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, 1994, pp. 43-76.

“Decision Making in the Armed Services Committees,” in Randall Ripley and James Lindsay, eds., Congress Resurgent: Foreign and Defense Policy on Capitol Hill (University of Michigan Press, 1993): 155- 182.

“Congress, The President and War Powers: The Perennial Debate,” in James A. Thurber, ed., Divided Democracy: Cooperation and Conflict Between the President and Congress (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1990): 171-197. (This piece also appears as American University Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies Working Paper No. 89-8.)

“Congressional Politics: An Introduction and An Approach,” pp. 1-13, in Congressional Politics, Christopher J. Deering, ed. (Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1989).

“National Security Policy and Congress,” pp. 284-305, in Congressional Politics, Christopher J. Deering, ed. (Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1989).

“Congress, The President, and Military Policy,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 499 (September 1988): 136-147.

“Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't: The Senate's Role in the Confirmation Process,” in G. Calvin Mackenzie, ed., The Inners and Outers (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987): 100-119.

“Leadership in the Slow Lane,” PS 19 (Winter 1986): 37-42.

“Subcommittee Government” (co-authored with Steven S. Smith), in Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, eds., Congress Reconsidered, 3rd edition, (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1985): 189-210.

“Congress and Foreign Policy: Toward A More Functional Analysis,” Congress & the Presidency 10 (Autumn 1983): 241-249.

“Changing Motives for Committee Preferences of New Members of the U.S. House,” (Co-authored with Steven S. Smith) Legislative Studies Quarterly 8 (May 1983): 271-282.

“Subcommittee Government in the U.S. House: An Analysis of Bill Management,” Legislative Studies Quarterly 7 (November 1982): 533-546.

“Majority Party Leadership and the New House Subcommittee System (Co-authored with Steven S. Smith), in Frank H. Mackaman, ed., Understanding Congressional Leadership (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1981): 261-292.

Working Papers

Lee Sigelman and Christopher J. Deering, “Who Makes the News? Cabinet Visibility from 1897 to 2006.”

Reports, Entries, and Reviews

Editor, “The Committee System,” Chapter 16 of The Guide to Congress. CQ Press: Washington DC (Sixth Edition), 2008: 625-672, (Seventh Edition), 2012.

“In Memoriam: Lee Sigelman,” co-authored with Forrest Maltzman. PS: Political Science and Politics. 43 (July 2010): 588-590.

“Institutional Challenges—Congress,” in Divided Diplomacy and the Next Administration: Conservative and Liberal Alternatives, Henry R. Nau and David Shambaugh, eds. Washington, D.C., Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, 2004: 41-46.

“Why Congressional Reforms Fail: Reelection and the House Committee System,” E. Scott Adler, in Journal of Legislative Studies 9 (2004).

"Armed Services Committee, House,” and "Armed Services Committee, Senate,” in Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller, eds. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995: 90-93 and 93-96.

Leadership in Committee, C. Lawrence Evans and The Emergence of a Senate Leader: Pete Domenici and the Reagan Budget, Richard F. Fenno, Jr. in American Political Science Review 87 (March 1993): 212-213.

The New American Politician, Burdett Loomis, in Congress & the Presidency 17 (Spring, 1990): 79-81.

“The Budget Process”, in The View from the Capitol Hill: Lawmakers on Congressional Reform, Center for Responsive Politics (Washington DC, 1989): 45-53.

Congress Speaks--A Survey of the 100th Congress. Center for Responsive Politics. Report written by Peter Lindstrom with statistical information compiled by Christopher J. Deering and Linda L. Fisher. (1988)

To Serve The People: Congress and Constituency Service, John R. Johannes, in Congress & the Presidency 12 (Spring 1985): 84-85.

“Senate Confirmation,” in The National Academy of Public Administration, The Presidential Appointee's Handbook, (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Public Administration, 1985): 25-35.

“Career Advancement and Subcommittee Chairs,” in Legislative Studies Section Newsletter 8 (April 1985): 20-21.

Clipped Wings: The American SST Conflict, Mel Horwitch, in Congress & the Presidency 9 (Autumn 1982): 122-123.

Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy, 1929-1976, Robert A. Pastor, in American Political Science Review 75 (September 1981): 781-782.

Foreign Policy By Congress, Thomas M. Franck and Edward Weisband, American Political Science Review 74 (September 1980): 822-823.

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

“Who Makes the News? Cabinet Visibility from 1897 to 2006,” co-authored with Lee Sigelman. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington, September 2, 2011.

“Partisanship, Sectionalism, and Policy Change: The Case of the National Army,” co-authored by Rachel Paine Caufield, and Jason A. MacDonald. Presented at the History of Congress Conference, UC Berkeley, June 10, 2010.

