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Annual Review 2020-2021
Annual Review: 2020-2021
Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies 2021 Annual Report (Condensed)
In 2021, CCPS continued pursuing our mission of strengthening the democratic square through research, training institutes, and public events. Specifically, we accomplished the following items:
External Grants Received:
- $1.2 million to renew our Program on Legislative Negotiation with a new round of support from the听, which helps national and state policymakers negotiate more effectively
- $200,000 to promote听New Perspectives in Studies of American Governance (NP),听in partnership with听, which incentivizes a broader range of perspectives with respect to gender, race/ethnicity, capacity, and culture in studies of American governance at the federal level
Scholarly Conferences Hosted:
- The听鈥淣ew Perspectives and New Questions in Legislative Studies鈥 virtual conference听with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman (Professor of Political Science, Purdue University) and Bettina Poirier (Professor of Law and Director of 17吃瓜在线鈥檚 Program on Legislative Negotiation) with support from the听Hewlett Foundation鈥檚 US Democracy Program;听this conference aimed to foster innovation and collaboration on new lines of legislative scholarship that reflect the broadening perspectives of American lawmakers (and the constituents they serve)
- The听Understanding Legislative Negotiation virtual conference听with 17吃瓜在线鈥檚 Program on Legislative Negotiation and the Hewlett Foundation鈥檚 US Democracy Program
Public Events Hosted:
- A Conversation with James E. Clyburn, U.S. Majority Whip (D-SC)
- Thurber Dialogues on Democracy.听This series of public conversations featured (1) U.S. Senator Cory Booker, (2) Pulitzer Prize winning author Anne Applebaum, (2) renowned social scientists Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
- The Future of the GOP听with three prominent thought leaders within the GOP (Sara Fagen, Henry Olsen, and Tevi Troy)
- Congress Overwhelmed, with the听Program on Legislative Negotiation, the听Sine Institute of Policy & Politics, and the听
- The Fourth Annual Barbara Sinclair Lecture with Professor Wendy Schiller听from Brown University, in partnership with the American Political Science Association
Research Supported:
- Announced The听New Perspectives in Studies of American Governance听small grants program, which will award 5-10 grants (up to $20,000 each) to new projects asking new questions that stand to transform political scientists鈥 collective understanding of American governance and representation
- Announced a special issue of听,听guest-edited by David C. Barker and Valeria Sinclair-Chapman (Purdue University), on 鈥淣ew Perspectives in American Legislative Studies鈥
- Funded four new survey data collections and research assistance for Andy Ballard, and PhD students Ryan DeTamble, Michael Heseltine, and Marcus Johnson
- Hired five undergraduate researchers under the supervision of Prof. Andy Ballard, including Josh O鈥橲teen, Jane Cronin, Mergentevne Naragerel, Emily Minster, and Finn Dobkin
Prizes/Scholarships Awarded:
- Gill Family Foundation Scholarship
- The James and Claudia Thurber Scholarship Endowment
- CCPS Benefactor鈥檚 Award
- Griffin Scholarship for the Public Affairs & Advocacy Institute
Institutes Conducted:
- Campaign Management Institute
- The Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute
- Legislative Negotiation Institute
New Published Research
- Alvarez, R. Michael, Nicholas J. Adams-Cohen, Seo-young Silvia Kim, Yimeng Li. 2020. 鈥溙鼵ambridge University Press
- Alvarez, R. Michael, Jonathan N. Katz, and Seo-young Silvia Kim. 2020. 鈥.鈥 Election Law Journal. 19(1): 1鈥18. doi: 10.1089/elj.2019.0593.
- Ballard, Andrew and Hans Hassell. (2021). 鈥.鈥澨Party听Politics[DB2]听.
- Ballard, Andrew and James Curry (2021).听. American Political Science Review, 115(4): 1388-1405. 1
- Ballard, Andrew, Hans Hassell, and Michael Heseltine (2021).听听Legislative Studies Quarterly, 46(2): 459-491.
- Barker, David C., DeTamble, Ryan, and Morgan Marietta (2021). 鈥.鈥 American Political Science Review
- Barker, D. C., & Suhay, E. (2021).听. Oxford University Press.
