Gary W. Copeland

Gary Copeland is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. He has taught at the university since 1980. He was formerly Associate Director (1994-2001), then Director (2001-2005) of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.

THE CONTEMPORARY CONGRESS
A Bicameral Approach
Matthew C. Moen, Gary W. Copeland
International Thomson Publishing (1999)

"Current, comprehensive, and brief, this book examines all of the major material of a Congress course through the unique theme of bicameralism. The coverage of the differences between the House and Senate occurs in the course of a systematic discussion of the powers and processes of Congress."

ALMANAC OF OKLAHOMA POLITICS 2002
Gary W. Copeland, Ronald K. Gaddie, Craig A. Williams, editors
Oklahoma Political Science Association Press, 3rd edition (2001)

ALMANAC OF OKLAHOMA POLITICS 2000
Gary W. Copeland, Ronald K. Gaddie, Craig A. Williams, editors
Oklahoma Political Science Association Press, 2nd edition (1999)

ALMANAC OF OKLAHOMA POLITICS 1998
Gary W. Copeland, Ronald K. Gaddie, Craig A. Williams, editors Oklahoma Political Science Association Press (1997)

PARLIAMENTS IN THE MODERN WORLD
Changing Institutions
Gary W. Copeland, Samuel C. Patterson, editors
University of Michigan Press (1994)

Includes the following sections: Parliaments in the Twenty-first Century, Representation of Interests: The Case of the British House of Commons, Hierarchy and Efficiency in the Bundestag: The German Answer for Institutionalizing Parliament, The Rise and Fall of the "Centrality" of the Italian Parliament: Transformations of the Executive- Legislative Subsystem after the Second World War, The Strong Parliaments of Scandinavia: Continuity and Change of Scandinavian Parliaments, The Turkish Legislature: From Symbolic to Substantive Representation, The Emergence of Democratic Parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe, Changing an Institutionalized System.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGETING
Politics, Process and Power 
W. Thomas Wander, F. Ted Hebert, Gary W. Copeland, editors
Johns Hopkins University Press (1984)