohde. His most recent book, Electoral Incentives in Congress, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press and is coauthored with Joel Sievert.
 Josh Clinton (Ph.D. Political Science, M.S. Statistics, and M.A. Economics from Stanford University) uses statistical methods to better understand political processes and outcomes. He is interested in: the politics in the U.S. Congress, public opinion, campaigns and elections, and the uses and abuses of statistical methods for understanding political phenomena. His peer-reviewed publications have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of PoliticsPolitical Analysis, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the Annual Review of Political Science among others. He is an Editor-In-Chief for the Quarterly Journal of Political Science and he is currently serving on the Editorial Board of Journal of Public Policy. He is also currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and a Co-Director of the Vanderbilt Poll at Vanderbilt University.

 

cox Gary W. Cox is the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1983. In addition to numerous articles in the areas of legislative and electoral politics, Cox is author of The Efficient Secret (winner of the 1983 Samuel H Beer dissertation prize and the 2003 George H Hallett Award), co-author of Legislative Leviathan (winner of the 1993 Richard F Fenno Prize), author of Making Votes Count (winner of the 1998 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, the 1998 Luebbert Prize and the 2007 George H Hallett Award); and co-author of Setting the Agenda (winner of the 2006 Leon D. Epstein Award). His latest book is Marketing Sovereign Promises (winner of the 2017 William H Riker Prize). A former Guggenheim Fellow, Cox was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.
dean Julian Dean is a PhD candidate at Princeton University, where he is a recipient of the Kenneth W. Gemmill ’32 Fellowship in Politics. His research focuses on American institutions and applied formal and quantitative methods, with a particular focus on the politics of regulation and interest groups. Raised in Australia and Germany, he also holds an AB from Princeton, magna cum laude, in Politics and the Program in Political Economy. Before graduate school he worked as a management consultant in New York City.
haas Nicholas Haas is a fourth-year PhD Candidate in the Politics Department at New York University studying comparative politics. His research focuses on bias, polarization, inter-group relations, policing, and experimental methods, and he has conducted studies in India, South Sudan, Egypt, and the United States. His research is supported by a doctoral dissertation research improvement grant from the National Science Foundation. Nicholas earned his B.A. in political science with Highest Distinction from the University of Michigan.
hitt Matthew P. Hitt is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University in 2014. Hitt studies judgment and decision making in American politics, primarily in elite institutions. Hitt’s research, supported in part by the National Science Foundation, has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political ScienceAmerican Political Science Review, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Law & Society Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Studies in American Political Development. He is co-author of Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences, published by Cambridge University Press. Hitt’s doctoral dissertation was awarded the 2015 Edward S. Corwin prize for best dissertation in public law by the American Political Science Association. More information can be found at his website.
lapinski John Lapinski, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies. He also serves as the Director of the Elections Unit at NBC News, which projects races for NBC and analyzes and produces election-related stories through exit polls for NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, and all of NBC’s digital properties. Dr. Lapinski earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2000, and previously was an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. He came to Penn in 2006. His primary area of research is concerned with understanding national elections as well as lawmaking in Congress through empirical analysis.
lee Frances E. Lee is professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. She is co-editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly. Most recently, she is author of Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign (University of Chicago Press 2016). She is also author of Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate (University of Chicago Press 2009) and coauthor of Sizing Up The Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (University of Chicago Press 1999) and a textbook, Congress and Its Members (Sage / CQ Press). Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and others. In 2002-2003, she worked on Capitol Hill as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.
mccarty Nolan McCarty is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and Chair of the Department of Politics. He was formerly the associate dean at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His research interests include U.S. politics, democratic political institutions, and political game theory. He is the recipient of the Robert Eckles Swain National Fellowship from the Hoover Institution and the John M. Olin Fellowship in Political Economy. He has co-authored three books: Political Game Theory (2006, Cambridge University Press with Adam Meirowitz), Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (2006, MIT Press with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal) and Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy (with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal). In 2010, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He earned his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.
morton Rebecca Morton is Professor of Politics at New York University, New York, and New York University, Abu Dhabi. She is also Director of the Social Science Experimental Laboratory (SSEL) at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses on voting processes as well as experimental methods. She is the author or co-author of four books and numerous journal articles, which have appeared in noted outlets such as the American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Politics, and Review of Economic Studies.