“State Resistance to Federal Mandates: A Cross-Case Analysis,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, August 2009.

“Congress’s Role in Foreign Policymaking.” Presented at “The Role of Congress in Foreign Policymaking,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., May 18, 2009.

“Constitutional Choices,” co-authored by Jai Kwan Jung. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois, April 2009.

“The Contours of Foreign and Defense Oversight in the Post-World War II Era,” co-authored with Matthew A. Steele (PhD Student), for the Center for the Study of the Presidency’s Project on National Security. May 2008.

“Congress and Foreign Policy Making in the 21st Century: The Case of U.S.-Korea Relations.” Prepared for presentation at the Korean Association of International Studies Conference, “The Second-Term Bush Administration and ROK-US Relations.” Seoul, Korea, March 24-25, 2005.

“Foreign Affairs and War,” Presented at the Institutions of American Democracy Project hosted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2004.

“Evolution of the American Parliament,” (co-authored with Connie Veillette) prepared for the “History of Parliament” seminar, Basque Parliament, Vitoria, Spain, January 14th and 16th, 2003. (To be published as part of the proceedings from the conference.)

“Determinants of House Committee Chair Selection: Republicans Play Musical Chairs in the 107th Congress.” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2002 (with Paul Wahlbeck).

“Interest Groups, Campaign Fundraising, and Committee Chair Selection: House Republicans Play Musical Chairs.” Paul R. Brewer, co-author. Presented at the Interest Group Connection Conference, Center for American Politics and Citizenship, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, October 12, 2001.

“Oversight Over Time and Across Committees: An Operational Measure of Police Patrols and Fire Alarms.” Steven J. Balla, co-author. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 19-22, 2001.

“Alarms and Patrols: The Evolution of Legislative Oversight in Foreign and Defense Policy.” Presented at the conference: “Congress and the Politics of Foreign Policy.” Florida International University, Miami, Florida, January 12, 2001.

“’Wading Knee Deep in Words, Words, Words’: Senatorial Rhetoric in the Johnson and Clinton Impeachment Trials.” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago Illinois, April 27-30, 2000.

“Principle or Party? Foreign and National Security Policy Making in the Senate.” Presented at the conference: “The Myth of Cool Judgment? Partisanship and Ideology in the Contemporary Senate.” Florida International University, Miami, Florida, January 22, 2000.

“Restoration or Progress?: The Intellectual Origins of Reform in American Politics,” co-authored by Ingrid Creppell, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 15-17, 1999.

“Presidential Signaling in Veto Messages: Variation and Change,” co-authored by Lee Sigelman and Jennifer L. Saunders, Southwestern Political Science Association, San Antonio, Texas, March 31-April 3, 1999.

“Partisanship, Sectionalism, and Policy Change: The Case of the National Army,” co-authored by Rachel Paine Caufield, and Jason A. MacDonald, American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, September 3-6, 1998.

“The Politics of Executive Orders: Legislative Constraints on Presidential Power,” co-authored by Forrest Maltzman, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 23-25, 1998. Nominated for the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (best paper) and Patrick J. Fett Award (best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency).

“Learning to Legislate: Committees in the Republican Congress.” Presented at the conference: “The Impact of the New Majority: Congress Under Republican Control”, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, January 31, 1998.

"Congress and Foreign Policy: Substantive and Procedural Legislation in the Post-War Era,” co- authored by Christine V. Emery, International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 21-25, 1995.

"The Class of '64: An Examination of a Watershed House Cohort,” (co-authored by Charles E. King) Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 5-7, 1990.

“Congress, The President and War Powers: Perspectives on a Third Century,” Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, D.C., November 8, 1989.

“Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't: The Senate's Role in the Nomination Process,” American Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 29-September 1, 1985.

“Career Advancement and Subcommittee Chairs in the U.S. House of Representatives,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 18-20, 1985.

“The New Apprenticeship: Strategies of Effectiveness for New Members of the U.S. House,” American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1984.

“Subcommittee Government” (Co-authored with Steven S. Smith), American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September, 1983.

“Policy Leadership in Congress: Bill Management as a Measure of Decentralization in the U.S. House of Representatives,” Western Political Science Association, San Diego, California, March, 1982.

“Majority Party Leadership and the Effects of Decentralization,” (Co-authored with Steven S. Smith), presented at a conference, “Understanding Congressional Leadership: The State of the Art,” sponsored by the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center and the Sam Rayburn Library, Washington, D.C., June, 1980.

“Adaptation and Consolidation in Congress' Foreign Policy Committees: Evolution in the 1970s,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1980.

