CURRICULUM VITAE
Karen Orren Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90024-1472 Phone: 310-825-4331 e-mail: [email protected]
Home: 1526 Comstock Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024 Phone: 310-556-0570
A.B., Stanford University, 1963 PhD., University of Chicago, 1972
Publications
Books:
Corporate Power and Social Change: The Politics of the Life Insurance Industry, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974 (paperback, 1976.)
Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
The Search for American Political Development (with Stephen Skowronek), Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Articles:
"Presidential Assassination: A Case Study in the Dynamics of Political Socialization," (with Paul E. Peterson,) Journal of Politics, May, 1967, 388-404.
"Standing to Sue: Interest Group Conflict in the Federal Courts," American Political Science Review, Dec., 1976, 723-741.
"Corporate Power and the Slums: Is Big Business a Paper Tiger?" in Michael Lipsky, ed., Theoretical Perspectives on Urban Politics, Prentice Hall, 1976, 45-66. 2
"The Insurance Industry and the Other Consumer," in Robert Katz, ed. Protecting Consumer Interest, Ballinger, 1976, 233-246.
"Liberalism, Money, and the Situation of Organized Labor," in David Greenstone, ed. Public Values and Private Power in American Politics, University of Chicago Press, 1982, 173-206.
"Judicial Whipsaw: Interest Conflict, Corporate Business and the Seventh Amendment," Polity, Fall, 1985, 70-97.
"Union Politics and Post-War Liberalism in the United States, 1946-1979" Studies in American Political Development,1986, 215-254.
"Organized Labor and the Invention of American Liberalism," Studies in American Political Development, 1987, 317-336.
"Metaphysics and Reality in Late Nineteenth Century Labor Adjudication," in Christopher Tomlins and Andrew J. King, eds. Labor Law in America: Critical and Historical Perspectives, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, 160-79.
"Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a New Institutionalism," (with Stephen Skowronek) in Lawrence Dodd and Calvin Jillson, eds. The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Perspectives, Westview Press, 1993, 311-30. Essentially the same article appears under the title, "Order and Time in Institutional Study: A Brief for the Historical Approach," in Political Science in History: Research Programs and Political Traditions, eds. James Farr, John S. Drysek, and Stephen T. Leonard, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
"Labor Regulation and Constitutional Theory in the United States and England," Political Theory, Spring, 1994.
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"Institutions, Influences, and Antinomies: Reply to Professor Fisk," 19 Law and Social Inquiry (1994) 187-194.
"The Work of Government: Recovering the Discourse of Office in Marbury v. Madison," 8 Studies in American Political Development (1994), 60-80.
"The Primacy of Labor in American Constitutional Development," 89 American Political Science Review (1995) 377-88.
"Institutions and Intercurrence: Theory-Building in the Fullness of Time," (with Stephen Skowronek), in Russell Hardin and Ian Shapiro, eds., 38 Nomos: Political Order, 1995. (Replies by Fiorina, Burnham; rejoinder, Orren and Skowronek.)
"Institutions and Ideas," Symposium on History and Political Institutions, Polity, 1995.
"The Belly and the Members: A Historical-Institutionalist Perspective on the Pullman Strike," Studies in Law, Society, and Politics, 1996.
"Structure, Sequence, and Subordination: What's Traditions Got To Do With It?;" and Reply to Rogers Smith, Journal of Policy History, Fall, 1996.
"The Union Officer Before and After the Wagner Act," Industrial Relations Research Association, Proceedings, 1996. Exerpted in IRRA, Dialogues, May, 1996.
"'A War Between Officers': The Enforcement of the Law of Slavery in the Northern United States, and of the Republic for Which it Stands, Before the Civil War," Studies in American Political Development, Spring, 1998.
"Regimes and Regime Building: Some Lessons from the 1940s," with Stephen Skowronek, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 113, Winter 1998-99.
"In Search of Political Development," with Stephen 4
Skowronek, in American Political Development: Unitary, Conflicting or Multiple Traditions? eds. D. Ericson and J. Greene, Routledge, 1999.
"The Law of Master-and-Servant and Constitutional Rights in the United States during the Nineteenth Century" in Private Law in Industrializing Societies,ed. Wilibald Steinmetz, Oxford University Press, 2000, 313-334.
"Benjamin Harrison," in Alan Brinkley, ed. Readers' Companion to the American Presidency, Houghton Mifflin, 2000, 269-275.
