DAVID R. MAYHEW

Sterling Professor of Political Science and affiliated with Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Yale University, P.O. Box 208301, New Haven, CT 06520-8301

phone: 203-432-5237, fax: 203-432-3296 website: http://campuspress.yale.edu/davidmayhew/

EDUCATION AND DEGREES: Killingly High School, Killingly CT, 1954 Amherst College, B.A. in Political Science, 1958 Harvard University, Ph.D. in Government, 1964 Dissertation: “Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives: A Study in Intra-Party

Coalition Patterns in the Postwar Period.” Advisor: V.O. Key, Jr. Yale University, (honorary) M.A., 1977 Oxford University, (honorary) M.A., 2000

TEACHING POSITIONS: Yale University: Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1968-72; Associate Professor, 1972-77;

Professor, 1977-; Alfred Cowles Professor of Government, 1982-98; Sterling Professor of Political Science, 1998-2015, Emeritus 2015+

Harvard University: Visiting Professor of Government, spring 2008 Oxford University (Nuffield College): John M. Olin Visiting Professor in American Government, 2000-

01 University of Massachusetts/Amherst: Instructor of Political Science, 1963-64; Assistant Professor,

1964-67 Amherst College: Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1965-66

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH SUPPORT: Fellow at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto CA, 1995-96 Sherman Fairchild Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1990-91 Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University, spring 1984 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1978-79 Hoover National Fellowship, 1978-79 Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University, spring 1978 National Science Foundation award, 1972-73 Yale Junior Faculty Fellowship, fall 1970 and fall 1971 American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship, 1967-68 Frank G. Thomson Bequest, Harvard University, 1962-63 Ozias Goodwin Memorial Fellow, Harvard University, 1959-60 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1958-59

HONORS AND AWARDS: Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award to honor a scholar or set of scholars who have contributed a lifetime of

significant scholarship to the study of legislative politics (LSS section of APSA, 2018) Member of Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), 2014 Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award for Partisan Balance (2011) Member of the American Philosophical Society, 2007- Samuel J. Eldersveld Award for outstanding contributions to field of Political Organizations and Parties

during career, September 2004 James Madison Award for distinguished scholarly contributions to political science during career, August

2002 Graduate Student Mentor Award, Yale University, 2002

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Richard E. Neustadt prize for Divided We Govern, 1992 Fellow of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1990- Honorable Mention, award of the Association of American Publishers for Best Social and Behavioral

Science Books, for Placing Parties in American Politics, 1986 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1984- Co-winner of Washington Monthly annual political book award for Congress: The Electoral Connection,

1974 Delancey K. Jay Prize for Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1964 Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College, 1958

BOOKS: The Imprint of Congress (Yale UP, 2017)

Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don’t Kill the U.S. Constitutional System (Princeton UP, 2011)

Parties and Policies: How the American Government Works (Yale UP, 2008)

Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre (Yale UP, 2002)

America’s Congress: Actions in the Public Sphere, James Madison through Newt Gingrich (Yale UP, 2000)

Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations, 1946-1990 (Yale UP, 1991) --published in Chinese edition (translated by Chung-li Wu), Wu-Nan Book Co., Taiwan, 2001 --reissued with new preface, new chapter updating the coverage through 2002, and new appendixes, 2005

Placing Parties in American Politics: Organization, Electoral Settings, and Government Activity in the Twentieth Century (Princeton UP, 1986)

Congress: The Electoral Connection (Yale UP, 1974); --excerpted for ch. 1 of Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan (eds.), Congress: Structure and Policy (Cambridge UP, 1987) --excerpted for ch. 2 of David C. Kozak and John D. Macartney (eds.), Congress and Public Policy (Dorsey, 2nd

edition) --published in Chinese edition (translated by Steven Jiang), Fudan Univ., Shanghai, 2000, with new preface by author --excerpted for ch. 56 of Peter Woll (ed.), American Government: Readings and Cases (Scott, Foresman, 10th

ed., 1990) --excerpted for ch. 23 of Ann G. Serow and Everett C. Ladd (eds.), The Lanahan Readings in the American Polity (Lanahan Publishers, 1997) --excerpted as ch. 6-2 of Samuel Kernell and Steven S. Smith (eds.), Principles and Practices of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings (2nd ed., 2004) --excerpted for ch. 5 of David T. Canon, John J. Coleman & Kenneth R. Mayer (eds.), The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics (W.W. Norton, 4th ed., 2005) --reissued with new foreword and preface, 2004 --excerpted in Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts & Ryan J. Vander Wielen (eds.), The American Congress Reader (Cambridge UP, 2008) --excerpted in Samuel Kernell & Steven S. Smith (eds.), Principles and Practices of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings (CQ Press, 2009) --excerpted as ch. 9-4 of Cal Jillson & David Brian Robertson, Perspectives on American Government: Readings in Political Development and Institutional Change (Routledge, 2010) --excerpted as ch. 5.1 in Ken Kollman (ed.), Readings in American Politics: Analysis and Perspectives (W.W. Norton, 2010) --published in Korean edition (Dongguk Univ. Press, 10/27/2010) --published in Japanese edition (translated by Hiroshi Okayama; Keiso Shobo classics in political science, 2013), with new preface

Party Loyalty among Congressmen: The Difference between Democrats and Republicans, 1947-1962 (Harvard UP, 1966)

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SHORTER PUBLICATIONS:

“Congress in the Light of History,” Starting Points (online), March 2018

“The Origins of Congress: The Electoral Connection,” ch. 15 in Alan S. Gerber and Eric Schickler, Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017)

“Patterns in American Elections,” ch. 21 in Richard M. Valelly, Suzanne Mettler & Robert C. Lieberman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)

“Congress as a Handler of Challenges: The Historical Record,” Studies in American Political Development 29:2 (2015), 1-28

“Robert A.Dahl: Questions, Concepts, Proving It,” Journal of Political Power 8:2 (2015), 175-87 --reprinted as ch. 3 in David A. Baldwin and Mark Haugaard (eds.), Robert A. Dahl: An Unending Quest (New York: Routledge, 2016.

(with Peter Aronow and Winston Lin) “A Note on Close Elections and Regression Analysis of the Party Incumbency Advantage,” in Statistics, Politics and Policy 5:1/2, 2014

(with Matthew I. Bettinger) “What can Obama expect from his last Congress?” The Monkey Cage, Washington Post, July 9, 2014. Reposted in RealClearPolitics, July 11, 2014

“The Long 1950s as a Policy Era,” chapter 2 in Jeffery A. Jenkins and Sidney M. Milkis (eds.), The Politics of Major Policy Reform in Postwar America (Cambridge UP, 2014)

“Anxieties of Democracy,” for SSRC volume “The Democracy Papers: An Anxieties of Democracy Essay Collection,” spring 2014, http://www.ssrc.org/programs/the-democracy-papers/

“Is the Six-Year Itch Just a Senate Thing?” http://mischiefsoffaction.blogspot.com/2014/01/is-six-year-itch-just-senate-thing.html, January 13, 2014

“The Least Productive Congress in History?” Politico Magazine, December 23, 2013 “The Senate and the Nuclear Option,” Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies website, Nov. 22, 2013 “The Meaning of the 2012 Election,” ch. 9 in Michael Nelson (ed.), The Elections of 2012 (CQ Press, 2013)

preface to U.S. edition of Malcolm Dean, Democracy Under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013)

“The U.S. House Vote in the 1996 Election: Which Party Had an Edge?” The Monkey Cage, Dec. 6, 2012

“Politics, Elections, and Policymaking,” ch. 13 in Martin A. Levin, Daniel DiSalvo & Martin M. Shapiro (eds.), Building Coalitions, Making Policy: The Politics of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies (Johns Hopkins Press, 2012)

“Understanding U.S. Presidential Elections,” Princeton UP Blog, April 2, 2012

“Lawmaking as a Cognitive Enterprise,” ch. 12 in Jeffery A. Jenkins and Eric M. Patashnik (eds.), Living Legislation: Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012)