noel Hans Noel is an associate professor of Government at Georgetown University. His research interests are in political parties and ideology, principally but not limited to the United States. This includes work on measuring and assessing the role of ideology in coalition building and partisan conflict, on the role of parties in especially presidential nomination politics, and on understanding parties as networks of policy demanders. He is the author of Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America (2013) and is a co-author of The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform (2008).
poole_small Keith T. Poole is Philip H. Alston Jr. Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Rochester in 1978. His research interests include methodology, political-economic history of American institutions, economic growth and entrepreneurship, and the political-economic history of railroads. He is the author or coauthor of over 60 articles as well as the author of Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting (Cambridge University Press, 2005), a coauthor of Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment Using R (CRC Press, 2014), Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2013), Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (MIT Press, 2006; second edition March, 2016), Ideology In Congress (Transaction Press 2007), and Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting (Oxford University Press, 1997). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006 and received the career award from the Political Methodology Society in 2016. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie-Bosch Foundation, and the Center for Political Economy. Professor Poole has served on the editorial boards of Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.
rothenberg Lawrence S. Rothenberg is the Corrigan-Minehan Professor of Political Science and the Director of the W. Allen Wallis Institution of Political Economy at the University of Rochester. Besides Rochester, he has had faculty appointments at the California Institute of Technology and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School, where he was the Max McGraw Distinguished Professor and a Director of the Ford Center for Global Citizenship, has had fellowships at the Brookings Institutions and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now the Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon, and is on the Scientific Council of the IAST at the University of Toulouse. He is the author or coauthor of five books, most recently The Enigma of Presidential Power (Cambridge, 2017; with Fang-Yi Chiou), as well as articles in Political Science, Economics, and political economy journals. His current research focuses on environmental and public policy, interbranch bargaining, interest groups, judicial and regulatory decision-making, legislative politics, presidential authority, and political appointments.
rosenthal Howard Rosenthal is Professor of Politics at New York University. Professor Rosenthal’s research interests include the application of formal theory and quantitative methods to political analysis. He has written on spatial voting, coalition formation, and participation in French politics, the role of agendas in shaping political outcomes, political participation, American political history, and the macroeconomic sources of divided government, political intervention in credit markets, and many other subjects in American and comparative politics. He is the author or coauthor of more than 80 articles as well as the coauthor of Prediction Analysis of Cross Classifications; Analysis of Ordinal Data; Partisan Politics, Divided Government, and the Economy; Income Redistribution and the Realignment of American Politics and Congress: A Political Economic History of Roll Call Voting. Prof. Rosenthal has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Institute of Education, and has been a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Hoover Institution. He was awarded the Duncan Black Award from the Public Choice Society and the C.Q. Press Award, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
schickler Eric Schickler is Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of three books which have won the Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative politics: Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress (2001), Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the United States Senate (2006, with Gregory Wawro), and Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (2016, with Douglas Kriner; also winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Prize for the best book on executive politics). His book, Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965, was the winner of the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book on government, politics or international affairs published in 2016, and is co-winner of the J. David Greenstone Prize for the best book in history and politics from the previous
two calendar years. He is also the co-author of Partisan Hearts and Minds, which was published in 2002.
schonhardt Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey is Professor in Political Science in the Government Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she teaches courses in the politics of economic policy and legislative politics. Her research interests are in political economy and quantitative textual analysis. By measuring the words, arguments and deliberation of politicians and policy makers, she aims to gauge the extent to which ideas, interests and institutions shape political behavior. She is author and editor of several books on trade policy and monetary policy. Her most recent book, Deliberating American Monetary Policy: A Textual Analysis, seeks to examine the role and influence of deliberation in US monetary policy in two institutional settings—the decision making body itself (the Federal Open Market Committee) and the congressional oversight committees (House and Senate). In her earlier book (From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective) she uses a variety of methodological tools to gauge both qualitative and quantitative data from the nineteenth century to resolve the long-standing puzzle of Britain’s policy shift to free trade. She has published many articles on nineteenth century trade policy, as well as on more contemporary topics, like political rhetoric on US national security by George Bush and John Kerry, civil religion in presidential rhetoric, and US Senate debates on partial-birth abortion. These appear in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Parliamentary History. She is also interested in the role that gender plays in professional careers—and on that topic, she has been collaborating with physicians from Harvard Medical School (with an initial article on this in the journal, Medical Education).
scott Kevin Scott is the Unit Chief for Law Enforcement Statistics at the Bureau of Justice Statistics. His research interests cover a wide variety of topics related to the judiciary, including decisionmaking on the federal appeals courts, the nomination and confirmation process of federal judges, and the workload of the federal judiciary. He received his PhD in political science from The Ohio State University.

