Roger H. Davidson was professor emeritus of government and politics
at the University
of Maryland and served as visiting professor of political science
at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. He was a senior fellow of the National
Academy of Public
Administration. During the 1970s, he served on the staffs of reform
efforts in both the
House (Bolling-Martin Committee) and the Senate (Stevenson-Brock
Committee).
For the 2001-2002 academic year, he served as the John Marshall
chair in political
science at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. His books include
Remaking
Congress: Change and Stability in the 1990s, co-edited with James
A. Thurber (1995),
and Understanding the Presidency, 7th ed., co-edited with James P.
Pfiffner (2013).
Davidson was co-editor with Donald C. Bacon and Morton Keller of
The Encyclopedia
of the United States Congress (1995).
Walter J. Oleszek is a senior specialist in the legislative process
at the Congressional
Research Service. He has served as either a full-time professional
staff aide or consultant
to many major House and Senate congressional reorganization efforts
beginning
with the passage of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970. In
1993, he served as
policy director of the Joint Committee on the Organization of
Congress. A former
adjunct faculty member at American University, Oleszek is a
frequent lecturer to various
academic, governmental, and business groups. He is the author or
co-author of several
books, including Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process,
11th ed. (2020),
and Congress Under Fire: Reform Politics and the Republican
Majority, with C. Lawrence
Evans (1997).
Frances E. Lee is professor of politics and public affairs in the
School of Public and
International Affairs and the Department of Politics at Princeton
University. She has
been a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and an APSA
congressional fellow.
Most recently, she is co-author of The Limits of Party: Congress
and Lawmaking in a
Polarized Era (2020). She is also the author of Insecure
Majorities: Congress and the
Perpetual Campaign (2016) and Beyond Ideology: Politics,
Principles, and Partisanship
in the U.S. Senate (2009) and co-author, with Bruce I. Oppenheimer,
of Sizing Up
the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation
(1999). Her articles have
appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of
Politics, Legislative Studies
Quarterly, and American Journal of Political Science, among
others.
Eric Schickler is Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political
Science at the
University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of three books
that have won the
Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative
politics: Disjointed Pluralism:
Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress
(2001), Filibuster:
Obstruction and Lawmaking in the United States Senate (2006, with
Gregory Wawro),
and Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on
Presidential Power (2016, with
Douglas Kriner; also a winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Prize for
the best book on
executive politics). His book Racial Realignment: The
Transformation of American
Liberalism, 1932-1965 was the winner of the Woodrow Wilson Prize
for the best book
on government, politics, or international affairs published in
2016, and is co-winner of
the J. David Greenstone Prize for the best book in history and
politics from the previous
two calendar years. He is also the co-author of Partisan Hearts and
Minds, which
was published in 2002.
James M. Curry is professor of political science at the University
of Utah. He is coauthor
of The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era
(2020); author
of Legislating in the Dark: Information and Power in the House of
Representatives (2015);
and winner of the Alan Rosenthal Prize, the E. E. Schattschneider
Award, and the Carl
Albert Award. His research appears in the American Political
Science Review, Journal of
Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Legislative Studies
Quarterly, among other outlets.
He received his Ph.D. in government and politics from the
University of Maryland,
and he previously worked on Capitol Hill in the offices of Rep.
Daniel Lipinski and the
House Appropriations Committee.
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