Congress & History 2021
Thursday and Friday, June 10 and 11
Burdett Loomis and Steven S. Smith, Organizers
Zoom links have been emailed to everyone registered for the workshop. If you have questions, please email the organizers.
ALL TIMES EASTERN
1. Opening Organizer Comments Th 10:20-10:30 |
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Burdett Loomis | University of Kansas |
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Steven Smith | Washington University |
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2. Th 10:30-11:20 Party Leadership |
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Bruce Oppenheimer | Vanderbilt University | |
Joshua Huder | Georgetown University | |
Matthew Green | Catholic University |
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3. Th 11:30-12:20 Roundtable: Congress and Civil Rights |
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Eric Schickler | University of California, Berkeley |
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Jeffrey A. Jenkins | University of Southern California |
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Ira Katznelson | Columbia University |
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4. Th 12:30-1:30 Posters and Lunch |
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Austin Bussing and Josh Lerner | University of North Carolina | Inducing Polarization: Procedural Bias in Ideal Point Estimation |
Christopher (Luke) Basham | George Washington University | Maiden Speeches and Apprenticeship: Continuity and Change in the U.S. Senate |
Fred (Peng) Gui | University of Rochester | Racial Gap: Evidence from Congressional Staff |
Stephen Phillips | University of Florida | The Birmingham Wave: How Civil Rights Leaders Orchestrated A New Political Opportunity and Secured the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
Elizabeth Dorssom | University of Missouri | Flexible Law: The Impact of Legislative Resources on Policy Adoption |
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5. Th 1:30-2:50 Roundtable: Legislative Constitutionalism |
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University of Pennsylvania |
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University of Chicago |
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University of Chicago |
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UC, Berkeley |
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Reva Siegel | Yale University |
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Yale University |
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Georgetown University |
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Yale University |
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6. Th 3:00-3:50 Legislative Effectiveness and State Equality |
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Max Goplerud and Fang-Yi Chiou | University of Pittsburgh and Academia Sinica | The Historical Determinants of Legislative Effectiveness from 1873 to 2011 |
Jane Manners | Columbia University | |
Frances Lee | Princeton University |
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7. Th 4:00-4:50 Interest Groups and Witnesses |
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Ju Yeon (Julia) Park | University of Essex | Electoral Rewards for Political Grandstanding in Congressional Committee Hearings |
Matthew Conklin | University of Chicago | |
David Karol | University of Maryland |
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8. Th 7:30-9:00 The 117th Congress in Historical Perspective |
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David Brady | Stanford University |
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Julian Zelizer | Princeton University |
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Sarah Binder | Brookings Institution/GWU |
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Joanne Freeman | Yale University |
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9. F 10:30-11:20 Policy Benefits, Taxation, and American Political Development |
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John Dearborn | Yale University | |
Scott Newsome | University of California, Santa Cruz | Congress and the Distribution of Benefits During Recessions, 1946-2009 |
Wendy Schiller | Brown University |
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10. F 11:30-12:20 Party Failure and Statehood |
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C. Lawrence Evans | College of William and Mary | Alaska, Hawaii, and the Congressional Politics of Statehood, 1947-59 |
Anthony L. Ives | Texas A&M University | |
Daniel Carpenter | Harvard University |
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11. F 12:30-1:00 Lunch |
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12. F 1:00-1:50 Electoral Competition and Committee Composition |
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Franchesca Nestor | Ohio Wesleyan University | Congressional Committee Demographics and Racially Salient Representation |
Carlos Algara | Claremont Graduate University | Dynamics of Partisan Competition for Legislative Majorities in the U.S. House & Senate, 1959-2018 |
Gregory Wawro | Columbia University |
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13. F 2:00-2:50 Districting and Primaries |
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Aric Dale Gooch | University of Missouri | |
Robert G. Boatright | Clark University | |
Jason Roberts | University of North Carolina |
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14. F 2:50-3:00 Closing Organizer Comments |
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Burdett Loomis |
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Steven Smith |
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