- Bryan, James D. and Jordan Tama. 2021. 鈥,鈥澨International Politics
- Cao, Jian, Seo-young Silvia Kim, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2021. 鈥.鈥 Statistics, Politics and Policy. Forthcoming. doi: 10.1515/spp-2021-0016.
- Cohen, Michael. 2021.听, vol. 14,听April 1848鈥揓une 1849听(Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press).
- Michael Cohen also edited 13 volumes and coedited 12 of the same series, published in print earlier, were published digitally in 2021 by the University of Virginia Press/Rotunda as part of its American History Collection.
- Crouch, Jeffrey. 2021. 鈥?鈥澨Federal Sentencing Reporter听33 (5):听337-340.
- Crouch, Jeffrey and Mark J. Rozell. 2021. 鈥淧residential Statesmanship in the New Media Era.鈥 In听听Joseph R. Fornieri, Kenneth L. Deutsch and Sean D. Sutton, Eds. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 699-719.
- Edelson, Chris. (2021).听. Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07343469.2021.1950868
- Green, Matthew N. and Jeffrey Crouch. Forthcoming, July 2022.听听Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
- Kafura, Craig, Dina Smeltz, Joshua Busby, Joshua D. Kertzer, Jonathan Monten, and Jordan Tama, 鈥,鈥 Chicago Council on Global Affairs (2021)
- Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Hannah Lebovits, and Sarah Shugars. 2021. 鈥溙齈S: Political Science & Politics: 1鈥6. doi: 10.1017/S1049096521001025.
- Kim, Seo-young Silvia, R. Michael Alvarez, and Christina M. Ramirez. 2020. 鈥溙齋ocial Science Quarterly. 101(2): 978鈥 988. doi: 10.1111/ssqu.12777.
- Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Spencer Schneider, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2020. 鈥溙鼳merican Politics Research. 48(6): 670鈥 676. Article first published online: Sep 9, 2019. doi: 10.1177/1532673X19870512.
- Long, Meri, Ryan Dawe, and Elizabeth Suhay. 2021.听. Politics & Gender. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X21000155
- Marcotte, Dave E. and Elizabeth Suhay. 2021.听An Initial Evaluation of the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN)听2020-2021. School of Public Affairs, 17吃瓜在线.
- Smeltz, Dina and Jordan Tama. May 27, 2021. 鈥,鈥澨Politico
- Tama, Jordan, Craig Kafura, Dina Smeltz, Joshua Busby, Joshua D. Kertzer, and Jonathan Monten, 2021., 鈥,鈥 Chicago Council on Global Affairs (2021)
- Tama, Jordan. 2021.鈥,鈥 in Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott, editors,听Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy: Activism, Assertiveness and Acquiescence in a Polarized Era听(Rowman and Littlefield), 21-36
- Tama, Jordan, February 24, 2021. 鈥听Just Security
- Tama, Jordan, January 19, 2021. 鈥,鈥澨Washington Post
- Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations听(2022, 7th Ed.) which will be out in July 2022.
- Valenzuela, Ali A. and Tyler Reny. 2021. "听In Druckman, J. and Green, D. P. 听(Eds.),听Advances in Experimental Political Science听(pp. 447-467). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108777919.031
Community Engagement:
- Reached almost 450听听followers, made almost 300听听connections, and expanded our email listserv to 2,700.
