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CHRISTOPHER J. DEERING Department of Political Science The George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 Telephone: (202) 994-6564 E-mail: [email protected] PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Academic Professor of Political Science, 1998- The George Washington University Courses include: Legislative Politics, Introduction to American Government, American Political Process, Interest-Group Politics, Executive-Legislative Relations, Positive Theories of American Government, Domestic Public Policy, Congress and Foreign Policy, Congress and National Security Policy, Positive Theories of American Political Institutions, Systematic Inquiry/Research Design, Methods of Political Analysis. Associate Professor of Political Science The George Washington University, 1985-1998 Assistant Professor of Political Science The George Washington University, 1978-1985. Instructor in Political Science The George Washington University, Spring 1978 Administrative Senior Associate Dean and Associate Provost, 2013 – present. Management, planning, and operations at the GW Virginia Science and Technology Campus. Academic Placement Director, 2009 – 2013. Responsibilities include counseling, representing, and “coaching” PhD students who are on the academic job market. Subfield Coordinator, American Politics, 2008 – 2012. Duties include advising American politics graduate students, coordinating and participating in comprehensive examinations, planning seminar scheduling, and participating on the graduate admissions committee. Chair, Department of Political Science, 2002 – 2008 Responsible for all aspects of departmental administration – including budgeting, personnel, recruitment, planning, and development – for a department with 43 full time tenured and tenure track members, 40-60 part time instructors, and a doctoral program of 100 students. Primary reporting responsibilities were to the Dean of Columbian College of Arts and Science with additional reporting responsibilities to the Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs. Associate Dean for Budget and Planning, Columbian College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University, 1990-1994. Responsibilities: Prepared and managed $35 million budget (1994 dollars), coordinated space and facilities planning, managed departmental equipment purchases, assisted in the merger of formerly independent undergraduate college and graduate school (including drafting of new bylaws), and acted as Dean’s liaison to the Curriculum Committee, Director of Academic Planning and Development, Congressional Fellowship Program, American Political Science Association, 1989-1998. Responsibilities: Perform as academic advisor to the fellowship Program, plan and execute annual selection process, help plan and execute fund raising and development activities, represent the Association and Program on the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship Board. Academic Director, Master of Arts in Legislative Affairs, 1978-1993. Responsibilities: Performed as academic adviser for 35-50 MA candidates, managed curriculum development, planned course schedules, recruited and appointed program faculty, and participated in all program promotional activities. Professional Legislative Aide, George J. Mitchell, U.S. Senate, 1984-85. (Under the auspices of the American Political Science Association's Congressional Fellowship Program.) Areas of responsibility: foreign and defense policy, agriculture, fisheries and marine policy, and labor. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1979. Fields of Study: American Politics (National Institutions), International Relations, and Public Law. Dissertation: Arms Transfers and Congressional Policy Making (Roger H. Davidson, Director). M.A. in Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1975. Fields of Study: American Politics, International Relations, Public Law, and Political Theory. B.A. in Political Science, University of Southern California, 1974. RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS Interest Groups Unleashed, Paul Herrnson, Christopher J. Deering, and Clyde Wilcox, eds. Washington, D.C.: Sage/CQ Press. (2012) Committees in Congress, Christopher J. Deering and Steven S. Smith. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 3rd ed. 1997, 2nd ed. 1990, 1st ed. 1984. Translated into Portuguese as Comissoes Do Congresso Dos Estados Unidos (Brazil: Centro Grafico de Senado Federal, 1986) and excerpted in David C. Kozak and John D. Macartney, Congress and Public Policy: A Sourcebook of Documents and Readings, 2nd ed. (Chicago: The Dorsey Press, 1987). Congressional Politics, Christopher J. Deering, ed. Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1989. Arms Transfers and Congressional Policy Making, Christopher J. Deering, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, December 1979. Articles and Chapters “Salience, Complexity, and State Resistance to Federal Mandates,” Steven J. Balla and Christopher J. Deering. Journal of Public Policy. Published online February 9, 2015. “Constitutional Choices: Uncertainty and Institutional Design in Democratizing Nations,” co- authored by Jai Kwan Jung. International Political Science Review. 36 (January 2015): 60-77. “Oversight Over Time and Across Committees: An Operational Measure of Police Patrols and Fire Alarms.” Steven J. Balla, co-author. Congress & The Presidency. 40 (2013): 27-40. “Introduction,” in Paul Herrnson, Christopher J. Deering, and Clyde Wilcox, Interest Groups Unleashed. Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 2012: xiv-xx. “More Bang for the Buck: Defense Industry Contributions and the 2010 Elections,” Jake Haselswerdt and Christopher J. Deering, in Paul Herrnson, Christopher J. Deering, and Clyde Wilcox, Interest Groups Unleashed. Washington D.C.: Sage/CQ Press, 2012: 225-234. “Interest Groups Unleashed: Beyond the 2010 Election Cycle,” Paul S. Herrnson, Christopher J. Deering, and Clyde Wilcox, Interest Groups Unleashed. Washington D.C.: Sage/CQ Press, 2012: 69-92. “Who Makes the News? Cabinet Visibility from 1897 to 2006,” co-authored with Lee Sigelman. Issues in Governance Studies, No. 42, November 2011, 1-14. “Congress’s Role in Foreign Policy Making,” in Guy Ziv, Readings in US Foreign Policy Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing. 2011. This is a reprint of a paper delivered at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in 2009. “State Opposition to REAL ID,” co-authored by Priscilla M. Regan. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 39 (Summer 2009): 476-505. “Determinants of House Committee Chair Selection: Republicans Play Musical Chairs in the 107th Congress,” co-authored by Paul J. Wahlbeck. American Politics Research 34 (March 2006): 1-20. “Foreign Affairs and War,” in The Legislative Branch and American Democracy: Institutions and Performance. Eds. Paul Quirk and Sarah Binder. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. 349-381. “Musical Chairs: Interest Groups, Campaign Fundraising, and Selection of House Committee Chairs,” co-authored with Paul R. Brewer. The Interest Group Connection: Electioneering, Lobbying, and Policymaking in Washington. Paul S. Herrnson, Ronald G. Shaiko, and Clyde Wilcox, eds. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. 2005: 141-164. “La Evolucion del Parlamento Americano” (“Evolution of America’s Parliament”), co-authored with Connie A. Veillette, in El Parlamento En El Tiemp. Vitoria-Gasteiz: Eusko Legebiltzarra, 2003, 421- 450. “Ebb and Flow in Twentieth-Century Committee Power,” The United States Congress: A Century of Change, ed. Sunil Ahuja and Robert Dewhirst. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003: 137-156. “The Rhetoric of Presidential Veto Messages,” co-authored by Lee Sigelman and Jennifer L. Saunders. Contemporary Presidential Studies: A Reader. Robert P. Watson, ed. New York: Nova History Publications. 2002: 73-91. “Alarms and Patrols: Legislative Oversight in Foreign and Defense Policy.” Congress and the Politics of Foreign Policy. Nicol C. Rae, John Stack, and Colton C. Campbell, eds. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. 2003: 112-138. “’Wading Knee Deep in Words, Words, Words’: Senatorial Rhetoric in the Johnson and Clinton Impeachment Trials,” co-authored by Lee Sigelman and Burdett A. Loomis. Congress & the Presidency 28 (Autumn 2001): 119-139. “The Rhetoric of Presidential Veto Messages.” co-authored by Lee Sigelman and Jennifer L. Saunders. White House Studies. Vol. 1, No. 2, 2001: 145 - 165. “Principle or Party? Foreign and National Security Policy Making in the Senate.” The Myth of Cool Judgment Partisanship and Ideology in the Contemporary Senate. Colton C. Campbell and Nicol C. Rae, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2001: 43-61. “The Politics of Executive Orders: Legislative Constraints on Presidential Power,” co-authored by Forrest Maltzman, Political Research Quarterly (December 1999): 767-783. “Learning to Legislate: Committees in the Republican Congress,” in New Majority or Old Minority? The Impact of the Republicans on Congress. Colton C. Campbell and Nicol C. Rae, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999: 91-113. “Career Advancement and Subcommittee Chairs in the U.S. House of Representatives: 86th to 103rd Congresses,” American Politics Quarterly 24 (January 1996): 3-23. “Congress, The President, and Automatic Government: The Case of Military Base Closures,” in James A. Thurber, ed., Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1996), 153-169. “Specializing in Congress: Finding Your Niche,” in Setting Course: A Congressional Management Guide, Congressional Management Foundation, 104th Congress edition,