Fields of Interest:
Current research on Congress, urban neighborhoods, state and local government, and voluntary associations.
Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1996-1997. Recipient of a 1998 Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching.
Courses Offered (subject to change):
- PSC 103 Great Debates in American Democracy
- PSC 202 Argument in Political Science
- PSC 218 Emergence of the Modern Congress
- PSC 241 Urban Change and City Politics
- PSC 318 Emergence of the Modern Congress
- PSC 518 Emergence of the Modern Congress
- PSC 523 American Politics Field Seminar
- PSC 530 Urban Change and City Politics
Representative Publications:
- Book (with Steven S. Smith) on the development of Senate party leadership in the 19th and 20th centuries (forthcoming).
- "Legislatures as Political Institutions: Beyond the Contemporary Congress" (with John Huber) in Political Science: The State of the Discipline, 3rd ed. (American Political Science Association and W. W. Norton, 2002).
- Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed (Harvard University Press, 1999).
- "The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840-1940" (with Robert Putnam), Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1999).
- "Representing Urban Interests: The Local Politics of State Legislatures" (with Scott Allard and Nancy Burns), Studies in American Political Development (1998).
- The Making of New Deal Democrats (University of Chicago Press, 1989).
- "Emergence of Legislative Institutions" (with Kenneth A. Shepsle), Legislative Studies Quarterly (1989).
