ANNUAL REVIEW: 2021-2022

In 2022, CCPS continued pursuing our mission of strengthening the democratic square through research, training institutes, and public events. Below, we describe our specific program activities.

I. Institutes

• Campaign Management Institute- Led by Candice J. Nelson, the Campaign Management Institute (CMI) continued its longstanding commitment to train individuals for participation in local, state and federal political campaigns. Its two sessions, one in January and one in May, trained 26 students and working professionals in campaign techniques, strategy, and tactics with emphasis on recent technological developments.  
• The Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute- Led by Patrick Griffin and Laura Uttley, the Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute (PAAI) continued its advanced workshops in December and May, focusing on major aspects of professional lobbying and political influence. Featuring dozens of prominent professional lobbyists representing corporations, trade and professional associations, public interest groups, and labor unions, the PAAI trained forty students and working professionals to better represent organized interests to the federal government. In 2022, Laura Uttley took on the role of Co-Director of the Institute. Uttley leverages over 10 years’ experience in federal policy and government relations. Laura is also the Director of Government Relations for the Woodwell Climate Research Center, where she develops federal advocacy strategies and facilitates outreach to congressional and federal policymakers in Washington, DC, positioning Woodwell Climate’s leading research to influence policy development and implementation.
• European Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute- The European Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute (EPAAI), directed by Professor Korneliya Bachiyska, is a joint venture of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies and the American University Brussels Center. This unique institute introduces students to the art and craft of lobbying in the European Union. During a week in Brussels, Belgium, students are immersed in the strategies, tactics, methods, techniques, regulations and ethics of lobbying in Europe. Drawing on their rich body of experiences, prominent lobbyists involved in all aspects of their profession offer lectures on such topics as EU legal systems, rulemaking, EU relations with national capitals, EU-US relations and comparisons between US and European policymaking. EPAAI also includes a thorough introduction to the EU institutions. After a pandemic related hiatus, the EPAAI returned in 2022, training seven students.
• Legislative Negotiation Institute- The Legislative Negotiation Institute (LNI) is a joint program with AU’s Washington College of Law, in collaboration with Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. It is a component of the Program on Legislative Negotiation, which trains policymakers on Capitol Hill and in state legislatures to negotiate more effectively.  Directed by longtime US Senate staffer and current Professor of Law Bettina Poirier with extensive participation from other experienced Hill negotiators, the LNI provides MA students, Law students, and working policy professionals with even greater hands-on instruction on how to maximize bargaining prowess than is afforded by the PLN trainings on Capitol Hill.

II. Externally Funded Research and Training Programs

• Program on Legislative Negotiation: With support from the Madison Initiative of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Program on Legislative Negotiation (PLN) addresses legislative gridlock so that our representatives can better respond to today’s challenges The PLN is a joint endeavor of American University’s (AU) Washington College of Law (AUWCL) and the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at the AU School of Public Affairs (SPA).

The PLN’s four primary objectives are to provide negotiation training for legislative members and their staffs, train students and professionals through experiential learning programs, facilitate and apply research on effective legislative negotiation, and build a community of scholars, journalists, policymakers, and others who share these goals.In 2022, the PLN’s initial seven research grantees completed their work, which has been featured in several publications. On October 7, 2022, CCPS hosted the 2^nd Understanding Legislative Negotiation Conference (ULNC), which highlighted the research of the seven 2020 ULN awardees.

• New Perspectives in Studies of American Governance: With support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and in partnership with Purdue University, the New Perspectives in Studies of American Governance program seeks to expand the notoriously restricted range of theoretical, methodological, and demographic perspectives represented in scholarship pertaining to the US executive and legislative branches. The NP incentivizes emerging scholars to broaden the range of perspectives and experiences upon which they draw when pursuing insight into American governance at the federal level.  

Specifically, CCPS disbursed funds to seven new projects (11 total recipients) that are seeking to transform political scientists’ collective understanding of American governance and representation. We also co-edited a Special Issue of Congress and the Presidency.

• The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor & Millard Fillmore Project: The Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, in 2020, launched the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. This project aims to locate and publish letters of the two men from 1844 to 1853, before and during their presidencies. It is led by two CCPS fellows: Editor and Research Professor of Government Michael David Cohen and Associate Editor Amy Larrabee Cotz. The edition they produce enable scholars, teachers, students, and the public to learn about American life and the presidency before the Civil War from the words of these leaders and their diverse correspondents.

In 2022, the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor & Millard Fillmore Project received a $77,750 grant from the National Historical Publications and Research Commission. This grant supports work including the publishing of five articles on the project blog, which was featured in FeedSpot’s list of the “70 Best American History Blogs and Websites” and the hiring of SPA graduate students Nicholas Breslin and Mercedes Atwater as editorial assistants.

Additionally, in 2022, the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor & Millard Fillmore Project published a high school teaching guide, featuring previously unpublished Fillmore letters, on the US annexation of Texas and contributed research to Jeopardy! for a clue in the category “A Few Moments with Millard Fillmore,” airing Mar. 14, 2022 (the experience was profiled in American Magazine).

III. Congress and the Presidency Journal. In the past year, the Congress & the Presidency Journal, marked a significant milestone by publishing its 50th volume by staff including Book Editor Jeffrey Crouch, Reviews & Book Editor Adam L. Warber, and Managing Editor Ryan DeTamble. The first issue offered a broad spectrum of content, covering topics ranging from federal drone strike oversight to the implications of Fenno's paradox. The second issue was a Special Issue that prioritized underrepresented aspects of diversity in the scholarship on U.S legislative and executive branches. The Congress & the Presidency Journal is also excited to announce that this year, they have created the James A. Thurber Article of the Year Award. The committee will select the best article from the 49th volume on the bases of originality, rigor, clarity, relevance, and argumentation, and the announcement will be made early in the Fall semester. Additionally, they are delighted to welcome a selective group of new members to our respected editorial board, whose names will be disclosed in the coming weeks. We remain committed to our mission of providing top-tier scholarly work on the U.S. government's first and second branches. The contributors, hailing from political science and history, continue to maintain our journal's reputation for high-quality academic content.

IV. Thurber Dialogues on Democracy. The Dialogues began in early 2021 with a generous gift from Distinguished University Emeritus Professor Jim Thurber and his wife Claudia Thurber. Now in its 3^rd year, this ongoing series of public conversations with prominent thought leaders about how to strengthen democracy in the US and abroad continued on in 2022, featuring:

• Rep. