Dates: May 21-23, 2015
Location: Vanderbilt University
Organizers: Joshua D. Clinton and Bruce I. Oppenheimer
John Owens, University of Westminster, “Macon and Stevenson: The Evolution of the Proto-Partisan Speakership in the Ante Bellum House”
Gerald Gamm, University of Rochester and Steven Smith, Washington University, “The Emergence of Senate Party Leadership,1913-1937: The Case of the Democrats"
David Bateman, Cornell University and John Lapinski, University of Pennsylvania, “The Alternative South: Foundations and Fault Lines of Southern Solidarity in the Gilded Age"
Jeffrey Jenkins, University of Virginia and Justin Peck, Wesleyan University, “The Erosion of the First Civil Rights Era: Congress and the Redemption of the White South, 1877-1891”
Frances Lee and Timothy Cordova, University of Maryland, “The 'Ins' vs. the Outs': The Congressional Politics of the Debt Limit, 1953-2014."
Peter Hanson, University of Denver, “Open Rules in a Closed House: Agenda Control in House Appropriations, 1995-2012”
Kate Krimmel, Boston University and Kelly Rader, Yale University, “Behind the Federal Spending Paradox: Economic Self- Interest and Symbolic Racism in Contemporary Fiscal Politics” Supplemental Appendix
Charles Finocchiaro, University of South Carolina, “The Public Buildings Boom: Distributive and Partisan Politics in the Modernizing Congress”
Jamie Carson, Ryan Williamson, and Joel Sievert, University of Georgia, “Assessing the Rise and Development of the Incumbency Advantage in Congress”
Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University and Maxwell Palmer, Boston University, “A Two Hundred-Year Statistical History of the Gerrymander”
Kenneth Lowande, University of Virginia and Justin Peck, Wesleyan University, “Congressional Investigations and the Electoral Connection”
Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego and Scott Mackenzie, University of California, Davis “Latent Class Modeling of Political Mobility: Implications for Legislative Recruitment, Representation and Institutional Development"
Gregory Caldeira and William Minozzi, Ohio State University, "Social Influence in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1801-1861"