CURRICULUM VITA
STEPHEN SKOWRONEK
Department of Political Science Box 208301, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut 06520 203-432-5272 [email protected]
EDUCATION:
A.B. Oberlin College, 1973 M.A. Cornell University, 1976 Ph.D. Cornell University, 1979
INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Winant Visiting Professor of American Government, Rothermere American Institute, Balliol College Oxford University, 2019. French-American Foundation Chair in American Civilization, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1996-1997 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Fellow, 1985-1986
AWARDS AMD HONORS
Legacy Award, 2017 for The Politics Presidents Make, 2017 APSA Executive Politics and thePresidency section: for a book at least a decade past publication that to continues to influence scholarship. Mary Parker Follett Prize, Best Article 2009, “Conservative Insurgency and Presidential Power” Harvard Law Review, June 2009, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association, September, 2010. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, inducted 2004 J. David Greenstone Prize, Best Book in Politics and History, The Politics Presidents Make, APSA 1994 Richard E. Neustadt Prize, Best Book on the Presidency, The Politics Presidents Make, APSA 1994 Phi Kappa Phi, 1977 Graduate Distinction in Government, 1976 John L. Senior Fellowship in American Government, 1974-1975 Herbert Lehman Fellowship in the Social Sciences, 1973-1977 Chapman Starr Prize for Excellence in the Social Sciences, 1973 Highest Honors in Government, Oberlin College, 1973 Phi Beta Kappa, 1972
APPOINTMENTS:
Resident fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Center for the Study of American Politics 2012- present (Associate Fellow, 1993-2012) Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, 2010-11 Director of Graduate Studies, Political Science Department, Yale University, 2003-06 2 Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science, 1998-present Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science Department, Yale University, 1989-1994 American Studies affiliation, Yale University, 1989-present Professor, Yale University, 1986-present Associate Professor, UCLA, 1982-1985 Assistant Professor, UCLA, 1978-1982 Instructor, Cornell University, 1977
EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Wilbur Cross Award selection committee, 2020 Academic Exchange, Israel, August 17-23, 2019 Balliol College, Oxford, Concilium, Jan-June, 2019 Guest Editor, Special Issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly, featuring new work in presidential history, 2014 Editorial Advisory Board, American Political Science Review, 2007-2011 Chair, Social Science Degree Committee, Yale University, 2004-6 Outside Examiner for SUNY Albany’s assessment of their Political Science Department, March 25-26 2004. “The Presidency and American Democracy” On Camera interview for PBS documentary by Kunhardt Productions, Inc. Mt Kisco New York, aired October 2004. American Politics and History Initiative, Executive Council, Russell Sage Foundation 2000- Council of Scholars, Center for the Study of the Presidency, 1998- Chief academic advisor and lead consultant for episode structure and thematic organization, The American President, a ten-part mini-series produced for public television by Kunhardt Productions, Inc., Mt. Kisco, New York, premier April 2000. President, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association, 1994-1995 Founder and Managing Editor, Studies in American Political Development, 1986-2007, Journals Division Cambridge University Press Convener, Seminar on American Political and Institutional Development, Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, 1987-1993 Editorial Advisory Board, American Political Science Review, 2008- Editorial Board, Congress & the Presidency, 1994- Editorial Board, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 1987 Editorial Board, Polity, 1987-1993 Editorial Board, Presidential Studies Quarterly, 1986- Member, American Political Science Association Member, Social Science History Association Member, American Historical Association APSA President’s ad hoc committee on renaming the “Woodrow Wilson” prize, May 2016.
BOOKS:
Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic, The Deep State and the Unitary Executive, with John Dearborn and Desmond King, Oxford University Press, forthcoming Feb, 2021
Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal (Kansas, 2008, 2010); expanded third edition, 2020 3
The Policy State: An American Predicament (with Karen Orren) Harvard University Press, 2017.
The Progressives’ Century: Democratic Reform, Constitutional Government and the Modern American State edited volume (with Bruce Ackerman and Stephen Engel), Yale University Press, 2016, paperback 2017.
Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency, edited volume (with Norman Ornstein, Maxillian Angerholzer, III and James Kitfield) The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, 2016.
Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. (edited volume with Matt Glassman).
Institutions: The Art of the State, NYU Press, 2005 (edited volume with Dan Galvin and Ian Shapiro).
The Search for American Political Development, with Karen Orren (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush, (Cambridge: Belknap, Harvard University Press, 1993); Second edition, From John Adams to Bill Clinton (1997).
Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
“The Trump Presidency in American Political Development” with Desmond King, Rothermere American Institute, Nuffield College and Balliol College, Oxford University, June 13-14, 2019.
The Progressives’ Century: Political Reform and Constitutional Government in the United States (with Bruce Ackerman and Stephen Engel), jointly sponsored by ISPS and the Yale Law School, November, 1-2 2013
Political Action and Political Change: Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Agents in America’s Political Development, (With Matt Glassman), sponsored by the Yale Center for the Study of American Politics, October 22-23, 2004.
Crafting and Operating Institutions, (with Dan Galvin and Ian Shapiro) sponsored by Yale University Department of Political Science, April 11-13, 2003.
4 ARTICLES, ESSAYS, REVIEWS:
“The Adaptability Paradox: Constitutional Resilience and Principles of Good Government in Twenty-First Century America” (with Karen Orren) Perspectives on Politics June 2020 (online publication fall 2019).
“Mobilization, Management and the Modern American Presidency,” The Unprecedented American Presidency: From Constitutional Foundations to Contemporary Practice, Thomas Sanders ed., Palgrave, 2020.
“Political Leadership in the American Presidency: Four Temporalities” in Klaus Geotz, ed. Oxford Handbook of Time and Politics, online version Winter 2020.
“Barack Obama and the Promise of Transformational Leadership,” lead essay in Obama’s Fractured Legacy: The Politics and Policy of an Embattled Presidency, Francois de Chantal and Jean-Christian Venel, Edinbugh University Press, 2020.
“The Problem of Presidentialism,” in Democracy Unchained, David Orr, ed., New Press, 2020.
“The Case for Context,” in Richard Ellis and Michael Nelson, Debating the Presidency, Trump update. 2020
“Present At the Creation: The State in Early American Political History” Journal of Early American History 38 (Spring 2018).
“January 2017: What Time Is It?” Miller Center First Year Project, http:/firstyear2017.org/essay/what-time-is-it; revised for print in Crucible: The President’s First Year, University of Virginia Press, 2018.
“On Relic,” symposium review, Journal of Politics, Fall 2017.
“The Next Four Years,” Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan/Feb 2017.
“Is Donald Trump The Great Disruptor?” op. ed. Washington Post April 24, 2017.
“The Unsettled State of Presidential History,” in Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approached to the American Presidency, Brian Balogh, ed. Cornell University Press, 2015.
“Forward” with Bruce Miroff, for the reissue of Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis by Raymond Seidelman. SUNY Press, 2015
“Twentieth Century Remedies” Boston University Law Review, May, 2014
“Rethinking Presidential Studies Through Historical Research” with Bruce Miroff, in Presidential Studies Quarterly, special issue on presidential history, Stephen Skowronek And Bruce Miroff, eds. forthcoming, March 2014
“Pathways to the Present: Political Development in America” in the Oxford Handbook on American Political Development. Robert Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, Richard 5 Valelley, eds. Oxford University Press, online publication 2014; print publication 2015.
“Conservative Insurgency, Constitutional Construction, and the Development of Presidential Power,” in The Presidency and the Political System, Michael Nelson, ed. Congressional Quarterly Press, 2013
“Have We Abandoned A ‘Constitutional Perspective’ on American Political Development” with Karen Orren, Journal of Politics, Spring 2011.
“Is Transformational Leadership Still Possible: Barack Obama in Historical Perspective” in Presidential Leadership in Political Time, second expanded edition, Kansas 2010.
“Shall We Cast Our Lot With the Constitution? Thinking About Presidential Power in the 21st Century” in The Future of the Presidency, Charles Dunn, ed. Kansas, 2010.
