Dates: May 24-25, 2012
Location: University of Georgia
Organizer: Keith Poole
Forcing Their Hands? Explaining Trends in Retirement Announcement Timing in the U.S. Congress by David Karol (University of Maryland)
Building a Record: Amending Activity, Position Taking, and the Seventeenth Amendment by Jamie Carson, Tony Madonna, Mark Owens, and Joel Sievert (University of Georgia)
The Effects of the Reed Rules on House Agenda Setting by Chris Den Hartog (Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo)
A Familiar Target: Reforming the Appropriations Process in Congress by Craig Goodman (Texas Tech University
From Political Pathways to Senate Folkways: Electoral Reform and Careerism in the U.S. Senate, 1868-1944 by Scott MacKenzie (University of California-Davis)
Holding Up the Senate: Bob Dole and the Politics of Holds in the U.S. Senate by Nick Howard and Jason Roberts (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Negative Agenda Control and the Conservative Coalition in the House by Jeff Jenkins (University of Virginia) and Nate Monroe (University of California-Merced)
The Centralization of Agenda-Setting in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1875-1895 by Greg Koger (University of Miami)
Congressmen in Exile: the Politics and Consequences of Involuntary Committee Reassignments by Justin Grimmer (Stanford University) and Ellie Powell (Yale University)
Reclaiming Power: An Analysis of Congressional Reassertion in the Modern Era, 1947-2002 by Justin Peck (University of Virginia)
Initial Policy Breakthroughs: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1951-1960 by Jeff Jenkins (University of Virginia)
Intra-Party Organization and the Development of the Progressive Insurgency, 1908-1910 by Ruth Rubin (University of California-Berkeley)