Past Lecturers
Frances Lee - 2023
Jointly appointed in the Princeton University Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs where she is professor of politics and public affairs.
Lecture Title: Two Cheers for Congress: A Defense of Shared Power for a Polarized, Distrustful Society
Book: forthcoming
Sunshine Hillygus - 2021
Professor of political science and public policy at Duke University. Director of the Initiative on Survey Methodology and co-director of the Polarization Lab.
Lecture Title: Making Young Voters: Promoting Youth Engagement in American Democracy
Book: forthcoming
Bruce E. Cain - 2019
Charles Louis Ducommun Professor in Humanities and Sciences and the Spence and Cleone Eccles Family Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. Also Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Lecture Title: The Politics of Adapting to Climate Change in the American West
Book (2023): Under Fire and Under Water: Wildfire, Flooding, and the Fight for Climate Resilience in the American West
Daniel Carpenter - 2017
Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Director, Social Sciences Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Lecture Title: The American Petition: Sinew of Our Democratic Republic
Book: forthcoming
Keith E. Whittington – 2015
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Lecture Title: The Idea of Democracy in America
Book: forthcoming
Thomas E. Patterson - 2013
The Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Lecture Title: Feeding the Fire: The Media’s Role in Party Polarization
Book (2019): How America Lost Its Mind
Steven S. Smith - 2011
Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Science, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, Washington University
Lecture Title: The United States Senate: A Distinctive Institution with Distinctive Problems
Book (2014): The Senate Syndrome
Jack N. Rakove - 2009
The William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies, Stanford University
Lecture Title: James Madison: A Politician Thinking
Book (2017): A Politician Thinking: The Creative Mind of James Madison
Jennifer Hochschild - 2007
H.L. Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Lecture Title: Facts, Politics, and Democracy
Book (2015): Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics
Morris P. Fiorina - 2005
Wendt Family Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Lecture Title: The Great Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in Contemporary America
Book (2009): Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics
Barbara Sinclair - 2003
Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics at the University of California, Los Angeles
Lecture Title: Partisanship, Institutional Transformation, and PR Politics: The Shaping of the Congressional Policy-Making Process
Book (2006): Party Wars: Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making
Matthew Holden, Jr. - 2001
Henry L. and Grace M. Doherty Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
Lecture Title: Public Administration and Political Power
Book: forthcoming
Theda Skocpol - 1999
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
Lecture Title: Civic Engagement in America
Book (2004): Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life
Seymour Martin Lipset - 1997
Hazel Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Lecture Title: The Development of Democracy
Book (2004): The Democratic Century
Charles O. Jones - 1995
Hawkins Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lecture Title: A Presidency at Risk?
Book (1999): Clinton and Congress: 1993-1996: Risk, Restoration, and Reelection (out of print)
Richard F. Fenno, Jr. - 1993
The Kenan Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
Lecture Title: Senators and Citizens: A View from the Campaign Trail
Book (1996): Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation (out of print)
Theodore J. Lowi - 1991
The John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, Cornell University
Lecture Title: The End of the Republican Era
Book (1995): The End of the Republican Era
Samuel P. Huntington - 1989
Director, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University
Lecture Title: The Third Wave: Democratization in Today's World
Book (1991): The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century
James MacGregor Burns - 1987
Professor of Political Science, Williams College
Lecture Title: Majority Rule and Individual Rights
Book (1990): Cobblestone Leadership: Majority Rule, Minority Power (out of print)
Barber B. Conable, Jr. - 1985
Former member of Congress and former president of The World Bank
Lecture Title: The Congress and the Income Tax
Book (1989): Congress and the Income Tax (out of print)
John Brademas - 1983
Former majority whip of U.S. House and president emeritus of New York University
Lecture Title: Politics, Education and the National Interest
Book (1987): The Politics of Education: Conflict and Consensus on Capitol Hill
All books are published by The University of Oklahoma Press.