 

storey Tim Storey is the Director of State Services for the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver, Colorado. The Division includes several core NCSL programs: fiscal research, the center for legislative strengthening, institutional studies, leaders’ services, legislative training, legislative staff support and research and strategic initiatives. He has spent the past 28 years working for and studying legislatures specializing in the areas of elections, redistricting, legislative organization and leadership. During his tenure at NCSL, he has participated in, and led more than two dozen, in-depth studies of legislative operations and structure in over half of the U.S. state legislatures. He has consulted with, and conducting training for, parliaments in South Africa, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, Algeria and Iraq. Tim staffed NCSL’s Redistricting and Elections Committee for over two decades authoring numerous articles and papers on the topics
of redistricting and elections. For two decades, he led NCSL’s effort, StateVote, to collect and analyze state election results. Born and raised in western North Carolina, Tim attended Mars Hill College and received his MA from the University of Colorado.
underhill Wendy Underhill is the director for elections and redistricting at the National Conference of State Legislatures, headquartered in Denver. She has been with NCSL for six years. During the first four years, Ms. Underhill specialized in research and analysis on elections issues, such as online voter registration, voter ID, voting technology, early voting and more. Most recently Ms. Underhill has added redistricting to her portfolio, continuing NCSL’s decades-long tradition of providing objective, bipartisan information and analysis on redistricting law and processes. This year she is engaged in redesigning NCSL’s Redistricting Law book, also known as “the Red Book.” This book is created by NCSL and legislative staff and is considered the book of record on redistricting for
legislators across the nation. Previously, Ms. Underhill worked as a policy analyst for the U. S. Senate and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and in management for various Colorado nonprofits.
Rick Valelly is Claude C. Smith ’14 Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, where he has taught since Fall, 1993 after previously teaching at MIT. He has published scholarly articles in both edited volumes and in the peer-reviewed journals Annual Review of Political Science, Politics & Society, and Studies in American Political Development. He is also author of American Politics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013), The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement (University of Chicago Press, 2004), and Radicalism in the States: The American Political Economy and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party (University of Chicago Press, 1989). He is co-editor (with Suzanne Mettler and Robert Lieberman) of – and a contributor to – the Oxford Handbook of American Political Development (Oxford University Press, 2016.) In 2009 he published Princeton Readings in American Politics.

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bonneau Chris W. Bonneau is associate professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh and co-editor of State Politics and Policy Quarterly. His research is on judicial selection and state politics and has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and several others. His most recent book (coauthored with Damon Cann), Voters’ Verdicts, was the recipient of the 2016 Virginia Gray Award for the best book published in state politics in the last 3 years.
casellas Jason P. Casellas is an associate professor of political science at the University of Houston. He specializes in American politics, with research and teaching interests in Latino politics, legislative politics, and state and local politics. He is the author of Latino Representation in State Houses and Congress (New York: Cambridge University Press.) He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Samuel DuBois Cook Postdoctoral Fellowship at Duke University, and a United States Studies Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Sydney. His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, and other peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the Texas Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Advanced Placement U.S. Government Development Committee.
coberly Carolyn Coberly is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia, where she specializes in the politics of dictatorship. Her research focuses on multi-party competition in electoral authoritarian regimes. A former U.S. diplomat and Congressional aide, Ms. Coberly has a M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Harvard University and a B.A. in Government from Cornell University.
cormack Lindsey Cormack is an assistant professor of Political Science and Director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. She earned her Ph.D. in 2014 from New York University specializing in the U.S. Congress and political communication. Her research on congressional communications has been published in Legislative Studies Quarterly and Gender Studies as well as in popular outlets including the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Hill. She maintains the only digital database of all official Congress-to-constituent e-newsletters at www.dcinbox.com and https://dcinbox.herokuapp.com/.
