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Congressional Research Award Recipients
 

The Dirksen Congressional Center has awarded 378 grants totaling over $776,188 since 1978.  The table below lists grant recipients by year, their project titles, and the institutions with which the recipients were affiliated at the time of the grant award.

YEAR NAME INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION PROJECT TITLE
1978 Neef, Marian University of Illinois Bibliographic Survey of Congressional Leadership
1979 Clausen, Aage Ohio State University Policy Positions of Congressional Party Leaders
1979 Cook, Timothy E. Williams College Committee Assignments and the Origins of Policy Change
1979 Peabody, Robert Johns Hopkins University Party Leadership in the Senate
1979 Schapsmeier, Edward Illinois State University Everett M. Dirksen: Senatorial Statesman
1980 Mezey, Michael DePaul University Apprenticeship and Participation in the House of Representatives
1980 Sinclair, Barbara University of CA-Riverside Majority Party Leadership in the Post Reform House of Representatives
1980 Tadie, Eugene Northern Illinois University The Political Economy of East-West Relations
1981 Arnold, R. Douglas Princeton University The Logic of Congressional Action
1981 Deering, Christopher and Smith, Steven George Washington University Policy Leadership in the New Congress
1981 Entin, Kenneth California State College The Leadership Network in the House of Representatives
1981 Hammond, Susan Webb The American University Informal Groups and Congressional Leadership
1981 Johannes, John and  
McAdams, John
Marquette University Congressional Leaders' Constituency Relations
1981 Kernell, Samuel University of CA Congressional Careers
1981 Loomis, Burdett University of Kansas Congressional Careers and Party Leadership
1981 Reichard, Gary Ohio State University Senate Leaders and the Civil Rights Revolution
1981 Schick, Allen University of Maryland Congressional Leadership and the Congressional Budget Process
1981 Sinclair, Barbara University of CA-Riverside Majority Party Leadership in the Post-Reform House
1981 Uslaner, Eric University of Maryland Congressional Leadership, Energy Policy Making, and the Nature of Policy Agendas
1982 Arnold, R. Douglas Princeton University The Logic of Congressional Action
1982 Deering, Christopher and Smith, Steven George Washington University House Majority Party Leadership and Committee Composition
1982 Hammond, Susan Webb The American University Informal Groups and Congressional Leadership
1982 Johannes, John and 
McAdams, John
Marquette University Congressional Leaders' 

Constituency Relations

1982 Kaiser, Frederick The Library of Congress Congressional Leadership and Foreign Policy
1982 Kernell, Samuel University of CA- San Diego Congressional Careers
1982 Longley, Lawrence and 
Oleszek, Walter
Lawrence University 

Library of Congress

Conference Committee Politics
1982 O'Lessker, Karl Indiana University Income Redistribution Program
1982 Panning, William University of Iowa Patterns of Policy Leadership in the Senate, 1979-81
1982 Rosen, Elliot A. Rutgers University The Age of Conservative Coalition, 1932 - 1945
1982 Sullivan, Terry University of Texas at Austin Leadership Under New Rules: Partisan Leadership in the Post-Reform Era
1983 Browning, Robert X. Purdue University Committee Leadership & Policy Environments
1983 Hill, James P. Central Michigan University Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? (Who will regulate the regulator?)
1983 Loevy, Robert The Colorado College The Senate Leadership and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
1983 Loomis, Burdett University of Kansas Career Development in the Post-Reform House of Representatives
1983 McGinnis, Kathleen Trinity College Theory-Building in Studies of Congressional Leadership
1983 Oppenheimer, Bruce University of Houston The Impact of Changing Time Constraints on Leadership Management of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives
1983 Peabody,  Robert Johns Hopkins University Continuity and Change in Congressional Leadership
1983 Sinclair, Barbara University of CA-Riverside Issue Leadership and Policy Incubation in the U.S. Senate
1983 Smith, Steven George Washington University Leadership Interaction in Congress
1984 Cook, Timothy E. Williams College Newsmakers, Lawmakers, and Leaders: The News Media and Congressional Leadership
1984 Dodd, Lawrence Indiana University The Learning of Legislative Mastery: A Study of Former Legislators 
1984 Frantzich, Stephen U.S. Naval Academy Congressional Leadership Video
1984 Patterson, Samuel University of Iowa The Congressional Party of the 1980s
1984 Robeck, Bruce Texas A & M University The Electoral Environment of Congressional Leaders
1984 Schaefer, William The American University Democratic House Leadership Tested: Budget Tax Battles of 1981
1984 Schick, Allen University of Maryland The Impact of the Congressional Budget Process on Congress
1984 Sullivan, Terry University of Texas at Austin Conversion Strategies and Success for Partisan Leadership
1984 West, Darrell Brown University Congressional Decision-Making and the Reagan Tax Cut
1985 Baker, Ross Rutgers University The Therapeutic Uses of the Party Caucus: The Use of a Party Panel to Foster Participation, Cohesion, and Member Satisfaction
1985 Brown, Lynne New York University House Democratic Leadership in the 100th Congress
1985 Cook, Mary Etta Analyst, Congressional Research Service Comparison of the Committees in U.S. House of Representatives
1985 Drucker, Julie University of Wisconsin-Madison Opportunities for Action: Informal Leaders in the House of Representatives
1985 Fowler, Linda Syracuse University Unseen Candidates: Ambition, Parties, and the Local Tradition
1985 Hammond, Susan Webb The American University Informal Groups in Congress
1985 Heilig, Peggy University of Illinois A Leader's 'Constituency Career': Did National Visibility, Redistricting and a Close Call Change the Home Style of Robert Michel?
1985 Himmelberg, Robert Fordham University Congress as the Crucible of National Politics, 1923-1932
1985 McCormick, James Iowa State University The Impact of Committee and Subcommittee Chairs on the Policy Activism of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
1985 Robeck, Bruce Texas A & M University The Electoral Environment of Congressional Leaders
1985 Thurber, James The American University Congressional Leadership and the Budget Process
1985 Tidmarch, Charles Union College Subcommittee Leadership Style and Effectiveness in the U.S. Congress
1985 Uslaner, Eric University of Maryland The Decline of Comity in Congress
1985 Windsor, Duane Rice University Exercising Congressional Leadership in the Budgetary Process
1986 Baker, Ross Rutgers University House and Senate: The Two Chambers Compared
1986 Bosso, Christopher J. Northeastern University Into the Third Century: A Survey of Congress and Its Future
1986 Cohen, Jeffrey E. University of Illinois Congressional Control of the Bureaucracy: A Test of Two Theories
1986 Dodd, Lawrence University of CO-Boulder Electoral Mastery and District Demography: A Study of Current Members of Congress
1986 Hibbing, John University of Nebraska Careers and Behavior in the Modern House of Representatives
1986 LeLoup, Lance University of Missouri - St. Louis Gramm-Rudman-Hollings: The Impact of Deficits and Fiscal Inflexibility on the Congressional Budget Process
1986 Shepsle, Kenneth and  
Humes, Brian D.
Harvard University 

