Curriculum Vitae
David E. Lewis
Revised January, 2018
Office:
Department of Political Science Vanderbilt University
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Nashville, TN 37203-5721
Telephone: 615-322-6228 (Central Time)
Fax: (615) 343-6003
my.vanderbilt.edu/davidlewis/ EMPLOYMENT:
7/15- Chair, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
8/14-7/15 Interim Chair, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University 9/11- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Vanderbilt University
7/10-13 Associate Chair, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
7/08- Professor, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University.
Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School (by courtesy)
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Vanderbilt University
7/02-6/08 Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University.
Class of 1934 University Preceptor (2006-9).
Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics.
9/00-5/02 Assistant Professor, Department of Government, College of William & Mary. EDUCATION:
2000 Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University. 2000 M.A., Political Science, Stanford University.
1996 M.A., Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder.
1992 B.A., Political Science with high honors and general distinction in scholarship,
University of California at Berkeley. PUBLICATIONS:
Books: The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2008). Issued in Japanese 2009.
Winner of the 2009 Richard E. Neustadt Award, awarded by the Presidency Research Section of the American Political Science Association for the best book on the U.S. presidency published during the previous year.
Winner of the 2008 Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award, awarded by the Public Administration Section of the American Political Science Association for the
best book published in the last three to five years that has made a significant contribution to public administration scholarship.
Honorable mention for the 2009 Charles Levine Prize for the best book in Comparative Policy and Administration, International Political Science
Association.
One of CHOICE Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009 Reviewed in Choice, Congress & the Presidency, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas,
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Perspectives on Political Science,
Perspectives on Politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly,
Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Public Management Review
Portions reprinted in Samuel Kernell and Steven S. Smith, eds. Principles and Practice of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings
(Washington, DC: CQ Press).
Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design: Political Insulation in the United States Government Bureaucracy, 1946-1997. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press (2003). Issued in
paperback 2004.
Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Congress and the Presidency, Public Administration Review, Choice,
Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
Articles: “Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill.” (with Mark D. Richardson and Joshua D. Clinton) Journal of Politics 80(1):XX (2018).
“Agency Performance Challenges and Agency Politicization.” (with Abby K. Wood)
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 27(4):581-95 (2017).
[Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 06-2012]
“Political Control and the Forms of Agency Independence.” (with Jennifer L. Selin)
George Washington Law Review 83(4/5):1487-1516 (2015).
“Presidents and Patronage.” (with Gary E. Hollibaugh, Jr. and Gabe Horton), American Journal of Political Science 58(4):1024-1042 (2014).
[Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 02-2010]
“Influencing the Bureaucracy: The Irony of Congressional Oversight.” (with Joshua D. Clinton and Jennifer L. Selin), American Journal of Political Science 58(2):387-401 (2014).
[Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 05-2012]
“Government Reform, Political Ideology, and Administrative Burden: The Case of Performance Management in the Bush Administration.” (with Stéphane Lavertu and
Donald P. Moynihan) Public Administration Review 73(6):845-57 (2013).
“Policy Influence, Agency-Specific Expertise, and Exit in the Federal Service.” (with Anthony M. Bertelli) Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 23(2):223-245
(2013).
[Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 02-2013]
“Politics Can Limit Policy Opportunism in Fiscal Institutions: Evidence from Official General Fund Revenue Forecasts in the American States.” (with George A. Krause and
James Douglas) Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 32(2):271-95 (2013).
[Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 03-2009]
“The Invisible Presidential Appointments: An Examination of Appointments to the Department of Labor, 2001-2011.” (with Richard W. Waterman) Presidential
Studies Quarterly 43 (1): 35-57 (2013).
“The Personnel Process in the Modern Presidency.” Presidential Studies Quarterly
42(3):577-96 (2012).
“Separated Powers in the United States.” (with Joshua D. Clinton, Anthony M. Bertelli, Christian Grose, and David C. Nixon) American Journal of Political Science 56(2):341-54
(2012).
[Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 05-2009.]
“The Consequences of Presidential Patronage for Agency Performance.” (with Nick Gallo) Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 22(2): 219-243 (2012).
[Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 01-2010.]
“Presidential Appointments and Personnel.” Annual Review of Political Science 14 (June):47-66 (2011).
“Measurement and Public Service Motivation: New Insights, Old Questions.”
International Public Management Journal 13(1):1-10 (2010).
“Modern Presidents and the Transformation of the Federal Personnel System.” The Forum, 7(4): Article 6 (2010). (http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol7/iss4/art6)
“Revisiting the Administrative Presidency: Policy, Patronage, and Administrative Competence.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 39 (1):60-73 (2009).
“Management and Leadership Performance in the Defense Department: Evidence from Surveys of Federal Employees.” (with Major Paul S. Oh, U.S. Army) Armed Forces and
Society 34(4): 639-661 (2008).
“Not-So Independent Agencies: Party Polarization and the Limits of Institutional Design.” (with Neal Devins) Boston University Law Review 88(2):459-98 (2008).
“Expert Opinion, Agency Characteristics, and Agency Preferences.” (with Joshua D. Clinton) Political Analysis 16(1):3-16 (2008).
“Toward a Broader Understanding of Presidential Power: A Re-Evaluation of the Two Presidencies Thesis.” (with Brandice Canes-Wrone and William G. Howell) Journal of
Politics 70(1):1-16 (2008).
“Testing Pendleton’s Premise: Do Political Appointees Make Worse Bureaucrats?”
Journal of Politics 69(4):1073-88 (2007).
“Does Performance Budgeting Work? An Examination of OMB’s PART Scores.” (with John B. Gilmour) Public Administration Review 66(5):742-52 (2006).
“Political Appointments, Civil Service Systems, and Bureaucratic Competence: Organizational Balancing and Gubernatorial Revenue Forecasts in the American States.” (with George Krause and James Douglas) American Journal of Political Science 50(3):770-87 (2006).
“Assessing Performance Budgeting at OMB: The Influence of Politics, Performance, and Program Size.” (with John B. Gilmour) Journal of Public Administration Research and
Theory 16(2):169-86 (2006).
“Political Appointees and the Competence of Federal Program Management.” (with John B. Gilmour) American Politics Research 34(1):22-50 (2006).
“Staffing Alone: Unilateral Action and the Politicization of the Executive Office of the President, 1988-2004.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 35(3):496-514 (2005). [Translated into
Spanish 2011.]
“Political Learning from Rare Events: Poisson Inference, Fiscal Constraints and the Lifetime of Bureaus.” (with Daniel C. Carpenter) Political Analysis 12(3):201-32 (2004).
“The Adverse Consequences of the Politics of Agency Design for Presidential Management in the United States: The Relative Durability of Insulated Agencies.” British Journal of Political Science 34:377-404 (2004).
“The Irrational Escalation of Commitment and the Ironic Labor Politics of the Rust Belt.” (with Glenn Beamer) Enterprise and Society 4(4):676-306 (2003).
“Agencies by Presidential Design.” (with William G. Howell) Journal of Politics
64(4):1095-1114 (2002). [Translated into Spanish 2011.]
“The Politics of Agency Termination: Confronting the Myth of Agency Immortality.”
Journal of Politics 64(1):89-107 (2002).
“What Time Is It? The Use of Power in Four Different Types of Presidential Time.” (with James Michael Strine) Journal of Politics 58(3):682-706 (1996).
Book
Chapters: “Struggling Over Bureaucracy: The Levers of Control,” (with Terry M. Moe) In Michael Nelson, ed. The Presidency and the Political System, 10th ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press (2013).
“Presidential Politicization of the Executive Branch in the United States,” in Martin Lodge and Kai Wegrich, eds. Executive Politics in Times of Crisis. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave
Macmillan (2012).
[Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 02-09].
“Policy Durability and Agency Design,” in Jeffery A. Jenkins and Eric Patashnik, eds.,
Living Legislation: Political Development and Contemporary American Politics. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press (2012).
[Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 04-09].
“Presidential Appointments in the Obama Administration: An Early Evaluation.” In Andrew Dowdle, Dirk van Raemdonck, Robert Maranto , eds., The Obama Presidency:
Change and Continuity. New York: Routledge (2011).
