Congress and History Conference
Congress & History Conference
Thursday, May 21- Arrival at Holiday Inn Vanderbilt
7:00 (approx.) - Gather in lobby for informal dinner
Friday, May 22- Vanderbilt Student Life Building- Board of Trust Room
8:30- 9:50 Panel 1- Party Leaders in the House and Senate
Chair Josh Clinton, Vanderbilt University
Presenter John Owens, University of Westminster, “Macon and Stevenson: The Evolution of the Proto-Partisan Speakership in the Ante Bellum House”
Discussant Frances Lee, University of Maryland
Presenters Gerald Gamm, University of Rochester and Steven Smith, Washington University, “The Emergence of Senate Party Leadership,1913-1937: The Case of the Democrats
Discussant Gregory Wawro, Columbia University
10:00-11:20 Panel 2- Civil Rights and Southern Representation
Chair Tom Schwartz, Vanderbilt University
Presenters David Bateman, Cornell University and John Lapinski, University of Pennsylvania, “ The Alternative South: Foundations and Fault Lines of Southern Solidarity in the Gilded Age"
Discussant Barbara Sinclair, UCLA
Presenters Jeffrey Jenkins, University of Virginia and Justin Peck, Wesleyan University, “The Erosion of the First Civil Rights Era: Congress and the Redemption of the White South, 1877-1891”
Discussant David Brady, Stanford University
11:30-1:15 Lunch and Roundtable
Roundtable - The Status of Congress and History Research: Untapped Topics and Well-Trod Paths
Discussion Leaders: David Brady, Stanford University, Sarah Binder, George Washington University and The Brookings Institution, Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley
1:30-2:50 Panel 3- The Politics of Appropriations and Debt
Chair Alan Wiseman, Vanderbilt University
Presenters Frances Lee and Timothy Cordova, University of Maryland, “The 'Ins' vs. the Outs': The Congressional Politics of the Debt Limit, 1953-2014."
Discussant Anthony Madonna, University of Georgia
Presenter Peter Hanson, University of Denver, “Open Rules in a Closed House: Agenda Control in House Appropriations, 1995-2012”
Discussant Sarah Binder, George Washington University and the Brookings Institution
3:00-4:20 Panel 4- The Politics of Federal Spending
Chair Hye Young You, Vanderbilt University
Presenters Kate Krimmel, Boston University and Kelly Rader, Yale University, “Behind the Federal Spending Paradox: Economic Self- Interest and Symbolic Racism in Contemporary Fiscal Politics” Supplemental Appendix
Discussant David Karol, University of Maryland
Presenter Charles Finocchiaro, University of South Carolina, “The Public Buildings Boom: Distributive and Partisan Politics in the Modernizing Congress”
Discussant Richard Bensel, Cornell University
6:00 Dinner - Gather in the Holiday Inn Lobby for Transportation to The Mad Platter Restaurant
Saturday, May 23- Vanderbilt Student Life Building- Board of Trust Room
8:30-10:30 Panel 5-Districting and Elections
Chair Marc Hetherington, Vanderbilt University
Presenters Jamie Carson, Ryan Williamson, and Joel Sievert, University of Georgia, “Assessing the Rise and Development of the Incumbency Advantage in Congress”
Discussant Robert Erikson, Columbia University
Presenters Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University and Maxwell Palmer, Boston University, “A Two Hundred-Year Statistical History of the Gerrymander”
Discussant Michael Crespin, University of Oklahoma
Presenters Kenneth Lowande, University of Virginia and Justin Peck, Wesleyan University, “Congressional Investigations and the Electoral Connection”
Discussant Timothy Nokken, Texas Tech University
10:40-12:00 Panel 6- Careers and Residences
Chair Larry Bartels , Vanderbilt University
Presenter Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego and Scott Mackenzie, University of California, Davis “Latent Class Modeling of Political Mobility: Implications for Legislative Recruitment, Representation and Institutional Development"
Discussant Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley
Presenters Gregory Caldeira and William Minozzi, Ohio State University, "Social Influence in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1801-1861"
Discussant Charles Stewart III, MIT
Noon- Lunch