“Theorizing about Congress,” ch. 38 in Eric Schickler and Frances Lee (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress (Oxford UP, 2011)

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“Legislative Obstruction,” review essay centered on Gregory Koger, Filibustering (2010), in Perspectives on Politics 8:4 (December 2010), 1145-54

“Is Congress ‘the Broken Branch’?” Boston University Law Review 89:2 (April 2009), 357-69

“The Meaning of the 2008 Election,” ch. 9 in Michael Nelson (ed.), The Elections of 2008 (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2009)

comments on “Political Ignorance, Empirical Realities,” Critical Review 20:4 (2008), 463-80

“Incumbency Advantage in Presidential Elections: The Historical Record,” Political Science Quarterly 123:2 (Summer 2008), 201-28

“Events as Causes: The Case of American Politics,” ch. 4 in Ian Shapiro and Sonu Bedi (eds.), Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen (New York: NYU Press, 2007)

“Congress as Problem Solver,” ch. 10 in Alan Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik (eds.), Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance (Brookings, 2006)

“Lawmaking and History,” ch. 10 in E. Scott Adler and John S. Lapinski (eds.), The Macropolitics of Congress (Princeton UP, 2006)

“Actions in the Public Sphere,” ch. 3 in Paul J, Quirk and Sarah A. Binder (eds.), Institutions of American Democracy: The Legislative Branch (Oxford UP, 2005)

“Suggested Guidelines for Periodization,” Polity 37:4 (October 2005), 531-35

“Wars and American Politics,” Perspectives on Politics 3 (2005), 473-93

“Supermajority Rule in the Senate,” PS: Political Science and Politics 39 (2003), 31-36

“More Science, More Policy,” comments on Nelson W. Polsby and Eric Schickler, “Landmarks in the Study of Congress since 1945,” in Edward D. Mansfield and Richard Sisson (eds.), The Evolution of Political Knowledge (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2004), 200-02

preface to new edition of Morris Fiorina, Divided Government (Longman Classics, 2002)

“Congressional Opposition to the American Presidency,” Oxford inaugural address, published by Oxford UP, 2001

“The U.S Congress in 2001: Representation and Structure,” ch. 6 in Byron Shafer (ed.), The State of American Politics: Where Are We in 2001?” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002)

“Observations on Congress: The Electoral Connection a Quarter Century after Writing It,” PS: Political Science and Politics 34 (2001), 251-52

“Electoral Realignments,” Annual Review of Political Science 3 (2000), 449-74

“Much Huffing and Puffing, Little Change,” ch. in Martin A. Levin, Marc K. Landy & Martin Shapiro (eds.), Seeking the Center: Politics and Policymaking at the New Century (Georgetown UP, 2001)

“Political Science and Political Philosophy: Ontological not Normative,” PS: Political Science and Politics 33 (2000), 192-93

“Clinton, the 103rd Congress, and Unified Party Control: What Are the Lessons?” ch. 10 in John Geer (ed.), Politicians and Party Politics (Johns Hopkins UP, 1998)

reprinted as “Clinton, el 103rd Congress y el control partidarista unificado: que hemos aprendido?” in Gustavo Vega Canovas y Francisco Alba (eds.), Mexico, Estados Unidos, Canada, 1995-96 (Mexico City: El Colegio de Mexico, 1997)

“Innovative Midterm Elections,” ch. 6 in Philip A. Klinkner (ed.), Midterm: The Elections of 1994 (Westview Press, 1996)

“The Return to Unified Party Control under Clinton: How Much of a Difference in Lawmaking?” ch. 7 in Bryan D. Jones (ed.), The New American Politics: Reflections on Political Change and the Clinton Administration (Westview Press, 1995)

“Presidential Elections and Policy Change: How Much of a Connection Is There?” ch. 5 in Harvey L Schantz (ed.), American Presidential Elections: Process, Policy, and Political Change (SUNY Press, 1996)

“U.S. Policy Waves in Comparative Context,” ch. 17 in Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson (eds.), New Perspectives on American Politics (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1994)

“Let’s Stick with the Longer List,” Polity 25 (1993), 485-88 4

“Does it Make Any Difference if Party Control is Divided?” Public Affairs Report, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California/Berkeley, vol. 32, no. 4, July 1991

“Parties, Elections, Moods, and Lawmaking Surges,” in Joel H. Silbey (ed.), Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System, vol II (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994), 885-97

“Divided Party Control: Does It Make a Difference?” PS: Political Science and Politics 24 (1991), 637-40

“Patronage-Based Party Organization: Historical and Geographic Patterns in the United States,” in L. Sandy Maisel (ed.), Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia (Garland Publishing, 1991)

reprinted as “Party Organization in Historical Perspective,” ch. 11 in L. Sandy Maisel and William G. Shade (eds.), Parties and Politics in American History (Garland, 1994)

“Why Did V.O. Key Draw Back from His ‘Have-Nots’ Claim?” in Milton C. Cummings, Jr. (ed.), V.O. Key, Jr. and the Study of American Politics (APSA, 1988)

“Legislation,” ch. 5 in Leon Lipson and Stanton Wheeler (eds.), Law and the Social Sciences (Russell Sage Foundation, 1986)

reprinted as ch. 8 of Richard M. Valelly (ed.), Princeton Readings in American Politics (Princeton UP, 2009)

“The Study of Congress in the 1980s,” in APSA Newsletter of Legislative Studies Section, November-December 1986

(with Albert D. Cover) “Congressional Incumbency and the Decline of Competitive Congressional Elections,” ch. 3 in Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered (Praeger, 1977). Revised version appears in 1981 edition.

“A Note on Electoral Reform,” Policy Studies Journal, summer 1974

“Congressional Elections: The Case of the Vanishing Marginals,” Polity 6 (1974), 295-317

reprinted in Robert L. Peabody and Nelson W. Polsby (eds.), New Perspectives on the House of Representatives (Rand McNally, 1977)

reprinted in Glenn R. Parker (ed.), Studies of Congress (CQ Press, 1985)

reprinted in Pietro S. Nivola and David H. Rosenbloom (eds.), Classic Readings in American Politics (St. Martin’s, 1986)

reprinted in Richard Niemi and Herbert Weisberg (eds.), Classics of Voting Behavior (CQ Press, 1992)

reprinted in Herbert F. Weisberg, Eric S. Heberlig, and Lisa M. Campoli (eds.), Classics in Congressional Politics (Longman, 1999)

two chapters on the U.S. Congress to Dushkin textbook on American politics, early 1970s

“Congressional Representation: Theory and Practice in Drawing the Districts,” ch. 7 in Nelson W. Polsby (ed.), Reapportionment in the 1970’s (Univ. of California Press, 1971)

“Party Systems in American History,” review essay on William Chambers and Walter Dean Burnham (eds.), The American Party Systems (Oxford UP, 1967), in Polity, fall 1968

“Massachusetts: Split-Level Bipartyism,” part IV in George Goodwin, Jr., and Victoria Schuck (eds.), Party Politics in the New England States (New England Center for Continuing Education, 1968)

Two-Party Competition in the New England States (Bureau of Government Research, University of Massachusetts, 1967)

BOOK PANELS: Presentation of The Imprint of Congress at Joyce Linehan’s monthly reading/signing session at 1050

Adams Street, Lower Mills, Dorchester MA, Oct. 23, 2017 Podcast on The Imprint of Congress, conducted by Richard Reinsch, at Liberty Law Talk, Sept. 6, 2017 Podcast on The Imprint of Congress, conducted by Heath Brown, at Best New Books in Political Science,

American Politics Edition 2017 – July 3, 2017 Book launch panel on The Imprint of Congress, MacMillan Center, Yale Univ., Apr. 25, 2017 Pre-book launch panel on The Imprint of Congress, at Hoover Institution, Stanford Univ., Jan 31, 2017 Book club: discussion of Partisan Balance, Chicago, Feb. 23, 2012, arranged by Larry Bernstein

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Book club: discussion of Divided We Govern, at Union Club of New York, Apr. 10, 2008, arranged by Larry Bernstein

