Lawrence C. Dodd
Abridged Curriculum Vita-2001

 
 
Current Position
Manning J. Dauer Eminent Scholar in Political Science, University of Florida, 1995-
Director, Program for the Study of Political Institutions and Societal Change, University of Florida, 1995-
Previous Academic Appointments
Assistant/Associate Professor, University of Texas-Austin, 1972-80
Professor, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1980-86
Professor and Director, Center for the Study of American Politics, University of Colorado, 1986-95
Fellowships and Professional Honors
NDEA Fellowship, 1968-69
Ford Fellowship, 1971-72
Congressional Fellowship, American Political Science Association, 1974-75
Finalist, 1977 American Political Science Association Phi Sigma Alpha Award for Best Paper
University Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, 1978-79
President, Southwestern Political Science Association, 1980
Hoover National Fellow, Stanford University, 1984-85
Outstanding Graduate of 1988, Political Science, University of Minnesota
University Fellow, University of Colorado, 1992-93
Outstanding Division Alumnus of 1994, Midwestern University
Member, Board of Trustees, 1994-97, APSA Trust Fund
Teaching/Service Awards
Teaching Excellence Award, 1976, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas-Austin
Jean Holloway Teaching Excellence Award, 1977, Ex-Students Association, University of Texas-Austin
Finalist, Circle Teaching Excellence Award, Indiana, 1982,1983
Burlington Northern Teaching Excellence Award, 1989, Colorado
University-wide Recipient, Faculty Superior Achievement Award, University of Florida, 1997-98
Direction of Doctoral Dissertations
Nine Dissertations Completed at Texas and Indiana
Four Dissertations Completed at Colorado
Three Dissertations Completed and Five in Progress at Florida