“Barack Obama and the Changing Political Structures of Presidential Leadership” in Debating Democracy, Miroff and Swanstom, eds. 2010.
“The Revolt Against Formalism: Time for a Third Look?” Political Science as Political Philosophy, eds., Benjamin Ginsberg and Gwendolyn Mink (Norton) 2010.
“Taking Stock: the Policy State” in Desmond King and Larry Jacobs, The Unsustainable American State,” Oxford University Press, 2010.
“Mission Accomplished: A Comment on Terry Moe’s ‘The Revolution in Presidency Studies,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Dec. 2009
“The Conservative Insurgency and Presidential Power: A Developmental Perspective on the Unitary Executive” Harvard Law Review, June 2009.
“The Paradigm of Development in Presidential History” Oxford Handbook on the American Presidency, George Edwards III and William Howell eds., 2009
“An Attenuated Reconstruction: the Conservative Turn in American Political Development” in Conservatism and American Political Development, Steven Teles and Brian Glenn, eds., Oxford, 2008.
“The American Presidency” Encyclopedia of American Political History, Princeton University Press, 2008.
“The Imperial Presidency Thesis Revisited: George W. Bush at the Point of No Return,” A New Imperial Presidency?: The U.S. Political System Since 9/l1” Denis Lacorne and Justin Vaisse, eds. Odile Jacob, Paris, 2007.
“The Reassociation of Ideas and Purposes: Racism, Liberalism, and the American Political Tradition, The American Political Science Review 100, 3, August 2006, 385-401..
“Leadership By Definition: Reflections on George W. Bush’s Leadership Posture,” Perspectives on Politics, Dec. 2005. 6
“Reconstructive Leadership” Encyclopedia of Leadership, Sage Publications, 2004
“History, Structure, and The Search for Essentials,” The Evolution of Political Knowledge, Richard Sisson and Edward Mansfield, eds. Ohio State University Press, 2004
“What’s Wrong With APD,” Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 17, no. 1 Spring 2003
“Unfinished Business” Response to a Forum Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the publication of Building A New American State, Social Science History, 2003
“The Changing Political Structures of Presidential Leadership” in Debating Democracy, Bruce Miroff, Raymond Seidelman, and Todd Swanstrom, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 2003, ------, revised, 2005, 2007.
“The Presidency and American Political Development: A Third Look” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Dec. 2002.
“The Study of American Political Development, with Karen Orren, Political Science: The State of the Discipline, Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds, Norton, 2002.”
“The American Presidency at Century’s End: Continuity and Change in the Politics of Leadership,” in Michael Nelson, ed., Elections 2000, (Congressional Quarterly), 2001.
“La politique que font les prsidents: structure et action,” in La dmocratie amricaine, Jean Heffer, Pap Ndiaye, Franois Weil, eds., Belin, 2000.
“The President as Coalition Builder: Lessons for the Next Century,” in Reinventing the Presidency, George Edwards, Ed., Texas A&M Press, 2000.
“Theory and History, Structure and Agency,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Sept. 1999.
“Henry Jones Ford and the Study of American Institutional Development,” PS, June 1999.
“Introduction,” The Presidents: In Their Own Words, Kunhardt Productions, 1999.
“The Search for American Political Development,” with Karen Orren, in The Liberal Tradition in American Politics, David Ericson and Louisa Green, eds., 1999.
“Regimes and Regime-Building in American National Government: Some Lessons from the 1940s,” with Karen Orren, Political Science Quarterly, Winter 1999.
“Woodrow Wilson’s Critique of Popular Leadership,” with Terri Bimes, Polity, Fall 1996. ------also published in Speaking to the People: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective, Richard Ellis, ed., 1998.
“Institutions and Intercurrence: Theory Building in the Fullness of Time,” with Karen 7 Orren in Nomos, 1996.
Forum on The Politics Presidents Make, Journal of Policy History, August 2, 1996.
“Bill Clinton and the Risks of the ‘Third Way,’” Extensions, Spring 1996.