Roundtable: “Author Meets Critics: A Roundtable on David Mayhew’s Electoral Realignments,” at annual conference of American Political Science Association, Chicago, Sept. 3, 2004

Roundtable: on Electoral Realignments, at annual conference of New England Political Science Association, Providence RI, May 3, 2003

Roundtable: on America’s Congress, at annual conference of American Political Science Association, Washington DC, Sept. 2, 2000

Roundtable: “A Silver Anniversary Retrospective on David Mayhew’s Congress: The Electoral Connection,” at annual conference of Southern Political Science Association, Savannah GA, Nov. 5, 1999

Roundtable: on Divided We Govern, at annual conference of Social Science History Association, Chicago, Nov. 18, 1995

Roundtable: “Mayhew Revisited: The 20th Anniversary of Congress: The Electoral Connection,” at annual conference of American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Sept. 3, 1994

BOOK REVIEWS OF:

Francois Vergniolle de Chantal, L’impossible Presidence imperiale: Le controle legislatif auz Etas-Unis (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2016), in Politique Americain, forthcoming 2018 Karl Rove, Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), in Washington Post, December 9, 2015 Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (W.W. Norton, 2013), in Perspectives on Politics 12:3 (September 2014), 712-13 Kristina C. Miler, Constituency Representation in Congress: The View from Capitol Hill (Cambridge UP, 2010), in Political Science Quarterly 126:3 (Fall 2011), 510-11

William J.M. Claggett and Byron E. Shafer, The American Public Mind: The Issues Structure of Mass Politics in the Postwar United States (Cambridge UP, 2010), in The Forum 8:3 (2010), Article 16

Theodore Rosenof, Realignment: The Theory That Changed the Way We Think about American Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35 (2004), 321-22

Richard F. Fenno, Jr., Going Home: Black Representatives and Their Constituents (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003), in Perspectives on Politics 2 (2004), 140-41

David A. Crockett, The Opposition Presidency: Leadership and the Constraints of History (Texas A&M Press, 2002), in Political Science Quarterly 118 (2003), 500-01

Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro, Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (University of Chicago Press, 2000), in Political Science Quarterly 117 (2002), 343-44

John W. Malsberger, From Obstruction to Moderation: The Transformation of Senate Conservatism, 1938-1952 (Susquehanna UP, 2000), in American Historical Review 106 (2001), 1014-15

Fred R. Harris, Deadlock or Decision: The U.S. Senate and the Rise of National Politics (Oxford UP, 1993), in Society, May/June 1994

James W. Davis, The President as Party Leader (Greenwood, 1992), in Journal of American History, 80 (1993), 658-

Benjamin Ginsberg and Martin Shefter, Politics by Other Means: The Declining Importance of Elections in America (Basic Books, 1990), in American Political Science Review 85 (1991), 1464-65

Joel D. Aberbach, Keeping a Watchful Eye (Brookings Institution, 1990), in Journal of Policy Analysis & Management 10 (1991), 310-12

Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan (eds.), Congress: Structure and Policy (Cambridge UP, 1987), in Public Choice 67 (1990), 94-96

David W. Brady, Critical Elections and Congressional Policy Making (Stanford UP, 1988), in Political Science Quarterly 103 (1988-89), 745-46

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Leon D. Epstein, Political Parties in the American Mold (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1986), in Congress and the Presidency, spring 1988

Bruce Cain, John Ferejohn, and Morris Fiorina, The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence (Harvard UP, 1987), in The Washington Monthly, July-August 1987

David Butler et al., Democracy at the Polls (American Enterprise Institute, 1981), in Political Science Quarterly, spring 1982

Reg Murphy and Hal Gulliver, The Southern Strategy (Scribner’s, 1971), in Yale Daily News, May 7, 1971

James L. Sundquist, Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Years (Brookings, 1968), in Administrative Science Quarterly, March 1970

James T. Patterson, Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal (University Press of Kentucky, 1967), in American Political Science Review, December 1968

J. Alton Lee, Truman and Taft-Hartley: A Question of Mandate (University Press of Kentucky, 1966), in Journal of American History, June 1967

Milovan Djilas, The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System (Praeger, 1957), in The Amherst Student, Sept. 30, 1957

EDITED WORKS: (with seven other Yale faculty members) Writing Prose (Yale College, 1988) (with William Havard) Institutions and Practices of American Government (Allyn and Bacon, 1967) The 91st Congress and its Committees (Grass Roots Guides on Democracy and Practical Politics Series,

Center for Information in America, 1969). Also, The 92nd (1971); The 93rd (with James Murphy, 1973); The 94th (with Albert D. Cover, 1975).

NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES: “Lawmaking in the Trump Era,” Yale University Press blog, May 4, 2017 “Don’t judge Trump on his first 100 days in office,” The Monkey Cage, April 28, 2017 “In the US it is easier to just jump into the fray,” in Dag Og Tid (Oslo newspaper), February 12, 2016 interviewed for Glenn Kessler, “Harry Reid’s claim that the current Senate is ‘the most unproductive” in

U.S. history,” Washington Post, February 8, 2015 “The Fragmented Superpower,” interview in Dag Og Tid (Oslo newspaper), December 13-19, 2013 “Which was the most important U.S. election ever?” Washington Post Outlook section, Feb. 19, 2012 “The House but not the Senate?” The Hill Congress Blog, http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog , Nov. 1,

2010 interviewed for “Den usynlige kandidat,” Weekendvisen (Copenhagen newspaper), June 30 – July 6, 2008 “Back to the Future: Congress and Divided Control,” Roll Call, December 4, 2006, p. 4 “What Will Happen in the 2002 Congressional Midterms?” The Politic (Yale undergraduate publication),

April 15, 2002, pp. 7-8 “American Electoral Realignments: A Critique of the Genre,” ISPS Journal, July 2001 “What this year’s mid-term elections mean,” Yale Daily News, Nov. 19, 1998, p. 10 “The Contract: Newt’s Mandate?” Roll Call, January 9, 1995, p. 22. Reprinted in PartyLine, Institute of

Public Affairs, Sangamon State University, Springfield, IL, June 1995 judge of the three Bush-Clinton-Perot debates for The New Haven Register “The Other Election: Goodbye Incumbents,” Yale Daily News, Oct. 19, 1992, p. 2 “Lack of U.S. Leadership and Planning Capacity,” in Asahi Shimbun, July 2, 1992, p. 6 (with Rogan Kersh) “Term Limits Aren’t Dead,” op-ed piece, New York Times, Nov. 7, 1991 (with Bruce Russett) “How the Democrats Can Win in ’92,” The New Leader, Jan. 9, 1989 “Incumbency Advantage in U.S. House Elections,” in Il Sole, fall 1988 “Election Returns,” Yale Daily News, Dec. 5, 1974 (with James David Barber) “From the Streets to the Polls,” The New Republic, December 6, 1969

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RADIO, TELEVISION, AND INTERNET: participant in panel “What Happened to Congress?” at National Constitutional Center, Philadelphia, videotaped for YouTube, June 19, 2017 participant in “Roundtable Discussion on Congressional Reform,” at Congress & History conference, Washington DC, to C-SPAN video library, June 15, 2017 radio interview on John Batchelor Show regarding Partisan Balance, 2/25/11

participant in APSA panel “Filibustering and the 111th Congress” aired on C-SPAN2, 9/3/10

participant in APSA panel “Obama and the 111th Congress,” to C-SPAN video library, 9/2/10

