The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress

Edited by Eric Schickler, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, and Frances E. Lee, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland

Eric Schickler is the author of Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress (Princeton University Press, 2001) and co-author, with Greg Wawro, of Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate (Princeton University Press, 2006). Both books received APSA's Richard F. Fenno Award for the best book published on legislative politics. He is also co-author of Partisan Hearts and Minds (with Donald Green and Bradley Palmquist), which was published in 2002 (Yale University Press). He has authored or co-authored articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Studies in American Political Development, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Social Science History. He is Jeffrey and Ashley McDermott Chair in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Frances E. Lee is author of Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate (University of Chicago Press, 2009), coauthor of Sizing Up The Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation(University of Chicago Press 1999), and co-author of a comprehensive textbook on the U.S. Congress, Congress and Its Members (CQ Press). Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Her work has received national recognition, including the APSA's E. E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American Politics, the D. B. Hardeman Award presented by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation for the best book on a congressional topic, and the APSA's Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Award for the best book on legislative politics published. She is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Contributors: 
Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley
Frances E. Lee, University of Maryland-College Park
Bruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University
Craig Volden, Ohio State University
Alan Wiseman, Ohio State University
Nolan McCarty, Princeton University
Ross K. Baker, Rutgers University
Ira Katznelson, Columbia University
Jamie L. Carson, University of Georgia
Jason M. Roberts, University of Minnesota
Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois
Michael P. McDonald, Brookings Institution
Robin Kolodny, Temple University
Michele L. Swers, Georgetown University
Stella M. Rouse, University of Maryland
Stephen Ansolabehere, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philip Edward Jones, University of Delaware
Diana Evans, Trinity College, Hartford
David Brady, Stanford University
John D. Griffin, University of Notre Dame
Randall Strahan, Emory University
Larry Evans, The College of William and Mary
Greg Wawro, Columbia University
Gary Cox, University of California, San Diego
Mathew McCubbins, University of California, San Diego
Scott Adler, University of Colorado
John B. Gilmour, College of William and Mary
Brian F. Schaffner, University of Massachusetts
Paul Quirk, University of British Columbia
William Bendix, University of British Columbia
Sean Theriault, University of Texas
Patrick Hickey, University of Texas
Abby Blass, University of Texas
Beth Leech, Rutgers University
John Wilkerson, University of Washington
Barry Pump, University of Washington
Sarah A. Binder, George Washington University
Wendy J. Schiller, Brown University
Jeff Jenkins, University of Virginia
Douglas Dion, University of Iowa
Richard Bensel, Cornell University
B. Dan Wood, Texas A & M University
Linda L. Fowler, Dartmouth College
Michael A. Bailey, Georgetown University
Forrest Maltzman, George Washington University
Charles R. Shipan, University of Michigan
Morris Fiorina, Stanford University
David Mayhew, Yale University