“The Turkish Arms Embargo: Arms Transfers, European Security, and Domestic Politics,” International Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, March 1979.

“Congressional Control of Arms Transfers: The Evolution of Executive-Legislative Relations,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1979.

“Moral Aspects of the Arms Sales Debate,” International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, March 1979.

“Congress: The Dual Incentive System,” American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 1979.

“Eastern Europe as a Domestic Political Issue in the U.S.,” International Studies Association, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1977.

RESEARCH AND CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Deepwater Horizon Task Force, expert witness/consultant. 2013 – present. Consultancy concerns legal questions regarding the status of subcommittees in Congress.

Sultan Qaboos University. Curriculum Consultant. Designed a new major and minor in political science for the University that was subsequently approved by the University academic council and is now being implemented.

Center for the Study of the Presidency’s Project on National Security. May 2008. “The Contours of Foreign and Defense Oversight in the Post-World War II Era.”

Asia Foundation, Consultancy on the American Political System at Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, September 19 – 30, 2005

National Planning and Consulting Corporation (Consultant)--”Congressional Database” (1991)

Center for Responsive Politics (Consultant and Advisory Board Member)--Congressional Operations Project (1987-88): “Congress Speaks--A Survey of the 100th Congress."

National Academy of Public Administration (Consultant) -- Presidential Appointee Project (1984-85): “The Senate Confirmation Process."

Congressional Management Project (Consultant) -- Orientation Manual for New Members in Congress (1984): “Orientation and office Organization of the 98th Congress.” (Revised editions appear at the outset of each congress.)

Consultant, Tony P. Hall, U.S. House of Representatives, 1982. Assisted in research, wrote floor statement, and assisted in the preparation of H.Res. 128 with respect to conventional arms transfers.

Consultant, Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Senate, 1980. Assisted in preparation and summation of Hearings: “U.S. Conventional Arms Transfer Policy, “ March 1980.

AWARDS

Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for University Service, George Washington University, 2012.

American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship, 1984-1985.

Brookings Institution Research Fellowship in Governmental Studies, 1977-1978.

National Security Education Seminar, Sponsored by the National Security Information Center and New York University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June-July 1978.

Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1975-1977.

Grant, Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center, June 1982. “House Majority Party Leadership and Committee Composition."

Grant, Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center, August 1981. “Policy Leadership in the New Congress."

Grant, George Washington University Committee on Research, October 1980. “Decision-Making in the New Congressional Committee System."

CREATIVE ENDEAVORS

Prop Master, Providence Players, “The Women,” by Clare Boothe Luce, October 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, and 29, 2005. Juror Nine (Old Man), in The Providence Community Players production of “Twelve Angry Men,” by Reginald Rose, February 18, 19, 25, 26, 27, March 4 and 5, 2005. Stage Manager, “Let Me Sing,” by Paul Nasto and Susan Devine, National Theater, Helen Hayes Gallery, September 29, 2003. Senator Norville Hedges, in The Providence Community Players production of “Born Yesterday,” by Garson Kanin, January 2002. Don Blades, in The Frost Community Players production of “The Best Man,” by Gore Vidal, October 20, 21, 27, and 28, 2000. Stage Manager, The Frost Community Players production of “Macbeth Did It,” by John Patrick, October 15, 16, 22, 23, 1999. Eric, in The Frost Community Players production of “Macbeth Did It,” by John Patrick, October 15, 16, 22, 23, 1999.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Service

President, National Capital Political Science Association, 2009-2010; President-elect, National Capital Political Science Association, 2008-2009; Advisory Board member, American Political Science Association, Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs; Editorial Board member, Legislative Studies Quarterly and Congress & the Presidency; appointed member, Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize Committee (for the best book on Congress published in 1993) and CQ Prize Committee (for best paper on legislative politics delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association 1992); appointed member, Academic Board of Advisors, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University; elected member, National Capital Area Political Science Association Council; appointed member, Center for Responsive Politics, Advisory Board, Congressional Operations Project; appointed member, Selection Committee, American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program; appointed member, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship Board; National Science Foundation, Proposal Review Panel, 20009 and January 2013; tenure and promotion referee for UC Santa Cruz, American University, Davidson College, University of Missouri—Rolla, University of Oklahoma, Ohio University, Miami University (Ohio)(twice), and University of Delaware; outside dissertation evaluator, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Discussant, Moderator, Guest Speaker

Participating on panels sponsored by the Dirksen Congressional Research Center, the Office of Technology Assessment, the American Political Science Association, APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, History of Congress Conference, Asia Foundation (Thua Thien – Hue Provincial Library, Hue Vietnam), the International Studies Association's Section on Military Studies, the International Studies Association, the Overseas Development Council, the Midwest Political Science Association, College-Community Bicentennial Forum, The Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, The George Washington University symposium, the USDA Graduate School, Capitol.net, The Citadel National Student Conference.