“Order and Change,” in a Forum on Institutions and Institutionalism, Polity, Fall 1995.
“Response to the forum on The Politics Presidents Make,” Polity, Winter 1995.
“Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a New Institutionalism,” with Karen Orren in Larry Dodd and Calvin Jillson, The Dynamics of American Politics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993). ------also reprinted as: “Order and Time in Institutional Study: Notes for a New Institutionalism,” with Karen Orren in James Farr, ed., Political Science in History: Research Programs and Political Traditions, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
“Franklin Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency,” Studies in American Political Development 6, 2 (Fall 1992).
Review of The Rhetorical Presidency, by Jeffrey Tulis, Review of Politics, (Summer 1987).
“Notes on the Presidency in the Political Order,” in Studies in American Political Development: An Annual, I, Yale University Press, 1986.
“Presidential Leadership in Political Time,” in The Presidency and the Political System, Michael Nelson (ed.), Congressional Quarterly Press, 1984; revised for second edition 1988; revised for fourth edition, 1994; revised for fifth edition 1997; revised for sixth edition 1999.
Review of Corporate Liberalism: American Political Thought 1890-1920, by R.G. Lustig, American Historical Review, 88, 4 (September 1983).
“National Railroad Regulation and the Problem of State-Building: Interests and Institutions in Late-Nineteenth Century America,” Politics and Society, 10, 3, 1981.
Review of Affairs of State: Public Life in Late-Nineteenth Century America, by Morton Keller, American Political Science Review, 73, 1 (March 1979), p. 246.
LECTURES, PAPERS, AND PROFESSIONAL PRESENTIONS (1996-):
Election season 2020:
Media interviews in the Nation and The Christian Science Monitor; Private election de-brief with the French Ambassador to the United States, Philippe Etienne; Presentations at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and in Woodbridge CT.
8 Panel Presentation on Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic, APSA convention, New Thinking about the American State, remote, 2020.
Panel Presentation “Author Meets Critics, Jack Balkin’s The Cycles of Constitutional Time,” APSA convention, remote, 2020.
Winant Chair Speaking Engagements:
“What’s New in the Political Leadership of Donald Trump?” presented at a conference on “The Trump Presidency and the Course of American Political Development” Rothermere American Institute and Nuffield College, June 13-14, 2019.
Symposium on The Policy State with Charlotte Halpern, Philippe Bezez, and Patrick Galis, Center for European Studies, Transformation of the State series, Sciences Po, Paris, May 28, 2019
“Is Donald Trump an Anomaly?” public event program London School of Economics and Politics, US Center, Old Theatre, London, May 2, 2019. LSE Podcast
“What Political Scientists Need to Know about Congress” panel moderator and commentator for “Congress to Campus” conference at the Rothermere Congress to Campus symposium with former mc’s, Oxford, March 7, 2019
Symposium on The Policy State with Gary Gerstle, Kings College, University of London, February 28, 2019. Kings College Postcast interview.
“The Political Power of National Banks,” panel discussant, Nuffield College Oxford, February 17, 2019
“Mobilization, Management and the Modern American Presidency,” invited Guest lecturer in Politics, Oxford, February 15, 2019.
“Has American Democracy Outstripped its Institutional Foundations? Principles of Of Good Government in 21st Century Governance,” Inaugural Lecture, Rotheremere American Institute, February, 12, 2019. Also presented in the Politics Across Borders series, Yale Department of Political Science, Nov. 13. 2019.
“After the Storm: Repairing and Strengthening American Democracy” conference participant Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Tarrytown, N.Y. Nov. 28- 30, 2018.
“Has American Democracy Outstripped its Institutional Accommodations,” Annual Constitution Day Address, Swarthmore College, September 24, 2018.
“Educating Americans About the American Presidency,” consultation with the National Park Service, Hyde Park, New York, August 22, 2018.
“A Constitution, in Principle,” CATO Institute dinner speaker, June 21, 2018, Washington, 9 D.C.