“Partisan Balance: Why Doesn’t he American System Fly Apart?” Princeton Lecture Series on Politics and Public Affairs, to C-SPAN video library, March 9-11, 2009

videotape conversation for Americans Governing (Soomo Publishing), at www.americansgoverning.com, August 31, 2008

participant in APSA panel transmitted by CSPAN marking the 50th anniversary of the Congressional Fellowship program, August 2003

interview on the U.S. election, BBC Radio Glasgow, November 12, 2000

participant in panel on the U.S. elections, BBC Radio Glasgow, October 22, 2000

interview on Denver Radio KOA with Aaron Cohen, on divided party control, Nov. 4, 1996

interview on CT Public Radio with Tom O’Neill, on the 1996 election, Nov. 4, 1996

participant in “CT96,” Channel 3’s series on the 1996 election, Hartford CT, Sept. 15, 1996

participant in symposium, “Mid-Term Watershed,” BBC Radio, Dec. 8 and 11, 1994

participant in roundtable on “The Causes and Consequences of Divided and Unified Party Control,” CSPAN, Sept. 2, 1993

election-night commentator on Channel 3, Hartford CT, November 1992

participant in symposium, “Not Playing in Peoria” (on divided government in U.S.A.), BBC Radio, Oct. 18, 1992

interview on ABC News with Peter Jennings, on divided government, Oct. 5, 1992

“Divided Government,” call-in program on Denver radio station 85KOA, Sept. 8, 1992

“Competition in Congressional Elections,” call-in program on Wisconsin Public Radio, June 1988

participant (with Christopher Achen) in radio panel on “Election 1974,” Yale Reports, Nov. 17, 1974

panel on impeachments (with Andrew Hacker), Studio 55, Channel 13, New York City, early 1970s

participant (with R. Dahl and D. Rae) in radio panel on “Democracy: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed?” Yale Reports, Nov. 7, 1971

election-night commentator on WBZ-TV, Boston, November 1968

CONFERENCE SPONSORSHIP: co-organizer (with John Lapinski) of conference on the History of Congress, at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, May 12-13, 2006

LECTURE SERIES:

George S. Parthemos Scholar, University of Georgia, Athens, October 13-16, 2014. --“Writing Congress: The Electoral Connection --“What Does a President’s Fourth Congress Look Like?” --visit to poli sci honors class

Princeton Lecture Series in Politics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, March 11, 2009 - “Partisan Balance: Why the American System Doesn’t Fly Apart” --“Congress and the Presidency: Dissonance in the Electoral Bases?” --“What Happens to White House Legislative Proposals?” --“Reform as a Property of the System”

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Henry L. Stimson Lectures, MacMillan Center, Yale University, September 22, 23, & 29, 2015 --“The Imprint of Congress – How to Think About It” --“The Imprint of Congress – The History” --“The Imprint of Congress – An Assessment”

PRESENTATIONS: --“Congress, Elections, and Time,” at panel on “American Institutions and Elections,” 50th-anniversary celebration of ISPS, New Haven CT. – Nov. 14, 2018 --at panel “What Happened to Congress?” at National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, June 19, 2017 --at “Roundtable Discussion on Congressional Reform,” at Congress & History conference, Washington DC, June 15, 2017 “The Origins of Congress: The Electoral Connection,” at conference on “Representation and Governance,” Yale University, May 29, 2013 “Congress as a Handler of Challenges,” at History of Congress conference, Columbia University, June 21, 2013

“The Elections of 2012,” at Byron Shafer’s class, University of Wisconsin, Apr. 19, 2013

“Historical Patterns in American Elections,” at Boston College, Nov. 2, 2012

“The Long 1950s as a Policy Era,” at American Politics Workshop, Stanford University, March 7, 2012

“The Long 1950s as a Policy Era,” at American Politics Workshop, University of Cal/Berkeley, March 6, 2012

“The Long 1950s as a Policy Era,” at conference on The Politics of Major Policy Reform, The Miller Center, University of Virginia, Nov. 15, 2011

“The Politics of Spectacle: U.S. Money Management Crises under Divided Party Control,” at Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University, Sept. 30, 2011

“The 2010 Election in Perspective,” at Williams College, Nov. 11, 2010

“Macro Politics,” at Byron Shafer’s class, University of Wisconsin, Apr. 16, 2010

“Is Congress the Broken Branch?” at conference on “The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of Congress in the 21st Century,” Boston University Law School, Nov. 14, 2008

“Incumbency Advantage in Presidential Elections: The Historical Record,” at Amherst College, Feb. 25, 2008

“U.S. Social Policy,” at Jessica Reyes’s class, Economics 64, Amherst College, Feb. 25, 2008

“Congress as Problem Solver,” at annual APSA conference, Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 2006 (presented by Eric Schickler in the author’s necessary absence)

“Incumbency Advantage in Presidential Elections,” at Policy History Conference, Charlottesville VA, June 2, 2006

“Events as Causes,” in graduate and undergraduate seminars at Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Apr. 22, 2005

“Wars and American Politics,” at Comparative Politics Workshop, Yale University, Apr. 12, 2005

“Events as Causes: The Case of American Politics,” at conference on “Contingency in the Study of Politics,” Yale University, Dec. 3, 2004

“Congress as Problem Solver,” at conference on “Promoting the General Welfare: American Democracy and the Political Economy of Government Performance,” University of Virginia, Nov. 13, 2004

“Election 2004 and the Historical Patterns of Presidential Elections,” the Jerome Weinstein Lecture at Franklin and Marshall College, Sept. 23, 2004

“Patterns in Presidential Elections,” at American Politics Workshop, Yale University, Sept. 8, 2004

“Patterns in Presidential Elections,” at Department of Political Science, Boston College, March 31, 2004

“Patterns in Presidential Elections,” at Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, March 25, 2004

“Electoral Realignments,” at Department of Political Science, Univ. of Michigan, Feb. 14, 2003

“Electoral Realignments,” at Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University, Jan. 31, 2003

“Electoral Realignments,” at the Miller Center, University of Virginia, Sept. 27, 2002

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“Supermajority Rule in the U.S. Senate,” James Madison Award address at annual APSA conference, Boston, Aug. 30, 2002

“Politics Then and Now,” at seminar on Institutions of American Government, University of Wisconsin, May 10, 2002

“Electoral Realignments,” at seminar of Political Behavior Group, University of Wisconsin, May 9, 2002

“Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre,” Charles E. Lindblom Lecture in Public Policy, Yale University, Apr. 16, 2002

“Congressional Oppositions,” at Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, Apr. 6, 2002

“America’s Congress,” at Department of Political Science, Columbia University, Oct. 4, 2001

“Congress and George W. Bush: The First 150 Days,” at Forschungsinstitut fur Politische Wissenschaft und Europaische Fragen, University of Cologne, June 27, 2001

“Why Is the U.S. Congress Strong?” at conference on “Brazilian Political Institutions in Comparative Perspective,” at Centre for Brazilian Studies, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, May 29, 2001

“Congress and the Presidency: Conflict and Cooperation,” at The American Center, Sciences Po, Paris, May 25, 2001

“Congressional Opposition to the American Presidency,” at Institute for US Studies, London, Feb. 15, 2001

“The U.S. Congress in 2001: Representation and Structure,” at Nuffield College, Oxford University, Jan. 23, 2001

“Congressional Opposition to the American Presidency,” inaugural address for Olin Professorship, Oxford University, Nov. 27, 2000

“The 2000 Congressional Elections and Their Consequences,” at annual colloquium of the American Politics Group & the British Association for American Studies, US Embassy in London, Nov. 17, 2000

“Electoral Realignments: A Critique of the Genre,” at Department of Government, University of Essex, Oct. 31, 2000

“Electoral Realignments: A Critique of the Genre,” at Nuffield College, Oxford University, Oct. 18, 2000

“Electoral Realignments: A Critique of the Classical Genre,” at MIT Research Conference On American Politics: American Political Development, Cambridge, May 6, 2000

“Electoral Realignments,” at American Politics lecture series, Department of Political Science, Yale University, Nov. 15, 1999

“V.O. Key and Southern Politics,” at roundtable on “V.O. Key and Southern Politics: A 50th Anniversary Review,” at annual conference of Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, Nov. 5, 1999

“Actions in the Public Sphere,” at annual APSA conference, Atlanta, Sept. 3, 1999

“Actions in the Public Sphere: Members of Congress from James Madison to Newt Gingrich,” Sterling inaugural lecture, Yale University, May 7, 1999

