Garrison Nelson

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CURRICULUM VITA

CURRICULUM VITA

NAME: Garrison Nelson

PRESENT FACULTY APPINTMENT:

Elliott A. Brown Green and Gold Professor of Law, Politics, and Political Behavior

Department of Political Science

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont 05405

CONTACTS

Phones 1-802-656-4223 UVM office 1-802-656-0758 UVM fax

e-mail garrison.nelson@uvm.edu or gnelson@uvm.edu

Home 1-802-655-3789 Cell 1-802-249-7501 UVM Off

EDUCATION

A.B. Boston University, 1964

M.A. University of Iowa, 1966

Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1973

Dissertation Topic

“Party Control Periods in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Recruitment

of Its Leaders, 1789-1971”

Specialized Training: University of Michigan, 1976, Interuniversity Consortium for Political Research

Summer Program in Data Analysis

AREAS OF INTEREST

American politics and government with special emphasis on political parties and the U.S. Congress;

political behavior with emphasis on socialization, leadership, and legislative voting; politics in New

England and Vermont, and public policy formation and analysis with emphasis upon energy legislatio).

PUBLICATIONS

Books

John William McCormack: A Political Biography (New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming, 2016).

Pathways to the U.S. Supreme Court from the Arena to the Monastery (New York: Palgrave

Macmillan, 2013) hardbound and (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Group, forthcoming,

2016).

Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1993-2010, co-edited with Charles Stewart III of the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology (Washington, D.C.: Sage/CQ Press, 2011). The book was reviewed in

Booklist (December, 2010), Choice (April, 2011), and American Reference Book Annual (2011).

This is an update of the 1947-1992 volumes.

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NOTE: According to OCLC reports and other library catalogue searches, more than 2000 volumes

of this seven-volume set may be found in close to 500 libraries in the United States and thirteen

foreign countries, Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong,

Ireland, Japan, Scotland, Switzerland, and Turkey. NOTE: According to OCLC reports and other library catalogue searches, more than 2000 volumes of this seven-volume set may be found in close to 500 libraries in the United States and thirteen foreign countri NOT

The Austin-Boston Connection: Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937-1989, co-authored

with Anthony Champagne of the University of Texas-Dallas, James Riddlesperger of Texas Christian

University and Douglas B. Harris of Loyola College-Maryland (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M

University Press, 2009). Finalist for the 2010 D.B. Hardeman Prize at the Lyndon B. Johnson

Presidential Library and Museum. The book was reviewed in Choice (March, 2010); Legislative

Studies Section Newsletter, American Political Science Association (2010), and the East Texas

Historical Journal (2010)

NOTE: According to OCLC reports and other library catalogue searches, copies of this book may be

found in 809 libraries in the United States and 49 foreign countries, Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia,

Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic,

Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala,

Guyana, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro,

Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation,

Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates.

Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1789-1946, Vol. 1, House Standing Committees, 1789-1946

(Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 2002), 949 pp.; Vol. 2, Senate Standing Committees,

1807-1946 (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 2002), 1166 pp.; Vol. 3, Members, 1789-

1946 (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 2002), 946 pp.; and Vol. 4, Select Committees,

1789-1946 (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 2002), 931 pp. Co-edited with Charles

Stewart III of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and David T. Canon of the University of

Wisconsin. These books were named a "Best Reference Source, 2002," by the Library Journal

(March, 2003) and reviewed in Congress and the Presidency (Spring, 2003); Choice (July-August,

2003) and American Reference Book Annual (2004).

Associate Editor, The Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System (New York: Charles Scribner's

Sons, 1994). Sixteen essays for Part II, "Legislative Recruitment, Elections and Personnel." Vol. I,

pp. 301-561. Joel H. Silbey of Cornell was the Editor-in-Chief. The books were reviewed in:

Library Journal (June 1, 1994); Booklist (July, 1994); School Library Journal (February, 1995); and

Perspectives on Political Science (Summer, 1995).

Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1947-1992, Vol. 1, Committee Jurisdictions and Membership Rosters

(Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1993), xlv, 1015 pp.

Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1947-1992, Vol. 2, Committee Histories and Member Assignments

(Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1993), xxi, 1048 pp. The books were reviewed in:

Library Journal (1993), Wilson Library Bulletin (November, 1993), American Reference Book

Annual (1993 and 1995), Booklist (April 1,1994); Choice (April, 1994 and February, 1996); the

Legislative Studies Section Newsletter, American Political Science Association (November, 1993

and July, 1995), Journal of Government Information (May-June, 1994).

Primary and General Elections: Including Presidential Preference Primary: Vermont 1980 (Burlington,

Vt.: University of Vermont and State Agricultural College for the Office of Secretary of State,

1981). Co-edited with Clark H. Bensen.

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PUBLICATIONS

Primary and General Elections: Vermont 1980 (Burlington, Vt.: University of Vermont and State

Agricultural College for the Office of Secretary of State, 1979). Co-edited with Clark H. Bensen.

Monographs, Manuals and Teaching Materials

Political Analysis: Theory and Research in American Politics (Iowa City, Iowa: Sernoll Inc., 1965). Co-

authored with Robert Paul Boynton and Ronald D. Hedlund .

Using CALLIOPE: A Manual (Burlington, Vt.: Polimetric Associates, 1985). Co-authored with Steven D.

Berkowitz.

New England Political Environment: Overviews and Assessments, prepared with the 1999 M.S. Public

Affairs class at the University of Massachusetts-Boston (Boston: U-Mass-Boston McCormack

Institute, 1998).

Analyzing Political Leadership: An Introduction, a 250 page manuscript used in "Political Leadership" at

the University of Vermont, 1993-2007 (Burlington: University of Vermont, 2006).

Political Leadership in America, a 350 page manuscript used in "Political Leadership" at the University of

Vermont, 1995-2007 (Burlington: University of Vermont, 2006).

Contention and Compromise: Collected Essays on Congressional History, Leadership and Committees,

prepared for "The Congressional Process," University of Vermont, 2004.

A Damaged Presidency? A Collection of Essays on Presidential Selection and Performance, prepared for

“Political Parties and Elections,” University of Vermont, 2006.

Articles in Professional Journals and Book Chapters

"Elections and the Political Process," in James R. Soles, Ronald D. Hedlund, and Garrison Nelson, preps.,

Instructional Resource Manual for American National Government (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman

& Co., 1972), pp. 107-118.

"Assessing the Congressional Committee System: Contributions from a Comparative Perspective," Annals

of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, CDXI (January 1974), pp. 120-132.

Republished by the United States Information Agency.

"Change and Continuity in the Recruitment of U.S. House Leaders, 1789-1975," in Norman J. Ornstein, ed.,

Congress in Change: Evolution and Reform (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975), pp. 155-183.

This article was republished in Joel H. Silbey, ed., The Congress of the United States: Patterns of

Recruitment, Leadership, and Internal Structure (Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, 1991), I, pp.

145-173

"Leadership Position-Holding in the United States House of Representatives," Capitol Studies, IV (Fall,

1976), pp. 11-36.

"Partisan Patterns of House Leadership Change, 1789-1977," American Political Science Review, LXII

(September, 1977), pp. 918-939. Republished in David C. Kozak and John D. McCartney, eds.,

Congress and Public Policy (Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey Press, 1982). Also republished in Joel H.

Silbey, ed., The Congress of the United States: Patterns of Recruitment, Leadership, and Internal

Structure (Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, 1991) I, pp. 175-196.

Review of George B. Galloway, History of the House of Representatives, 2nd ed., for Capitol Studies, VI

(Spring 1978), pp. 94-97.

Review of Gary A. Orfield, Congressional Power: Congress and Social Change, for theAmerican Political

Science Review, LXXII (June, 1978), pp. 698-699.

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PUBLICATIONS:

Articles in Professional Journals and Book Chapters

"Election Expectations and Outcomes: A Theory of Nominating Convention Conflict, 1896-1976," in

Douglas W. Rae and Theodore J. Eismeier, eds., Public Policy and Public Choice, Sage

Yearbooks in Politics and Public Policy, Vol VI (Beverly Hills, Cal.: Sage Publications, 1979),

pp. 151-207. Co-authored with W. Ross Brewer.

Review of Robert L. Peabody, Leadership in Congress: Stability, Succession and Change for the American

Political Science Review, LXXIII (March, 1979), pp. 254-256.

"The Congressional Reference Book Market: An Appraisal of an Old Standard and Two Newcomers,"

Congress and the Presidency, IX (Winter, 1981-82), pp. 137-142.

"Congress," in Jack P. Greene, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Political History (New York: Charles

Scribner and Sons, 1984), Vol. I, pp. 316-341. "Congress," was republished in Karen O'Connor

and Larry J. Sabato, eds., Readings to Accompany American Government: Roots and Reform

(New York: Macmillan, 1993), pp. 37-62; and in Ancillary Sampler to American Government:

Roots and Reform (New York: Macmillan, 1993).

"Truman Nelson, 1911-1987: A Bibliography," in William J. Schafer, ed., The Truman Nelson Reader

(Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989), pp. 293-299.

"Committee Membership by Congressional Session," in Donald R. Kennon and Rebecca M. Rogers, The

Committee on Ways and Means: A Bicentennial History, 1789-1989 (Washington, D.C.: U.S.

House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, 1989), pp. 392-431.

"Party Leadership Selection in the Congress," in L. Sandy Maisel, ed., Political Parties and Elections in the

United States: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 1991), Vol. 2:753- 760. Also biographical

sketches on five pre-Civil War Speakers of the House: Philip P. Barbour (1:59), John Bell (1:64-

65), Andrew Stevenson (2:1080), Joseph B. Varnum (2:1171-1172), and John White (2:1204).