Book Series Editor

Transforming American Politics Series, Westview Press, 1987-present (Twenty-one volumes to-Date)
Service Activities: University of Florida (1995-2000):
Director, Program for the Study of Political Institutions and Societal Change, 1995-2000
Member, Graduate Program Revision Committee, Department of Political Science, 1995-96
Member, University Senate, 1996-8
Director, Dauer Lecture Series, Department of Political Science, 1995-98
Member, Leadership/Initiatives Committee, Department of Political Science, 1995-2000
Member, Graduate Admissions/Recruitment Committee, Department of Political Science, 1995-2000
Member, American and International Relations Search Committees, 1997-99
Member, Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1997-99; Chair, 1997-98
Member, Dean’s PEP Committee, CLAS, Fall, 1998
Chair, Department Committee on Anderson Hall Renovation, 1998-2000
Chair, American Field, 1999-2000
Chair, American Political Development Recruitment Committee, 1999-2000
Member, Department Merit Committee, 1999-2000
Books and Monographs
Congress and Public Policy. Morristown, New Jersey: General Learning Press, 1975.
Coalitions in Parliamentary Government. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press,  1976. Japanese edition, 1977.
Congress Reconsidered. Co-edited with Bruce I. Oppenheimer. New York: Praeger, 1977; Congressional Quarterly Press (Washington, D. C) has published six subsequent editions composed of original essays: 1981, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2000.
The Presidency and Congress: A Changing Balance of Power. Co-edited with William S. Livingston and Richard L. Schott. Austin, Texas: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, 1979.
Congress and the Administrative State. Co-authored with Richard Schott. New York: John Wiley, 1979.
Congress and Policy Change. Co-edited with Gerald Wright and Leroy Rieselbach. New York: Agathon Press, 1986.
The Dynamics of American Politics. Co-edited with Calvin Jillson. Boulder , CO.: Westview Press, 1994.
New Perspectives on American Politics. Co-edited with Calvin Jillson. Washington, D. C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1994.
Learning Democracy. Co-authored with Leslie Anderson. Under advanced contract: Johns Hopkins 
University Press.
Articles and Chapters in Books
"Committee Integration in the Senate: A Comparative Analysis."Journal of Politics, November, 1972.
"Party Coalitions in Multiparty Parliaments." American Political Science Review, September, 1974.
"Roll Call Measurement of Party Integration." With John C. Pierce. Polity, Spring, 1975.
"The Emergence of Party Government in the House of Representatives."DEA News, (A Publication of the American Political Science Association: not an abbreviation), Summer, 1976.
"Texas: The Case of the Wrangling Professors." With Robert Lineberry, John Sinclair and Alan Sagar. In The Making of Congressmen, edited by Alan Clem. North Scituate, Mass.: Duxburry Press, 1976.
"The House of Representatives and Institutional Change: An Analysis of Internal Organizational Reform." A Report prepared for the Advisory Committee on National Growth Processes, the National Commission on Supplies and Shortages, Washington, 1976; issued by the U. S. Government Printing Office, 1977.
"The House in Transition." With Bruce Oppenheimer, in Congress Reconsidered, 1977, full citation above.
"Congress and the Quest for Power." In Congress Reconsidered, 1977. A revised and shortened version appears in Discovery Magazine, The University of Texas, June 1978. Original essay reprinted in: Studies of Congress, edited by Glenn R. Parker (CQ Press, 1985); American Government: Readings and Cases, edited by Peter Woll (Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman, 1990, 1993); and
Classics in Congressional Politics, edited by Herbert F. Weisberg, Eric S. Heberlig and Lisa M. Campoli (New York: Longman, 1999).
"Congressional Voting Patterns: The Question of Regionalism and Energy." With Sally Lopreato and Fred Smoller. Monograph, the Center for Energy Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, 1978.
"Congress and the Cycles of Power." Society, Vol. 16, #1, November, 1978; revised and expanded version appears in The Presidency and Congress, (full citation given in books, above) 1979.
"The Presidency, Congress and the Cycles of Power." In The Post-Imperial Presidency, edited by Vincent David. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1979.
"The Expanding Roles of the House Democratic Whip System." Congressional Studies, Vol. VI (Winter, 1979).
"The House in Transition: from Albert to O’Neill." Co-authored with Bruce Oppenheimer, in Congress Reconsidered, 1981
"Congress, the Constitution and the Crisis of Legitimation." In Congress Reconsidered, 1981.
"Majority Party Leadership and Partisan Vote Gathering: The House Democratic Whip System." Co-authored with Terry Sullivan. In Understanding Congressional Leadership, edited by Frank H. Mackaman. Washington, D. C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1981.
"Coalition-Building by Party Leaders." In Congress and the Presidency Journal (Fall, 1983).
"The Study of Cabinet Durability: Introduction and Commentary."Comparative Political Studies, July, 1984.
"The Elusive Congressional Mandate: The 1984 Election and Its Aftermath." In Congress Reconsidered, 3rd Edition, 1985.
"The House in Transition: Partisanship and Opposition." With Bruce Oppenheimer, in Congress Reconsidered, 3rd Edition.
"Bicameralism in Congress: The Changing Partnership." With Edward Carmines, in Congress Reconsidered, 3rd Edition.
"The Cycles of Legislative Change." In Political Science: the Science of Politics, edited by Herbert Weisberg . New York: Agathon Press, 1985.
"A Theory of Congressional Cycles: Solving the Puzzle of Change." In Congress and Policy Change, full citation in books, above, 1986.
"Woodrow Wilson’s Congressional Government and the Modern Congress." In Congress and thePresidency Journal. Autumn, 1987.
"The Rise of the Technocratic Congress." In Richard Harris and Sidney Milkis, editors, Remaking American Politics. Boulder: Westview Press, 1988.
"Micro-Macro Perspectives on Legislatures." Legislative Studies Section Newsletter, Fall, 1988.
"Perspectives on the 1988 Congressional Elections." With Bruce Oppenheimer. In Congress Reconsidered, 4th Edition, 1989. 
"Consolidating Power in the House." With Bruce Oppenheimer. In Congress Reconsidered, 4th Edition. 
"The New Congress: Fluidity and Change." With Bruce Oppenheimer. In Congress Reconsidered, 4th Edition, 1989.
"Congress, the Executive and the American Experience: A Transformational Perspective." In Divided Democracy. Edited by James A. Thurber. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1991.
"The Political Mastery of U. S. Senators." Legislative Studies Section Newsletter, Fall, 1992.
"Perspectives on the 1992 Congressional Elections." Co-authored with Bruce Oppenheimer. In Congress Reconsidered, 5th Edition, 1993.
"Maintaining Order in the House: The Struggle of Institutional Equilibrium." Co-authored with Bruce Oppenheimer, in Congress Reconsidered, 5th Edition, 1993. 
"Congress and the Politics of Renewal: Redressing the Crisis of Legitimation." Congress Reconsidered, 5th Edition, 1993.
"Conversations on the Study of American Politics." Co-authored with Cal Jillson. In The Dynamics of American Politics, 1994.
"Political Learning and Political Change: Understanding Political Development Across Time." In The Dynamics of American Politics, 1994.
"Reassessing American Politics." Co-authored with Cal Jillson. In New Perspectives on American Politics, l994.
"The Rise of the Modern State: 1932-1964." In The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
"The New American Politics: Reflections on the Early 1990s." In The New American Politics. Edited by Bryan Jones. Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1995.
"Placing Congress in Theoretical Time." Legislative Studies Section Newsletter. December, 1995.
"Revolution in the House: Testing the Limits of Party Government." Co-authored with Bruce Oppenheimer. In Congress Reconsidered, 6th Edition, 1997.
"Congress and the Emerging Order: Conditional Party Government or Constructive Partisanship?" Co-Authored with Bruce Oppenheimer. In Congress Reconsidered, 6th Edition, 1997.
"A House Divided." Co-authored with Bruce Oppenheimer. In Congress Reconsidered, 7th Edition, 2000.
"Congress and the Emerging Order: Assessing the 2000 Elections." Co-Authored with Bruce Oppenheimer. In Congress Reconsidered, 7th Edition, 2000.
"ReEnvisioning Congress: Theoretical Perspectives on Congressional Change." In Congress Reconsidered, 7th Edition. 2000.
References:
Walter Dean Burnham,  Rodney Hero
Department of Government Department of Government and International Studies 
University of Texas-Austin University of Notre Dame
Austin, Texas 78712 South Bend, IN 46556