New Leadership/Staff:
- Professor听Patrick Griffin, new Director of the Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute
- Professor听Korneliya Bachiyska, new Director of the European Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute
- Ph.D. candidate听, new Managing Editor for听Congress & the Presidency
- Amy Larrabee Cotz, new Associate Editor of the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore Project
The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor & Millard Fillmore project:
- Received $90,471 from the NHPRC, the Summerlee Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the University of Virginia as part of its NHPRC/Mellon Foundation鈥揻unded UVA Digital Publishing Cooperative
- Welcomed Amy Cotz as associate editor, five new undergraduate students as interns and hired SPA鈥檚 Alaysia Bookal as editorial assistant
- Published six blog articles and Professor Michael Cohen wrote an op-ed about Taylor for the听Baton Rouge Advocate鈥檚 Presidents鈥 Day issue
Annual Review 2019-2020
ANNUAL REVIEW: 2019-2020 (In Brief)
It was another active and productive year for CCPS. Specifically, from September 2019 to December 2020, we:
- Received $50,000 from and the for The Black Swing Voter Study, in collaboration with the and Pennsylvania State University
- Received $75,117 in external grants to support The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor & Millard Fillmore Project
- Received a grant from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation ($12,800) to organize and host the New Perspectives in Legislative Studies conference, in collaboration with Purdue University
- Sponsored or co-sponsored 10 events and symposia (see here)
- Continued programming with the Program on Legislative Negotiation, an initiative started last year with support from the Hewlett Foundation and in partnership with Harvard University, the Partnership for a Secure America, the Library of Congress, and the National Conference of State Legislatures
- Awarded over $100,000 in small research grants to 7 research teams, to study legislative negotiation
- Created the Legislative Negotiation Institute for students and professionals, and conducted first round of trainings
- Awarded the Barbara Sinclair Lecture, the Gill Family Foundation Scholarship, the James and Claudia Thurber Scholarship Endowment, and the CCPS Benefactor鈥檚 Award for the Campaign Management Institute and the Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute
- Added one new CCPS fellow (Korneliya Bachiyska), who will direct the European Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute (EPAAI)
- Continued supporting 2 visiting scholars and 6 graduate students
- Increased online engagement with CCPS community, including reaching almost 300 followers, about 250 connections, and 2,600 on our email Listserv
- Established/Deepened partnerships and working relationships with the following entities:
- Maintained the quality of Congress and the Presidency, under editor Jeff Crouch, Managing Editor Aaron Stuvland, and book editor Adam Warber and new Editorial Fellow Grant Allard
- Maintained the success of our professional Institutes and Weekend Workshops:听
Campaign Management Institute (CMI)
Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute (PAAI)
Annual Review 2018-2019
ANNUAL REVIEW: 2018-19 (In Brief)
It was another active and productive year for CCPS. Specifically, from September 2018 to July 2019, we:
- Sponsored or co-sponsored 13 events and symposia (see here).
- Published 2 books, 5 peer-reviewed articles, 11 book chapters, and 12 editorials/pieces of public scholarship
- Received 2 new grants, totaling $1.1 million dollars
- Inaugurated the Program on Legislative Negotiation, with support from the Hewlett Foundation and in partnership with Harvard University, the Partnership for a Secure America and the Library of Congress.
- Added five new CCPS fellows
- Supported 2 visiting scholars and 7 graduate students
- Awarded the Madison Prize and the Barbara Sinclair Lecture
- Sponsored , a student-led voter registration drive
- Established/Deepened partnerships and working relationships with the following entities:
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- Continued our long-standing relationship with the (USCET)
- Maintained the quality of Congress and the Presidency, under editor Jeff Crouch, Managing Editor Aaron Stuvland, and book editor Adam Warber
- Maintained the success of our professional Institutes and Weekend Workshops:
Annual Review 2017-2018
The inaugural year of Professor Barker鈥檚 directorship was active and productive. Specifically, from September to June, we:
- Sponsored or co-sponsored 8 events (听and听) and 1听
- Received 3 new grants, including one from the听National Science Foundation
- Finalized听One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts & American Democracy听(Oxford U. Press)
- Completed 2 other research projects, and initiated 2 more
- Completed 2 new data collections, supporting faculty colleagues and SPA students
- Published 6 blog posts on听,听, and听
- Added over a dozen new听
- Supported 2 visiting scholars (including a Fulbright Scholar) and 6 graduate students
- Initiated the听听and the听
- Began work on a new bipartisan congressional internship program
- Sponsored a student-led voter registration drive
NEW PARTNERSHIPS AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
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- New York Times听(Trump Administration Deregulation Tracker)
- 17吃瓜在线 Center for Latin American and Latino Studies
- 17吃瓜在线 Metropolitan Policy Center
- Continued our long-standing relationship with the听听(USCET)
- Created a new website, strategic plan, and听听page
- Maintained the quality of听, under new editor Jeff Crouch
- Maintained the success of our professional Institutes and Weekend Workshops:
- 听(CMI)
- 听(PAAI)
- 听(EPAAI)