Conference on Party Effects in the United States Senate II

University of Minnesota

September 29-30, 2006

Organizers: Jason Roberts & Kathryn Pearson

Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance

Friday, September 29 Location: Hubert H. Humphrey 184

9:30-10:15

Bruce Oppenheimer & Marc Hetherington, Vanderbilt University

Title: Running on Empty: Coalition Building Constraints in the U.S. Senate, 1970s and 2000s

Discussant: Steven S. Smith , Washington University in St. Louis

10:30-11:45

Linda Fowler, Dartmouth College & Seth Hill, UCLA

Title: Guarding the Guardians: Senate Oversight of Foreign and Defense Policy, 1947-2004

Discussant: Kathryn Pearson , University of Minnesota

Frances Lee , University of Maryland

Title: Dividers Not Uniters: Presidential Leadership and Senate Partisanship

Discussant: Jamie Carson, University of Georgia

1:00-3:00

Roundtable: The Consequences of a Partisan Senate

Chair: Kathryn Pearson, University of Minnesota

Frances Lee , University of Maryland

Linda Fowler, Dartmouth College

Bruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University

Timothy Johnson, University of Minnesota

3:15-5:15

Mike Crespin, University of Georgia & Charles Finocchiaro, University at Buffalo

Title: Parties and the Politics of Pork

Discussant: Chris Den Hartog , CalPoly

Greg Koger, University of Montana

Title: Parties and Agenda-Setting in the Senate, 1973-1998

Discussant: Nathan Monroe, Michigan State University

Saturday, September 30 Location: Hubert H. Humphrey 184

Jeff Jenkins & Sean Gailmard, Northwestern University

Title: Exploring Minority Power in the House and Senate

Discussant: Jason Roberts , University of Minnesota

9 :30-10:15

10:30-11:45

Jamie Carson, University of Georgia

Title: Electoral Accountability, Party Loyalty, and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. Senate

Discussant: Jeff Jenkins , Northwestern University

Steven S. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis

Title : The Senate and Theories of Congressional Parties

Discussant: David Rohde, Duke University

1:00-3:00

Roundtable: Where Do We Go From Here? Future Research on the U.S. Senate

Chair: Jason Roberts, University of Minnesota

Steven S. Smith , Washington University in St Louis

David Rohde , Duke University

Mathew McCubbins , University of California, San Diego

Jeff Jenkins , Northwestern University

Shawn Treier, University of Minnesota