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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

 

 

Burdett Loomis

University of Kansas

 

Steven Smith

Washington University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Th 10:30-11:20                    Party Leadership  

 

 

Bruce Oppenheimer

Vanderbilt University

The House Majority Leadership Contest, 1976

Joshua Huder

Georgetown University

Procedural Power, Ambiguity and Path Dependence: The Rise and Fall of the "Czar" Speakership, 1879-1911

Matthew Green

Catholic University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Th 11:30-12:20                        Roundtable: Congress and Civil Rights

 

 

Eric Schickler

University of California, Berkeley

 

Jeffrey A. Jenkins

University of Southern California

 

Ira Katznelson

Columbia University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Th 12:30-1:30                                Posters and Lunch

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Th 1:30-2:50                            Roundtable: Legislative Constitutionalism

 

 

Maggie Blackhawk

University of Pennsylvania

 

Ryan Doerfler

University of Chicago

 

Genevieve Lakier

University of Chicago

 

Bertrall Ross

UC, Berkeley

 

Reva Siegel

Yale University

 

Sam Moyn

Yale University

 

Josh Chafetz

Georgetown University

 

William Eskridge, Jr.

Yale University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Th 3:00-3:50                             Legislative Effectiveness and State Equality

 

 

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

Precedent, Disaster Relief, and the Equitable Consideration of Congress: Disaster Relief in the Early Republic

Frances Lee

Princeton University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. Th 4:00-4:50                                   Interest Groups and Witnesses

 

 

Ju Yeon (Julia) Park

University of Essex

Electoral Rewards for Political Grandstanding in Congressional Committee Hearings

Matthew Conklin

University of Chicago

A Golden Opportunity: Interest Groups and Congressional Debate Over U.S. Intervention in World War II

David Karol

University of Maryland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. Th 7:30-9:00                                         The 117th Congress in Historical Perspective

 

 

David Brady

Stanford University

 

Julian Zelizer

Princeton University

 

Sarah Binder

Brookings Institution/GWU

 

 Joanne Freeman

Yale University

 

 

 

 

9. F 10:30-11:20                                    Policy Benefits, Taxation, and American Political Development

 

 

John Dearborn

Yale University

Strategic Preferences and American Political Development: Congress and the Origins of U.S. Federal Tax Policy, 1909-1916

Scott Newsome

University of California, Santa Cruz

Congress and the Distribution of Benefits During Recessions, 1946-2009

Wendy Schiller

Brown University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10. F 11:30-12:20                                   Party Failure and Statehood

 

 

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

Congressional Failure in the 33rd Congress

Daniel Carpenter

Harvard University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11. F 12:30-1:00                                   Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12. F 1:00-1:50                                         Electoral Competition and Committee Composition

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13. F 2:00-2:50                                 Districting and Primaries

 

 

Aric Dale Gooch

University of Missouri

Congressional Redistricting and Strategic Co-Partisans: Partisan Gerrymandering in Pennsylvania, 1800-1824

Robert G. Boatright

Clark University

Theories of Change in Southern Direct Primary Law

Jason Roberts

University of North Carolina

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14. F 2:50-3:00                                    Closing Organizer Comments

 

 

Burdett Loomis

 

 

Steven Smith