Michigan State University

Institutional Innovation as a Leadership Strategy: Speaker Clay and the Committee System
1986 Swift, Elaine Harvard University The Transformation of the U.S. Senate, 1789-1841
1986 West, Darrell Brown University The Politics of Deficit Reduction
1986 Whiteman, David University of South Carolina Congressional Decision Making: Developing Models of the Acquisition and Use of Analytical Information
1987 Barry, John Journalist Speaker Jim Wright
1987 Dickerson, Kitty University of Missouri-Columbia Influence of Pressure and Counter-Pressure Groups on Congressional Leadership: Textile Trade Legislation
1987 Fails, Eleanor Duquesne University The American Congresswoman from 1970 - Present
1987 Hess, Stephen The Brookings Institution The Main Street Senate
1987 Kraft, Michael University of Wisconsin Congressional Leadership and Technological Risk Management
1987 LeoGrande, William American University Congress and Foreign Policy: The Struggle Over Central America
1987 Lessoff, Alan Johns Hopkins University Building the National City
1987 Loverd, Richard Villanova University Senate and White House Leadership: The Baker Experience
1987 Roberts, Susan Winthrop College Assessing Constitutional Deliberation in the U.S. Congress
1987 Rohde, David Michigan State University Leaders, Followers and Partisanship in the House of Representatives
1987 Sinclair, Barbara University of CA-Riverside Congressional Leadership in the Late 1980s-Strategic Adaptation to a Changing Environment
1987 Weisberg, Herbert Ohio State University Senate Voting on Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices
1987 Wires, Cheryl Harvard University Congressional Structure, Party Leadership, and the Retrenchment of Welfare State Policies
1988 Barry, John Journalist Speaker Jim Wright
1988 Berg, John C. Suffolk University The Congressional Black Caucus Budget and Black Leadership in the House of Representatives
1988 Bond, Jon R. Texas A & M University Congressional Leaders, Constituency Service, and Institutional Maintenance
1988 Fett, Patrick Vanderbilt University Presidential-Congressional Politics and the President's First Year Legislative Agenda: Carter, Reagan, and Beyond
1988 Gaskin, Thomas M. Everett Community College Senator Richard B. Russell and Lyndon B. Johnson: Death of A Friendship
1988 Owens, John E. University of Westminster A Longitudinal Study of Congressional Committee Leadership
1988 Palazzolo, Dan University of Richmond Leadership in the Budget Process
1988 Perotti, Rosanna Case Western Reserve University Congressional Leadership and Legislation as Dispute Resolution: The Case of Immigration Reform
1988 Smith, Steven University of MN Managing the Senate: Leadership and Complex Unanimous Consent Agreement
1988 Sullivan, Terry University of NC Assessing Strategies for Congressional Leadership: Bargaining and Procedural Control
1988 Ward, Daniel New York University Decision Making in Congressional Committees: The Effects of Time, Place, and Policy
1988 West, Darrell Brown University Television Advertising in Senate Campaigns
1988 Wlezien, Christopher University of Iowa The Politics of the Budgetary Process: A Study of System Dynamics and Presidential-Congressional Interaction
1988 Wright, John University of Iowa Organized Interests Before the Supreme Court: Confirmation and Rejection of Nominations to the Supreme Court
1989 Campbell, Karl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Senator Sam Ervin and the Road to Watergate
1989 DeGregorio, Christine The American University Mapping the Congressional Leadership Terrain
1989 Downs, Michael Mississippi State University A Matter of Conscience: John C. Stennis and the Vietnam War
1989 Fleming, James S. Rochester Institute of Technology The Congressional Career and Leadership of Barber B. Conable, Jr.
1989 Hall, Richard L. University of Michigan Institutional Change and Committee Decision Making in the United States Congress
1989 Hofman, Steven The Brookings Institution The Role of House Leadership and Informal Groups in the Policy Process in the House of Representatives
1989 Jacobs, John San Francisco Examiner California Boss: The Life and Times of Phillip Burton
1989 Jones, Kenneth Saint John's University Congressional Leadership and the Poliomyelitis Assistance Act of 1955
1989 Kowalcky, Linda Johns Hopkins University The House Ways and Means Committee: Conflict Displacement in Tax Legislation
1989 Kraft, Michael University of Wisconsin Congressional Leadership and Technological Risk Management: Designing an Effective Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy
1989 Mitchell, Franklin University of Southern CA Confronting the American Dilemma: President Harry S. Truman, the South, and Postwar Race Relations, 1945-1953
1989 Span, Christopher Marquette University The FBI and the Internal Security Committee 
1989 Stewart, Charles Massachusetts Institute of Texhnology Speakers, Parties, and Committees from Blaine to Rayburn
1989 Strahan, Randall Emory University Architects of Leadership
1989 Stubben, Jerry Iowa State University Leadership Influence upon the District Inheritance of Committee Seats in the United States House of Representatives
1989 Van Der Slik,  Jack Sangamon State University The Illinois Congressional Delegation: Behavior as Informal Groups
1989 Van Beek, Stephen University of VA When the House and Senate Meet: Congressional Conference Committee
1990 Calhoun, Charles East Carolina University Congressional Leaders and Republican Party Ideology in the Late Nineteenth Century
1990 Campbell, Karl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Senator Sam Ervin and the Road to Watergate
1990 Cannon, James M. Eisenhower Centennial Foundation How Congress Shaped Ford the Man and Minority Leader, and Ford the President
1990 Dark, Taylor Brookings Institution Congressional Leadership and the Role of Interest Groups: The Case of Organized Labor
1990 Evans, Diana Trinity College The Impact of Committee and Subcommittee Leaders on Interest Group Policy Success
1990 Freeman, Douglas and  
Young, Ray
Valdosta State College Information Quality, Congressional Leadership, and Foreign Policy Decision Making
1990 Goldberg, Robert A. University of Utah Barry Goldwater and the Shaping of Modern America
1990 Jacobs, John San Francisco Examiner Ain't that a Bitch!: The Life and Times of Congressman Phillip Burton
1990 Kaiser, Frederick The Library of Congress Changing Roles of a Congressional Committee Chairman: "Doc" Morgan of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
1990 Kolodny, Robin The Johns Hopkins University The Role of the Congressional Campaign Committees in Party Development and Leadership Selection in Congress
1990 Peabody, Robert Johns Hopkins University Congressional Leaders in their Home Districts
1990 Rohde, David Michigan State University Party Leadership and Intraparty Cohesion Among House Democrats
1990 Steely, Melvin West Georgia College Unplanned and Unexpected:...Change Occurred in the Leadership of Both Parties...
1990 Tananbaum,  Duane The City University of New York Congress Versus the President: From Roosevelt to Reagan