"The Modernizing Congress, 1870-1930," in Joel H. Silbey, ed., The Encyclopedia of the American

Legislative System (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994), I, pp. 131-156.

Seven essays on Sen. H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire (1:197) House Speakers John W. McCormack of

Massachusetts (3:1328-1330), Thomas P. O'Neill of Massachusetts (3:1503-1505), the

congressional delegations of Massachusetts (3:1358-60), New Hampshire (3:1462-63) and

Vermont (4:2032- 2033) and the Congressional Quarterly (2:514-515) for Donald C. Bacon,

Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller, eds., The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress

(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995).

"Vermont," in Andrew M. Appleton and Daniel S. Ward, eds., State Party Profiles: A 50-State Guide to

Development, Organization, and Resources (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1997),

pp. 324-332.

"Vermont Politics Transformed: 'How Come It Got Fixed When It Warn't Broke?'" in Jerome M. Mileur,

ed., Parties and Politics in the New England States (Amherst, Mass.: Polity Publications, 1997),

pp. 55-76.

“Irish Identity Politics: The Reinvention of Speaker John W. McCormack," New England Journal of Public

Policy, XV (Fall/Winter, 1999/2000), pp. 7-34.

"Unraveling the Reinvention of Speaker John W. McCormack," in Burdett A. Loomis, ed., Extension of

Remarks of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association

(January, 2000), pp. 2-7.

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PUBLICATIONS:

Articles in Professional Journals and Book Chapters

"Sideshows and Strategic Separations: The Impact of Presidential Year Politics on Congressional

Elections," in Harvey L. Schantz, ed., Politics in an Era of Divided Government: Elections and

Governance in the Second Clinton Administration (New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 105-127.

"Redistricting on Beacon Hill and Political Power on Capitol Hill: Ancient Legacies and Present-Day

Perils," New England Journal of Public Policy, XVII (Fall/Winter, 2001-2002), pp. 91- 104. Co-

authored with Richard A. Hogarty.

"White House Inheritors and Climbers: Presidential Kin, Class and Performance, 1789-2002” New England

Journal of Public Policy, XVIII (Spring/Summer, 2003), pp. 11-38.

"Bernie Sanders," in David Watters ed., Encyclopedia of New England (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University

Press, 2005), p.1263.

Three essays on "Democratic National Chairmen" (pp. 98-101); Republican National Chairmen" (pp. 410-

412); and "McCarthyism" (pp. 418-419) for Larry J. Sabato and Howard R. Ernst, eds.,

Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections (New York: Facts on File, 2006).

“Middlemen No More? Emergent Patterns in Congressional Leadership Selection,” P.S.: Political

Science and Politics, XLI (January, 2008), pp. 49-55. Co-authored with Douglas B. Harris of

Loyola College in Maryland.

“Democracy, Diversity, and the 2008 Presidential Election: Mapping State Electoral Votes by Diversity

Propensity,” for the on-line International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and

Nations, VIII (October, 2008), pp. 19-32.

"Vermont," in Donald P. Haider-Merkel, ed., Political Encyclopedia of U.S. States and Regions

(Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2009), Vol. 1, pp. 133-142.

"Running from New England: Will It Ever Lead the Nation Again?" for the on-line New England

Journal of Political Science, III (Fall, 2009), pp, 112-165.

“John Boehner’s Uneasy Crown.,” Journal of Political Sciences and Public Affairs, II (January 14, 2014).

Two updated essays on: “Democratic National Chairs" and “Republican National Chairs" Larry J.

Sabato and Howard R. Ernst, eds., Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections, 2nd

ed. (New York: Facts on File, forthcoming 2016).

“Sam Rayburn’s Presidents: Institutional, Party, and Personal Power Relationships,” in

James W. Riddlesperger, Jr., ed., Reflections on Rayburn: The Legacy of Mr. Sam (Fort Worth,

TX: Texas Christian University Press, forthcoming 2016). Co-authored with Douglas B. Harris

of Loyola College in Maryland.

Articles in Magazines and Newspapers

"Malcolm X, Negro Nationalism, and the Perils of Charisma," Arena, I (May, 1965), pp. 26-36.

"New Politics, Old Civics," Advance, VI (October 1969), pp. 8-9.

"Nixon's Silent House of Hawks: A Documented Analysis of the Anti-War Voting Records of Republicans

and Democrats in Strategic Districts," The Progressive, XXXIV (August, 1970), pp. 13-20. (Sold

30,000 reprints.)

"Convention Wisdom: An Appraisal," with W. Ross Brewer, Washington Post, Outlook (July 12, 1976), p.

C5. Also University of Vermont This Week (August 23, 1976), pp. 2-3.

"The 1978 Elections in Vermont: A Synopsis," in Garrison Nelson and Clark H. Bensen, eds. Primary and

General Elections: Vermont, 1978, (Burlington, Vermont: University of Vermont for the Office of

the Secretary of State, 1979), pp. vi-x.

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PUBLICATIONS: (cont.)

Articles in Magazines and Newspapers (cont.)

The following titles were from news articles in 1982 published in an experimental journal on the U.S.

Congress, CALLIOPE Reports.

"The Ninety-Five Most Vulnerable Congressmen"

"The Decade's Dead End Districts"

"Ronald Reagan and the Damaged Presidency"

"Labor Unions and the Liberal Faith"

“The Survival Rates of Presidential Freshmen"

"The Reorganized Senate Committees: Power Shifts"

"Organized Labor and Its Congressional Ratings"

"Vermonters: We Are How We Vote," Vermont Sunday Magazine for the Sunday Rutland Herald and the

Sunday Times Argus (February 28, 1988), pp. 4-5, 14-15.

"The Changing Landscape of Vermont Politics," Vermont Quarterly (August, 1988), pp. 24-28.

"Leahy's Agriculture Chairmanship Defended," an op-ed article for the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, August

27, 1989, p. 6E.

"Natives Vs. Newcomers: Non-Natives Fare Well in Vermont Politics," Vermont Sunday Magazine for the

Sunday Rutland Herald and the Sunday Times Argus (March 5, 1990) , pp. 4- 5, 14-15.

“Recall the Harmonic Convergence of '87: Well, We're About to Have the Great Political Convergence of

' 92," Roll Call (May 25, 1992), p. 14.

"The Perils of Mano a Mano Foreign Policy," Vermont Times, II (September 3, 1992), p.14. Co-authored

with Marcia Marshall.

"What's Troubling [Vermont Governor Howard] Dean These Days?" an op-ed article for the Burlington

(Vt.) Free Press (July 2, 1993), p. 11A.

"Political 'Genius' Tag is Trouble. Just Ask Jordan, Rollins et. al..” Roll Call (December 2, 1993), pp. 5 ff.

"For House Speakers, Presidential Hopes Have Led to Oblivion," Roll Call (September 11, 1995), pp. 4 ff.

"Hopes from the House," an op-ed article for the Boston Globe (November 18, 1995), p. 19.

"40 Great Races -- From War Hawks to Watergate Babies: Election Contests That Shaped History," lead

article for the 40th anniversary issue of Roll Call (December 21, 1995), pp. 13 ff.

"The 1996 Vermont Primary: Echoing No More?" Seven Days (February 28, 1996), p. 18.

"Can Dole Escape Senate Leaders' Poor Presidential Record?" Roll Call (May 27, 1996), p. 5. Reprinted in

the Congressional Record, 104th Congress, 2nd Session (July, 18. 1996), p. S8301.

"A Second Opinion [regarding Vermont Governor Howard Dean's presidential aspirations]," Seven Days

(December 10, 1997), p. 28.

"In the Shadows of John McCormack's Past Lie New Truths about His Life," Boston Sunday Globe, Focus

(July 25, 1999), pp. E1-E3.

.“No Early Knockout in the Gore-Bradley Battle," an op-ed article for the Boston Globe (November 27,

1999), p. A23. Co-authored with Louis C. DiNatale

"Don't Place Your Bets on Iowa Results: New Hampshire Has the Better Record of Success," an op-ed

article for the Concord (N.H.) Monitor (January 8, 2000), p. B4. Co-authored with Louis C.

DiNatale.

"How Loud is N.H. in New England?," an op-ed article in the Providence (R.I.) Journal (February 19,

2000), p. B4. Co-authored with Lou DiNatale.

"Escaping Massachusetts' 'Gubernatorial Ceiling'," Boston Sunday Globe, Focus (February 25, 2001), p. 4.

"Jim Jeffords's Long Goodbye," an op-ed article for The New York Times (May 25, 2001), p. 23.

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PUBLICATIONS: (cont.)

Articles in Magazines and Newspapers (cont.)

"Dean's Presidential Prospects," Vermont Business Magazine, XXXI (March, 2003), pp. 11, 13 and 24.

"New England and the Presidency: Voting Bloc Shrinks as Educational Role Grows," Boston Sunday Globe,

Ideas, (December 28, 2003), p. D12

"Keeping Cool in New England," The American Enterprise, XXI (October/November, 2004), pp. 21-22.

"Achin' for Aiken: Collection of Vt.'s Politicians Show Wisdom Now Needed," Burlington Free Press

(December 19, 2004), p. 5D.

“UVM Faculty Is Worth the Price,” op-ed article for the Burlington Free Press (Nov. 6, 2005), p. 8C.

“Border Wars in Fight for Presidency,” an op-ed article for the Boston Globe (November 3, 2007), p. A13.

