Who Runs for Congress: Ambition, Context, and Candidate Emergence. Editor. 1994. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.

"Where's the Party?: Congressional Candidate Recruitment and American Party Organizations," with Mary C. Thornberry, Western Political Quarterly, 43 (March 1990): 61 80.

"The Deterrent Effect of Incumbency on Recruiting Challengers in U.S. House Elections," Legislative Studies Quarterly 8 (August 1983): 469-480.

"Getting a Fresh Start: A Natural Experimental Test of the Performance Effects of Moving to a New Job," with Thomas Bateman and Kirk Karwan, Journal of Applied Psychology 68 (1983): 517-524.

"The Impact of Electoral Reform: `Open Elections' and the Louisiana Party System," Publius 13 (Winter 1983): 131-139.

"Television Exposure and Attitude Change: The Impact of Political Interest," Public Opinion Quarterly 45 (Winter 1981): 507-518.

"Dealing With Incumbency: Repeat Candidacy and Campaign Money," Congressional Studies 8 (1981): 43-53.

"The Decision to Run for the U.S. Congress: Challenger Attitudes in the 1970s," Legislative Studies Quarterly 5 (February 1980): 79-100.

"North Carolina: Conservatism, Traditionalism, and the GOP," forthcoming in Charles S. Bullock, Southern Politics. 1997. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Review of Richard F. Fenno, Jr., Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation, forthcoming in American Political Science Review.

Review of Stanley A. Renshon, ed., The Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing, and the Psychology of Leadership, in Perspectives on Political Science 25 (Winter 1996): 30.

Review of Joseph Aistrup, The Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South, in Perspectives in Political Science 26 (Spring 1997):114-115.

"Syllabus: Senior Colloquium in Political Science," in Political Science, ed. Ronald Kahn, American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1992.

Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections, L. Sandy Maisel, ed., 1991, (N.Y.: Garland Publishing) contributed fourteen articles.

"Balanced Budget Made Simple But Not Easy," with Peter Hess, Christian Science Monitor, January 12, 1989: 18.

American Political Institutions and Behavior; Congress; Presidency; Public Opinion; Political Parties; Media and Politics; Methodology; Public Policy

Ph.D. Ohio State University, Political Science, 1978

B.A. Baldwin-Wallace College, 1974

Dissertation: "Congressional Elections and the Rerun Phenomenon: A Study of Candidate Recruitment and Incumbency Advantage," Herbert Asher, chairman.

Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award, 1996.

Congressional Fellowship, 1987-88, American Political Science Association.

University Fellowship, Ohio State University, 1974-1978.

American Political Processes and Institutions
The Presidency
The Legislative Process
Public Opinion
Parties and Interest Groups
Politics and the Media
Southern Politics
Seminar on Community Power
Political Science Senior Colloquium
The American Federal System
Public Policy
Political Behavior

Papers Presented:

"Assessing the Implications of Eroding Political Trust in America," (with Susan Roberts) Southern Political Science Association Meeting, Norfolk, Virginia, forthcoming November 1997.

"Outlying Committees in the Statehouse: An Examination of the Prevalence of Committee Outliers in the Lower Chambers of Ten State Legislatures," (with Marvin Overby), American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., forthcoming August 1997.

"Changes in Political Alienation in America, 1964-1992," (with Susan Roberts), Southern Political Science Association Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1996.

"Alienation and American Politics, 1984-1992," (with Christina Shi), Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1996.

"Challenging a 'Safe' Incumbent: Risk-Taking in North Carolina's Ninth District," (with Susan Roberts), Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1992.

"Poisoning the Atmosphere or Energizing the Electorate: The Impact of Negative Advertising in Political Campaigns" (with Patrick Sellers), American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 1987.

"Problems of Identifying the Pool of Potential Candidates in Congressional Districts," Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 1986.

"A Quantitative Assessment of Candidate Recruitment in Congressional Elections," American Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, September, 1985.

"Can We Throw the Rascals Out?: Recruiting Candidates in Competitive Congressional Districts," American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September, 1983.

"Getting a Fresh Start: A Natural Experimental Test of the Performance Effects of Moving to a New Job," American Institute of Decision Sciences, San Francisco, California, November, 1982.

"Recruiting Congressional Challengers: The Deterrent Effect of Incumbency," Midwest Political Science Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April, 1982.

"Electoral Reform and State Party Strength: The Nonpartisan Primary in Louisiana," Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1980.

"Why Run for Congress?," Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1979.

Panel Chair:

"Representation in the Senate," Southern Political Science Association Meeting, Norfolk, Virginia, forthcoming November 1997.

"Alienation and Tolerance," Southern Political Science Association Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1996.

"Candidate Recruitment to the U.S. House of Representatives," American Political Science Association," New York, N.Y., September 1994.

"State Legislative Elections," Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1994.

"Roundtable on Congressional Candidate Emergence," American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 1992.

"Incumbents and Challengers in Congressional Elections," Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1992.

"Legislative Elections," Midwest Political Science Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, April, 1981.

Panel Discussant:

"The 1994 Congressional Elections," American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 1995.

"Legislative Careers," Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1995.

"Perspectives on the United States Senate," Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, Georgia, November 1993.

"The Effects of Perquisites and Roll Call Votes on Constituent Behavior," Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1993.

"Incumbency and Congressional Elections," Southern Political Science Association Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1992.

"Elections," Carl Albert Congressional Studies Center, University of Oklahoma, Conference on "Back to the Future: Congress in the Twenty-first Century," April 1990.

"Legislative Careers and Legislators' Motivations," American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, Calif., August-September 1990.

"Congressional Recruitment and Representation," American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August, 1989.

"Congressional Elections," Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1989.

"American Politics: Focus on the Hunt-Helms U.S. Senate Race," North Carolina Political Science Association, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, April, 1984.

"Southern State Legislatures," Symposium on Southern Politics, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, March, 1984.

"Ideology and Partisan Change," Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 1978.

Editorial Board, American Review of Politics

Participant, "The 1992 Political Science Faculty Workshop for Undergraduate Instruction in Data Analysis in Political Science" at Ohio State University, July 1992.

Participant, Wye Faculty Seminar, Queenstown, Maryland, August 1992.

Conference on "Congressional Candidate Selection," Colby College, July, 1986.

Manuscript Referee:

American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Journal of Politics, Southeastern Political Review, American Review of Politics

Grant Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation

Gladys Kammerer Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 1993.

Dr. John Kuykendall
President Emeritus, Davidson College
Davidson, NC 28036

Dr. David E. Shi
President, Furman University
Greenville, SC 29613

Professor Robert C. Williams
Office of the President and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Davidson College
Davidson, NC 28036

Professor Herbert Asher
Department of Political Science
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43201