“Policy History and American Political Development” Plenary Panel Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Journal of Policy History, Tempe Arizona, May 16, 2018.
Author meets Critics: The Policy State, Policy History Conference, Tempe Arizona, May 16, 2018
“A Constitution, in Principle” paper presented at a conference on Politics and Law Under Stress” the University of Oregon Law School, Portland, OR, April, 12-13, 2018.
Facebook interview, “The End of the Reagan Era,” Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia, March 28 2018. https://www.facebook.com/millercenter/videos/10158411913434988/
Symposium on “The Policy State,” Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia, March 29, 2018.
“Trump in Political Time,” American Politics Honor’s seminar, University of Virginia, March 28, 2018.
Presentation of The Policy State, Colloquium on Modern Political Development, Lehman Center Columbia University, Feb. 15, 2018.
Presentation of The Policy State, Yale Political Theory Workshop, Jan. 17. 2018.
“Andrew Jackson’s Political Legacy,” presented at Andrew Jackson at 250: Race Politics And Culture in the Age of Jacksonian Democracy” Center for the Study of Representative Institutions, Yale University, Dec. 2-3, 2017.
Authors Meet Critics, The Policy State, with Francis Fukayama, Paul Person, James Morone, Shep Melnick, Catherine Zukert, APSA convention, San Francisco, September 2, 2017.
Memorial panel for Theodore Lowi, APSA convention, San Francisco, September 1, 2017,
The Third Way: conference on the future of the Democratic party in association with the Democratic Governors Association, Aspen, August 4-6 2017.
Keynote Address, “The Gestation of the APD Project,” at conference on The Constitution and American Political Development honoring Ronald Kahn, Oberlin College, April 11, 2017.
“Barack Obama and the Promise of Transformative Leadership,” Keynote Address, The Obama Legacy, Foundation des Etats-Unis, University of Paris Diderot, Paris December 12-14, 2016.
Post-election debrief, American Academy of Arts and Sciences lunchtime forum, Yale University, November 30, 2016
The Nation interview with Richard Kreitner, https//www.thenation.com/artcle/what- 10 Time-is-it-here’s-what-the-2011-election-tells-us-about-Obama-Trump-and-what- comes-next, November 22, 2016.
“A Trump Transformation?” The Parties and the 2016 Election, Cornell Election Forum, October 31, 2016.
“Mobilization, Management and the Modern American Presidency,” paper presented at The Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of World History, International Scholars Conference on U.S. Presidents and Russian Rulers, Moscow, May 30-June 1, 2016.
…. also presented as the Keynote Address at the Bates College Election Forum, Bate College, September 26, 2016.
“More Power to the President? Comment on Relic” annual convention of the American Political Science Association, September 3, 2016, Philadelphia.
“Present at the Creation: The State in Early American Political History,” at Taking Stock Of the State in Nineteenth Century America, conference Yale University April 15-16, 2016.
“The Policy State,” chapters and presentation to the Cornell Legal Theory Workshop, Cornell Law School, November 2, 2015.
“The Policy State” chapters and presentation to the workshop on American Political Development, Yale University, ISPS, October 3 and 17, 2015.
Televised panel for the Miller Center Initiative, “The Presidency, 2017,” Decator House, Washington D.C. October 22, 2015.
“Lim’s Federalism,” a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Fransciso, September 2015.
“What Time Is It?” paper for “The Presidency, 2107” A Miller Center Initiative (papers to be collected for the president-elect 2017 on the transition to power), August 2015.
“Pathways to the Present,” State of Research lecture Series, Baylor University, April 11, 2014.
“America’s Political Dysfunction” Yale Law School seminar, November, 2014
“The Progressive Presidency at Cross Purposes,” paper presented at the Conference on “America’s Political Dysfunction,” Boston University Law School, November 17, 2013.
“Introduction” for “The Progressive’s Century: Democratic Reform and Constitutional Government in the United States, organized by Stephen Skowronek, Bruce Ackerman and Stephen Engel, sponsored by ISPS and the Yale Law School, November 1-2, 2013.