POLITICAL SCIENCE FACULTY Charles J. Finocchiaro is Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University, where he was a Fellow in the Political Institutions and Public Choice Program. His research focuses on the role of political parties in shaping various aspects of legislative politics as well as the transformation of the U.S. House of Representatives during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work has been recognized with the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association and the CQ Press Award for the best paper on legislative politics presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, and appears in outlets such as the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Political Research Quarterly. He was formerly on the faculty at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and will be joining the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center and the Department of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma later this year.
grady Christopher Grady is a PhD Student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studies political psychology, intergroup conflict, political institutions, international development, and behavioral incentives, among other things. His current projects examine conflict prevention programs in rural and urban areas of Nigeria, and the effect of foreign aid on violence in Africa. He has collaborated with NGOs Equal Access International and MercyCorps on academic and policy work throughout Africa. His research has been funded by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Evidence in Governance and Politics, and has been recommended for an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. He received his AA from Grand Rapids Community College and his BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan.
humes Brian D. Humes is a program officer in the Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation. He has been at the foundation for over a ecade. Currently, he is a program officer for the Political Science program as well as a member of the RAISE (Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering) management team. He has also served as a program manager or part of the management team for special competitions like HSD (Human and Social Dynamics), IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship), IBSS (Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science), and the European Science Foundation’s HumVIB (CrossNational and Multi-Level Analysis of Human Values, Institutions and Behavior), among others. He has served as both Acting Deputy Division Director and Acting Division Director of the Division of Social and Economic Sciences at NSF. While at NSF, he has been an adjunct professor at both Georgetown University and George Washington University. He has also served as an instructor at the Essex Summer School in Social Science and Data Analysis. Prior to joining the National Science Foundation, he was a faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Michigan State University.
lacombe Matt Lacombe is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Northwestern University. He specializes in American politics. His research broadly focuses on understanding and explaining political power in the U.S. His current projects examine the development of interest group power over time, as well as the political preferences and behavior of U.S. billionaires.
lee Frances E. Lee is professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. She is co-editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly. Most recently, she is author of Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign (University of Chicago Press 2016). Her 2009 book Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate (University of Chicago Press 2009) received the LSS’s Richard F. Fenno Award. She is also coauthor of Sizing Up The Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (University of Chicago Press 1999) and a textbook, Congress and Its Members (Sage / CQ Press). Her research has appeared in numerous journal outlets, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and others. In 2002-2003, she worked on Capitol Hill as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.
mackaman Frank H. Mackaman directs the work of The Dirksen Congressional Center (Pekin, Illinois), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. Previously director of the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, he holds a PhD and an MA in American history from the University of Missouri and a BA from Drake University. Mackaman’s publications include Seeking Bipartisanship: My Life in Politics [coauthored with Ray LaHood, former member of Congress and Secretary of Transportation], Understanding Congressional Leadership: The State of the Art, Gerald R. Ford: Presidential Perspectives from the National Archives, and The Education of a Senator: Everett McKinley Dirksen. He has taught courses on the presidency and Congress at the University of Michigan and Bradley University. He is a past president of the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress and a former mayor and interim city manager for the city of Pekin.
martin Shane Martin is Reader in Comparative Politics at the University of Essex. He received his PhD from Dublin City University Business School in 2002. His research focuses on how electoral incentives shape representatives’ preferences, the internal structures of legislatures and executive oversight. Recent research by him has appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. He is co-editor, with Kaare Strøm and Thomas Saalfeld, of the Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies (Oxford University Press 2014) and, with Bjørn Erik Rasch and José Antonio Cheibub, of Parliaments and Government Formation: Unpacking Investiture Rules (Oxford University Press 2015). He currently holds a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.
mcbrayer Markie McBrayer is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Houston. Broadly, her research focuses on urban politics and policy, with a special emphasis on how local institutions shape policy outcomes and output. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and received her MA in urban planning and policy from Tufts University.
mcnally Katti McNally is a Ph.D. candidate in Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her current research focuses on member behavior and the representation of disadvantaged groups in the U.S. Congress. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska.
mershon Carol Mershon is a Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her research focuses on political institutions, legislative politics, multiparty government, intraparty competition, the dynamics of party systems, and diversity in academe. Mershon’s articles have appeared in such journals as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Politics & Gender. She is the author of The Costs of Coalition (Stanford 2002) and co-editor of Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching (Palgrave Macmillan 2009). Her most recent book is Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide, with Olga Shvetsova (Cambridge 2013). The recipient of three NSF awards, Mershon has also held three Fulbright grants, a Social Science Research Council Fellowship, and a Fellowship from the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin. Mershon serves on the International Scientific Board, Italian Review of Political Science, and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Politics. For more information, see her website and Google scholar profile.
waeiss Charla Waeiss is a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a focus on electoral politics and political behavior. Her current research examines the relationship between party transformation, partisanship, and voter behavior. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan.