“Officers’ Rights: Toward a Unified Field Theory of American Constitutional Development,” 4 Law and Society Review,2000, 873-909.
"Feudalism and the Constitution," entry in The Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution, eds. Kenneth Karst, Leonard Levy, and Adam Winkler, Macmillan, 2001.
“Constitutional Development in the United States and Argentina,” in Multiple Modernities: Comparative Perspectives on the Americas, eds. Luis Roniger and Carlos Waisman, eds. Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2002.
“Contempt,” entry in The Encyclopedia of American Law, ed. David A. Schultz, New York, Facts on File, Inc. 2002.
“American Political Development: Premises Unraveled, Inquiries Redirected,” (with Stephen Skowronek)in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, The State of the Discipline, 2000, Norton and APSA, 2002.
“Early American Local Government,” Encylopedia of The New American Nation, 1740-1820, ed. Paul Finkelman, Scribners and Sons, forthcoming 2005.
“The Laws of Industrial Organization, 1870-1920,” Cambridge History of Law in America, Vol. 2, Michael Grossberg and Christopher Tomlins, eds., 2008.
“What is Political Development: A Constitutional Perspective.” Review of Politics 72: (2011): 275-294. (with Stephen Skowronek)
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“Doing Time: A Theory of the Constitution,” Studies in American Political Development 26: (2012), 71-82.
“Cold Case File: Indictable Acts and Officer Accountability in Marbury v. Madison,” American Political Science Review 107 (2014)., 241-258 (with Chris Walker).
“Political Theory in Institutional Context: The Case of Patriot Royalism,” American Political Thought 3 (2014), pp. 1-31 (with John Compton)
“Constitutional, Civil, Criminal,”The Review of Politics 76 (2015), 635–65.
“Pathways to the Present: Political Development in America,” Oxford Handbook on American Political Development, eds. Robert Lieberman and Susanne Mettler, Oxford University Press, 2016.
“Rights as Process: a View From the Progressive Century,” in Stephen Engel and Stephen Skowronek, eds., The Progressive Century, Yale University Press, 2016
Edited volumes:
Studies in American Political Development, vol. 1-4 (with Stephen Skowronek) Yale University Press, 1986-90.
Studies in American Political Development, vol. 5-21 (with Stephen Skowronek), Cambridge University Press, 1991- 2007.
Research Presentations (first-time presentation only, since 1989)
"Feudalism, Liberalism, and the Remnant of American Labor," paper presented at the Woodrow Wilson Institute, Princeton University, 1989, 54 pp.
"Labor Adjudication in Late Nineteenth Century America,” paper presented at the Conference on American Labor Law History, University of Maryland School of Law, 1990, 36 pp.
"The Primacy of Labor in American Constitutional Development," paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American 6
Political Science Association, 1990, 47 pp.
"History and Political Science," Roundtable: History and the Social Sciences, Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, 1990, 11 pp.
"Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a New Institutionalism" (with Stephen Skowronek), Conference on American Politics, Boulder, Colorado, 1992, 72 pp.
"Labor Regulation and Constitutional Theory in the United Development," Annual Meetings of the Organization of American Historians, 1992
"The Work of Government," paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1992, 43 pp.
"American Exceptionalism," Roundtable presentation, Annual Meetings of the Western Political Science Association, 1993, 6 pp.
"Suits against Officeholders, Sovereign Immunity, and the Modernization of Government in the United States,” paper presented at the Conference on the Historical Experiences of American Modernization, American History Research Association of China, Weihei, People's Republic of China, August 1-4, 1993, 38 pp.
Reply to Professors Martin Shapiro, Katherine von Wesel Stone, and Morton Horwitz, Roundtable on Belated Feudalism, Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1993.
"Institutions and Ideas," Formal presentation at President's luncheon/Plenary session, Topic: Institutionalism, Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, 1993, 5 pp.
"'A War Between Officers': The Enforcement of Slave Law in The Northern United States," (Part I), Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, 1993, 37 pp.
"Structure, Sequence, and Subordination: What's Traditions Got to Do With It?," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1994, 16 pp.
"The Belly and the Members: a political-institutional 7
perspective on the Pullman Strike," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, 1994, 37 pp.
"Accidents Waiting to Happen: Structure and Time in Political Study" conference presentation, The Nation in Time, University of Texas, Austin, April 28-30, 1994, 11 pp.
"'A War Between Officers' (II): Habeas Corpus," Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, 1994, 57 pp.
"The New Institutionalism and Old Institutions: Officeholding and Political Development," Roundtable on The New Institutionalism, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, 1994, 12 pp.