Joseph Cooper,  Theodore Lowi
Department of Political Science Department of Government
Johns Hopkins University Cornell University
Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Ithaca, New York 14853

Morris Fiorina,  David Mayhew
Department of Political Science Department of Political Science
Stanford University Yale University
Stanford, CA 94305 New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Hugh Heclo,  Leroy Rieselbach
Department of Public Affairs Department of Political Science
George Mason University Indiana University
Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Bloomington, Indiana 47405

Personal Addresses:
 
Lawrence C. Dodd
Department of Political Science
234 Anderson Hall
P. O.  Box 117325
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
352 392 0262 (leave message)
352 392 8127 (fax)
email: Ldodd@polisci.ufl.edu

Academic year home: Summer address (May thru August):
2330 NW 142nd Ave. 5171 N. 109th Street
Gainesville, FL 32609 Longmont, Colorado 80501
352 485 1971 303 828 3464 

1989 Burlington Northern Teaching Excellence Citation
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Colorado-Boulder
An accomplished and highly-honored teacher and researcher with a national reputation before he came to the University of Colorado in 1986, Professor Lawrence Dodd has demonstrated here a shining talent for inspiring and training political science students. At all levels and in all kinds of classes – large and small, undergraduate and graduate, lecture and discussion – and in numerous student committees, he has shown a zeal for his academic discipline, a sharp sense of organization and analysis, a willingness to share his own cutting-edge research and, always, a deep concern and respect for the individual student. Instrumental in the reform of the department’s graduate program and especially gifted in initiating the first-year graduate student into the scope and methods of political science, Dodd has been a clear contributor to the growth of the graduate program. With his distinguished research, administrative duties as director of the American Politics Center and his clear record of superior teaching, Dodd stands, as one observer has remarked, as a "model for the university that aspires to unite scholarship, university citizenship and teaching in a broad commitment to academic excellence."