wallace Sophia Jordán Wallace is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University. She specializes in Latino Politics, legislative politics, social movements, and immigration politics and policy. Her work has been published in various journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Politics, Groups & Identities, American Politics Research, Social Science Quarterly, and Political Science Quarterly. She is a co-founder and co-organizer of SPIRE, Symposium on the Politics of Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity, which is an annual conference of race, ethnicity, and politics scholars. She is currently working on a book, United We Stand: Latino Representation in Congress, which examines the ways legislators serve the interests of Latinos across a variety of legislative behaviors and the substantive impact of Latino representatives.
wasserfallen Fabio Wasserfallen is since 2014 Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich in 2013 after a yearly fellowship at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs. In the academic year 2014/15, he was in residence at Princeton University as one of six selected international earlycareer scholars of the Fung Global Fellows Program. Among others, his research interests include European integration, policy diffusion, federalism, and direct democracy. Currently, Fabio Wasserfallen co-coordinates the Horizon 2020 research project “EMU choices” on economic and fiscal integration in the EU. His research has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science and the European Journal of Political Research.

 

Fall 2016 Edition

 

alles Santiago Alles is a PhD candidate in political science at Rice University. He specializes in Latin American politics and institutions. His research focuses on subnational politics, electoral institutions, and electoral reform. He earned a MA in Latin American Studies at the University of Salamanca (Spain) and a BA in Political Science at the Catholic University of Argentina. His research has been published in the Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, América Latina Hoy, and Revista de Ciencia Política.
bailer Stefanie Bailer is professor for political science at the University of Basel (Switzerland). Her research interests encompass decision making at the European and international level, in particular party group discipline and parliamentary careers in Western European parliaments, negotiations in the European Union. She is currently conducting research projects on parliamentary careers in Germany and Switzerland, on political youth organisations in Germany and member states’ position during the Eurocrisis. She has published in International Political Science Review, Political Studies, Review of International Organizations, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Union Politics, Journal of Legislative Studies and the Journal of European Public Policy. Her insights on interviews and surveys are published in an article on interviews and surveys in the Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies (2014, eds. Shane Martin, Kaare Strøm and Thomas Saalfeld) based on extensive interviews on disciplinary measures in party groups (as published in “To use the whip or not: Whether and when party group leaders use disciplinary measures”, accepted for publication in International Political Science Review).
baker_pic_cropped Ross K. Baker is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and was a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of “Friend and Foe in the U.S. Senate (1980), “House and Senate” (1989), “Strangers on a Hill” (2007) and “Is Bipartisanship Dead?” (2015). He was twice Scholar-in-Residence in the Office of the Democratic Leader of the U.S. Senate (2012 and 2016) and he has served since 2000 as a member of the Board of Contributors of USA Today.
ballard Andrew Ballard is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Duke University, specializing in American institutions and political methodology. His work has been published in the Journal of Politics and PS: Political Science and Politics. His current research focuses on the interplay between elite behavior and Congressional primary elections, and improvements to text analysis methods.
carsey Thomas M. Carsey received his PhD from Indiana University in 1995. He served as a faculty member at the University of Illinois – Chicago and Florida State University before joining the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in 2006 as the Pearsall Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Since 2011 he has also served as Director of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC. His research focuses on representation, campaigns and elections, party polarization, legislative politics, state politics, and quantitative methods. He recently served as president of the Southern Political Science Association and is editor of State Politics and Policy Quarterly. Always active in graduate education, Carsey has served on nearly 70 dissertation committees, chairing more than 20 of them.
Rippere Paulina S. Cossette is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of Florida, specializing in American institutions and political behavior. Her research interests include the U.S. Congress, political parties and polarization, and campaigns and elections. During the 2014-2015 academic year, Paulina served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and worked as a legislative aide to Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island.