“Creating National Will: Lessons From the History of Social Reform in America” Presentation at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund/SSRC conference on the National Purpose 11 Initiative, Pocantico Retreat and Conference Center, Tarrytown New York, October 24-25 2013.
Comment on Eric Patshnick and Justin Peck: “Can Congress Do Policy Analysis?” for “Representation and Governance: A Conference in Honor of David Mayhew, May 29- 30, 2013.
“Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism” Comment on John Burt’s, Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism Conference on Lincoln, Center for the Studies of Representative Institutions, Yale University, May 5, 2013.
Sponsor, for Theodore J. Lowi, on the occasion of his receipt of the Wilbur Cross Metal, Yale University, October 14-15, 2013
“Pathways to the Present” presented “Taking Stock of American Political Development,” the APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, September 1-3 2013.
“The Promise of Presidential Leadership” presentation at a conference on “Is America Governable,” UT Austin Law School, January 24, 2013.
“Recasting Presidential History,” paper presented at a conference on Recasting Presidential History, The Miller Center, UVa., October 2012 .
“The Limits and Possibilities of Transformational Leadership” featured speaker at the opening of the Batton School of Public Policy and Leadership U.Va., October 20, 2011.
“The Policy State: A Developmental Synthesis,” with Karen Orren, a paper presented a the APSA meetings in Seattle, September 1, 2011
“Obama and the New Deal Model of Presidential Leadership” presented at the APSA meetings in Seattle, August 31, 2011
Presentation to the Global Leadership Workshop, Jackson Center for Global Affairs, Yale University, March 25-27, 2011
“The Use and Abuse of Lincoln in Presidential Leadership,” presented at the Wepner Symposium on Lincoln and Political Science, University of Illinois, Springfield, and the Lincoln Library, October 8, 2010
“Is Progressivism Still the Problem?” comment on Sid Milkis’s “Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party and the Transformation of American Democracy, at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, May 6, 2010.
Mentor comment on Eric Lamazoff, Miller Center Fellows Conference, University of Virginia, May 6-7, 2010
“Is Transformational Leadership Still Possible: Barack Obama in Historical Perspective” Redpath Lectures, Yale Alumni Association, Chicago, May 1, 2010.
The Reagan Presidential Foundation, Centennial Celebration, interview, April 21, 2010
12 “The Theory of the Unitary Executive” presentation at the GAGE Colloquium, the Miller Center, UVa. Nov. 13 2009; also SUNY Albany, Visiting Speaker Series, Nov 20, 2009
“Is Lincoln a Good Model for Presidential Leadership?” symposium on The Legacy of Lincoln, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, Oct. 2, 2009.
Gladys Kammerer Book Prize Committee, American Political Science Association, 2008-9
Roundtable presentation on Sheldon Pollack’s, “War, Revenue, and State-Building” Annual convention of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Sept 6, 2009
“The Policy State” presented at a conference on “Unstructuring Politic” University of Oregon, June 2009.
“Shall We Cast Our Lot With the Constitution: Thinking About Presidential Power in the 21st Century.” Presented at a conference on The Future of the Presidency, The Reagan Symposium, Regent University, Feb. 6, 2009.
“The Conservative Insurgency and Presidential Power: A Developmental Perspective on the Unitary Executive, Harvard Law School Conference on American Constitutional Development, October 17-18, 2008; also presented at the Seminar on Politics and Policy at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon, Oct. 2, 2008
ELECTION SEASONTALKS SUMMER AND FALL OF 2008: “The Many Meanings of Change: Prospects for the Next President” presented at: The Conference Board’s Research Council on Global Investment, New York City; The Association of Yale Alumni, The University of Oregon, Organization of Yale Women, Amity Regional High School, Congregation B’nai Jacob, Yale University Global Fellows, Creative Arts Workshop of New Haven, Auction Dinner.
“Rethinking Presidential Power in the 21st Century,” Panel at conference on The American Presidency at War, Institute for Governmental Studies and the School of Law, UC Berkeley, September 19, 2008.