“What Are Post-Election Prospects for Significant Legislation?” at roundtable on “Interpreting the 1998 Elections,” at annual conference of New England Political Science Association, Providence RI, Apr. 30, 1999

“Policymaking in the 1990s,” at Gordon Public Policy Center, Brandeis University, Jan. 28, 1999

“Divided We Govern,” talk and Q&A session by telephone for class of Robert Eisinger, Lewis and Clark College, March 11, 1997

“The Implications of the 1996 Election Outcomes,” at West Point Military Academy, Nov. 14, 1996

“Progressivism and Congressional Action, 1905-1940,” at conference on “Progressivism—Then and Now,” Brandeis University, Oct. 25, 1996

“Policymaking under Clinton,” at Amherst College, Oct. 26, 1996

“Lawmaking under Clinton,” at roundtable on “The 104th Congress: Business as Usual?”, annual APSA conference, San Francisco, Aug. 30, 1996

“Lawmaking under Bush and Clinton,” at John Cogan’s class on “Current Trends in Policy Making,” Stanford University, May 7, 1996

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“What are the Policy Implications of the 1996 Election?” at conference on “Election 1996,” the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Apr. 18, 1996

“Remembered Political Actions by Members of the U.S. Congress, 1789-1988,” at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Feb. 16, 1996

Discussion of Divided We Govern at Austin Ranney’s seminar on American Political History, University of California/Berkeley, Jan. 25, 1996

“Clinton, the 103rd Congress, and Unified Party Control: What Are the Lessons?” at “New Perspectives on Party Politics: A Conference in Honor of Stanley Kelley, Jr.,” Department of Politics, Princeton University, Oct. 27-28, 1995

“V.O. Key as Methodologist,” at panel entitled “A Retrospective on V.O. Key,” conference of Social Science History Association, Atlanta, Oct. 15, 1994

“United We Govern: Clinton’s First Congress,” at Dept. of Politics, Princeton University, Oct. 6, 1994

“Divided We Govern: Party Control and Lawmaking, 1946-1994,” at Nuffield College (Oxford University), May 26, 1994

“Party Control under Clinton,” at roundtable on “The Causes and Consequences of Divided and Unified Party Control,” annual APSA conference, Washington DC, Sept. 2, 1993

“The First 100 Days of the Clinton Administration,” at 35th reunion, Amherst College, May 28, 1993

“Party Control and Lawmaking: The Clinton Presidency in Perspective,” at Dept. of Political Science, SUNY/Plattsburgh, May 5, 1993

“Presidential Elections and Policy Change: How Much of a Connection Is There?” at Dept. of Political Science, SUNY/Plattsburgh, May 5, 1993

“Presidents, Programs, and Congress: The Clinton Experience So Far,” at Dept. of Political Science, Wichita State University, Apr. 27, 1993

“The Clinton Program and the U.S. Congress,” at Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, March 16 (a public audience) and March 17 (an undergraduate class), 1993

“U.S. Policy Waves in Comparative Perspective,” at Legal Theory Workshop, Yale Law School, Feb. 25, 1993

“U.S. Policy Waves in Comparative Perspective,” at Dept. of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, Feb. 5, 1993

“Divided We Govern,” at symposium on that book, Dept. of Government, University of Texas/Austin, May 12, 1992

“Divided Government,” at symposium entitled that (with J.M. Burns & J. Sundquist), at Dept. of Government, University of Virginia, Apr. 29, 1992

“Divided Party Control: Does It Make a Difference?” at Dept. of Political Science, Columbia University, Apr. 17, 1992

“Divided Party Control: Does It Make a Difference?” at Dept. of Political Science, Colgate University, Mar. 26, 1992

“U.S. Policy Waves in Comparative Perspective,” at Dynamics of American Politics Conference, University of Colorado (Boulder), Feb. 19, 1992

“The Impact of Divided Government,” at Center for Public Policy Education (breakfast) and Governmental Studies Program (lunch), Brookings Institution, Dec. 5, 1991

“Unified Party Control: Does It Make a Difference?” at Dept. of Political Science, Union College, Schenectady NY, Nov. 14, 1991

“Divided We Govern,” at Dept. of Government, Harvard University, Nov. 8, 1991

“Divided Party Control: Does It Make a Difference?” at Gordon Public Policy Center, Brandeis University, Oct. 17, 1991

“Divided Party Control: Does It Make a Difference?” at Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California/Berkeley, May 1, 1991

“Divided Party Control of the Government,” at Dept. of Political Science, UCLA, Feb. 22, 1991

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“Divided Party Control of the Government: Does It Produce Legislative Deadlock?” at California Institute of Technology, Dec. 11, 1990

“Antagonistic Regimes: The New Micro-Management, Security Risks, and the House Rules Committee,” in roundtable on “Divided Party Control of the Presidency and Congress,” annual APSA conference, San Francisco, August 1990

“Does It Make a Difference Whether Party Control of the American National Government Is Unified or Divided?” at annual APSA conference, San Francisco, August 1989

“Divided vs. Unified Party Control of American National Government: Does It Make a Difference?” at Dept. of Political Science, M.I.T., Feb. 23, 1989

“Congress,” in roundtable “Does the Constitution Matter? An Inventory After Two Centuries,” at annual APSA conference, Chicago, September 1987

“Party and Electoral Processes in the U.S.A.,” at International Seminar on Constitutionalism and Democracy: Political Institutions for the 21st Century, Brasilia, May 1987

“Congress and the Electorate,” at roundtable on “Congress: Into the Third Century,” at annual conference of New England PSA, Portland ME, April 3, 1987

“The Origins of America’s Traditional Party Organizations,” at Dept. of Politics, Princeton University, March 1987

“V.O. Key, Jr., and the Study of Elections,” at panel entitled “V.O. Key, Jr., and the Study of American Politics,” at annual APSA conference, Washington DC, September 1986

“The Study of Congress in the 1980s,” at panel entitled “New Directions in the Study of Congress,” annual APSA conference, Washington DC, September 1986

“Parties, Presidents, and Policy in American Politics,” at City University of New York, Graduate Center, May 10, 1985

“The Politics of Security Issues: Presidential Elections vs. Constitutional Confrontations,” at conference on national security policy, Yale University, October 20, 1984

“Incumbency and Congressional Elections,” at Nuffield College (Oxford University), May 28, 1984

“The Study of Congress,” at Lawrence DeNardis’s class, Connecticut College, New London CT, May 1984

“The Study of American Politics,” at Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago, October 1983

“Politicians’ Incentives and Legislative Ethics,” at conference on Legislative Ethics, The Hastings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson NY, Dec. 17-18, 1981

“Legislation,” at meeting of the Committee on Law and Social Science of the Social Science Research Council, Carmel CA, Dec. 14-15, 1978

“Party Organization,” at James March’s seminar, Stanford University, Nov. 17, 1978

“Inside the Parties: Competition and Organization in the American States,” at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, fall 1978

“Congressional Reform in the 1970s,” at Nuffield College (Oxford University), May 24, 1978

“Congress as a Representational and Policymaking Institution,” at U.S. Civil Service Commission, Washington DC, Oct. 23, 1975

“Congressional Elections and the Party System,” in roundtable entitled “Political Parties in Transition,” conference of Northeastern Political Science Association, Saratoga Springs NY, Nov. 8, 1974

“Congress: The Electoral Connection,” at Dept. of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Winter 1973

“Congress: The Electoral Connection,” at Dept. of Government, Cornell University, Winter 1973

“Congressional Elections: The Case of the Vanishing Marginals,” at conference of New England Political Science Association, Boston, April 1973

“Parties and Elections, 1972,” at Mount Holyoke College, Oct. 18, 1972

“Congress and the Electoral Connection,” at Congressional Fellows Program, APSA, Washington DC, November 1971

“The Results of the Election,” at Mount Holyoke College, Nov. 13, 1970 12

“The Results of the Election,” at UMass/Amherst, Nov. 12, 1970

“Politics and the Mass Media,” at Mount Holyoke College, Mar. 19, 1970

“Interpreting the 1968 Election,” at UMass/Amherst, Nov. 13, 1968

“Veterans’ Benefits” (written and delivered for Sen. Lee Metcalf), at convention of Disabled American Veterans, Great Falls MT, June 7, 1968