1990 Uslaner, Eric University of Maryland Do Leaders Lead?
1990 Ziedel, Robert St. Cloud University Congressional Leadership and the Creation of United States Immigration Commission
1991 Ainsworth, Scott University of GA Managing the Senate Floor: Leaders and Unanimous Consent Agreements
1991 Baker, Ross Rutgers University The Role of Congressional Leaders in the Reduction of Political Exposure
1991 Browne, William Central Michigan University How Congress Decides: The Changing Dimensions of Agricultural, Rural, and Related Environmental Policymaking
1991 Caldeira, Gregory A. and  
Patterson, Samuel
Ohio State University The Social Matrix of Senate Leadership
1991 Choate, Jean M. Iowa State University William Lemke and the National Farmers Process Tax Recovery Association
1991 Collier, Ken University of Kansas White House Relations with Congress
1991 Connelly, William F., Jr. Washington & Lee University The Permanent Minority Status of House Republicans
1991 Fenno, Richard University of Rochester Research on the Explanatory Process in Senate Campaigns
1991 Geiger, Shirley M. University of South Carolina The Effects of Environmental Change on Leadership Interactions and Decision Making in Subcommittees of the House Committee on Appropriations
1991 Jewell, Malcolm and Marcia L. Whicker University of Kentucky/Virginia Commonwealth University Comparing the Leadership Styles of Congressional and State Legislative Leaders
1991 Sherman, Janann Harvard University From Senate to White House: Margaret Chase Smith in the "Presidential Incubator"
1991 Simpson, Brooks Arizona State University Republican Realignment in the United States Senate, 1869-1880
1991 Sinclair, Barbara University of CA-Riverside Leadership Strength as a Response to Partisan Adversity: House Majority Party Leadership in the 1990s
1991 Strahan, Randall Emory University Congressional Leadership in Institutional Time
1991 Woods, Randall University of Arkansas Biography of Senator J. William Fulbright
1992 Beck, Nancy C. University of Texas Wright Patman and the Politics of Compromise: A Study in Congressional Leadership
1992 Canon, David T. University of WI Unconventional Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress
1992 Felton, Peter University of Texas J. William Fulbright's Leadership of Senate Opposition to the 1965-1966 U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic
1992 Fett, Patrick Vanderbilt University The President's Legislative Communications with Congress
1992 Hale, John F. University of Oklahoma Party Factionalism in Congress: The Case of the Democratic Leadership Council
1992 Hardt, Jan C.  University of Maryland Strategies in Congressional Leadership Campaigns
1992 Howard, Connie Indiana University of PN Who in the World is Jeanette Rankin?
1992 Savage, James University of VA The Influence of Subcommittee Leadership in the House Appropriations Committee: The Chairmanship of William H. Natcher
1992 Schousen, Matthew Duke University The Politics of Congressional Reform: A Study of the Distribution of Power and Authority in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1890 and 1990
1992 Ward, Daniel Rice University Party Leadership in U.S. Senate Committees
1992 Zeiler, Thomas W. University of Colorado Congress and the Forging of the International Trade Order, 1941-1965
1993 Adler, E. Scott Columbia University Institutional Change and Policy Change in Congress
1993 Flehinger, Brett Harvard University The LaFollettes and the Progressive-New Deal Connection
1993 Jenner, Robert E. University of Maryland FDR's Republicans: Congressional Supporters of the President's Foreign Policy, 1935-1941
1993 Koed, Elizabeth University of CA The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
1993 Kretman, Kathy University of Maryland The Impact of Women's Legislative Caucuses on Public Policy: An Examination of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues and the Women Legislators of Maryland
1993 Peterson, Mark Harvard University From Vested Oligarchy to Informed Entrepreneurship in Congress: New Opportunities for Health Care Reform?
1993 Solovey, Mark University of WI-Madison Congressional Leadership in the National Science Policy: The Case of Social Science Research
1993 Talbert, Jeffrey C. Texas A & M University Processing Health Policy Agendas in Congressional Committees
1993 Thurber, Timothy The University of NC The Politics of Equality: Hubert Humphrey and the Quest for Racial Justice
1993 Vorenberg, Michael Harvard University Congress, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Politics of Emancipation
1993 Zelizer, Julian Johns Hopkins University Wilbur Mills: Congressional Power and the Administrative State
1994 Adler, E. Scott Columbia University Changing the Rules of the Game: Distributive, Informational, and Partisan Approaches to Congressional Reform
1994 Arnold, R. Douglas Princeton University The Elements of Legislative Accountability
1994 Barrett, David Villanova University Senator Richard Russell and Congressional Oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1947-1970
1994 Brune, Lester Bradley University Historiographic Materials on Congress and the Korean War, June 1950 to July 1953
1994 Fastnow, Christine University of Iowa Principals, Agents, Partisans, and Leaders: Toward a Theory of Minority Party House Leadership
1994 Frantzich, Stephen U.S. Naval Academy Congressional Leadership in the C-SPAN Era
1994 Hennefeld, Carolyn Mohr University of Colorado Congress and Social Movements: Political Learning and the Civil Rights, Women's, and Environmental Movements, 1920-1990
1994 Huelskamp, Timothy The American University From the Ground Up: Committees on Agriculture in the United States Congress
1994 Johnson, Robert David Harvard University Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition
1994 Kenski, Henry University of Arizona How Media Portray Congress
1994 Krugler, David University of Illinois The Voice of America or the Voice of Congress? U.S. Government Broadcasting and the Meaning of the Cold War
1994 Levy, Dena University of Iowa The Long Road to Representation: Boxer and Feinstein's Career Paths to the Senate
1994 Potts, Steve University of NE-Lincoln All the Fruits of the Garden: Congress, The New Frontier, the Great Society, and Federal Policy Toward Native Americans, 1961-1969
1994 Radomsky, Susan University of Chicago Society and National Politics at Washington, 1856-76
1994 Stone, Gary Columbia University The Senate and the Vietnam War, 1964-1973
1994 Taylor, Andrew University of Connecticut Divided Government, Domestic Policy and Political Change, 1955-1992
1994 Vinson, C. Danielle Duke University Local Media Coverage of Members of Congress: Using Local Media to Communicate with Constituents
1994 Wagner, Wendy Case Western Reserve University Legislating Science: Congress, Science, and Environmental Law
1995 Campbell, Colton University of CA Congressional Ad Hoc Commissions: Not Just Blame Avoidance
1995 Duffin, Diane University of Missouri - St. Louis The Structure of Congressional Oversight and Allocative Strategies in the Executive Branch
1995 Forgette, Richard and Sala, Brian Miami University 

