University of Westminster

Faculty Member, Department of Politics and International Relations

Professor of United States Government and Politics

The Centre for the Study of Democracy

About

Professor of United States Government and Politics in the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster.

Faculty Fellow in the Centre for Congressional and Presidential Studies at the American University in Washington, DC.

Associate Fellow, The Institute for the Study of the Americas in the University of London's School of Advanced Study.

Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

Author of over 35 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and book chapters as well as the co-author or co-editor of several books on congressional-presidential relations, the United States Congress, and comparative legislative politics. His new, coedited book, America’s “War” on Terrorism: New Dimensions in United States Government and Foreign Policy was published by Lexington in 2008.

Associate Editor of Politics and Policy.
Member of the editorial boards of Presidential Studies Quarterly (2000-2007) and The Journal of Legislative Studies (2000 to date).
Executive committee member of the International Political Science Association's Research  Committee of Legislative

Chair of the Political Studies Association's Committee for the Annual Richard Neustadt Prize for the best book on United States presidential politics, 2003-2007.

Formerly chair and vice-chair of the American Politics Group of the UK Political Studies Association.

Director of the CSD's Project on Legislative Governance.

Former, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress, the Centennial Center of the American Political Science Association, the University of Essex, Texas A&M University, and a visitor to numerous universities throughout the world.

He has also received awards from the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation, The Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Center, USIS, and the LBJ Foundation.

Current Research Interests:

Congressional Acquiescence to Presidentialism in the US "War on Terror”

Bush’s “War” on terrorism and the growth of presidential power

Speakers’ leadership styles in the US House of Representatives (financed by the British Academy and the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Center).

Rules and agenda-setting and structuring in the US Congress (financed by the Nuffield Foundation).

Contemporary congressional-presidential relations

Comparative legislative party cohesion

Theories of political leadership and contemporary congressional leadership
 

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