“The Senate, the Negro, and the Filibuster,” at Yale University, Nov. 26, 1967

“Massachusetts: The 1966 Elections,” at conference of New England Political Science Association, Amherst MA, April 1967

“The Behavioral View of Congress,” at U.S Civil Service Commission, Washington DC, March 21, 1966

“New England: A One-Party Area?” at annual conference of New England Political Science Association, Amherst MA, April 1965

TRIBUTES TO: Robert A. Dahl, for National Academy of Sciences (online), April 2018 Robert A. Dahl, for Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, December 2017 Robert A. Dahl, at Yale ISPS website, Feb. 12, 2014; Whitney Center, Mar. 8, 2014 James Q. Wilson, at Harvard/BC conference in his honor, Apr. 4, 2013 Samuel H. Beer, at annual APSA conference, Chicago, August 30, 2007 Nelson W. Polsby, in The Forum (Berkeley Electronic Press) 5:1 (2007), article 12 Richard F. Fenno, Jr., at annual APSA conference, Philadelphia, August 30, 2003 Louise Overacker, at annual APSA conference, Denver, Sept. 2, 1982 V.O. Key, Jr., at annual NEPSA conference, Amherst MA, April 1965

PARTICIPANT IN:

Yale Workshop on Redistricting, Macmillan Center, Yale University, November 2-3, 2018

panel on “The Debate about Party Government in Post-War America,” at APSA conference, Boston, September 1, 2018

class discussion of America’s Congress by telephone to DePauw University, September 19, 2017

book conference on David Bateman, Ira Katznelson & John Lapinski, “Southern Nation,” at the Rockefeller Center, NYC, June 10, 2016

“Table Talk with David Mayhew,” at the Elm Institute, New Haven CT, March 10, 2016

class discussion of America’s Congress by telephone to DePauw University, February 18, 2016

book conference on Devin Caughey, “Representation without Parties: Congress, Public Opinion, and the Selectoral Connection in the One-Party South,” at MIT, January 22, 2016

panel on “The Living Congress: Adaptation or Decline?” at annual conference of the Federalist Society, Washington DC, November 13, 2015

American-British-Canadian Political Development Workshop, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, October 2-3, 2015

CSAP American Politics Summer Conference, Yale University, ISPS, June 8-9, 2015

workshop on David A. Hopkins book manuscript “The Rebirth of Regionalism: How American Politics Became Geographically Polarized and Why It Matters,” Boston College, May 1, 2015

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class discussion of America’s Congress by telephone to DePauw University, September 18, 2014

roundtable on “Remembering Bob Dahl,” at annual conference of American Political Science Association, Washington DC, August 29, 2014

roundtable on “Using Archived Data to Study Public Opinion and American Political Development,” at annual conference of American Political Science Association, Washington DC, August 29, 2014

roundtable on “Taking Stock: Setting the Contemporary Congress in Historical Perspective,” at conference on History of Congress, University of Maryland, June 12, 2014

roundtable at conference on “Representation and Governance,” Yale University, May 29, 2013 panel on “The Progressive Critique of Party,” at Progressives’ Century Conference, Yale Univ., Nov.1, 2013 class discussion of America’s Congress by telephone to DePauw University, Sept. 26, 2013

panel on “Party-Group Linkages in American Politics,” at annual conference of American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 31, 2013

conference on History of Congress, at Columbia University, June 21-22, 2013

conference on “Anxieties of Democracy,” at Social Science Research Council, Brooklyn NY, June 13-14, 2013

“Representation and Governance: A Conference in Honor of David Mayhew,” at Center for the Study of American Politics, Yale Univ., May 29-30, 2013

panel on “Parties and Organized Interests,” at “Thinking About Politics: A Conference Dedicated to Explaining and Perpetuating the Political Insights of James Q. Wilson,” at Harvard Univ., Apr. 4, 2013

panel on Michael Nelson’s The Election of 2012, at the Miller Center, Univ. of Virginia, Feb. 18, 2013

conference on “Is America Governable?, at Univ. of Texas Law School, Jan. 24-26, 2013

conference on Separation of Powers, at NYU, Oct. 19-20, 2012

conference on American politics, at MIT Political Science Department, Sept. 21, 2012

class discussion of America’s Congress by telephone to DePauw University, Feb. 21, 2012

conference on American politics, at MIT Political Science Department, Oct. 28, 2011

roundtable on “The Boundaries of Party and Committee Leadership in Congress.,” Congress and History Conference, Brown University, June 10, 2011

symposium on “The 2010 Elections: Good or Bad for Fair and Effective Policy Making,” at conference of Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, Boston MA, Nov. 5, 2010

roundtable on “Filibustering and the 111th Congress: Too Many Hands on the Brake?” at annual APSA conference, D.C., September 3, 2010

roundtable on “United We Govern? Roundtable on Obama and the Democratic Congress,” at annual APSA conference, D.C., September 2, 2010

panel on “New Datasets for the Study of Congress over Time,” Congress and History Conference, UCal Berkeley, 6/11/10

class discussion of America’s Congress by telephone to DePauw University, Sept. 15, 2009

class discussion of Parties and Policies by telephone to DePauw University, Nov. 18, 2008

panel on “Political Ignorance, Empirical Realities,” at Critical Review conference on “Homo Politicus,” Boston, Sept. 1, 2008

roundtable on “What Is a Party?” at annual APSA conference, Boston, August 29, 2008

plenary panel on “Should the Discipline Eliminate the Subfield of American Politics,” at annual APSA conference, Boston, August 28, 2008

book panel on Randall Strahan, Leading Representatives: The Agency of Leaders in the Politics of the U.S. House, at annual APSA conference, Boston, August 28, 2008

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panel on “The Future of Liberal Arts Education: A 21st Century International Perspective from Educators,” at Amherst College, May 30, 2008

conference on “Parties and Policy Choice: The Electoral Connection and Crafting Party Coalitions,” at the Gordon Center, Brandeis Univ., May 23-24, 2008

conference on “Embedding Laws in the American State: Policy Durability and Policy Change,” at the Miller Center, Univ. of Virginia, May 2-3, 2008

roundtable on “Using History in Political Science,” at annual conference of APSA, Chicago, Sept. 1, 2007

panel on “Reshaping the Political System in War and Peace,” centering on Robert Saldin’s dissertation excerpt, “World War II and the Democratic Party’s Ideological Shift,” at the Miller Center, Univ. of Virginia, May 11, 2007

workshop on “The Separation of Powers: Theory, Comparisons, and the ‘War’ on Terrorism,” at the MacMillan Center, Yale University, Oct. 7, 2006

class discussion of America’s Congress by telephone to DePauw University, Sept. 12, 2006

roundtable on “Too Many Disciplines? Expanding American Political Development,” at Policy History Conference, Charlottesville VA, June 2, 2006

manuscript conference on Jessica Trounstine, “Urban Empires: The Rise and Fall of Monopoly Government in American Cities,” at Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton Univ., May 25-26, 2006

conference on the History of Congress, at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, May 12-13, 2006

panel on “The 1980s to the Present” at conference on “Conservatism and American Political Development,” Yale Univ., Feb. 24, 2006

class discussion of America’s Congress by telephone to DePauw University, Sept. 19, 2005

roundtable on Paul Pierson, Politics in Time, at annual APSA conference, Washington DC, Sept. 1, 2005

panel on “Nelson Polsby’s Congress,” at annual APSA conference, Washington DC, Sept. 1, 2005

conference on “Contingency in the Study of Politics,” at Yale University, Dec. 3-4, 2004

conference on “Knowledge, Problems, and Political Representation: Can Government Perform Better?” at University of Virginia, Nov. 12-13, 2004

conference on “Political Action and Political Change: Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Agents in American Political Development,” at Yale University, Oct. 23, 2004

roundtable on “Periodization in American Political Development,” at annual conference of American Political Science Association, Chicago, Sept. 3, 2004

