Dates: June 10-11
Location: University of California, Berkeley
Organizer: Eric Schickler
Chris Deering (George Washington University): "Partisanship, Sectionalism, and Policy Change: The Case of the National Army"
Colin Moore (UC Berkeley): "Delegated Empire: Executive-Congressional Relations and the Political Control of American Imperialism, 1898-1930"
Frances Lee (University of Maryland): "The Individual Senator in a Partisan Era: Changing Patterns of Initiative and Success in Senate Floor Politics, 1959-2008"
Sean Theriault (University of Texas, Austin): "Gingrich Senators and their Effect on the U.S. Senate"
Sam Kernell (UC San Diego) and Scott MacKenzie (UC Davis): "From Political Careers to Career Politicians."
Jamie Carson and Anthony Madonna (University of Georgia): "Understanding the Institutional Basis for Amendment Voting in the U.S. House and Senate, 1875-1940."
John Baughman (Bates College): "Attendance and Participation in the Pre-Civil War U.S. House of Representatives."
Corey Brooks (York College of Pennsylvania, Department of History): "Building an Antislavery House: Political Abolitionists and the U.S. Congress."
Nolan McCarty (Princeton University): "The Politics of the Pop: The Effects of Ideology, Partisanship, and Interest in the Response to the U.S. Finance Crisis."
Jeffery Jenkins and Justin Peck (University of Virginia): "Building toward Major Policy Change: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1941-1950."