Crespin Michael H. Crespin is the Associate Director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2005 and worked in the office of U.S. Representative Dan Lipinski as an APSA Congressional Fellow from 2005-06. He joined the University of Oklahoma in 2014 after serving on faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Georgia. Crespin’s research focuses on legislative politics, congressional elections, and political geography and has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of PoliticsLegislative Studies QuarterlyPolitical Analysis, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly. Crespin also maintains the PIPC Roll Call Votes Database. More information can be found at his website and on his Google scholar profile
heatherevans Heather K. Evans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Sam Houston State University. Her primary research interests are political engagement, competitive congressional elections, female representation in the discipline, social media (Twitter) and the effect of entertainment media on political attitudes. She is currently writing many articles about the influence of competitive elections on political attitudes, as well as articles regarding how members of Congress use Twitter. Heather K. Evans is the author of Competitive Elections and Democracy in America: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, published in 2014 by Routledge. She has also published a variety of manuscripts in journals including American Politics Research, the Journal of Political Science Education, the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Information, Technology, and Politics, and PS: Political Science and Politics.
larryevans2 Larry Evans is the Newton Family Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. A former chair of the Legislative Studies Section and co-editor of the Legislative Studies Quarterly, he is also the author of Leadership in Committee (Michigan 1991, 2001) and coauthor with Walter Oleszek of Congress Under Fire (Houghton Mifflin 1996). Currently, he is completing a book entitled The Whip Systems of Congress, and also is conducting research about the decision making practices of U.S. senators agricultural policy making, and the relative importance of interests and institutions in the construction of legislation.
VP Public Affairs Mark P. Jones is the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy’s Political Science Fellow and a Professor of Political Science at Rice University. His research focuses on the effect of electoral laws and other political institutions on governance, representation and voting. He has received substantial financial support for this research, including grants from the Moody Foundation and the National Science Foundation. His work has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies and the Journal of Politics, as well as in edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Penn State University Press, among others. He is a frequent contributor to Texas media outlets, and his research on the Texas Legislature has been widely cited in the media as well as by numerous political campaigns. He also regularly advises U.S. government institutions on economic and political affairs in Argentina and has conducted research on public policy issues in Latin America and Texas for numerous international, national and local organizations.
Chris Mooney - professor & director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs Christopher Z. Mooney is the director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and the W. Russell Arrington Professor of State Politics at the University of Illinois. He received his PhD in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mooney studies comparative U.S. state politics, with special focus on state legislatures. From 2001 to 2007, he was the founding editor of State Politics and Policy Quarterly. In 2010, the State Politics and Policy organized section of the American Political Science Association endowed the Christopher Z. Mooney Prize, awarded annually for the best Ph.D. dissertation in the field. In 2012, he received that same APSA section’s Career Achievement Award. Mooney directed the Institute for Legislative Studies at the University of Illinois, Springfield from 1999 to 2004, and he has also taught at West Virginia University, the University of Essex, and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
peters Ronald M. Peters, Jr. is Regents’ Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. He was the founding director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center with which he remains affiliated. He is the author of The American Speakership and Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics.
radezky2 Eric Radezky is an independent scholar and senior staff member to New York State Assemblyman Joseph R. Lentol. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University and his M.A. in political science from Brooklyn College. His research focuses on constituent relations and policy making in the U.S. Congress and state legislatures.
David Rohde David W. Rohde is the Ernestine Friedl Professor of Political Science at Duke University and Director of the Political Institutions and Public Choice Program. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1971. He has researched various aspects of American national politics, including the Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, and presidential and congressional elections. Rohde has been editor of the American Journal of Political Science (1988-1990), and chair of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association (1991-93). In 2000, he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rohde is the author of Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House, and coauthor of a series of books on every national election from 1980 through 2014, the most recent of which is Change and Continuity in 2012 and 2014 Elections (CQ Press, 2015). In 2010 he received the Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association.
Pepper Prize Nominee Portrait: Kelly Senters Chuck Zovko / Zovko Photographic llc April 14, 2013 Kelly Senters is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on decentralization, governance, and political behavior in Latin America. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Wendy Schiller is Professor of Political Science, International & Public Affairs, and Chair, Department of Political Science at Brown University. She did her undergraduate work in political science at the University of Chicago, served on the staffs of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Governor Mario Cuomo, and then obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. After Fellowships at the Brookings Institution and Princeton University, she came to Brown University in 1994. She teaches popular courses titled The American Presidency, Introduction to the American Political Process, and Congress and Public Policy at Brown University. Among books she has authored or co-authored are Electing the Senate: Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth Amendment (Princeton University Press), Gateways to Democracy: An Introduction to American Government (Cengage), The Contemporary Congress (Rowman & Littlefield) and Partners and Rivals: Representation in U.S. Senate Delegations (Princeton University Press). She has also published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Studies in American Political Development, and the Journal of Politics. She has been a contributor to MSNBC, NPR, CNN.com, and Bloomberg News, she provides local political commentary to the Providence Journal, WPRO radio, RIPBS A Lively Experiment, and she is the political analyst for WJAR10, the local NBC affiliate in Providence.