American Politics Summer Workshop, at the Center for the Study of American Politics, Yale University, June 24-25, 2004

panel on “The 108th Congress and the 2004 Elections,” at annual conference of New England Political Science Association, Portsmouth NH, May 1, 2004

panel on “From Congress to the Classroom: Five Decades of the Congressional Fellowship Program in Academia,” at annual APSA conference, Philadelphia, Aug. 29, 2003

panel on “Congressional Leadership Activities,” at annual APSA conference, Philadelphia, Aug. 28, 2003

panel on “Which Emerging Majority? The Future of the American Electorate,” at annual APSA conference, Philadelphia, Aug. 28, 2003

conference on Congressional History, at MIT, Cambridge MA, May 30-31, 2003

conference of the Liberty Fund on “The Federalist: The Politics of Interest or Virtue?”, Philadelphia, May 8-11, 2003

Advanced Placement review session by telephone with students at Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire IL, May 13, 2003

roundtable on “The 108th Congress,” at annual conference of New England Political Science Association, Providence RI, May 3, 2003

roundtable on Earl and Merle Black, The Rise of Southern Republicans, at annual conference of Southern Political Science Association, Savannah GA, November 8, 2002

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roundtable on “Pre-Modern Presidents,” at annual APSA conference, Boston, Aug. 31, 2002

conference on Congress and History, at Columbia University, June 7-8, 2002

panel on “Congress and American Political Development: New Directions in Research,” at annual conference of Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 17, 2001

panel on “Changing Times or Timeless Changes for American Political Parties?” at annual APSA conference, San Francisco, Aug. 30, 2001

APSA program division panel on “Congress in American Politics,” at annual APSA conference, San Francisco, Aug. 31, 2001

panels at “The Macro-politics of Congress Conference,” at Univ. of Colo., Boulder CO, June 1-3, 2001

roundtable on “Retrospective on the 1950 APSA report, Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System,” at annual APSA conference, Washington DC, Sept. 2, 2000

panel on “Political Science as a Discipline: American Political Institutions,” at annual APSA conference, Washington DC, Sept. 1, 2000

panel on “Perspectives on Congress,” at annual NEPSA conference, Hartford CT, May 5, 2000

workshop on “Comparing Political Systems and Policymaking,” at Brandeis University, May 14, 1999

roundtable on “Interpretations of the 1998 Congressional Elections,” at annual conference of New England PSA, Providence RI, April 30, 1999

panel on “Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock,” at annual APSA conference, Boston, Sept. 4, 1998

panel on “New Directions in 19th Century Political History,” at annual APSA conference, Boston, Sept. 3, 1998

conference on “The New Deal—Then and Now,” at Brandeis University, June 5-6, 1998

conference on Comparative Legislative Research, at Univ. of Iowa, Apr. 17-18, 1998

panel on “Congress and the Administrative State,” at annual conference of Northeastern PSA, Philadelphia, Nov. 13, 1997

panel on John Aldrich’s book, Why Parties? at annual conference of Social Science History Association, Washington DC, Oct. 17, 1997

conference on “The Politics of Economic Inequality in the 20th Century,” at the Kennedy School, Cambridge MA, September 28, 1996

panel on “Legislative Policy Making in Divided Government Regimes,” at annual APSA conference, San Francisco, Aug. 31, 1996

panel on “Divided Government,” at annual Midwest PSA conference, Chicago, Apr. 20, 1996

panel on “New Research on the New Institutionalism: Blending History and Rational Choice,” at annual Western PSA conference, San Francisco, Mar. 16, 1996

panel on “The New Media as a Political Institution,” at annual APSA conference, New York City, Sept. 1, 1994

conference with the president’s political and communications advisors, plus dinner seminar with the Clintons at the White House, to discuss the state of the Clinton presidency, Nov. 5-6, 1993

panel on “Electoral Mobilization and Party Conflict,” at annual APSA conference, Washington DC, Sept. 3, 1993

conference on “Where Are We in American Political Development? Contemporary Politics in Historical Perspective,” at the Kennedy School, Cambridge MA, Oct. 14, 1995

roundtable on Earl and Merle Black, The Vital South, at annual conference of Southern PSA, Atlanta, Nov. 6-7, 1992

panel on “New Perspectives on the Historical Development of Traditional Party Organizations,” at annual conference of Midwest PSA, Chicago, Apr. 20, 1991

conference on “Governance,” staged by the Maxwell School in Washington DC, Dec. 1, 1990

panel on “Presidential Policy Leadership and the Political Parties,” at annual APSA conference, San Francisco, Sept. 1, 1990

conference on “Electing the Senate,” at Rice University and the University of Houston, Dec. 1-2, 1989

conference on “Presidential and Congressional Governance,” at American University, Nov. 8, 1989

panel on “State Party Organizations in the South,” at annual APSA conference, Chicago, Sept. 5, 1987 16

roundtable on “A Republican Form of Government: 200 Years Later,” at annual APSA conference, Chicago, Sept. 4, 1987

panel on “The Role of Political Parties in Congress,” at annual conference of Midwest PSA, Chicago, Apr. 8-11, 1987

critic of a paper on presidential primaries, at annual conference of MWPSA, Chicago, Apr. 8-11, 1987

conference on “Process and Outcome in Democratic Theory and Politics,” in commemoration of Robert A. Dahl’s contribution to political science, New Haven CT, March 1987

meeting of APSA’s Committee on International Political Science, in conjunction with a meeting of the planning board of the International Political Science Association, Ottawa, September 1986

roundtable on “Congressional Reapportionment and the Party System” at annual APSA conference, Washington DC, Aug. 29, 1986

panel on V.O. Key, Jr., at annual conference of Southern PSA, Birmingham AL, Nov. 3-4, 1983

panel on “The State of the Discipline: Political Parties,” at annual APSA conference, Denver CO, Sept. 4, 1982

conference on “The Future of Political Parties in the United States,” at meeting of The American Assembly, April 1982

panel on congressional elections, at annual conference of MWPSA, Chicago, April 1981

conference on “Presidential-Congressional Relations: Assessing Reagan’s First Year,” at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, Jan. 6-7, 1981

meeting staged by The Hastings Center on professional codes of ethics, at the Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge MA, Sept. 18-19, 1980

meeting staged by The Hastings Center on “Toward a Revision of the U.S. Senate Code of Official Conduct,” at U.S. Senate, Washington DC, July 1, 1980

roundtable on political parties at annual conference of Social Science History Association, Cambridge MA, Nov. 2-4, 1979

panel on National Election Studies activities, at annual conference of Western PSA, 1979

panel on National Election Studies activities, at annual APSA conference, New York City, Sept. 1978

panel on “The Electoral Dimension of Representation,” at annual APSA conference, New York City, Sept. 3, 1978

panel on “Theories of Congress,” at annual conference of MWPSA, Chicago, April 1978

conference on “The Presidency and Congress: A Shifting Balance of Power?” at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Austin TX, Nov. 14-15, 1977

conference on “The Study of Congressional Elections,” at Univ. of Rochester, Oct. 26-28, 1977

roundtable on “Teaching About Congress,” at annual APSA conference, Washington DC, Sept. 3, 1977

panel on “Congressional Policy Formation,” at annual APSA conference, Chicago, Sept. 3, 1976

conference of the Electorate Analysis Panel of the Public Agenda Foundation, in New York City, June 24, 1976

symposium on Presidential power, at Duke University, Jan. 22-23, 1976

conference on Presidential power, Roscoe Pound-American Trial Lawyers Foundation, in Cambridge MA, 1975

panel on “Ambition Theory” at annual conference of MWPSA, Chicago, May 1975

panel on “Gate-Keeping in Nominating Processes,” at annual APSA conference, Chicago, Sept. 1, 1974

conference on Daniel Mazmanian manuscript, Third Parties and Presidential Politics, at the Brookings Institution, July 20, 1972

panel on “Nominating Presidents and Prime Ministers,” at annual APSA conference, Chicago, Sept. 8, 1971

panel on “New Perspectives on American Electoral History,” at annual APSA conference, New York City, Sept. 4, 1969