University of Illinois

The Emergence of Legislative Leviathan: Party Leadership in the Post-Bellum House and Senate
1995 Harris, Douglas Johns Hopkins University The Speaker's House: Partisanization, Institutional Representation and Party Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1960-1994
1995 Johnson, Robert David Arizona State University The Government Operations Committee and American Foreign Relations, 1956-1968
1995 Kotlowski, Dean Indiana University Competing Agendas: Richard Nixon, Republican Congressional Leadership, and Civil Rights Policy
1995 Martis, Kenneth West Virginia University Political Party Control of Congressional Redistricting 1790's - 1990's
1995 Reeher, Grant Syracuse University Health Care Reform and Distributive Justice
1995 Rozell, Mark Mary Washington College Press Coverage of Congress in Post-War Era
1995 Soherr-Hadwiger, David University of NM Budget-Cutting vs. Pork Barreling: Party Leaders, Committees and Military Base Closures
1995 Stumpff, Linda Moon University of Southern CA The Legislative Imperative: The Endangered Species Act, Congress and The Implementation of Public Policy
1995 Tien, Charles University of Iowa Congress vs. the President in the Federal Budget: The Impact of Rules on Success
1995 Watts, Mark University of MN Covering Congress: Media Coverage of the U.S. Congress and Its Impact on Public Opinion
1995 Wilson, Rick Rice University Contest, Institutional Powers and Leadership Traits: Disentangling Leadership and Followership
1995 Ybarra, Michael Wall Street Journal Pat McCarran and the Post-War Fight Against Subversion
1996 Baker, Ross Rutgers University State Mates: An Exploration of the Relationships of Senators from the Same State
1996 Brainard, Lori A. Brandeis University The Limits of Deregulation: Politics and the American Television Industry
1996 Dodson, Debra Rutgers University Gender Difference, Institutional Constraints, and the Representation of Women's Interests in Congress
1996 Gaines, Brian University of Illinois Where's the Party? American Voters and Parties in Ideological Space
1996 Halperin, Terri Diane University of Virginia The United States Senate: The World's Greatest Deliberative Body, 1789-1821
1996 Hollern-Harvey, Diane University of MD Congressional and Presidential Authority: Public Attitudes Toward the Separation of Powers
1996 Irwin, Lewis Yale University Evaluating Change in Successful Legislating: Product, Process, and Strategies in the Modern U.S. House of Representatives
1996 Jeydel, Alana American University Political Elites, Social Movements and Changing Political Opportunity Structures: The Three Waves of the Women's Movement
1996 Loomis, Burdett The University of Kansas Following and Leading: The 104th Freshman in the U.S. House
1996 Merriner, James Free-Lance Writer Mr. Chairman: Power in Dan Rostenkowski's America
1996 Rosenstiehl, Michael Texas A & M University Policy Attributes & Legislative Decision Making
1997 Bader, John Univ of CA, Washington DC Minority Party Leadership in the U.S. Senate
1997 Borrelli, Stephen and Royed, Terry University of Alabama Party Pledges, Party Leadership & Public Policy in the US, 1977-1995
1997 Gibson, Dr. Martha University of Connecticut Structure, Power and Policy: U.S. Trade Politics and the Unintended Consequences of Congressional Reform
1997 Grover, William Saint Michael's College The Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Policy Process
1997 Halperin, Terri Diane University of Virginia The United States Senate: The World's Greatest Deliberative Body, 1789-1821
1997 Hixon, William University of Rochester Majority-Party Leadership and the Committee System in the U.S. House
1997 Lindsay, James University of Iowa Beyond the Water's Edge: Congressional Leaders and Committees in Foreign Policy
1997 Messmer, John University of MO Early Political Life on the World Wide Web: Congress, Voters, and Organized Interests on the Internet
1997 O'Halloran, Sharyn Columbia University Congress, The Executive, and Delegation
1997 Perotti, Rosanna Hofstra University Congress and Illegal Immigration Restrictions, 1986-1996
1997 Weinberg, Bill Harvard University Biography of Carl D. Perkins