“Struggling Over Bureaucracy: The Levers of Control,” (with Terry M. Moe) In Michael Nelson, ed. The Presidency and the Political System, 9th ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press (2009).
“Personnel is Policy: George W. Bush’s Managerial Presidency,” In Colin Provost and Paul Teske, eds. Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Powers: President George W. Bush’s Influence Over Bureaucracy and Policy. New York: Palgrave (2009).
“The President and the Evolving Institutional Presidency: Presidential Choice, Institutional Change, and Staff Performance.” In Bert A. Rockman and Richard
Waterman, eds. Presidential Leadership: The Vortex of Power. New York: Oxford University
Press (2008).
“The Presidency and the Bureaucracy: Management Imperatives in a Separation of
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Powers System.” In Michael Nelson, ed. The Presidency and the Political System, 8P
Washington, DC: CQ Press (2005).
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Other
Publications: “Will Federal Employees Work for a President They Disagree With?” (with Alexander
- Bolton and John M. de Figueiredo) Harvard Business Review, February 10, 2017.
Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies (with Jennifer L. Selin). Report for the Administrative Conference of the United States (2012).
“Strong Executive Branch Leadership Crucial for Policy Implementation,” (with James
- P. Pfiffner, Dwight Ink, and Anne Joseph O’Connell) The Public Manager 41(4):37-40 (2012).
“Reducing the Number of Political Appointees,” Memos to National Leaders Project, National Academy of Public Administration (2012). [http://www.memostoleaders.org/reducing-number-political-appointees].
“The White House Office of Presidential Personnel,” (with James P. Pfiffner and Bradley H. Patterson) White House Transition Project Report 2009-27 (2008).
Book Review of Daniel Treisman, The Architecture of Government: Rethinking
Reviews: Political Decentralization, Public Administration 87(4):983-4 (2009).
Active Working
Review of Kenneth R. Mayer, With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power. Congress and the Presidency 29(2):230-2 (2002).
Papers: “Which Agencies are Powerful?” (with Mark D. Richardson and Eric Rosenthal) Paper prepared for presentation at the 2017 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science
Association, New Orleans, LA, January 12-14, 2017.
“Policy Making and the President’s Enforcement Power,” (with Nathan Kiker) Paper prepared for presentation at the 2017 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 12-14, 2017.
“Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government,” (with Alexander
- Bolton and John M. de Figueiredo), NBER Working Paper #22932.
Winner of the Herbert Kaufman Best Paper Award for the best paper presented on a panel sponsored by the Public Administration Section at the APSA annual
meeting, 2016.
“Political Control and Presidential Spending Power,” Paper presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31-September 4.
“Public Sector Personnel Economics: Wages, Promotions, and the Competence- Control Trade-Off,” (with Charles M. Cameron and John M. de Figueiredo), NBER Working Paper Series #22966.
“Controlling Agency Choke Points: Presidents and Regulatory Personnel Turnover,” (with Kathleen Doherty and Scott Limbocker) Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 2-2015.
Winner of the Kenneth J. Meier Award for the best paper in bureaucratic politics, public administration, or public policy at the Midwest Political Science
Association meeting, 2015.
Results summarized in “Trump could dramatically reshape the civil service, if he wanted to,” Washington Post (Monkey Cage), November 29, 2017 (Kathleen
Doherty).
Other Working
“Politicization and Compliance with the Law: The Case of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998” (with Evan Haglund) Manuscript, Vanderbilt University.
Papers: “Personnel System Under Stress: Results of the 2014 Survey on the Future of Government Service,” (with Mark D. Richardson) Manuscript, Vanderbilt University.
“Political Control and Agency Human Capital in the Department of Homeland Security,” (with Ben Fifield) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern
Political Science Association, New Orleans, January 15-17, 2015.
“Congress, Responsiveness, and Agency Performance” (with Jennifer L. Selin and Abby
- Wood) Manuscript, Vanderbilt University.