"'A Dog's Obey'd in Office:' Thoughts on the Culture of Anglo-American Officeholding." Roundtable on Rethinking Political Culture, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1994, 12 pp.
"Officeholders' Rights," paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon, 1995, 37 pp.
"Stated Rights," Conference on "Where Are We in American Political Development?" Kennedy Center, Harvard University, October 14, 1995, 9 pp.
"Master and Servant Law and Constitutional Rights in the United States during the Nineteenth Century," Conference on Private Law in Industrializing Societies, German Historical Institute, London, Decemeber 14-17, 1995, 26pp.
"The Union Officer Before and After the Wagner Act," Annual Meetings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, San Francisco, January 7, 1996, 13 pp.
"In Search of Political Development," (with Stephen Skowronek), Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1996, 31pp.
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"Machine Constitutionalism: The Court, the Republican Party and the Eleventh Amendment in the Gilded Age," Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, 1997, 39 pp.
"Regimes and Institutions: Some Lessons From the 1940s," (with Stephen Skowronek), Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1997, 25 pp.
"Constitutionalism in the United States and Latin America in the Nineteenth Century: A 'Hard Look.'" Conference on the Americas, Max Weber Kolleg/University of Erfurt, 1998.
“Officers’ Rights: Toward a Unified Field Theory of America Constitutional Development,” Yale University, 1999.
“History and Governance in American Political Development,” (with Stephen Skowronek), Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2000.
“What Is Political Development?” (with Stephen Skowronek), Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2000.
“When History Matters Most,” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, 2002.
“A Single French Fry: the Supreme Court and the Depletion of Constitutional Law,” Faculty Research Lecture, UCLA, 2006.
“‘Warning from Runnymeade’: Deep Background on the Rehnquist-Roberts Court,” UC Berkeley School of Law, 2007
“Crime and the Constitution,” Harvard Law School Conference on American Political Development, 2009
“The Criminal Foundations of American Constitutionalism,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2010
“Doing Time: Criminal Law and Constituional Periodization,” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, 2010
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“Constitutional, Civil, Criminal,” Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association, 2011
“Cold Case File: Criminal Law Foundations of Constitutional Development in Marbury v. Madison,” with Chris Walker, Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association Meetings,” 2011
“The Policy State,” with Stephen Skowronek, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2011
“Political Theory in Institutional Context: the Case of Patriot Royalism,” with John Compton, was on program at American Political Science Association Meetings (cancelled by hurricaine), 2012
“Rights as Process,” presented at the Conference on “The Progressive Century, Yale Law School, Oct. 29, 2013
Selected professional items (since 1989)
Workshop Presentations: Yale University ("Metaphysics and Reality"); Stanford University ("Iconography of Order"); University of Oregon, USC, Reed College, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA Law School ("The Primacy of Labor"); University of Chicago ;("Officeholders' Rights"); USC, Berkeley, UC San Diego, Columbia, Yale("Toward a General Theory of American Constitutional Development"; UC Santa Cruz (“What is Political Development?”) [These were/are in various department and institute venues. ///Yale Politics Workshop (“Doing Time); University of Victoria (“Policy State”) UCLA Law School (“Constituional Foundations.”)
Convenor and Organizer (with Joyce Appleby, UCLA History Department), Conference on American Politics in Historical Perspective, UCLA, 1990
Invited Participant, Conference on the New Labor History, University of Maryland School of Law and Johns Hopkin University, 1990
Chair, Roundtable on History and Politics, APSA panel, 1991.
Discussant, APSA research panels in history and politics and in public law, 1991, 1992, 1995, others.
Chair, Panel on NAFTA and Domestic Labor Politics in the 10
USA, Mexico, and Canada, Annual Conference on Labor History, 1992
Co-Winner, J. David Greenstone Prize, 1993, best book, History and Politics section, APSA (with Theda Skocpol on 2-year cycle)
Chair, Schattschneider Award Committee, for best dissertation in American politics and government, APSA, 1991
Presenter, APSA Panel on the Research of J. David Greenstone, 1991
Editorial Board, Social Science History, 1989-91
Nominations Committee, Social Science History Association, 1993
President, History and Politics Section, APSA, 1995-6; Executive Committee, 1993-5; Nominations Committee, 1993-4; Audio Committee, 1996-7
Discussant, UCLA Seminar on Comparative and Social History, 1991; Presenter, Religious Studies Conference, UCLA, 1991; Institute of Industrial Relations Annual Research Conference, 1993
Chair, Roundable on Stephen Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, 1994
Invited participant, conference on Historical Experiences of American Modernization, American History Research Association of China, Weihei, People's Republic of China, August 19-23, 1993.