“New Hampshire Moments: Success for One Kennedy, But Not the Other,” an op-ed article for the

Boston Globe (January 4, 2008), p. A15.

“Mapping a Path for a Woman President,” Vermont Woman, IV (April, 2008), pp. 10-11. Maps prepared

by Michael J. Oldham.

“Tribute to Raul Hilberg,” Bulletin of the University of Vermont Center for Holocaust Studies (Spring

2008), pp. 6-8.

“Why Political Junkies Root for Newt,” Roll Call (December 30, 2011), p. 5. “Jim Jeffords: Reluctant Rebel,” VtDigger.com (October, 2014).

Published Research Interviews

Margaret Bowers, "The Last Hurrah is Heard First at Conventions," an interview in Vermonter, Sunday

Burlington Free Press (March 20, 1977), pp. 9-10.

David Holmes, "Educating Political Science Students To The Computer: The Politics of Educational

Reform," in Reform from Within: Case Studies of Faculty-Initiated Educational Change at the

University of Vermont (Burlington, Vt.: University of Vermont, 1978), pp. 49-56.

"The Real Representative: How to Make it in the House," an interview in Human Behavior, VII

(November, 1978), p. 49.

Paul Reese, "Gary Nelson: A Man of Matched Lives," University of Vermont This Week, VIII (January 19,

1979), p. 2.

David Kalish, "This Man Made Marpies a Vermont Phenomenon: Ex-Lynner Garrison Nelson is a Top

Political Prognosticator," United Press International in the Lynn (Mass.) Evening Item (March 10,

1987).

Greg Guma, "The Wizards of Politics: Polls, Predictions and the Experts," Vanguard Press, XI (September

23-29, 1988), pp.1, 10ff.

Mary M. Sullivan, "Profile: Political Pundit Builds Business to Fund It," Vermont Business Digest (March,

1989), pp. 26ff.

Elaine Harrington, "Pondering Political Pundits Know Garrison Nelson's Number," UVM Record (May 5-

25, 1995), p. 6.

Kathleen Foley, "Institute Fellow to Write McCormack Biography," McCormack Institute Update

(December, 1996), p. 1.

Dennis Nealon, "Faculty Profile: Garrison Nelson: Learned Quip Master," The Brandeis Reporter (October

7, 1997), p. 3.

Scot Lehigh, "Another Harvard vs. Yale Game," Boston Sunday Globe (November 17, 2002).

Brian MacQuarrie, "For Vt. Professor, A Very Long Committee Assignment," Boston Sunday Globe

(December 29, 2002), pp. B1-B2.

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PUBLICATIONS: (cont.)

Published Research Interviews

"Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Congressional Committees," in the Associated Press rewrite

in Burlington Free Press (January 15, 2003), p. 1C.

Andrew Ferguson, "As Yale's Bush, Kerry Tussle, Where's Harvard?" Bloomberg News (March 9, 2004).

"Green and Gold White House," Vermont Quarterly (Fall, 2004), p. 12.

Scot Lehigh, "New York vs. Massachusetts in 2008," Boston Globe Website (December 14, 2004).

Scot Lehigh, “Crumbling Case for Granite State,” Boston Globe (December 13, 2005), p. A23.

Jon C. Reidel, “Book Probes Austin/Boston Alliance,” University of Vermont This Week (July 28, 2009).

Kevin Kiley, “Publishing: A Political Scientist’s Trivial Pursuit,” The Chronicle of Higher Education

LVII (October 24, 2010).

Jeffrey R. Wakefield, “Garrison Nelson Publishes 7th Volume of Committee series,” UVM College of Arts

and Sciences (October 28, 2010).

Jon C. Reidel, “Path to Supreme Court Runs Through Judicial Monastery,” University of Vermont This

Week (January 21, 2014).

Tim Johnson, “Supreme Choice: Monastery vs. Arena: UVM Professor’s New Book Examines the People

Who Became Supreme Court Justices,” Burlington (Vt.) Free Press (March 8, 2014).

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:

U.S. Congress and Its Leaders

"Partisan Patterns of House Leadership Change, 1791-1973," was delivered at the 1974 Meeting of the

American Political Science Association. Nominated for the 2004 Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award.

"Reclaiming the Past of the U.S. House: A Proposal for the Creation of the House Historical Office,"

November 12, 1975, in the National Study Commission on Records and Documents of Federal

Officials, cited in The American Archivist, XLI (October, 1978), p. 411.

"The Matched Lives of House Leaders and the Policy Costs of Continuity," a lecture presented to the

Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 20, 1977.

"The Matched Lives of U.S. House Leaders: An Exploration," was delivered to the 1978 Meeting of the

American Political Science Association.

"Senate Leadership Changes: A Theory of Institutional Interaction." A paper presented to the Conference

on Understanding Congressional Leadership: The State of the Art, for the Everett McKinley

Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center and the Sam Rayburn Library at the

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., June 10-11, 1980.

"Membership on the Rules Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1867-1980," a compilation of

assignments prepared for the U.S. House Rules Committee, November, 1980.

"Strategies for Accessing the Records of the U.S. Congress: Archival Difficulties and the Computer

Solution," a speech presented to the Conference of New England Historical Societies and the

New England Archivists, University of Massachusetts-Boston, November 1, 1980.

"Time-Mapping of the U.S. Congress: Analytical Payoffs and Pitfalls," a presentation to the panel on "The

Diachronic Analysis of Change in Congress," at the 1981 Meeting of the American Political

Science Association.

"Leadership Selection in the U.S. Senate, 1899-1985: Changing Patterns of Recruitment and Institutional

Interactions," a paper for the 1985 Meeting of the American Political Science Association in

New Orleans, La.

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PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (cont.)

U.S. Congress and Its Leaders (cont.)

"Congressional Leadership Selection and the Founding Fathers," a presentation to the Roundtable on

"Contemporary Leadership in the Congress, the Courts, and the Executive Branch: Is This What

the Framers Intended?" at the 1986 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association

in Hartford, Conn.

"Building Databases for the U.S. Congress," a presentation to the New England Government Publication

Librarians in Middlebury, Vt., May, 1987.

"Congressional Race Politics and the End of the Austin-Boston Connection," a paper for the 1990 Meeting

of the New England Political Science Association in Portland, Me.

"Congressional Leadership," a discussion at the Changing Congress Roundtable at the 1995 Meeting of

New England Political Science Association in Portland, Me..

"The Presidential Ambitions of Congressional Leaders: Institutional Impacts and Policy Consequences," for

the Roundtable on Institutional Change in the U.S. Congress," at the 1996 Meeting of the

Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago.

"John McCormack, The Boston to Austin Speaker," a speech given to the John F. Kennedy Library and

Museum at Boston, Mass., November 26, 1996.

"Presidential-Congressional Standoffs," a presentation to the Political Science Club, St. Michaels College,

Colchester, Vt., February 17, 1997.

"Speakers of the U.S. House: From Rayburn to Gingrich," a speech to the State University of New York at

Plattsburgh, March 4, 1997.

"The Austin-Boston Speakership, 1940-1989" a speech to the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School

of Government, Harvard University, March 20, 1997.

"John McCormack's Austin-Boston Speakership" a speech to the Department of Political Science,

Northeastern University, May 28, 1997.

"Gridlock and Fratricide: The Growing Irrelevance of Washington," a speech to the New England State

Treasurers, Shelburne, Vt., August 11, 1997.

"Irish Identity Politics: The Reinvention of Speaker John McCormack," a presentation to the Department of

Politics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., September, 1997.

"John McCormack of Boston: Why He Matters," a presentation to the John W. McCormack Institute of

Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts-Boston, January, 1998.

"Irish Identity Politics: The Reinvention of Speaker John W. McCormack of Boston," a paper for the 1998

Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston.

"Rolling Dice and Rolling Heads: The House Republicans Strike Again," a presentation to the 1998

Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston.

"Partisan Patterns of House Leadership Change: The Divided Government Factor," a paper for the 1999

Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Providence, R.I.

"The 107th Congress: The Prospects of Power-Sharing," a presentation to the 2001 Meeting of the New

England Political Science Association, Portsmouth, N.H.

"Up or Out: The Role of Committee Attractiveness in Defining the U.S. House Career," a presentation to

the 2002 Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Providence, R.I.

"Party Leaders and Partisan Polarization in the 108th Congress," a presentation to the 2004 Meeting of the

New England Political Science Association, Portsmouth, N.H.

“Bush v. Congress in 2007: The U.S Presidency’s Sixth Year Curse,” a speech to the Department of History

and Political Science, La Roche College, Pittsburgh, Pa., November, 2006.

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PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (cont.)

U.S. Congress and Its Leaders (cont.)

“The Austin-Boston Speakership and the Post-1938 Purge House Democrats: A Preliminary Examination,”:

a paper for the 2007 Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Albuquerque, N.M.. “Middlemen No More? Emergent Patterns in Congressional Leadership Selection,” a paper presented to

the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association., Philadelphia, Pa..

Co-authored with Douglas B. Harris of Loyola College in Maryland

“Leadership Selection in Congress: A Century of Change,” a paper presented to the 2008 New England

Political Science Association, Providence, R.I. Co-authored with Douglas B. Harris of Loyola

College in Maryland

“War-Makers and War-Brakers in Congress; Continuing the Debate,” a paper presented at the July 2008

Conference on “Law and Disorder in Times of War, Security, Surveillance and Civil Liberties” at

the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts.