“Political Control, Responsiveness, and Expertise in the Administrative State,” (with Mark D. Richardson) Paper prepared for presentation at the 2015 SOG Conference on Accountability and Welfare State Reforms, Bergen, Norway, February 19-20.
“Campaigning for a Job: Obama for America, Patronage, and Presidential Appointments,” (with Camille D. Burge), manuscript, Vanderbilt University.
“Politicization and Federal Management Performance: Evidence from Surveys of Federal Employees.” (with Melissa Collins, Carra Glatt, and Michael Shapiro)
Manuscript, Vanderbilt University.
“Parsing the Politicized Presidency: Centralization, Politicization, and Presidential Strategies for Bureaucratic Control.” (with Andrew Rudalevige) Manuscript, Dickinson
College.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2017 Herbert Kaufman Best Paper Award. Presented by the American Political Science Association (APSA) Section on Public Administration for the best paper presented on a
panel sponsored by the Public Administration Section at the APSA annual meeting.
2016 Kenneth J. Meier Award. Presented by the Midwest Political Science Association for the best paper in bureaucratic politics, public administration, or public policy at the annual
meeting, 2015. “Controlling Agency Choke Points: Presidents and Regulatory Personnel
Turnover,” (with Kathleen Doherty and Scott Limbocker)
2015 Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Vanderbilt University.
2015 Herbert Simon Award. Presented by the Midwest Public Administration Caucus to honor a scholar who has made a significant contribution to the study of the public
bureaucracy.
2014 Robert Birkby Award for Teaching Excellence in Political Science
2012 Elected to the National Academy of Public Administration.
2011 Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Award recognizes faculty in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University who have excelled in
undergraduate teaching.
2009 Charles Levine Prize (Honorable mention). Presented by the International Political Science Association’s Committee on the Structure and Organization of Governance
(SOG) for the best book in Comparative Policy and Administration in 2009. The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2008).
2009 Richard E. Neustadt Award. Presented by the Presidency Research Section of the American Political Science Association for the best book on the U.S. presidency published during the previous year. The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).
2008 Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award. Presented by the American Political Science Association Public Administration Section for the best book published in the last three
to five years that has made a significant contribution to public administration
scholarship. The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).
2006 Class of 1934 University Preceptorship, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
2006 Presidency Research Group Founder’s Award (in honor of Fred Greenstein) for the Best Paper Presented at the Preceding Year’s Annual Meeting. “Parsing the Politicized Presidency:
Centralization and Politicization as Presidential Strategies for Bureaucratic Control.” (with Andrew Rudalevige) Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Washington, DC.
1999 Presidency Research Group Founder’s Award for the Best Convention Paper by a Graduate Student, 1999. “The Presidential Advantage in the Design of Bureaucratic Agencies.” Paper
presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, September 3-6, 1998.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
2014-16 Smith Richardson Foundation, “Developing, Managing, and Retaining Expert Human Capital in Public Agencies.” $250,000 (with Charles Cameron and John de Figueiredo)
2013-14 Research Scholar Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, “Effectiveness, Control, and Competence in Public Agencies.” $36,750.
2011-12 “Collaborative Research: Effectiveness, Control, and Competence in Public Agencies,” National Science Foundation Grant (SES#1061512). $177,616 (Vanderbilt portion
$69,662)
2005 “The Politicization of the U.S. Government Bureaucracy: Causes and Consequences,” Smith Richardson Foundation, Public Policy Research Program (SRF grant #2005- 4928). $60,000.
2005 “Political Appointees, Careerists, and What Makes a Good Manager,” University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton University.
$1,390.
2004 “Does Performance Budgeting Work? An Examination of OMB’s PART Scores,” University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton
University. $2,165.
2003 “Presidents, Agencies, and Personnel Systems.” University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton University. $1,590.
2002 Summer Research Grant. College of William and Mary. $5,000 (Declined). 2001 Summer Research Grant. College of William and Mary. $6,000.
1999 Institute for Social and Economic Theory and Research seed grant. Columbia University (with Kelly Chang and Nolan McCarty) $10,000.