Invited participant, conference on The Nation in Time, University of Texas, Austin, April 28-30, 1994
Commentator, Panel on Kitty Calavita, Inside the State, Law & Society Meetings, 1994
Invited Participant, Conference on the Centenniary of the Pullman Strike, Indiana State University, 1994 11
Manuscript reviewer for American Political Science Review, Polity, Law and Social Inquiry, Journal of American History, American Sociological Review, American Political Thought, Political Science Review, others. I am an occasional reader of book manuscripts for several university presses (Cambridge, Hopkins, Oxford, Princeton, et al.)
Selection Committee, Political Science Bibliography, American Studies Libraries Abroad, USIA and ACLS, 1993-94
Member, Committee to award Congressional Quarterly prize for the best paper written by a graduate student in 1994 on law or courts, Public Law Section, APSA, 1995
Discussant, State and Society in Antebellum America, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, 1995
Chair, panel on "Organizing Past and Present," Southwest Labor Studies Conference, 1995
Presenter, Roundtable: "Looking Back on Theodore Lowi's The End of Liberalism," APSA, 1995
Invited Participant, conference on "Where Are We in American Political Development?" John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1995
Invited Participant, conference on Private Law in Industrializing Societies, German Historical Institute, London, December 14-17, 1995.
Chair, Roundtable on Alan Brinkley's The End of Reform, Western Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, 1996.
Chair, Willard Hurst Prize (best book on legal history in 1994 and 1995, Law and Society Association), awarded in Glasgow, Scotland, 1996.
Discussant, "Globalization in Perspective: Legal Cultures and Labor Migration in the British North Atlantic World, 1500-1800," Annual Meetings of the Law & Society 12
Association, Glasgow, 1996
Presenter, Author Meets Critic: Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword, Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1996
Invited Participant, Conference on "Liberalism: Consensus, Conflictual, or Multiple Traditions" University of Chicago, 1996.
Member, Committee on Organized Sections, American Political Science Association, 1997-99
Invited Participant, Conference on the Americas, Max Weber Institute for Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt, 1998 (Convenors: G. Schlucter, S. Eisenstadt).
Member, editorial advisory board, Law and Society Review, 1998-2000
Invited member, Study group on the Early American State, Wilson Center/ Smithsonian Institution, 1998.
Winner, Franklin L. Burdette Prize, given by the American Political Science Association for the best paper presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting ("Machine Constitutionalism.")
Member, Willard Hurst Prize Committee, Law and Society Association, 2001-2, 2003-4
Member, Editorial Board, Labor History, 2003-present
Manuscript judge, Law & Humanities Junior Scholars Conference, 2004, 2005.
Presenter, Workshop on APD Methodology, Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, 2004.
Author Meets Critics: The Search for American Political Development, Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, 2004
Faculty Research Lecturer, UCLA, 2006 13
Editor, UCLA team, APSR, 2007-2009
Board of Editors, American Political Thought, 2013-
Member, Committee to select recipient of 2015 Life-Time Achievement Award, Law and Courts section, American Political Science Association
Other:
Major service at UCLA includes:
Executive Board, College of Letters and Science; Secretary, College of Letters and Science; Academic Senate, UCLA: Legislative Assembly; Member, Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction; Chair and Member, Committee on Privilege and Tenure (Faculty Privileges); Chair and Member, Committee on Charges (Faculty Conduct); Vice-Chair (in charge of North Campus faculty) and member, Council on Academic Personnel(Appointments and Promotions); Committee on Budget and Planning. State-wide Committee on Privilege and Tenure. Search Committee, Dean, College of Letters and Science; Search Committee for Chair; Institute of Industrial Relations. Vice-President's Task Force on Sexual Harassment Policy; Vice-Chancellor's Committee on Disciplinary Procedures. Letters and Science Faculty Advisory Committee, Undergraduate Program in Labor and Workplace (cont’d…) Studies. Faculty Advisory Committee, Institute of Industrial Relations; Committee to Select UCLA Research Lecturer
Member, Investigating Committee, AAUP, 1995
Chair, UCLA Faculty Association, 1998-2002; Member, Executive Board, 1993-2005, 2007-2013; Treasurer, University of California FA Council, 1997-2004.