“Speakers and Presidents: Allies and Rivals,” a paper presented to the 2008 Annual Meeting of the

Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, Mass. Co-authored with Douglas B. Harris

of Loyola College in Maryland

"President Obama, His Cabinet, and the Congress," a presentation to the 2009 Meeting of the

New England Political Science Association, Portland, Me.

"Obama's Congressionalized Cabinet and the Capitol Hill Democrats," presentation at the Roundtable,

"The Party System in the Obama Era: An Eye Toward 2010 and 2012" for the 2009 Annual Meeting

of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pa.

"Altering the Congressional Committee System: The Impact of the 1994 Republican Takeover," a paper

for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Newport, RI.

“The Prince and the Provincial: Class, Clan, and Kin in the Kennedy-McCormack Rivalry,” a

presentation to the Algonquin Club, Boston, Mass., October, 2010.

“Speakers and Presidents: The Inevitable Rivalry,” a presentation at the Texas Christian University,

Fort Worth, Texas, January 13, 2011

“The Prince and the Provincial: The Kennedy-McCormack Rivalry,” a paper for the April 2011 Annual

Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Hartford, Conn..

"Feuds and Fiefdoms: The Jack Kennedy-John McCormack Rivalry and Bare-Knuckled Boston Politics,” a

speech to the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,

November 4, 2011.

“Electoral Prognostications for the 113th Congress, “a presentation to the November 2011 NPSA

Presidents Roundtable Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association,

Philadelphia.

“The Governance Crisis,” the Keynote Address at the Conference on "Congress, Bipartisanship, and

Governing Across the Divide" at Rhode Island College, Providence, R.I., October 15, 2013.

“Divided Government Congresses between Speakers and Presidents: Who Rules?” a paper for the April

2014 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Woodstock, Vt.

“Promises Kept: John McCormack, Social Security, and Medicare,” the Robert C. Wood Memorial Lecture

at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, November 8, 2014.

Political Leadership: The Presidency

"Political Leadership in America: Reputational Interactions -- Notes for an Interactional Theory of

American Institutions," 1995 Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Portland, Me.

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Political Leadership: The Presidency

"Hiring U.S. Presidents, 1900-1996: Another Century Down the Drain?," a speech to Executive Council of

the National Association of Home Builders, Washington, D.C., April, 1996.

"White House Inheritors and Climbers: Presidential Kin, Class and Performance, 1789-2002," a paper for

the 2002 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portland, Me. This paper

won the 2002 John C. Donovan Prize for the best Faculty Paper at that meeting.

"Educating Presidents: The Collegiate Connection, 1789-2000," a paper for the 2003 Meeting of the New

England Political Science Association, Providence, R.I.

“Hiring Presidents, 1789-2004: Selection Systems and Political Career Paths," a paper for the 2004

Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston.

"A Damaged Presidency?: Echoes and Images in Presidential Selection, 1789-2004," a paper for the 2005

Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portland, Me.

"Hiring Presidents, 1789-2004: Continuities in Class, Connections and Careers," a paper for the 2005

Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portland, Me.

“Peaks and Valleys in the American Presidency: Time-Mapping the Presidential Greatness Ratings,” a

paper for the 2006 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association , Portsmouth, N.H.

“Presidential Selection Systems: Broken or Changing?” a Roundtable presentation at the 2007 Annual

Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pa.

“Hiring Presidents, 1789-2008,” for the Roundtable: “The 2008 Presidential Election in Historical

Perspectives” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston

“Back Off the Ledge: Obama After the Mid-Term Elections,” a presentation to the NPSA Presidents

Roundtable, at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston.

“The Game Changer: How Barack Obama Transformed Campaigning and Governing,” the President’s Day

Address at Northeastern University, February 17, 2011.

“Congress and the Hope and Change Democrats: Kennedy, Carter, Clinton and Obama,” a paper for the

2011 Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association in Philadelphia.

“’A Mania for Anonymity’ The Mysterious Presidential Aide, David K. Niles of Boston,” a paper for the

April 2012 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association in Portsmouth, N.H.

“Franklin D. Roosevelt and His Congresses,” a presentation at Shippensburg (Penn.) University, October

22, 2013. a paper for the 2006 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association , Portsmouth, N.H.

"The Role of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in the Transformation of American National Institutions,"

A presentation to the 14th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities &

Nations, Vienna, Austria, July 9, 2014.

“Demographic Diversity and Governmental Dysfunction: The End of WASPocracy and the Rise of the

SWAGs (Straight White Angry Guys), ” a presentation to the November 2014 Annual Meeting of

the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, Mass.

Political Leadership: The Supreme Court

"The Political Degradation of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Decline of Collateral Political Experience

Among Recent Court Nominees," presented to the 1992 Meeting of the New England Political

Science Association, Providence, R.I.

“From the Arena to the Monastery: Changing Patterns of Supreme Court Selection,” a paper for the 2006

Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, Mass. Coauthored with

Stephen Lichtman of Shippensburg University.

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PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: (cont.)

Political Leadership: The Supreme Court

“Research Supplement: U.S. Supreme Court Composition, Political Career Paths and Judicial Assessments

by Terms, 1789-2006” presented at the 2006 Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science

Association, Boston, Mass.

“Presidential and Judicial “Greatness”: Inter-institutional Reputational Rankings,” a paper for the 2007

Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Newton, Mass.

"From Consensus to Conflict: Changing the Supreme Court Confirmation Process, 1937-2009," a paper for the

2009 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pa. with Maggie

Taylor, Teach for America.

“Supreme Court Paths and Senate Confirmation Patterns, 1789-2010,” a paper for the 2010 Annual Meeting of

the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, Mass.

“The Presidential Politicization of the Supreme Court Confirmation Process,” a paper for the 2012 Annual

Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, Mass. Co-authored with James

Montague, University of Vermont.

“Court Confirmation Politics and the Changing Role of the U.S. Senate,1789-2010,” a paper for the 2013

Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portland, Maine. Co-authored

with James Montague, University of Vermont.

“Changing Career Paths to the Supreme Court and Its Consequences,” the Constitution Day Lecture at Loyola

University-Maryland, Baltimore, September 17, 2013.

“The Court Transformed: How It Happened; Why It Matters,” the Dean’s Lecture at the University of

Vermont, October 1, 2013.

“How and Why the Supreme Court Changed,” the Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture at Shippensburg (Penn.) University,

October 21, 2013.

“Chief Justices of the Supreme Court: Their Courts and Their Cases,” a paper for the 2013 Annual

Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Penn., November 15, 2013

With James Montague, University of Vermont.

“Changing the Pathways to the U.S. Supreme Court,” a lecture at the Vermont Law School, South Royalton,

Vt., January 14, 2014.

“The Ideological Impact of Presidential Court Changers,” a paper scheduled to be presented at the April

2015 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, New Haven, Conn. The

paper was not presented due to the Professor Alan Wertheimer Memorial Service at UVM.

“A Pictographic Analysis of Chief Justices of the Supreme Court and Their Courts,” a paper for the 2015

Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Penn., November,

2015.

Elections and Voting

"Convention Conflict and Election Outcomes, 1840-1976," a paper for the 1976 Meeting of the American

Political Science Association. Co-authored with W. Ross Brewer.

"Games Politicians Play or Prepping for 1980," the major address at the 1979 Meeting of the Vermont

Library Association, Poultney, Vermont.

"Election Night in America: A Guide for November 4th," the major address to the 1980 Meeting of the

Vermont Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration in Montpelier.

"Can the United States Survive Another Presidential Election?" a speech to the faculty and students of

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, September, 1992.

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Elections and Voting

"The 1996 Election: An Analysis of the Vote," a speech for a lecture series in the Arts and Sciences at

the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, November 12, 1996.

"The Visible Primaries: State Patterns of Winners and Losers, 1912-2000," a presentation to the 2000

Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Hartford, Conn.

“Primaries and Presidents,” a presentation to Northeastern University, Boston. Mass., January, 2008.

"Democracy, Diversity, and the 2008 Presidential Election: Mapping State Electoral Votes by Diversity

Propensity, “a paper for the Eighth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations,

Communities & Nations, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June, 2008. "History vs. Sociology in 2008: Did Identity Politics Trump Affirmative Action?," a paper for the 2009

Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portland, Me.

“Presidential Perspectives: Political History and the 2012 Election,” a presentation to the Roundtable on the

2012 Election at the April 2012 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association,

Portsmouth, NH.

Politics in Vermont and New England

"The Great 1982 Vermont Election," a speech presented to the 1982 Annual Meeting of the Vermont

Academy of Arts and Sciences, October, 1982.

"Leadership Change in Vermont," the major address to the 1989 Annual Meeting of the Vermont Chapter of

the Society for Public Administration, Montpelier, Vt., June, 1989.

Presentations on Vermont politics at the New England Politics Roundtable at the Annual Meetings of the

New England Political Science Association: Hartford, Conn., April, 1986 Cambridge, Mass, April, 1987 PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: (cont.)Hartford, Conn., April, 1986. Cambridge, Mass., April, 1987.Cambridge, Mass., April, 1988.

Cambridge, Mass., April, 1988 Cambridge, Mass., April, 1989.

Portland, Me., April, 1990. Worcester, Mass., April, 1991.

Providence, R.I., April, 1992. Northampton, Mass., April, 1993.

Salem, Mass., April, 1994. Portland, Me., May, 1995.

Springfield, Mass., May, 1996.

"The 1996 Election in Vermont," for the 1996 Election in New England panel at the 1996 Meeting of the

Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston.

"Are New England's National Politics 'Running on Empty'?," a presentation to the panel on New England

and the Nation: A Fifty Year Assessment, 1948-1998, at the 1998 Meeting of the New England

Political Science Association, Worcester, Mass.