1997 Wilcox,  Clyde Georgetown University Individual Contributors in House and Senate Elections
1998 Barrett, David Villanova University Confronting Democratic Dilemmas: Congressional Oversight of the CIA in the "Era of Trust"
1998 Bernstein,  Jeffery Eastern Michigan University Using Character-Playing Simulations to Improve Instruction on Congress
1998 Butler, Lawrence Princeton University Getting to 218: Strategies for Building Winning Coalitions in the House of Representatives
1998 Campbell, Kristin Texas A & M University Congressional Elections, the Media, and Public Distrust of Congress
1998 DeGregorio,  Christine The American University Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives: Do Parties Matter?
1998 Frantzich, Stephen U.S. Naval Academy Making a Difference: Citizen Courage in a Cynical Age
1998 Glaser, James Tufts University Southern Congressional Candidates and the Washington Outsider Campaign
1998 Harvey, Diane Hollern George Mason University Who Should Govern? Public Preferences for Congressional and Presidential Power
1998 Hulsey, Byron University of TX Everett Dirksen and the Modern Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson
1998 Katznelson, Prof. Ira and Lapinski, John Columbia University Congress and American Political Development: Representation, Party, and Policy before the Civil War
1998 Larson, Stephanie Greco Dickinson College Lauding Leaders and Evaluating Legislators: How ABC's Evening News Celebrates Government Officials through its "Person of the Week" and How It Covers Members of Congress
1998 Maltzman, Forrest George Washington University Speaker Cannon and the Committee Assignment Process
1998 Millman, Stephen Massachusetts Institute of Technology Impact of the Quality of Members of the U.S. House on Leaving Congress: Implications for Term Limits
1998 Tatalovich, Raymond Loyola University Chicago Lawmaking During the "100 Days" of 1896-1996: Legislative Fact or Political Fiction
1998 Wright, Fiona University of Florida The Political Implications of Institutional Reform: The 1974 Budget Act and Party Polarization in the U.S. House, 1975-1997
1999 Roger Biles East Carolina University The Conscience of the Senate:  The Life and Liberal Crusades of Paul H. Douglas
1999 Rosalee Clawson and  
Jonathan Morris
Purdue Univeristy A Rocky Relationship:  The Public, the Press, and the U.S. Congress
1999 Brian S. Deason Southern Illinois University Eye of the Storm:  A Political Biography of Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas
1999 John A. Farrell The Boston Globe  Tip O'Neill:  A Biography
1999 Laura E. Free  Cornell University Gendering the Constitution:  Congress, Woman Suffrage and the Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment, 1865-66
1999 Scott A. Frisch East Carolina University A New Look at the House Republican Committee Assignment Process
1999 James L. Guth Furman University Religion on Capitol Hill:  The Case of the House of Representatives in the 105th Congress
1999 Valerie Heitshusen and Garry Young University of Missouri-Columbia Measuring Legislative Policy Change:  1874-1994
1999 Rebekah Herrick Oklahoma State University Seniority and the Lost Leadership of Women House Members
1999 Andrew L. Johns University of California, Santa Barbara Hawks, Doves, and a Wise Old Owl:  The Republican Party and the "Democrats'" War in Vietnam, 1960-69
1999 David R. Jones Baruch College, CUNY Why Do Americans (Still) Love Their Congress Members So Much More Than Their Congress?  An Ideological Explanation of Fenno's Paradox
1999 Glen S. Krutz Arizona State University Congressional Leaders and the Winnowing of Legislation
1999 Vincent G. Moscardelli University of Massachusetts Transforming Leadership in Senate Committees
1999 Timothy N. Thurber SUNY-Oswego Race and the Republican Party:  1945-Present
1999 Randall B. Woods University of Arkansas The Anti-Imperialists:   Congressional Opponents to the Vietnam War
1999 Julian E. Zelizer University at Albany Demanding Democracy:  Congressional Reform, 1961-86
2000 Steven Balla The George Washington University The Delegation Decision: Congressional Creation and Organization of Bureaucratic Advisory Committees
2000

