Dates: June 9 - 10, 2011
Location: Brown University
Organizer: Wendy Schiller
"Bicameral Agenda Control: Examining the Effects of Procedural Tools on Congressional Policy Outcomes, 1883-1937", Jamie Carson, Anthony Madonna, and Jason Roberts
"De-Central Bank: The Politics of Selecting the Federal Reserve Banks in 1914", Sarah Binder and Mark Spindel
"Growing the Vote: Majority Party Whipping in the U.S. House, 1955-2002", C. Lawrence Evans
“Senate Collective Action and the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946”, Michael H. Crespin, Anthony Madonna, and Nathaniel Ament-Stone
“Life Before Congress: Using Pre-Congressional Pathways to Assess Competing Explanations for the Modern House Career”, Scott Mackenzie
"Wealth Accumulation by Members of Congress, 1845-1875: Were the Civil War Years Exceptional (ly Good)?", Pablo Querubin and James Snyder
“Senate Parties and Procedural Motions”, Steven S. Smith, Ian Ostrander, and Christopher Pope
“Parliamentary Rule: The Origins, Development, and Role of the Senate Parliamentarian in the Legislative Process”, James Wallner