"Presidential Elections in New England, 1836-2000: County Maps and Correlations," a paper at the 2004

Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portsmouth, N.H.

"Previewing the 2004 Election in Vermont and the Nation," for a forum at St. Michaels College, Colchester,

Vt., October 29, 2004.

"Can New England Lead the Nation (Ever) Again?" a presentation to the 2005 Meeting of the New

England Political Science Association, Portland, Me.

"Northeastern Rivalries: New York vs. New England Presidential and Vice Presidential Selections," a

presentation at the 2005 Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Portland., Me.

“Presidential Selection Systems and the New Hampshire Primary,” a presentation at the University of New

Hampshire, October 31, 2007.

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PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: (cont.)

“Running from New England: Will New England Lead the Nation Again?,” for the Conference, “The State

of New England,” at the Joseph Martin Center for Law and Society, Stonehill College, Easton,

Mass., March, 2008.

“Presidential Politics in Vermont: A Two Century Journey,” a presentation to the Center for Research on

Vermont, University of Vermont, October, 2008.

The CALLIOPE System

"Introducing Students to the Congress Using CALLIOPE," a presentation to the panel on Teaching

Innovations at the 1985 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Durham, N.H.

"Constructing Congressional Databases: Developing the CALLIOPE System and the Congressional

Committees Project," a presentation to the 1985 Meeting of the Special Library Association in

Winnipeg, Manitoba.

"CALLIOPE and the Congress: A New Research Tool," a presentation to the 1986 Meeting of the American

Political Science Association in Washington, D.C.

"The CALLIOPE System," a presentation to the 1986 Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science

Association in Boston.

Policy Research

"Reorganizing Federal Energy Policy," a lecture presented to a joint colloquium of the Departments of

Economics and Political Science at West Virginia University in Morgantown, February 2, 1977.

"Rural and Urban Patterns of Fuel Consumption," a lecture presented to the Coal Research, Initiation, and

Support Faculty at West Virginia University in Morgantown, February 3, 1977.

"Patterns of Per Capita Petroleum Consumption," -- an assessment of state patterns of fuel consumption.

Material from this study was used by U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (Dem-Vt.), U.S. Representative

Charles Rose (Dem-NC), and the Subcommittee on Family Farms and Rural Development of the

U.S. House Committee on Agriculture. See the Congressional Record, CXXII (August 31, 1976),

pp. S14990-S14996 and pp. E4773-E4777. This contributed to the passage of the Rural Energy

Office Amendment to the Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-91).

University of Vermont Papers

"The Vermont Seminars: One University's Solution to Faculty Revitalization," prepared for the President's

Office, March, 1979.

"Educating Political Science Students to the Computer: The Politics of Educational Reform," in David

Holmes, Reform from Within: Case Studies of Faculty-Initiated Educational Change at the

University of Vermont (Burlington, Vt.: University of Vermont, 1979), pp. 49-56.

RESEARCH WORKS IN PROGRESS:

With the 2009 publication of The Austin-Boston Connection: Five Decades of House Democratic

Leadership, 1937-1989 (College Station, Texas: Texas A+M University Press), the 2010 publication of

Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1993-2010 (Washington, D.C.: Sage/CQ Press, 2010), the seventh volume

of the Congressional Committees Project, and the 2013 publication of Pathways to the U.S. Supreme Court:

From the Arena to the Monastery (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), I returned to other research

projects.

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JOHN WILLIAM McCORMACK: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY

This is the first book-length biography of U.S. Rep. John W. McCormack (Dem-Mass.), Speaker of

the U.S. House of Representatives from 1962 to 1971. McCormack served in the floor leadership of the

House Democrats from 1940 until his retirement. He was a senior member of the tax-writing House Ways

and Means Committee during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and the only Speaker of the

House during President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.

It explores McCormack's early life in South Boston and the reinvention of himself as the son of an

Irish immigrant who died when John was 13, leaving him as the sole support of his Irish-born widowed

mother and two younger brothers. It was a powerful story and it enabled him to attain public office and to

pass the scrutiny of gatekeepers of Boston's Irish -- James Michael Curley, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald,

P. J. Kennedy, and Martin Lomasney, all of whose real lives were identical to his reinvented one.

However, John’s father was a Canadian Scot from Prince Edward Island, not an Irishman. He did

not die when John was a 13 year-old South Boston newsboy but when John was a 37 year-old member of

the US House of Representatives. John’s mother was born in Boston, not Ireland and she was deserted and

not widowed by John’s father. Three of John’s siblings did not die as infants but at the ages of 17 (James),

19 (Catherine), and 24 (Patrick). All three are buried in unmarked graves including Catherine and Patrick

who are buried beside John’s mother in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in West Roxbury. Had any part of this story

been revealed to John’s South Boston Irish constituents, his political career would have ended before it

began. But the story remained intact and John was able to hold public office for most of the years between

1917 and 1971, including thirty years as a top leader in the House Democratic hierarchy.

John learned the legislative craft in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, its State House

and its Senate where he served as Democratic leader. Throughout his pre-US House career, John was

befriended and mentored by Protestants, the wealthy Boston Brahmins and the poorer “Swamp Yankees.”

Unlike his occasional mentor, James Michael Curley, John never played the “Irish Catholic card” and

established life-long friendships with northern and southern Protestants and Jews. During the 1930s, John

emerged as the northern urban Democrat most trusted by the Southern Democrats who ran the Congress and

by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. McCormack's legislative role in both Social Security and Lend-Lease

is dealt with in this portion of the book. This is the time when FDR’s advisers will help to cobble together

the Austin-Boston Connection with John as Majority Leader and Sam Rayburn of Texas as Speaker in an

effort to protect the gains of the New Deal from the growing power of the Conservative Coalition of

Republicans and many Southern Democrats. McCormack's relationship with the even more shadowy

presidential adviser, David K. Niles is explored here. It then moves to the 1940s and his role as a member

of the "Big Four" congressional leadership (with long-time ally Speaker Sam Rayburn) that dealt with

World War II, the funding of the atomic bombs development, and the post-war economic and foreign policy

dislocations.

The book moves through the anti-communism of the fifties and the divided government era of the

Eisenhower Administration. Also during the 1950s, John McCormack and the Kennedy’s contend for

power within Massachusetts politics. The role of McCormack and Rayburn in putting together the 1960

Kennedy-Johnson ticket is examined.

McCormack's replacement of the deceased Sam Rayburn as Speaker of the House in 1961 set the

stage for an intensification of the complex relationship that McCormack had with the Kennedy family in

both Boston and Washington. This would culminate in the 1962 US Senate primary contest between the

Speaker's nephew (and son-surrogate), Eddie McCormack and the President's youngest brother, Teddy.

With JFK's November 1963 death, McCormack became next-in-line to the presidency.

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JOHN WILLIAM McCORMACK: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY

Working closely with LBJ, Speaker McCormack's expedited the passage of almost all of President

Lyndon Johnson's ambitious "Great Society" legislative agenda. With the onset of the urban riots of the mid-

1960s and anti-war protests, McCormack found himself increasingly marginalized within a liberal

Democratic Party was torn asunder over the war and responses to the urban crises. He remained in the

Speaker's Chair but had become relatively powerless to affect legislation. The book concludes with the

Speaker's departure from office in 1971 following the indictment of key staff assistants during the hostile

Nixon Administration.

I was able to conduct research in four presidential libraries Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde

Park, N.Y; Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo., John F. Kennedy Library, Dorchester, Mass.,

and the Lyndon B. Johnson Library at the University of Texas-Austin. Among the congressional papers

examined include: the John McCormack Papers at Boston University; the papers at the Sam Rayburn

Library in Bonham, Texas; the Jim Wright Papers at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas;

the Carl Albert Congressional Center at the University of Oklahoma;; the Richard Bolling Papers at the

University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the Thomas P. O’Neill Papers at Boston College. Additional

research was done in the David K. Niles Papers at Brandeis University and at the Truman Library; and

the Ralph Martin Papers at Boston University. I have assembled letters, formal documents, and oral

histories and have transcribed audio and video tapes to produce a veritable mountain of material.

Publications emanating from this research include essays in Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson,

and Morton Keller, eds., The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (New York: Simon & Schuster,

1995) on John McCormack, Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. and Massachusetts (3:1358-60). Articles on

McCormack’s background, “In the Shadows of John McCormack's Past Lie New Truths about His Life,"

Boston Sunday Globe, Focus (July 25, 1999), pp. E1-E3; “Irish Identity Politics: The Reinvention of

Speaker John W. McCormack," New England Journal of Public Policy, XV (Fall/Winter, 1999/2000), pp.

7-34; "Unraveling the Reinvention of Speaker John W. McCormack," in Burdett A. Loomis, ed., Extension

of Remarks of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association (January,

2000), pp. 2-7.

Presentations and professional papers on this topic have been delivered at the John F. Kennedy Library

and Museum at Boston, Mass., November 26, 1996; the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, March 4,

1997; the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, March 20, 1997 and

October, 2011; the Department of Politics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., September, 1997; the

Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, May 28, 1997; the McCormack Institute of Public

Affairs, University of Massachusetts-Boston, January, 1998; the September 1998 Meeting of the American

Political Science Association, Boston; the John W. McCormack Civic Association (Dorchester, Mass.),

December, 1998; the Bostonian Society, Boston, March, 1999; the Marjorie Gibbons Annual Lecture to the

South Boston Public Library, November 1999. Recent speeches and papers include: 1) “The Prince and the

Provincial: Class, Clan, and Kin in the Kennedy-McCormack Rivalry,” a presentation to the Algonquin Club,

Boston, Mass., October, 2010; 2) “The Prince and the Provincial: The Kennedy-McCormack Rivalry,” a paper

for the 2011 New England Political Science Association; 3) “Feuds and Fiefdom: the Jack Kennedy-John

McCormack Rivalry and Bare-Knuckled Boston Politics,” a speech to the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy

School of Government Harvard University, November 4, 2011; and 4) “Promises Kept: John McCormack,

Social Security, and Medicare,” the Robert C. Wood Memorial Lecture at the UMass- Boston, Nov. 8, 2014.