REFEREEING, CONSULTING, AND EXAMINING: referee on Guggenheim fellowships in political science, 1990-2004

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outside consultant about political science departments and associated programs: - Amherst College, April 2010 - Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, review of Center for the Study of Democratic Politics,

March 2004 - Colgate University, February 1997 - University of California/Santa Cruz, December 1993 - Harvard University, visitors committee, 1990-96 - M.I.T., visitors committee, spring 1989-summer 1992 - Columbia University, visitors committee, March 1988 - Kalamazoo College, April 1987 - SUNY/Stony Brook, visitors committee, March 1986 - St. John’s University (Minnesota), May 1980

outside examiner for senior honors programs: - Swarthmore College, May 1990 - Bates College, March 1981

outside examiner on dissertations: - Cornell University, August 2010 - University of Virginia, August 2007 - Sciences-Po, Paris, December 2001 - Nuffield College (Oxford University), March 2001 - Syracuse University, January 2000

consultant to: - Oxford Analytica, January-May 2001 - Varieties of Democracy Project (V-DEM), December 2015

AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION ACTIVITY: member of award committee for Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award, 2015 chair of Legislative Studies section, 2001-03 member of planning committee of Parties section to plan 2000 retrospective on Towards a More

Responsible Party System, 1997- member of executive committee of APSA Centennial Campaign, 1997- member of executive board of History & Politics section of the APSA, 1996-99 member of Heinz Eulau Award committee (best APSR article published during 1992), 1993 member of award committee for Woodrow Wilson Prize, 1990 member of Congressional Fellowship Program Advisory Committee, 1976, 1978-87 member of Committee on International Political Science, 1985-88 chair of Ad Hoc Committee on Political Science in the Soviet Union, 1985 chair of APSA Nominating Committee, 1981-82, 1982-83 consultant for WETA/APSA Telecourse, “Congress: We the People,” 1982-83 member of executive committee of subgroup on Political Organizations/Parties, 1982-83 organizer of section panels on Political Parties and Other Organizations, for APSA convention, 1982 member of APSA Council, 1976-78 member of Council’s Rules Committee, 1977-78 member of steering committee of subfield on Legislative Processes, Behavior and Representation, 1977-

78 member of Screening Selection Committee, or a regional screening committee, of the Congressional

Fellowship Program, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978

OTHER PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES AND ACTIVITIES: member of 2018 NAS selection committee for the William and Katherine Estes Award for Behavioral

Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War

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chair of 2015 NAS selection committee for the William and Katherine Estes Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War; presented at NAS conference in D.C., April 26, 2015

member of editorial committee of Politique Americaine, 2010- member of editorial board of “The [Berkeley] Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary

Politics” (e-journal), 2007- member of editorial board of “Political Organizations, Parties, Interest Groups, and Networks” section of

Political Science Network (e-journal), 2007- member of Advisory Council of the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress at NYU, 2005- member of editorial board of Critical Review, 2002- member of membership selection panel for political science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences,

2002, 2003 external member of electoral board for the J.G. Winant Visiting Professorship of American Government

at Oxford University, 2001-09 member of editorial board of New England Journal of Political Science, 2001- member of National Academy of Social Insurance, 1998- member of editorial board of American Review of Politics, 1996- chair of Pi Sigma Alpha Award Committee, Midwest PSA, 1996-97 member of editorial board of Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1996-99, 2002-04 member of advisory committee of “Political Development of the American Nation” book series, edited

by Sidney Milkis, 1995- member of advisory board of ABC POLI SCI, 1993-2000 member of editorial board of Polity, 1976-80, 1986-92 member of Board of Overseers of National Election Studies, Center for Political Studies, of the

University of Michigan, 1979-83 member of Hastings Center committee on U.S. Senate Code of Ethics, 1980 chair of a NES/CPS subcommittee to prepare interview schedule for 1978 congressional elections survey,

1977-78 member of editorial board of Journal of Politics, 1975-78 member of Opinion Panel of Public Agenda Foundation, 1976 member of executive committee of the New England PSA, 1969-71 representative of the American Academy of Political and Social Science at the inauguration of Wilbert E.

Locklin as president of Springfield College, April 30, 1966

ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE IN YALE POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT: Chair: 1979-82 Acting Chair: 1976-77, spring 1988, spring 1990 Director of Graduate Studies, 1974-75, spring 1976 co-designer of the department’s graduate exam system, set of fields, and “Research and Writing”

sequence required of all second-year Ph.D. students, 1976-77

YALE UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES: chair of MacMillan Center committee to award Gaddis Smith Prize and Gustav Ranis Prize, 2016 corporation marshal, Yale Commencement, May 2015 chair of Heinz Prize committee to choose best senior essay in the social sciences, spring 2012 member of Truman Scholarships selection committee, 2007-2011 chair of Committee on Majors, Yale College, 2005-06, fall 2006 member of Leylan Fellowship selection committee, 2005 chair, selection committee for St. Andrew’s Society Scholarships, 2002-2005 member of publications committee, Yale University Press, spring 2002 chair, ad hoc committee on Yale College majors, 1999-2000 chair of Graduate School committee to rewrite student “Personal Conduct Code,” 1998 member of executive committee of Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 1996-2000

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member of Committee to Review Graduate School Disciplinary Procedures, 1996-97 member of ISPS Strategic Planning Advisory Committee, 1993-94 member of Poynter Fellowship Program Advisory Board, 1993-94 chair of Yale College Course of Study Committee, 1993-94, 1994-95 member of Yale College Steering Committee, 1992-93 member of Government Documents Advisory Group, 1992-93 presidential advisor, 1992-93 (under Pres. Howard Lamar) member of Governance Committee, 1992-93 director of Social Thought and Ethics Program, 1991-92 member of Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (CESOF), 1991-92 member of social sciences committee to award faculty research funds, spring 1990 member of Yale College committee to award junior faculty fellowships, 1989, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004 member of committee to design a new major in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, 1988-89 member of committee to review the masters program in International Relations, spring 1988 member of Graduate School Degree Committee for the Social Sciences, 1987-88, 1989-90, 1998-99,

1999-2000 member of SOM deanship search committee, fall 1987, summer 1992 member of Advisory Committee of the Division of Social Sciences, 1984-85, 1986-87, fall 1987, fall

1989, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1999-2000, fall 2003 member of Ad Hoc Advisory Committee for the School of Organization and Management, spring 1987,

1987-88 member of Committee on Expository Writing, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1984-85, spring

1986, 1986-87, 1987-88, fall 1988, 1989-90, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1997-98 member of Advisory Committee on Library Policy, 1983-84, 1984-85, spring 1986 member of Committee to Review the Yale Summer Programs, summer 1984 member of Morse College deanship review committee, January 1984 member of Committee on Internships, 1983-84 chair of search committee to recommend Master of Morse College, January 1982 director, ISPS Project on American Democratic Institutions, spring 1975 member of Graduate School Advisory Committee, 1972-73, 1973-74 member of Faculty Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Admissions, 1974-75 member of Undergraduate Admissions Committee, 1971-72 freshman advisor at Morse College, most of the time 1968 through 2000

UMASS/AMHERST ACTIVITIES: Secretary of Faculty Senate, 1966-67 co-designer of Department of Political Science’s senior honors program, 1964-65

ARCHIVED PERSONAL DOCUMENTS: at Amherst College archive: lecture and seminar notes and other materials from BA years 1954-58;

includes courses with Earl Latham, Richard Fenno, Karl Loewenstein.

at Harvard University archive: lecture and seminar notes and other materials from Ph.D. years 1958-1963; includes courses with V.O. Key, Jr., Louis Hartz, Sam Beer, Robert McCloskey, Stanley Hoffmann, H. Stuart Hughes, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Frank Freidel, Adam Ulam, Herbert Spiro, Robert McKenzie.

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