tchintian Carolina Tchintian is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Rice University studying comparative politics and Latin American politics. Her research focuses on electoral systems and the effect of ballot design and voting laws on electoral outcomes. She has a Master’s degree in public policy from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), and a B.A. in political science from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2011 and her dissertation research is currently supported by a doctoral dissertation research improvement grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Her work on ballot structures and split ticket voting is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics.
wilkerson John Wilkerson received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1991. He currently directs the Center for American Policy and Politics at the University of Washington. Readers may also be interested in another teaching resource developed at the Center. Legislative Explorer (legex.org) visualizes the progress of individual bills as they move through the legislative process to provide a more holistic view of the lawmaking activities of Congress.
winburn Jonathan Winburn is an associate professor and the graduate program coordinator in the Department of Political Science and directs the Social Science Research Lab at the University of Mississippi. Winburn specializes in state politics and policy, representation, and redistricting. He graduated with his B.A. from Western Kentucky University before earning his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2005. He is author of two books: The Realities of Redistricting: Following the Rules and Limiting Gerrymandering in State Legislative Redistricting and The Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus: Race and Representation in the Pelican State (with Jas M. Sullivan) and numerous articles on topics ranging from congressional redistricting to state anti-bullying policy.

Spring 2016 Edition

Adler E. Scott Adler is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Why Congressional Reforms Fail: Reelection and the House Committee System (University of Chicago Press, 2002), which was awarded the Alan Rosenthal Prize from the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association, and Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving (Cambridge University Press, 2012, co-authored with John Wilkerson). He is also co-editor of The Macropolitics of Congress (Princeton University Press, 2006). He has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, and Legislative Studies Quarterly, among others. Adler is PI on the Congressional District Data Set, and co-PI of the Congressional Bills Project which has compiled and coded data on all bills introduced in Congress since World War II. In 2006-07, Adler was Visiting Professor at the Center for the Study of American Politics and Department of Political Science, Yale University. He received a BA from the University of Michigan in 1988 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1996.
Cooper Joseph Cooper is an Academy Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University (retired). He is the author of The Origins of the Standing Committees in the House of Representatives (1970), Congress and its Committees (1988), and The Previous Question: Its Status as a Precedent for Cloture (1962) as well several edited works, including The House at Work (1981), and Congress and the Decline of Public Trust (1999). His work has appeared in articles in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, the Political Science Quarterly, the Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Congress and the Presidency. He has served as Provost at Johns Hopkins, Dean of Social Sciences at Rice University, and staff director of the U.S. House Commission on Administrative Review (Obey Commission). His research now focuses on the balance of power between the President and Congress from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. His latest publication is a chapter on the “Modern Congress” in the 10th edition of L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer, eds., Congress Reconsidered (December, 2012).
crisp Brian F. Crisp received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and is currently a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. his work on electoral systems, legislative politics, interbranch relations, and policy choices has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and elsewhere. His book Democratic Institutional Design: The Powers and Incentives of Venezuelan Politicians and Interest Groups was published by Stanford University Press.
evans Jillian Evans is a fourth-year PhD student in political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in American politics and institutions. Her research focuses on state politics, political parties, and the rules and laws governing legislative primary elections. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the University of Minnesota-Morris.
Fowler Linda L. Fowler is Professor of Government and Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies at Dartmouth College, Emerita, where she continues to teach and conduct research. After stepping down from her position as director of the Nelson Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, Fowler received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 to study congressional oversight of defense and foreign policy by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. The resulting book, Watchdogs on the Hill: The Decline of Congressional Oversight of U. S. Foreign Relations, was published by Princeton University Press in 2015. Fowler’s previous books include: Political Ambition: Who Decides to Run for Congress (Yale 1989) and Candidates, Congress and the American Democracy (Michigan, 1993). She has published numerous articles and book chapters on American politics and is currently examining the transformation of the House Rules Committee. She has held a variety of positions in the Legislative Studies Section and served as Secretary of APSA in 2014-15.