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PRESIDENTS AND SPEAKERS: ALLIES OR RIVALS?

This is a relatively new project that has been presented at regional meetings and another paper from the

project was presented in April 2014 at the New England Political Science Association as “Divided Congresses

between Presidents and Speakers: Who Rules?” with Professor Douglas B. Harris of Loyola University-

Maryland and I have collaborated on The Austin-Boston Connection; been published in “Middlemen No More?

Emergent Patterns in Congressional Leadership Selection,” P.S.: Political Science and Politics, XLI (January,

2008), pp. 49-55 and have co-authored three professional papers: 1) “Middlemen No More? Emergent Patterns

in Congressional Leadership Selection,” a paper presented to the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern

Political Science Association., Philadelphia, Pa.; 2) “Leadership Selection in Congress: A Century of

Change,” a paper presented to the 2008 New England Political Science Association, Providence, R.I.; and 3)

“Speakers and Presidents: Allies and Rivals,” a paper presented to the 2008 Annual Meeting of the

Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, Mass. A recent paper presented to the James C. Wright

Symposium at Texas Christian University on March 30, 2015, “Serving With Never Under: The Eight

Presidencies of Sam Rayburn” will be published later this year by Texas Christian University Press. This

manuscript has book-length potential and I am handing off the project to Professor Harris.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Fellow, University of Iowa, American Government, 1964-1967.

Instructor, University of Vermont, 1968-1972.

Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, 1972-1976.

Associate Professor, University of Vermont, 1976-1994.

Professor, University of Vermont, 1994-date

University of Vermont Courses

Introduction to Political Science, I & II, 1968-1970, 1973, 1976.

Political Parties (and Elections), 1968-date. Interest Groups, 1969-1970

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Vermont Courses

Political Communication, 1971 Political Leadership, 1972-date.

Elections '72, 1972 American Political Systems, 1974, 1981-date.

Legislative (Congressional) Process, 1973, 1978, 1981-1988, 2004

Political Change in America, 1975. Policy Analysis, 1977.

The Rural Option in Urban America, 1977-1978. Seminar :New England State Politics, 1989, 2005.

Seminar: Leadership Topics, 1991. Seminar: Elites and Leadership, 1995.

Seminar: Leadership Selection and Institutional Change, 2001, 2003.

Graduate Instruction:: Supervised nine UVM M.A. candidates through thesis completion, 1972-1984.

Visiting Professorships and Courses

Visiting Associate Professor, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

"American Government," Summer, 1979.

Visiting Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

"American Legislative Process," Fall, 1996.

Visiting Professor, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

"Introduction to American Government" Summer, 1996, Summer, 1999-2001, 2003-2005

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Visiting Professorships and Courses

"Parties, Interest Groups and Public Opinion," Summer, 1996.

"The American Congress," Summer, 1997

“Elections in America,” Summer, 2004

Visiting Professor, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

"Advanced Seminar on Leadership Selection and Institutional Change," Spring, 1997.

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

"Introduction to American Government" 1997-1998

"American National Government," 1997-1998

"The American Congress," 1998-1999.

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

"A Political Experience [with Texas Governor Ann Richards]," Spring, 1998.

"Seminar: Leadership Selection and Institutional Change," Spring, 1998.

"A Political Experience [with New York City Mayor Ed Koch]," Spring, 1999.

Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 1997-2000

“New England Political Environment," Masters of Science in Public Affairs Program, 1997-2000.

"Public Leadership," Masters of Science in Public Affairs Program, Summer, 1998-2000.

"Introduction to American Government," Fall, 1999.

Supervised four UMass-Boston M.S.P.A. candidates through thesis completion.

Visiting Professor, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts

"The American Congress," Spring, 2001.

Visiting Professor, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

"New England Politics," Spring and Fall, 2002.

RELATED EXPERIENCE:

Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1975-1976.

Staff Assistant, U.S. Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), 1975-1976.

Consultant on rural energy needs, Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives,

Subcommittees on Family Farms and Rural Development, 1976 and on Dairy and Poultry, 1977.

Consultant on congressional committee assignments, the Congressional Research Service, Library of

Congress, Washington, D.C., 1977-1994.

Contractor, Chittenden County (Vt.) Planning Commission. Prepared a machine-readable historical

database of economic, social, and demographic characteristics, Summer, 1978.

Grants Reviewer, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1979-81.

Manuscript reviewer for St. Martin's Press, Prentice Hall, Random House, Houghton Mifflin, McGraw-Hill,

Cambridge University Press, the University of Massachusetts Press and the University of Kentucky

Press.

Journal Reviewer for Legislative Studies Quarterly, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of

Politics, the American Journal of Political Science, P.S.: Politics and Political Science, the Political

Research Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Congress and the Presidency, and Administration

and Society.

Tenure and Promotion Reviewer for the University of Kentucky, University of New Hampshire (2), the

Louisiana State University, University of Maine (3), and the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

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RELATED EXPERIENCE

Visiting Fellow, John W. McCormack Institute for Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts-Boston,

1996-1997. Senior Fellow, 1997-2001.

New England Politics Reporter, Lehrer Newshour Website (Washington, DC), Summer, 1996.

Publisher, CALLIOPE Reports, 1982.

President, Polimetric Associates Inc., 1981-1995.

President, Committee Assignments Inc., 1992-date.

Contractor. U.S. Congress Member roll call vote analysis databases for the 97th-104th Congresses,

presented in the National Journal (1982-96) and The Almanac of American Politics (1985-98).

The major service provided by Polimetric Associates was CALLIOPE (Computer-Assisted

Legislative Liaison: Interactive On-line Political Evaluation), a political database and software system

focusing upon roll call analysis in the U.S. Congress. CALLIOPE Contents were described in the

Encyclopedia of Information Systems and Services, 9th ed. (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1990).

CALLIOPE Clients

Other descriptions may be found in The New York Times (January 21, 1983), Computerworld (February 21,

1983), and in the Greater Burlington Business Digest (March, 1989).

Academic Institutions:

The American University University of California--San Diego

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stanford University

State University of New York at Albany University of Puget Sound

University of Rochester

Political Campaigns, Consultants, and Lobbyists:

Breaux for U.S. Senate (D-La.) Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (D.C.)

Chiles for Governor (D-Fla. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, 1986-2002

Dresner-Sikes (New York, N.Y.) Emery for Congress (R-N.Y.)

Lobbyist Systems Corporation (D.C.) Maguire Associates (Mass.)

Morrison for Governor, (D-Conn.) North Carolina Democratic Party

Williams for Governor (R-Tex.) U.S. Term Limits Inc. (Washington, D.C.)

Corporations:

DIALCOM (Silver Spring, Md.) Georgia Lockheed (Marietta, Ga.)

Macro Systems Inc. (Bethesda, Md.) McDonnell-Douglas (St. Louis, Mo.)

Prudential Insurance (Newark, N.J.) Shell Oil (Houston, Tex.)

Tenneco (Houston, Tex.) Third Point Systems (Cal.)

Governmental Organizations:

Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Rules Committee, U.S. House of Representatives

Ways and Means Committee, U.S. House of Representatives

News Organizations:

Almanac of American Politics Burlington (Vt.) Free Press

Capitol Services Inc. (Washington, D.C.) Congressional Quarterly Inc. (DC)

Congressional Staff Directory Ltd. (Va.) LEXIS/Mead Data (Dayton, Ohio)

National Journal (Washington, D.C.) 1982-1996

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RELATED EXPERIENCE: (cont.)

CALLIOPE Clients

PAC Researchers Public Affairs Information (Sacramento, Cal.)

USA Today (Rosslyn, Va.) Washington On-Line (D.C.)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

State Legislative Testimony

"Campaign Finance Reform," testimony to the Senate Government Operations Committee, 1972.

"Preserving the Vermont Primary," a report to the Senate Government Operations Committee, March, 1991

and the House Government Operations Committee, April, 1991.

Testimony to the Senate Government Operations Committee on a constitutional amendment concerning the

office of Lieutenant Governor in January, 1992.

Testimony to the Senate Government Operations on the Vermont presidential primary, January, 1993 and

the House Government Operations Committee, April, 1993.

Testimony to the Vermont Senate Government Operations Committee on the four- year term, February,

2000.

Speeches and Presentations to Civic Organizations

“The Jewish Vote Since JFK: The Changing Nature of Jewish Political Behavior," Temple Sinai, South

Burlington, Vt., December 9, 1984.

"MARPIES and Maple Syrup: The Political Transformation of Vermont," a presentation to the Kelliher-

Samets Marketing Group in Burlington, Vt., December, 1987.

"Forecasting the 1988 Election," the keynote address to the Annual Meeting of the Vermont Chamber of

Commerce, Mendon, Vt., October 26, 1988.

"Leadership in America: Changing Composition, Expectations and Assessments," closing address to

Leadership Champlain of the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce, Burlington, Vt., May, 1989.