Student forum, remote discussion of Presidential Leadership in Political Time, Depaw University, September 16, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
“Reconstructing the American State,” presentation at conference on inequality at Nuffield College, Oxford May 23-24 2008.
“The Conservative Construction of Presidential Dominance” paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA, Chicago, August 31, 2007.
“Presidential Leadership” presentation at Clark University, April 12, 2007.
“How Ideas Travel:” presentation at the Columbia University seminar in Politics and History, March 8, 2007.
“The Imperial Presidency Thesis Revisted: George W. Bush at the Point of No Return” 13 Prepared for a conference on “A New Imperial Presidency?” Sciences Po, CNRS, Paris, January 13 2007.
Response to George Edwards III, “Why Presidents Cannot be Transformative Leaders” annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.
Responder, “Author Meets His Critics,” panel discussion of George W. Bush in Political Time Mid-West Political Science Association convention, Chicago, May 20, 2006.
“The Reassociation of Ideas and Purposes: Racism, Liberalism and the American Political Tradition,’ presented at Harvard University conference on Identity and Rhetoric in American Political Thought April 7, 2006.
Summary roundtable, “Statesmen and Demagogues: Democratic Leadership in Political Thought,” conference at Yale University, March 29, 2006.
“What Have We Learned” final speaker at a conference on Conservatism and the Expansion of American National Government’ Yale University Feb 24, 2006.
“Talk of the Nation” call-in show with Neal Conan National Public Radio January 5. 2006.
Morning Edition, interview with Renee Montaigne, National Public Radio December 9, 2005.
“Racism, Liberalism and the American Political Tradition: Ideational Exchange and the Interpenetration of Antithetical Ends,” Miller Center: Fall APD Colloquium University of Virginia, October 2005.
“Bush in Historical Perspective,” presentation APSA annual meetings Sept 1, 2005, Washington D.C.
“Do Ideas Have a Political Identity? On The Interpenetration of Antithetical Ends in The American Political Tradition” paper presented at the conference on American Political Development, James Madison Center, Princeton University, April 2005. ------, Political Theory Workshop, Yale University, May 6, 2005.
The Abbott Lecture, at the Sonderman Symposium, “Leadership By Definition: George W. Bush and the Politics of Orthodox Innovation, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Dec. 6, 2004
Leadership By Definition: George W. Bush and the Politics of Orthodox Innovation, University of Tulsa, Tulsa Oklahoma, Dec 3, 2004.
“Election Debriefing” Strauss Institute New Politics Forum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, November 20, 2004
Author meets his critics, The Search for American Political Development, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September 2004,
Retrospective on Richard Neustadt’s Presidential Power, Harvard University Center for 14 American Political Studies, February, 2004.
“Liberalism and American Progressivism” Liberty Fund Conference, Key West, Florida. December 4-8, 2003
“Political Development: Search for a Definition”:” paper presented at the University of Wisconsin, November, 2003, American Political Development Seminar. ______, paper presented at Rutgers University, American Politics Seminar, September 2003
“Unraveling the Premise: APD’s Cultural Critique,” paper presented at the USIA Summer Seminar on American Political Development, CUNY Graduate Center, June 2003
Forum commemorating the tenth anniversary of The Politics Presidents Make, New England Political Science Association meetings, Spring, 2003
“Political Development: The Definition” paper presented at the CUNY Graduate Center Seminar on American Political Development, April 2003
“Why the Growth of Government” Liberty Fund Conference, Richmond Virginia, November, 2002
“Congress in History,” conference participant, Columbia University, June, 7-8, 2002
“American Politics Roundtable” participant, at the Johnson Foundation, Racine Wisconsin, May 13-14, 2002
“The Orthodox Innovator in Wartime: George Bush as Political Leader” paper presented at CIDE conference on American Politics in the New Millenium, Mexico City, April 25- 28, 2002
“What is Political Development?” with Karen Orren, paper presented at the APSA convention, San Francisco, August 31, 2001
“Comment on ‘The Presidency and the Bureaucracy, by Joel Aberbach and Bert Rockman, Theme Panel, APSA Convention, San Francisco, August 31, 2001
Panel Chair, “Moral Leadership and Eminent Statesmanship in the American Presidency” APSA convention, San Francisco August 30, 2001.