Reviewer

Peer review and evaluation of manuscripts and research proposals for, inter alia, Brooks/Cole, Dorsey Press, Random House, McGraw-Hill, Rowman and Littlefield, Congressional Quarterly, Johns Hopkins University Press, Harper and Row, University of Kentucky Press, the National Science Foundation, Administration & Society, American Political Science Review, American Politics Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, Congress and the Presidency, Journal of Legislative Studies, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, Perspectives on Politics, Political Research Quarterly, PS, Social Science Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Review, and Science, Technology and Human Values.

Lectures and Presentations

For a variety of groups and organizations including the American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program (annually), Canadian Parliamentary Internship Program, Elmer Ball Fellows (Department of Agriculture Graduate School), The Asia Foundation, Office of Personnel Management, Delphi International, U.S.I.A., Taft Seminar, Association of Community College Trustees, Johns Hopkins SAIS, Gannett Foundation (Paul Miller Fellows), Office of Personnel Management, Freedoms Foundation, GW College Democrats and College Republicans, Congressional Management Foundation, Capitol.Net, ESIA US Foreign Policy Institute, Canada School of Public Service (2010), Bipartisan Policy Center (2011), Korean Economic Institute (2011), George Washington University Carlos Slim Scholars (2014).

Interviews

For a variety of print and electronic media including news services such as AP, UPI, Newhouse, Ottoway, Gannett, States News, Canadian News, Scripps-Howard, and Knight-Ridder; newspapers such as the New York Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Portland Press-Herald, Los Angeles Times, Minneapolis Tribune, Roll Call, Straits Times, La Opinion, Yomiuri Shimbum, Atlanta Constitution; news weeklies such as U.S. News and World Report, Business Week, Time, and Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report; television outlets such as Nippon Television, WNVC (Virginia Cable), C-SPAN, Monitor Television, MTV News, Voice of America, MBC Seoul, Korean National Assembly Television, King Broadcasting, ABC News INTV, WNBC (New York), and ORF (German Television); and radio outlets such as Mutual Radio, National Public Radio, Radio Marti, Marketplace (American Public Radio), and Christian Science Monitor Radio

Administrative

Academic Director, Master of Arts in Legislative Affairs Program (1978-1992); Internship Advisor and Public Policy Advisor, Department of Political Science(1978-1984); Elected member of the University Faculty Senate, Chair of the Faculty Senate Committees on Student Financial Aid 1987-88, University Libraries 1988-89, and Professional Ethics and Academic Freedom, 1989-90; Member of the Faculty Senate Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics (1986-87); University Committee on Research, 1999-2002; Millennium Seminars Committee, 1999; VPAA Informal Advisory Committee, 2004 and 2005; Chair, University Research and Instructional Technologies Committee, 2001-2003; Member, University Information Technology Executive Committee, 2001-2003; GTAP Orientation Program, 2008-2013; American Studies Advisory Committee; faculty representative, Truman Scholarship Foundation; Member, University Seminars Committee 2007, Policy Studies Fellowship Committee 2003, 2004, 2007; elected member, Columbian College Promotion and Tenure Committee (2010-2013); Chair, CCAS Promotion and Tenure Committee (2011-2012, 2012-13); appointed member, University Steering Committee of the Strategic Planning Committee for Athletics (and Subcommittee on Development and Fundraising (2010-11); faculty adviser, Freshman Advising Workshop, 1995-1997; Internship Committee and Security Policy Studies Committee, School of Public and International Affairs; Arts and Sciences Self Study Committee; Graduate School of Political Management Review Committee 1994; Public Administration—Public Policy MA Review Committee 1991 (ex officio); Department of Physics Academic Program Review Committee; Department Graduate Admissions Committee (2009 – 2011); Social Sciences Subcommittee, G-PAC Committee, CCAS 2010-2011; coordinator, Marvin Center 5th Floor renovation project (2011-2012); and participation on numerous department and university recruitment committees including that for the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (twice), Judaic Studies Program Director, Charles E. Smith Chair in Judaic Studies (2009), Graduate School of Political Management Executive Director (2010), Vice President for Human Resources (2011); member Steven Joel Trachtenberg Prize for Service selection committee (2014); interview panel member, executive director and general manager of auxiliary services, Division of Operations (2014); Mail and Package Services Contract Evaluation Committee (2014); Academic Program Review, GSPM Legislative Affairs Program (2014-15); GW representative on University Center [Ashburn] Owners Association (2015- ).