"Politics in Burlington and Vermont: The 1990's." Downtown Burlington Development Association,

Burlington, Vt., May, 1990.

"Vermont: The Little State with the Big Message," a presentation in various forms to:

University of Vermont Emeritus Faculty Association (Burlington, Vt.), October, 1990.

Northwest Vermont Realtors Association Annual Meeting (South Burlington, Vt.), November, 1990.

10th Anniversary Luncheon, Domestic Affairs Program, U.S. Military Academy and Norwich

University (Northfield, Vt.), January, 1991.

"Presidential Politics, 1992," Ohavi Zedek Synagogue (Burlington, Vt.), March, 1992.

"Vermont Politics: Two Centuries Down and Still Counting." Northwest Vermont Realtors Association

Annual Meeting (South Burlington, Vt.), March, 1992.

"American National Politics: An Overview," a speech to Project Harmony (Warren, Vt.) July, 1992.

"Politics, 1992: The United States and Vermont," a speech to the Burlington Rotary, October, 1992.

"Presidential Politics, 1992: A Post-Election Update," Ohavi Zedek Synagogue (Burlington, Vt.),

November, 1992.

"The 1993 Burlington City Elections and Their Impact upon Downtown," a speech to the Downtown

Burlington Development Association, April, 1993.

"Bill Clinton and the Damaged Presidency," a speech to the South Burlington Rotary (South Burlington,

Vt.), May, 1993.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE

Speeches and Presentations to Civic Organizations

"The Damaged Presidency Strikes Again," a speech to the Washington, D.C. branch of the University of

Vermont Alumni Association, June, 1993.

"Roundtable on the 1994 Legislative Session," a discussion with the Chittenden County Rotary Clubs

(Burlington, Vt.), April, 1994.

"Congressional Politics, 1994," speeches to the Ohavi Zedek Synagogue (Burlington, Vt.), October and

November, 1994.

"The Republican Takeover," a speech to the Klifa Club (Burlington, Vt.), November, 1994.

"The Changing Political Scene: Focus on the Presidency," a speech at Marlboro Vt. College, April, 1995.

"The Influence of the Daily News: How It Happens and What is Fit to Report. Who Makes These

Judgments?" a roundtable to Leadership Champlain of the Lake Champlain Chamber of

Commerce (Burlington, Vt.) May, 1995.

"The 1996 Election: Outlooks and Overviews," a speech to the State Executive Directors of the U.S.

Chamber of Commerce (Stowe, Vt.) September, 1995.

"U.S. Senator Warren R. Austin and the United Nations," a speech to the "Musically Speaking" segment of

the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (Burlington, Vt.), October, 1995.

"The Republican Revolution: A Year Later," a speech to the Klifa Club (Burlington, Vt.), November, 1995.

"Previewing the Presidential Election of 1996 in Vermont and the Nation," given to:

-- Ohavi Zedek Synagogue (Burlington, Vt.), October, 1996.

-- University of Vermont Emeritus Faculty Association (Burlington, Vt.), October 25, 1996.

"Assessing Presidents: Where Does Bill 'Bubba' Clinton Rank?," a speech to the Annual Meeting of the

Vermont Association of Certified Public Accountants (Ferrisburg, Vt.), May 16, 1997.

"Clinton's Last Congress: Implications of History," a speech to Family Weekend '98 by Brandeis Finest

Scholars (Waltham, Mass.), November, 1998.

"Speaker John W. McCormack: His Life and Times," a speech to the John W. McCormack Civic

Association (Dorchester, Mass.), December, 1998.

”Making It in Massachusetts: The Reinvention of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack,” a speech to

the Bostonian Society, Boston, March, 1999.

"John McCormack: The Fighting Irishman from South Boston," the Marjorie Gibbons Annual Lecture to

the South Boston Public Library, November 1999.

"Hiring U.S. Presidents: Can We Do Better in the Next Century?" a speech to the 54th Hamilton Hall

Lecture Series, Salem, Mass., March, 2000.

"The 2000 Election: What to Expect in the Next Century," a "brown bag" presentation to the UVM Distance

Learning Network, October, 2000.

"Town Meeting: Could the Electoral College Misfire in Vermont?," a presentation at a Town Meeting

convened by U.S. Representative Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) with Vermont Treasurer James Douglas

and Vermont Secretary of State Deborah Markowitz at the State House, Montpelier, Vt..,

November, 2000.

"Implications of the Uncertain 2000 Presidential Election for the Next Congress," a speech to the Federal

Service Executives Association of Vermont, Essex, Vt., December, 2000.

“Presidential Politics 2004 and Governor Dean,” Vermont Business Roundtable (Stowe, Vt.), December,

2002.

"Vermont and National Politics, 2004," a speech to the Klifa Club (Burlington, Vt.), July, 2003.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE (cont.)

Speeches and Presentations to Civic Organizations

“What Vermont Teaches the Nation,” a speech to the State Associations of Business Roundtables, Essex,

Vt., October, 2003.

"Politics Today Way Outside the Beltway," a speech to the National Board Meeting of the Americans for

Democratic Action, South Burlington, Vt., October, 19, 2003.

"Prospects for the 2004 Elections: National and State Politics," a speech to the Vermont Chapter of

Financial Services Professionals, South Burlington, Vt., November 6, 2003.

"The Changing Landscape of National Politics and the 2004 Presidential Campaign," a speech to the 91st

Annual Meeting of the Vermont Society of Engineers, Burlington, Vt., April, 2004.

"Prepping for the 2004 Elections," a presentation to the Burlington, Vt. Secondary school faculty, June 14,

2004.

"The 2004 Elections/The Congressional Committee Project," a speech to the National Conference of State

Legislatures Legal Services Staff Section, Burlington, Vt., September 9, 2004.

"Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: An Assessment of New England's Role in

National Politics," for "Storylines New England," a production of New Hampshire Public Radio

for the American Library Association, Concord, N.H., October 17, 2004.

"Divided We Govern? Elections in Vermont and the Nation, a speech to the Champlain Valley Agency on

Aging, October 26, 2004

“A Damaged Presidency and a Disconnected Public,” a presentation to the Community Connections

Program on Elections, Media and Voter Awareness,” Vermont Council on World Affairs,

Colchester, Vt., June, 2006.

“The Changing Political Landscape,” a roundtable presentation to the Fall, 2006 Meeting of the

Vermont School Boards Association, Montpelier, Vt., November, 2006.

“Previewing President Bush’s Last Congress: The Judgment of History Awaits,” a speech for Elder

Education Enrichment, South Burlington, Vt., November, 2006.

“’And in Last Place’: Warren Harding’s Ill-Starred Presidency,” presented at the Hildene Winter

History Series, Manchester, Vt., April, 2007.

“Democracy and Diversity: The 2008 Presidential Election,” Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington,

February, 2008

“Democracy and Diversity: The 2008 Presidential Election,” American Association of University Women,

Vermont Chapter, March 2008.

“Idle Factories and NO SMOKE: Vincent, Truman and Lynn,” a eulogy for the poet Vincent Ferrini,

Gloucester, Mass., March, 2008.

“Democracy and Diversity in 2008,” New York Regional Board of UVM Alumni, New York City, May

2008.

“From Sound Bites to Substance in Presidential Rhetoric,” for the roundtable at the 2008 UVM

Homecoming (October, 2008)

“Presidential Politics in Vermont: A Two Century Journey,” to the Center for Research on Vermont,

October, 2008

Memberships

Member, Election Law Task Force, Vermont Ecumenical Council, 1971-72 (resulting in the

passage of Act 259, "Limitations on Election Expense," of adjourned Session, 1971, located at Title 17,

Sections 2051-2056 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated).

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COMMUNITY SERVICE (cont.)

Memberships

Consultant, League of Women Voters, Burlington, Vt.

Electoral College Reform, 1968-70. Survey of Political Participation, 1970-71.

Campaign Finance, 1973. Energy Policy, 1978.

Member, Alderman's Waterfront Task Force, Burlington, Vt. 1975.

Member, U.S. Office of Education Teachers Committee on the Study Commission on

Undergraduate Education and the Education of Teachers, 1972-73.

Executive Officer, Sarah Josepha Hale Award (a New England Literary Award), Newport, N.H., 1972-77,

1980-81.

Member, Lieutenant Governor's Advisory Committee on Energy Needs in Vermont, 1979.

United Fund of Chittenden County (Vt.), Long-Range Planning Political Subcommittee, 1982- 1985.

News Interviews: Broadcast News

Political analyst on more than 3000 television and radio broadcasts on stations in Vermont and elsewhere,

1976-date:

Television

ABC News "World News Tonight" BBC-TV

CNN "Inside Politics" Cox Communications

C-SPAN Fox 25 News (Boston)

MSNBC with Chuck Todd Fox 44/ABC 22 (Colchester, VT)

NBC TV News New England Cable News

WBZ-TV (Boston) WCAX-TV (CBS)

WCVB-TV (Boston) WEZF-TV (ABC)

WETK-TV (PBS) WPTZ-TV (NBC)

WGBH-TV (Boston) "Greater Boston with Emily Rooney"

Radio

National Public Radio (Washington, DC): "All Things Considered"

AP Radio (New York City) CBC Radio Charlottetown, PEI

CBC Radio Montreal CBC Radio Quebec

CBC Radio Toronto CJAD-AM (Montreal)

Global News (Canada) Norwegian Public Radio

Radio Seoul Korea Voice of America: Persia

Voice of America Mandarin Service NBC News Radio

New Hampshire Public Radio Vermont Public Radio

WAMC-FM (Albany, NY) WBUR-FM (Boston)

WBZ Radio (Boston) WDEV-AM (NBC)

WDOT-AM (ABC) WENG-AM (Fla.)