INVITED TALKS:
2017 Ohio State University
2016 Boston University, University of Brasilia (Brazil)
2015 University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Gothenburg (Quality of Government
Institute), Tongji University (Shanghai, China), East China Normal University (Shanghai, China), Renmin University (Beijing, China), Communication University of
China (Beijing, China), Universidade Federal de Minais Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Institute for Applied Economic Research (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
2014 University of California, Merced, Institute of European and American Studies
(Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Institute of Political Science (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
2013 Nashville Public Library, Princeton University, Stanford University (Graduate School of Business), University of Virginia
2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011 University of California, Berkeley, University of Indiana, Texas A&M University,
University of Exeter, London School of Economics
2010 Purdue University, University of Southern California (School of Policy, Planning, and
Development), University of Wisconsin, University of Texas at Austin
2009 National Personnel Authority (Japan), Clemson University (Economics), Union
University, Ohio State University, Harvard University
2008 Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley, Brookings Institution,
National Academy of Public Administration
2007 Emory University, College of William & Mary, University of California, Davis
2006 New York University, National Academy of Public Administration, University of Washington
2005 Virginia Tech University, Dartmouth College, Yale University, Princeton University (CSDP)
2004 University of Notre Dame, Columbia University, College of William & Mary 2003 Vanderbilt University, Harvard University
2002 University of South Carolina
2001 George Washington University, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
TEACHING AND GRADUATE ADVISING:
The Old and New Politics of Spoils—Spring 2010, Spring 2013 Government Failure—Fall 2008, Fall 2014
Introduction to American Politics—Spring 2007, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
Domestic Politics (MPA)—Fall 2007
Bureaucratic Politics—Fall 2007, Fall 2008 (PHD)
U.S. Presidency—Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2010, Spring 2011,
Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2016, Fall 2017
Executive Branch Politics (MPA)—Spring 2007
Executive Branch Politics (PHD)—Fall 2012, Fall 2016, Spring 2018
The Politics of Public Policy (MPA)—Fall 2002, Fall 2004, Fall 2005
Introduction to Public Administration—Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2017
Politics of Public Policy—Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012
Public Management and Organizational Behavior (MPP)—Spring 2001, Spring 2002
Independent Study: 2000 Presidential Election—Spring 2001 Senior Seminar: Presidential Biography—Fall 2001
Independent Study: Judicial Decision Making—Spring 2001 PHD Student Committees (past):
Stuart V. Jordan, University of Rochester, “Essays on Institutions and Policy Choices in the Executive Branch”
Michael Cutrone, “Essays on Presidential Signing Statements”
Jordan Tama, American University, “From Crisis to Reform: The Impact of National Security Commissions”
Jeff Tessin, U.S. Government Accountability Office, “Representation and Government Performance”
David Glick, Boston University, “Learning from Others to Make Sense of the Law: Legal Response Policy Making in Higher Education”
John Hudak (Chair), Brookings Institution, “The Politics of Federal Grants: Presidential Influence over the Distribution of Federal Funds”
Philip Wallach, Brookings Institution, “Contested Constraints: Regulatory Statutes in America’s Modern Administrative State”
Gbemende Johnson (co-Chair), Hamilton College, “Equal Before the Law? Judicial Deference to Executive Power in the Fifty States”
Evan Haglund (Chair), United States Coast Guard Academy, “Priorities, Personal Characteristics, and Performance: Presidents and their Appointees”
Jennifer L. Selin (Chair), University of Missouri, “Political Control, Bureaucratic Responsiveness, and Agency Structure”
Tizoc Chavez, Vanderbilt University, “Presidential Parley: Personal Diplomacy and the Modern Presidency”
Kenneth Lowande, Princeton University, “Essays on the Political Power of Bureaucrats”
Bryan Rooney, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, “Emergency Powers in Democracies and the Outbreak of Conflict”
Mark D. Richardson (chair), James Madison University, “The Politicization of Federal Agencies and its Consequences: Agency Design, Presidential Appointments, and Policy
Expertise.”
