Dates: May 29-31, 2008
Location: George Washington University
Organizers: Sarah Binder and Forrest Maltzman
Jamie Carson (University of Georgia) and Trey Hood (University of Georgia), “The Effect of the Partisan Press on U.S. House Elections, 1800-1820”
Michael Crespin (University of Georgia) and Trey Hood (University of Georgia), “Backward Mapping: Exploring Questions of Representation via Spatial Analysis of Historical Congressional Districts”
Charles Finocchiaro (University of South Carolina), “Constituent Service, Agency Decision Making and Legislative Influence on the Bureaucracy in the Post Civil War Era"
Eric Lawrence (George Washington University), “Political Pork and Political Requests”
Jessica Kratz (NARA) and Kenneth Kato (NARA), “Congressional Archives: Promises and Pitfalls”
Glen Krutz (University of Oklahoma): “The Evolution of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs”
Erik Engstrom (UC, Davis), “Strategic Redistricting and Congressional Realignments”
John Baughman (Bates College), “Legislation as Insurance: A Reconsideration of Ambition Theory and the Realignment of the 1850s”
Anthony Madonna (Washington University, St. Louis) and Michael Lynch (University of Kansas), “Viva Voce: Implications from the Disappearing Voice Vote, 1807-1990”
John Owens (University of Westminster) and Mark Wrighton (Millikin University, “Partisan Polarization, Procedural Control, and Partisan Emulation in the U.S. House: An Explanation of Rules Restrictiveness Over Time”
Jeffrey Jenkins (UVA) and Charles Stewart (MIT), “Speakership Elections since 1860: The Rise of the Organizational Caucus.”
Jeffrey Stonecash (Syracuse) and Jon Bond (Texas A&M), “The Rise and Decline of Moderates in the House of Representatives.”
Eric Schickler (UC Berkeley), Kathryn Pearson (University of Minnesota), and Brian Feinstein (Harvard University), “Congressional Parties and Civil Rights Politics from 1920- 1972”
C. Lawrence Evans (William and Mary), “The House Whip Process and the Textbook Congress”