Koger Gregory Koger is an associate professor of political science at the University of Miami. Koger specializes in legislative politics and political parties. After earning his B.A. at Willamette University, Koger worked as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House for over two years, where he served as a liaison to the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. Koger earned his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2002. Gregory Koger is the author of Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate, published in 2010 by the University of Chicago Press. Filibustering was awarded the 2011 Fenno Prize for the best book on legislative studies. Koger’s research on filibustering and the Senate has led to interviews with the Washington Post, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and testimony before the Senate Rules Committee. Koger has also published research articles on parties, lobbying, and Congress in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Political Research, the British Journal of Political Science, PS: Political Science and Politics, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics.
konig Thomas König is Professor of Political Science and director of the interdisciplinary center on “The Political Economy of Reforms”. He also directs the EITM Europe summer institute. His research focuses on international and legislative politics from a comparative perspective. He is a specialist in game theory and quantitative methods. Publications include major journals such as Political Analysis, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journals of Theoretical Politics, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, World Politics, etc. Books include Reforming the European Union: Realizing the Impossible (with Daniel Finke, Sven-Oliver Proksch und George Tsebelis), 2012, Princeton: Princeton University Press and The European Union Decides (with Robert Thomson, Frans N. Stokman, Christopher H. Achen), 2006, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Version 2 Stefani Langehennig is a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder studying American politics and political methodology. Her research focuses on institutions, policy making, and congressional organization. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Government at the University of Texas at Austin and her Masters of Science in Political Science at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Loewenberg Gerhard Loewenberg is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at The University of Iowa and co-founder with Malcom E. Jewell of the Legislative Studies Quarterly. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Parliament in the German Political System, Comparing Legislatures (with Samuel C. Patterson), and, most recently, On Legislatures: the Puzzle of Representation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Frank J. Goodnow Award for Distinguished Service.
osnabrugge Moritz Osnabrügge is a researcher at the Collaborative Research Center “Political Economy of Reforms” and the University of Mannheim. His research interests center on political economy, comparative politics and the application of quantitative methods. Osnabrügge has authored and co-authored articles published in Political Analysis, European Union Politics and Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft. Moritz Osnabrügge holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics (University of Mannheim), an M.Sc. in Political Science and Political Economy (London School of Economics and Political Science) and a Ph.D. in Political Science (University of Mannheim). His Ph.D. thesis is titled “Five Essays on the Political Economy of Reforms in Europe”.
collin_headshot Collin Paschall is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also works as the editorial assistant for the Legislative Studies Section Newsletter. His research is focused on issues political representation, particularly on the legislative behavior of members of Congress. Collin also maintains research interests in political behavior.
lynda_powell Lynda Powell is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Rochester. Her current research focuses on representation and polarization in the American Legislatures: the 50 state legislatures and Congress. She is studying the effects of institutional features (such as committees and leadership), donors and electoral constituencies on representation, polarization and lawmaking. Her most recent book, The Influence of Campaign Contributions in State Legislatures: The Effects of Institutions and Politics (University of Michigan Press) won the Fenno Prize, the best book award of the Legislative Studies Section of APSA, and was the inaugural winner of the Gray Prize, the best book award of the State Politics and Policy Section of APSA. Her other publications include three co-authored books: The Financiers of Congressional Elections (Columbia University Press); Term Limits in the State Legislatures (University of Michigan Press); Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nomination Campaigns (Cambridge University Press); and a variety of articles in journals including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics and Legislative Studies Quarterly.
simoneau William Simoneau is a PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis. He has earned his Master’s degree in Political Science from Brooklyn College-City University of New York. He has recently presented work on Modeling Elections in Ireland at The Political Economy of Social Choices Conference in Oaxaca, Mexico, and The Effect of Electoral Systems on the Influence of Nationalist Parties in Western Europe at the Florida Political Science Association Conference in St. Augustine, Florida. His work on Modeling Elections in Ireland is a forthcoming chapter in The Political Economy of Social Choices. William’s primary research interests are electoral systems, party behavior, and party finance.
smith Steven S. Smith is the Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Political Science, and the Director of the Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University. He is the Director of the American Panel Survey (TAPS), former editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly and former chair of the Legislative Studies Section of the APSA. He is the author of The Senate Syndrome, Parties in Congress, The American Congress, and several other books on American and congressional politics.
wiegand Michelle L. Wiegand is Managing Editor of the Legislative Studies Quarterly and Administrative Director of the Comparative Legislative Research Center at The University of Iowa. She was the recipient of the Iowa Board of Regents Staff Excellence Award and has served on the University’s Staff Council. She holds a B.A. in economics and an M.B.A. from The University of Iowa.