Colton Campbell

Nicol Rae

Florida International University Ignoring Electoral Outcomes: House Judiciary Committee Republicans and the Clinton Impeachment
2000 Celia Carroll Emory University The Impact of Congressional Caucuses upon Deliberation in the House of Representatives
2000 Kevin Conway American University Party Defectors on Roll Call Votes in the U.S. House
2000 Marian Currinder University of Florida The Institutional Effects and Political Implications of Outside Lobbying on the U.S. House
2000 Diane Duffin University of Nebraska at Kearney Nontraditional Career Paths to the U.S. House
2000 Victoria Farrar-Myers University of Texas at Arlington The Money Career: The Changing Notion of Institutional Leadership in the U.S. Congress
2000 T. Jens Feeley University of Washington Partisanship and Policy Learning in the U.S. Congress, 1987-1998
2000 J. Tobin Grant Ohio State University Ordinary Lawmaking
2000 Douglas Harris University of Texas at Dallas Public Leadership in the U.S. Senate, 1950-2000
2000 Valerie Hunt University of Washington Congress, Courts and Changes in U.S. Immigration Policy
2000 Jeffrey Jenkins Michigan State University Can Party Leaders Influence Congressional Roll-Call Voting?: Evidence from the Civil War Congresses
2000 Sean Kelly Niagara University Comparing Republican and Democratic Committee Requests and Assignments
2000 Greg Koger University of California -- LA The Strategy of Cosponsorship
2000 Dean Kotlowski Ohio Universisty Farewell to the Great Father: Congress and Native American Policy Since 1960
2000 Frederic Lee De Montfort University Congressional Response to the Problem of Corporate Size, Monopoly and Competition, 1945-80
2000 Nicole Mellow University of Texas Reconstituting the Party: A Study of the Regional Dimensions of Party Conflict in the Post-war House
2000 Elizabeth Rybicki University of Minnesota The Impact of Bicameralism
2000 Brian Schaffner Indiana University -- Bloomington Competing for Coverage: Legislators and the Local Press
2000 Brian Siemers Colorado College Managing Adversity: Congressional Leaders' Responses to Catastrophic Losses
2000 Charles Stewart III Massachusetts Institute of Technology Speakership Elections Before the Civil War
2001 Michael Allen Northwestern University The War's Not Over Until the Last Man Comes Home: The Politics of Body Recovery in the Aftermath of Vietnam, 1969-1998
2001 Ross Baker Rutgers University The Organization and Conduct of the United States Senate in Circumstances of Partisan Deadlock
2001 William Bianco Pennsylvania State University The Partisan Content of Presentations: Do House Members "Take the Party on the Road?"
2001

James Scott and Ralph Carter

University of Nebraska and Texas Christian University

Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs and U.S. Foreign Policy
2001 Charles Finocchiaro Michigan State University The Role of Party and Committee Leaders in Pre-Floor Decision-Making
2001

Sean Kelly

Scott Frisch

Niagara University

California State University

Computer-Aided Content Analysis of the Committee Request Letters of U.S. House Members, 1965-94
2001 Jay Goodliffe Brigham Young University Campaign War Chests in Senate Elections
2001 Joshua Gordon University of Florida Partisanship and the Destabilization of the House Appropriations Committee: Internal Social Disintegration and External Decline, 1994-2000
2001 Douglas Harris University of Texas Party Press Secretaries in the House and Senate, 1980-2000
2001 Karen Hofer Luecke George Mason University The Senate Leadership in Shaping the 1944 GI Bill of Rights
2001 Paul Manna University of Wisconsin School's in on Capitol Hill: Education Policy and the U.S. Congress, 2000-2002
2001 Bruce Oppenheimer Vanderbilt University Party Switchers in Congress, 1876-2001
2001 Rose Razaghian Columbia University Legislative Choices: The Development and Selection of Financial Policies During the Ante-Bellum Period
2001 Tracy Sulkin University of Washington Lessons Learned?: Campaigns, Elections, and Legislative Behavior
2001 Jennifer Nicoll Victor Washington University - St. Louis Convincing Congress: The Role of Interest Groups in Legislative Policy Making
2002 Matthew Beckman University of Michigan Presidential Lobbying: How the White House Promotes the President's Preferences on Capitol Hill
2002 Regina Branton Rice University Candidate Emergence, Racial and Ethnic Heterogeneity, and Competition in Congressional Elections
2002 Barry Burden Harvard University The Discharge Rule and Majoritarian Politics in the House of Representatives
2002

Kerry Chase and Allan Kessler

Tufts University and University of Texas-Austin

Globalization and Representation: The Trade Votes of Members of Congress
2002 William Connelly, Jr. Washington and Lee University The Roots of Legislative Strategy in American Political Thought
2002 C. Lawrence Evans and John Gilmour The College of William and Mary Congressional Leaders, the President, and Veto Bargaining
2002 Michael Franz University of Wisconsin Conditional Party Resurgence and Interest Group Influence on Congressional Party Leadership
2002 Matthew Green Yale University The Influence of Party Leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives
2002

