Dates: May 18-19, 2007
Location: Princeton University
Organizer: Nolan McCarty
Julian Zelizer "When Liberals Were Hawks: Liberal Militarism, the Republican Right, and the Cold War. "
Richard Valleley (Swarthmore) "Why the Reed Rules? Race, Party, and the Procedural Foundations of the Modern House."
Paul C. Milazzo "Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972"
Jamie Carson (Georgia) and Jason Roberts (Minnesota) "The Politics of Congressional Elections Across Time: Adoption of the Australian Ballot and the Direct Primary"
Ira Katznelson and Greg Wawro (Columbia) "Congress and History: Enhancing the Methodological Repertoire"
Kathryn Pearson (Minnesota) and Eric Schickler (Berkeley) "Discharge Petitions: Circumventing Congressional Norms from 1929 - 1974."
Richard Bensel (Cornell) "Emerging from the State of Nature: The Construction of Rules, Rulers, and Membership in Legislative Assemblies"