WEZF-FM (Ind.) WFAD-FM

WFCR-FM WHDQ-FM

WJOY-AM (CBS) WKDR-AM Talk Radio

WNTK-FM (New London, NH) WORC-FM (Mass.)

WQCR-FM (CBS) WSKI-AM (Montpelier, VT)

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COMMUNITY SERVICE: (cont.)

Radio (cont.)

WVMT-AM (NBC) KSL-AM (Salt Lake City, UT)

News Interviews: Print

Newspapers and Magazines

More than 2100 interviews on Vermont and the U.S. Congress for:

Agence Presse-France Asahi Shinbun (Osaka, Japan)

Dagens Nyheiter (Stockholm) Danish newsmagazine

De Standaard (Belgium) Die Zeit (Hamburg, German)

(The) Economist (London) Ha'aretz (Tel Aviv, Israel)

La Press (Montreal) La Revue Noir (Montreal)

Le Monde (Paris) The (Manchester, G.B.) Guardian

Montreal Gazette Observador (Lisbon, Portugal)

Sunday Times (of London) Swiss reporter

The Times (of London) Toronto (Ont.) Globe and Mail

Addison (Vt.) Independent Albany (NY) Tines-Union

The American Prospect Associated Press

Atlanta Constitution Austin (Tex.) American-Statesman

Baltimore Sun Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus

Bennington (Vt.) Banner Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle

Bloomberg News Boston Globe

Boston Herald Boston Phoenix

Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer Burlington (Vt.) Free Press

Cape Cod (Mass.) Times Chicago Tribune

Christian Science Monitor Chronicle of Higher Education

City and State News Computer World

Concord (N.H.) Monitor Congressional Quarterly

Cook Political Report Dallas Morning Herald

Des Moines (Ia.) Register Detroit Free Press

Education Week Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Sun-Sentinel

The Forward Gannett News Service

GQ: Gentleman's Quarterly Governing Magazine

Harpers Magazine Hartford (CT) Courant

Harvard Crimson (Cambridge, Mass.) The Hill (Washington, DC)

Houston (Tex.) Chronicle Human Events

In These Times The Justice (Brandeis University)

Kansas City (Mo.) Star Los Angeles Times

Lowell (Mass.) Sun Lynn (Mass.) Item

M: A Magazine for Men Media and the Law

Metro West (Mass.) Miami Herald

Minneapolis Star & Tribune Money Magazine

The Nation National Journal

Newark (NJ) Star-Telegram New England Monthly

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COMMUNITY SERVICE: (cont.)

News Interviews: Print

Newspapers and Magazines

Newhouse Newspapers Newsday (NY)

Newsweek New York Daily News

New York Observer New York Sun

The New York Times

People Magazine Philadelphia Inquirer

The) Political Report Politicker, VT

Providence (RI) Journal-Bulletin Providence (RI) Phoenix

Reason Magazine Reuters News Service

Rochester (NY) Times-Union Roll Call (Washington, DC)

Rutland (Vt.) Herald

Sacramento (Cal.) Bee Salon.com

San Diego (Cal.) Times-Union San Francisco Weekly

St. Albans (Vt.) Messenger St. Michaels College Defender

Seven Days (Burlington, (Vt.) Slate.com

Tampa (FL) Tribune TIME Magazine

Towards Freedom

United Press International USA Today

U.S. News & World Report Valley News (Lebanon, NH)

Valley Voice (Middlebury, Vt.) Vanguard (Burlington, Vt.)

Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Collegian

Vermont Cynic Vermont Digger

Vermont Guardian Vermont Magazine

Vermont Times Vermont Women

VOX

Wall Street Journal Washington Independent

Washington Monthly Washington (DC) Post

Washington (DC) Times Williamstown (Mass.) Advocate

Working Woman Yankee Magazine

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SERVICE

Founder and Director, Political Data Laboratory, University of Vermont, 1969-1976.

Member, Sociology and Anthropology Review Committee, 1970.

Meeting Representative, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Member, Political Science Graduate Program Committee, 1972-75; 1976-79.

Member, Business Administration Review Committee, 1975.

Executive Committee, Center for Research on Vermont, 1974-75; 1976-79.

Member, Vermont Seminar Committee, 1977-79.

Coordinator, Washington Center for Learning Alternatives 1977-79.

Program Director, Rural Options in Urban America, University of Vermont, 1978-79.

Member, Political Science Chairman Review Committee, 1987.

Member, Arts College Nomination & Elections Committee, 1987-90. Co-Chair, 1988-90.

Member, Political Science Retention, Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Committee, 1993.

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UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SERVICE

Chair, UVM Political Science Department Curriculum Committee, 2004-2006

Senator, UVM Faculty Senate, 2004-2010. Senate Executive Council, 2006-2010

Member, James Marsh Distinguished Professor Selection Committee, 2006-2010

Member, Business Administration Dean's Review Committee, 2006-07.

Speaker, "Vermont Towns and the American Presidency," a speech at the 2004 Induction Ceremony for the

Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society, May 21, 2004.

Speaker, "The 2004 Election: What Does it Mean?" UVM Political Science Student/Faculty Discussion

Series, November 10, 2004.

Speaker, “Presidential Peaks, Valleys, Probabilities and Predictions,” a speech at the 2007 Induction

Ceremony for the Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society, May 18, 2007.

Member, Arts College Committee on Budget Priorities, 2008-09

Speaker, "The 2008 Election: What Happened and What Does it Mean?" UVM Political Science Student/

Faculty Discussion Series, November 6, 2008.

Member, Arts College Dean's Review Committee, 2009

Speaker, “”The 2012 Election: A Retrospective View,” UVM Political Science Student/Faculty Symposium

October, 2014.

HONORS, PRIZES AND AWARDS:

Bacon Prize Essay of Boston University: First Prize, 1963; Second Prize, 1961.

Percival Wood Clements Prize (seventeen New England colleges) Prize winner, 1963.

University of Vermont Faculty Research Grant 1969-70 and Summer, 1973.

University of Vermont Faculty Improvement Grant, 1974-75.

Finalist, Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper at American Political Science Association Meeting, 1974.

Vermont Seminar Grant, 1978-79.

National Science Foundation, Political Science Program Grant #SES 80-00284, 1980-81.

Nominee, 1988 George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Vermont.

Cited as one of four "Best Professors" at UVM in Lisa Birnbach’s New and Improved College Book

(Prentice-Hall, 1990).

Finalist for the 1993 Kroepsch-Maurice Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Vermont.

Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Visiting Fellow, Northeastern University, 1996. .

Nominee for the 1998 "Teacher of the Year" at Brandeis University.

Cited by the Boston Globe as teaching the "Best Class" at Brandeis, September, 1999.

Senior Fellow, John W. McCormack Institute for Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts-

Boston, 1998-2001

UVM Class of 2002 Faculty Appreciation Certificate

UVM Class of 2005 Faculty Appreciation Certificate

UVM Class of 2006.Faculty Appreciation Certificate

UVM Class of 2007 Faculty Appreciation Certificate

UVM Class of 2008 Faculty Appreciation Certificate

Co-Editor of Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1789-1946, "Best Reference Source, 2002," in Library

Journal (March, 2003).

John C. Donovan Prize, Best Paper at the New England Political Science Association, 2002.

Finalist for the 2005 Kroepsch-Maurice Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Vermont.

Finalist for the 2006 Kroepsch-Maurice Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Vermont

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HONORS, PRIZES AND AWARDS

Nominee for the 2007 Kroepsch-Maurice Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Vermont

Nominee for the 2008 Kroepsch-Maurice Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Vermont

Winner in the Professor Category of the 2009 Kroepsch-Maurice Outstanding Teacher Award,

University of Vermont

Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, American Political Science

Association, 2009

John F. Kennedy Library Research Grant, 2006

Earhart Foundation Award, 2006

UVM Arts College Dean’s Faculty Development Award, 2006

Finalist, The Austin-Boston Connection for the 2010 D.B. Hardeman Prize at the Lyndon B. Johnson

Library, University of Texas.

Dean’s Lecture, College of Arts and Sciences, October 1, 2013

Robert C. Wood Visiting Professor of Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 2014-15

Elliott A. Brown Green and Gold Professor of Law, Politics, and Political Behavior, 2015-19

ORGANIZATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

American Political Science Association

Member, Jewell-Loewenberg Award Committee, Legislative Studies Section, 2004-05.

Chair, Rosenthal Prize Committee, Legislative Studies Section, 2006-07

New England Political Science Association

Member, Executive Council, 1988-1991.

Chair, Donovan Prize Committee, 1988-1991, 1992-1995.

President, 1991-1992.

Chair, Nominating Committee, 1992-1994.

Northeastern Political Science Association

1st Vice President and Program Chair, 1994-1995

President, 1995-1996.

Northeastern Political Science Association

Executive Director, 1997-2000

Executive Council, 2012-date

Section Head, 2005-2007, 2014-date

New England Historic Genealogical Society.

LINKS '98 (State Universities in State Capitals) Co-Chair, 1998.

REFERENCES:

Emeritus Professor Samuel C. Patterson Professor David W. Brady

Department of Political Science Graduate School of Business

The Ohio State University Stanford University

Columbus, Ohio 43210 Stanford, Cal. 94305

U.S. Senator Patrick J. Leahy Professor David C. King

433 Russell Senate Office Building Kennedy Institute of Politics

Washington, D.C. 20510 Harvard University

Cambridge, Mass.

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