1992 Social Science Writing Award
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder

Lawrence C. Dodd, "Congress, the Presidency, and the American Experience: A Transformational Perspective

CITATION

Lawrence Dodd argues convincingly that scholars of American politics must transcend traditional theoretical approaches if they are truly to understand American politics. The established canon of scholarship on American politics assumes the existence of an essentially unchanging context; it assumes that political actors calculate their short-term self-interest in terms of specific and constant preferences about the desired outcome of politics; and it then predicts the future of American politics based on assumptions of constant context and rational short-term decision-making. Dodd rejects both the existence of unchanging contexts and the long-term predominance of rational decision-making; he argues that such assumptions produce faulty predictions, induce a false sense of certainty, and generate dangerous and misguided efforts at political control.

Dodd emphasizes, instead, the dynamic qualities of context and a ‘metarational’ process of political decision-making. He argues that political participants, while often entranced by short-term pursuit of fixed beliefs and preferences, ultimately reconstruct their world views in order to adjust to a changing context. Such metarational decision-making, which occurs through a cyclical process of belief rigidification, political crisis and intellectual transformation, empowers political participants to recreate their political world in ways that are appropriate to an ever-changing context. Dodd illustrates this cyclical process with a brief survey of United States political history. He then calls on scholars to recognize the dynamic, unpredictable and metarational character of political life and thereby to accept their responsibility, as interpreters of an unfolding reality, for hindering or facilitating political transformation and popular self-governance. Dodd’s essay is thus a powerful combination of theoretical inquiry, specific application of theory, and socially conscious and compassionate scholarship.

1998 Superior Accomplishment Award
University-Wide Recipient
Academic Affairs
University of Florida

The embodiment of selfless commitment to departmental life, Lawrence Dodd has demonstrated energy and creativity in providing the leadership and fostering the teamwork necessary to build the Political Science Department into a top-tier program. As an Eminent Scholar, the Manning Dauer Chair in Political Science could have rested on the low teaching requirements of his position and taken advantage of the resources that come with the endowed chair to further his career only. Instead, he has exceeded everyone’s hopes in sharing the resources and his extraordinary abilities in order to improve the department and its graduate program. Rather than teach the minimal two graduate seminars required of an Eminent Scholar, Dodd initiated and led the revision of the department’s core doctoral program and teaches two required core graduate courses as well as an additional seminar. His generosity has extended to the use of Dauer funds to help sponsor the 1997 Convocation Speaker for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; to create and fund a Guest Lecture Series in the department that brings world-class scholars to visit extensively with students and faculty; to create and help fund the department’s annual spring Distinguished Scholar Dinner and Lecture; and to support a variety of related department activities, including extensive funding for graduate students. Professor Dodd also supervises far more than the average number of graduate students, and goes above and beyond the call of duty in administering to their intellectual life and needs. In addition, while fulfilling numerous other service duties within the department and university, he also maintains his active and cutting-edge scholarly career. Thus in the past year he co-produced the sixth edition of Congress Reconsidered, the most widely used book on Congress in the nation, and co-authored the draft of a lengthy monograph, Learning Democracy, focused on the coming of electoral politics in Nicaragua. By fostering a sense of community and esprit de corps and demonstrating a personal sense of caring, wisdom and sensitivity, while also pursuing his broad-ranging scholarly and professional commitments, Lawrence Dodd has contributed immeasurably to the building of the Political Science Department and has garnered widespread support from faculty and students for his receipt of this well-earned honor.