This bundle includes Roger H. Davidson′s Congress and Its Members 17e and Lawrence Dodd′s Congress Reconsidered 11e
About the Author :
Roger H. Davidson was professor emeritus of government and politics at the University
of Maryland and served as visiting professor of political science at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. He was a senior fellow of the National Academy of Public
Administration. During the 1970s, he served on the staffs of reform efforts in both the
House (Bolling-Martin Committee) and the Senate (Stevenson-Brock Committee).
For the 2001-2002 academic year, he served as the John Marshall chair in political
science at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. His books include Remaking
Congress: Change and Stability in the 1990s, co-edited with James A. Thurber (1995),
and Understanding the Presidency, 7th ed., co-edited with James P. Pfiffner (2013).
Davidson was co-editor with Donald C. Bacon and Morton Keller of The Encyclopedia
of the United States Congress (1995).
Lawrence C. Dodd holds the Manning J. Dauer Eminent Scholar Chair in Political Science at the University of Florida. His books include Coalitions in Parliamentary Government (1976), Congress and the Administrative State (coauthored with Richard Schott, 1979), The Dynamics of American Politics (coedited with Cal Jillson, 1994), Learning Democracy (coauthored with Leslie E. Anderson, 2005), and Thinking About Congress (2012). His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Polity, Journal of Democracy, and elsewhere. Dodd has served as a congressional fellow, Hoover national fellow, and Woodrow Wilson Center fellow; president of the Southern and Southwestern Political Science Associations; and chair of the APSA's Legislative Studies Section.