James McCormick

Neil Mitchell

Iowa State University

University of New Mexico

The Congressional Human Rights Caucus and the Promotion of Global Human Rights
2002 Costas Panagopoulos New York University Eyes and Ears: Deputy Whips as Strategic Actors in Reducing Information Uncertainty in the U.S. House of Representatives
2002 Eric Schickler and Kathryn Pearson University of California Agenda Control, Majority Party Power, and the House Committee on Rules, 1932-65
2002 Dennis Simon Southern Methodist University Southerners in the U.S. House of Representatives: A History of Electoral, Partisan, and Ideological Change, 1936-2000
2002 Amy Steigerwalt University of California, Berkeley Senators, Interest Groups, and Judicial Confirmations
2002 Danielle White American University Do You See What I See: Perceptions of Representation by African American U.S. Representatives
2003 Jamie L. Carson Michigan State University Strategy and Choice in 19th and Early 20th Century U.S. House Elections
2003 Casey Byrne Knudsen Dominguez University of California at Berkeley Before the Primary: Party Participation in Congressional Elections
2003 Matthew Dull University of Wisconsin - Madison Information, Control, and Congressional Oversight: Delegation and the Government Performance and Results Act, 1993-2003
2003 Joanne B. Freeman Yale University The Field of Blood: The Culture of Congress in Antebellum America
2003 Eric Hines University of Iowa Strategic Appointments to Conference Committees in the US Congress
2003 Roy T. Meyers University of Maryland Baltimore County Setting Priorities in the Congressional Budget Process
2003 Jamie M. Morin Yale University Measuring Congressional Intervention in Defense Budgeting, FY1980 to Present
2003

Jeffrey S. Peake
and
Glen S. Krutz

Bowling Greeen State University
and
The University of Oklahoma
Presidential-Congressional Relations on International Agreements, 1949-2000
2003 Keith W. Smith University of California at Berkeley Styles of Oversight: How Congress Oversees the Executive Branch
2003 Patricia Strach Univesity of Wisconsin-Madison Stability, Change, and Family Assumptions in Congressional Policymaking
2003 Andrew J. Taylor North Carolina State University The Quality of Floor Proceedings in Congress
2004 Gretchen Carnes Penn State University Issue Avoidance Among Members of the U.S. House
2004 Kathleen Donohue University of North Carolina Balancing Acts: Congressional Power, Executive Privilege and the Public's Right to Know
2004 R. Sam Garrett American University Campaigns, Crises and Communications: Decision-Making in Congressional Campaigns
2004 Philip Habel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The How, When, and Why of Policy Change: the Case of the Minimum Wage, 1937-2000
2004 Jason Kassel University of Florida Orgnaizational Change and the Institutionalization of Congress: Understanding Antebellum Era Alterations to the U.S. Capitol Building
2004 Roderick Kiewiet and Kevin Roust California Institute of Technology Read the Fine Print: The Importance of Small Details in House Rules
2004 Tim Nokken University of Houston Analyzing Minority Party Floor Motions Across Congressional Partisan Eras
2004 Clayton Peoples The Ohio State University Understanding Congressional Roll Call Voting: The Impact of Legislator Social Relations
2004 Jennifer Schenk Rutgers University How Candidates for Congress Claim to be Representatives of Constituents
2004 Paul Schlomer University of Wisconsin Representing the Mediated Public: A Study of the Role, Perceptions, the Public, and Uncertainty in Congressional Decision-Making
2005 Jessica Gerrity Indiana University Congressional Behavior and Interest Group Influence: The Case of the Abortion Issue
2005 Christian Robert Grose Lawrence University Congressional Leadership as a Valence Issue: Do Legislative Leaders Use Distributive Policy to Deviate from Constituents?
2005 Andrea C. Hatcher Vanderbilt University The Senate Majority Leader as Senator: Representational Effects of Leadership
2005 Eric Scott Heberlig University of North Carolina Paying to Play: Campaign Money, Institutional Ambition, and Political Parties in the U.S. House of Representatives
2005 Laura S. Jensen University of Massachusetts Congress, the Petitions of the People, and Representation in the Early American Nation
2005 Kristin Kanthak University of Arizona The Effect of Ideology-Based Leadership Races on Legislator's Behavior
2005 Gary Lee Malecha and Daniel J. Reagan University of Portland and Ball State University Congress in a New Media Age
2005 John E. Owens University of Westminster The Impact of Leaders' Personal Characteristics on Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives
2005 Stacey Lynn Pelika University of Wisconsin Managing Public Opinion: Attentive Publics, Political Elites, and the Policymaking Process
2005 Michael W. Wagner Indiana University The Influence of Competitive Congressional Issue-Framing on Public Opinion and Mass Partisanship
2006 James L Gibson Washington University in St. Louis Re-conceptualizing the Legitimacy of the United States Congress: New Evidence, New Approaches
2006 Shelley C. Hirsekorn Cornell University Interest Group Behavior and the Institutional Development of Congress: Health Insurance Policy from 1991 to 1998
2006 James D. King University of Wyoming Running Against the President: Creating Presidential Referenda in Midterm Congressional Elections
2006 Gregory Koger
and
Matthew J. Lebo

University of Montana and Stony Brook University

Choosing Party Leaders
2006 Douglas L. Kriner Harvard University Hollow Rhetoric or Hidden Influence? Congressional Constraints on the Presidential Use of Force
2006 Paul S. Martin Miller Center of Public Affairs
University of Virginia
Congressional Responses to Citizen Participation: The Effect of Voter Turnout on Representation and Lawmaking
2006 Patrick J. Sellers Davidson College Constructing the News: Strategic Communication in Congress
2006 J. Douglas Smith   Everett Dirksen and Article V: Congress, the Courts, and the Political Thicket
2006 Richard M. Valelly Swarthmore College Why the Reed Rules? Party, Race, and the Foundations of the U.S. House's Governability
2007 Michael John Berry University of Colorado Legislative Oversight Continued: The Post-Chadha Veto
2007