PHD Student Committees (current):
Scott Limbocker (Chair), Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University Sheahan Virgin (Chair), Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
GOVERNMENT SERVICE:
2017-2018 Contractor, Administrative Conference of the United States, “Federal Executive Establishment, 2017”
2011- 2015 Member, Advisory Board for the Model Agency Initiative and Walter Gellhorn Award, Administrative Conference of the United States
2011-2012 Contractor, Administrative Conference of the United States, “Federal Executive Establishment, 2012”
2011- 2014 Review Panel, National Science Foundation
2011-2012 Advisory Committee, “Chief executive succession and the performance of central government agencies,” Project sponsored by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Editorial
board: Journal of Politics, 2005-2006; Public Administration, 2011- present; Palgrave Book Series “Executive Politics and Governance”; Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2016-present
Contributing
Editor: americanpresident.orgU, 2004-5
Refereeing:
Books: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Michigan Press, Congressional Quarterly Press, Prentice Hall
Grants: National Science Foundation
Journals: American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, American Politics Research, American Review of Public Administration, Armed Forces & Society, British Journal of Political Science, Congress & the Presidency, Governance, International Public Management Journal, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Public Policy, Korea Observer, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Regulation and Governance, State and Local Government Review, Studies in American Political Development
Member: American Political Science Association Midwest Political Science Association
Presidency Research Group
Southern Political Science Association
American Society of Public Administration Public Management Research Association
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Committees: President, Southern Political Science Association, 2018-2019 President, Midwest Public Administration Caucus, 2017-2018 President-elect, Southern Political Science Association, 2017-2018
Chair, Nominating Committee, National Academy of Public Administration, 2016-17
Executive Board, Structure and Organization of Government, International Political Science Association, 2016-
Southern Political Science Association, Program Committee Chair for the 2016 Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2014-2016)
Southern Political Science Association, Executive Council (2014- present) Presidency Research Group, American Political Science Association, Best Graduate
Student Paper Award Committee Chair, (2014)
Executive Council, Southern Political Science Association (2014-Present)
Presidential Nominating Committee, Midwest Public Administration Caucus (2013) Program Committee, American Political Science Association (2011)
Program Committee, Southern Political Science Association (2010) Program Committee, Midwest Political Science Association (2009)
Executive Council, Presidency Research Group (2009- present)
Herbert A. Simon Book Award Committee, American Political Science Association,
Public Administration Section (2009)
Midwest Political Science Association, Patrick Fett Award Committee (2007)
Southern Political Science Association, Best Paper Award Committee (2006) Presidency Research Group (APSA), Undergraduate Paper Award Com. (2005) Presidency Research Group (APSA) Book Award Com. (2001)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
University-
wide: Executive Committee, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2011-2013
Senior Advisory Review Committee, College of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt University, 2010-2011, 2012-2013
Vanderbilt University Law School Dean Search Committee, 2009 Planning Committee, Vanderbilt Institute for Advanced Studies, 2008-9
Executive Committee, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, 2007-8, Princeton University
Faculty Advisor, Varsity Field Hockey, Princeton (2006-2008)
Faculty Fellow and Freshman and Sophomore Advisor, Mathey College, Princeton
(2004-2007).
Faculty Fellow and Freshman and Sophomore Advisor, Whitman College, Princeton
(2007-2008)
University Teaching Project, College of William and Mary, 2001-2002.
Department: Chair, 2015-
Interim Chair, 2014-2015
Associate Chair, 2010-2013
Faculty Recruitment Committee, 2012-2013 Second Year Review Committee (Chair), 2009-2010 Political Theory Search Committee, 2009
Formal Theory Search Committee (Chair), 2008-9
Fourth Year Review Committee, 2008-9 Methods Search Committee (Chair), 2008
Department of Political Science Planning Committee (Chair), 2008-9 Field Coordinator, Domestic Politics, Woodrow Wilson School, 2007-8 MPA Admissions Committee, Woodrow Wilson School 2007
Chair’s Advisory Committee, Dept. of Politics, Princeton 2005-6; 2007-8
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Advisor to 1P P year MPA students, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton (2003).
Coordinator, American Politics Colloquium, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton (with Larry Bartels, 2003).
Public Law Search Committee, College of William and Mary, 2001-2002.