“The Politics of Presidential Leadership” Congregation B’nai Jacobs, summer program, July 20, 2001, Woodbridge Ct.
“Democracy in America,” panel discussion for Yale Alumni Weekend, Tercentennial Celebration, April 21, 2001.
Invited guest, The White House, April 6, 2001, panel on The First One Hundred Days of the Bush Presidency. Andrew Card, Chief of Staff and Karl Rove, Special Assistant to the President, hosts.
Invited Lecturer, Cornell University, “Bush’s Prospects,” Feb. 16, 2001. 15
Dunbar Lecturer, Tulane University, “Presidential Leadership Then and Now,” Jan. 18, 2001.
Featured speaker at Williams College conference on “Presidential Leadership Through Public Communication: The Bully Pulpit and the Press,” sponsored by the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Center for Public Leadership, November 16-17, 2000.
“2000 Elections and the Electoral College,” a panel discussion at the Yale Law School, Nov. 9, 2000.
“Profile on the American Presidency,” Japanese University of the Air, Nov. 3, 2000.
Gammie Symposium Lecturer at University of Tulsa, Oct. 24, 2000.
Plenary on the Clinton Presidency, with Newt Gingrich, Paul Wellstone, Donna Shalala, E.J. Dione, Matthew Holden, and Norm Ornstein, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington, D.C., Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2000.
“The Presidency in American Political Development: A Twentieth Century Retrospective,” Panel Chair and presentation, American Political Science Association annual meeting, September, 2000, Washington D.C.
“History and Governance in American Political Development,” with Karen Orren, paper presented at American Political Science Association annual meeting, September, 2000, Washington, D.C.
MIT American Politics Colloquium, “American Political Development,” presentation; May, 2000.
“Doing Political Science Today,” Panel presentation at the Northeast Political Science Association, May 2000.
Organizing conference for the American Politics and History Initiative, Russell Sage Foundation, May 2000.
“The President as Domestic Agenda-Setter,” Roundtable, LBJ Library, Conference on the State of the Presidency, April 12-14, 2000, Austin, Texas.
“Presidential Leadership and Political Change,” lecture at Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, March 28, 2000.
Yale Alumni Association Forum on Leadership, “Leadership Studies at Yale,” panel chair, February 2000.
“The President as Coalition-Builder: Concerns for the Next Century,” Bush Library, Texas A&M University, Conference on Reinventing the Presidency, October 1999.
16 “The American Presidency at Century’s End: Change and Continuity in the Politics of Leadership,” Keynote Address, Kyoto American Studies Summer Seminar, Kyoto Japan, July 30, 1999.
“The American Presidency,” a talk for the Summer Institute for Foreign Policy Officials, USIA, New School for Social Research, June 1999.
Conference on Rational Choice Institutionalism and Historical Institutionalism, Russell Sage Foundation, December 4, 1998.
Lectures in 1998 at University of California, Berkeley, seminar on “Institutions and Political Development,” October 1998; Fordham University, Forum on American Politics, November 1998.
“Henry Jones Ford and the Study of American Institutional Development,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association Convention, September 1998, Boston.
“The New Deal Regime,” presentation at the Brandeis Conference on the New Deal, Waltham, MA, June 5 and 6, 1998.
“French Images of the American Presidency,” featured speaker, Irwin Breakfast Series, The French-American Foundation, Knickerbocker Club, New York, N.Y., March 6, 1998.
“Regimes and Institutions,” with Karen Orren, paper presented at the APSA, August 1997, Washington DC.
“In Search of American Political Development,” with Karen Orren, paper presented at the APSA, August 1996, San Francisco.
“Bill Clinton’s Moment in Political Time,” Inaugural Lecture, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, November 3, 1996.
Lectures in Europe 1996-1997 at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; Leiden University, Netherlands; Centre de Sociologie des Organizations (CRS); Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.