Michael Bowen

University of Florida Fight for the Right: The Quest for Republican Identity in the Postwar Period
2007 Grace Cho University of Michigan Congressional Representation of Noncitizens: A Case Study of Immigrants
2007 Joshua D. Clinton Princeton University Lawmaking and the U.S. Congress, 1935-2006
2007 Benjamin Koch University of Texas The House Impeachment Inquiry of President Richard Nixon
2007 Burdett A. Loomis University of Kansas The Fight of His Life: Bob Dole and the 1974 Kansas U.S. Senate Election
2007 Beth A. Rosenson University of Florida Does the Ethics Process Strengthen or Harm Congress and American Democarcy?
2007 Brandon Rottinghaus University of Idaho Rethinking "Shared Powers": "Informal" Covert Legislative Lobbbying of the Executive Branch
2007 Michael W. Tofias University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Parties and Leaders in the Congressional Network: Positioning Within the Social Network of Member-to-Member Campaign Contributions
2007 Antoine Yoshinaka University of California- Riverside The Rise of Incivility in the Senate
2008 Royce A. Carroll and Henry A. Kim Rice University and University of Arizona

Changing Congressional Rhetoric, Polarization, and the Breakdown of Organizational Parties in the U.S. House

2008 Charles E. Delgadillo University of California, Santa Barbara

Forged between the Wars:  the Reform Alliance in Peace and War, 1919-1941

2008 Menna Demessie University of Michigan

Navigating Boundaries of Blackness:  Congressional Caucuses and Minority Representation of African Immigrants in the United States

2008 Matthew J. Eshbaugh-Soha University of North Texas

The Impact of Presidential Speeches on Congressional Committees, 1989-2004

2008 William H. Ewell University of North Carolina

Institutional Power and Budget Outcomes in American Government

2008 Brian D. Feinstein Harvard University

Congressional Oversight of the Bureaucracy:  Motives, Targets, and Consequences

2008 Michael M. Franz Bowdoin College

Congressional Oversight of Campaign Finance

2008 Miler, Kristina C. University of Illinois

Changing Chambers, Changing Constituencies:  Legislative Behavior from the House to the Senate

2008 L. Marvin Overby University of Missouri-Columbia

Discharge Petitions in the Pre-Conditional Party Government Era

2008 Pearson, Kathryn University of Minnesota

Congresswomen in Pursuit of Power, 1987-2007

2008 Eleanor N. Powell Harvard University

Reward and Punishment:  Career Advancement in the U.S. Congress

2008 Joseph P. Renouard Emory University

Limits and Morality: the Emergence of Human Rights in America’s Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy

2008 Matthew C. Sherman Saint Louis University

Presidential Assassinations:  The Failure to Protect Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley

2009 Nicholas W. Carnes Princeton University

Social Class and Congressional Leadership

2009 Marika-Eugenia Dunn Rutgers University

Representation in Majority Minority Congressional Districts through Constituency Casework

2009 Shennette M. Garrett University of Texas at Austin

The New Deal and African American Banking in the South

2009 Craig B. Hollander The Johns Hopkins University

Capitol Crime:  Congress, Politics, and the African Slave Trade, 1789-1860

2009 David S. Keenan Northwestern University

Organized Interests and the Process of Government in the Early American Republic, 1783-1800

2009 Douglas L. Kriner Boston University

Can Investigative Oversight Mend the Broken Branch?

2009 Scott R. Meinke Bucknell University

Leadership, Loyalty, and Constituency:   Governing and Representation in the House Extended Party Leadership

2009 Mark J. Oleszek University of California, Berkeley

Social Embeddedness and the Contemporary Evolution of the U.S. Senate

2009 Rachel A. Shapiro University of Virginia

Washington Brotherhood:  Friendship and Politics in the Civil War Era

2009 Zachary C. Smith

Boston University

From the Well of the House:  The Rise of Conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives, 1978-1994

2009 Edward H. Stiglitz Stanford University

Congressional Oversight of the Federal Judiciary

2010

Richard A. Arenberg/
Robert Dove

Brown University/Other

Soul of the Senate:  Defending the Filibuster

2010

Matthew N.Beckmann

University of California, Irvine

Assessing Washington’s Arranged Marriage:  Presidents and Their Party’s Congressional Leaders

2010

Logan Dancey

University of Minnesota

Restoring Congressional Integrity:  Legislative Responsiveness to Citizens’ Concerns

2010

Christine DeGregorio

American University

Reconsidering the Power of Congressional Member Organizations in the U.S. House, 1992-2002 and 2007-2010

2010

Matthew N. Green

Catholic University of America

Influence Without Power:  The Challenge of Minority Party Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives

2010

Justin Gimmer/Matthew Blackwell

Harvard University

It’s the flow, not the stock:  Congressional Staff and Their Influence on Policy Outcomes

2010

Laurel Harbridge

Northwestern University

Bipartisanship in a Polarized Congress

2010

Joshua C. Huder

University of Florida

Cycles of Opposition:  Reform Politics and Congressional Development, 1878-2009

2010

Jeffrey A. Jenkins

University of Virginia

Investigating the Determinants of Landmark Economic Legislation

2010

Joshua Ryan

University of Colorado

Interchamber Bargaining Processes and Institutions

2010

D.E. “Betsy” Sinclair

University of Chicago

Socializing in Session:  The Social Foundations of Legislative Organization

2010

Katherine Tate

University of California, Irvine

Black Legislative Behavior from Carter to Obama


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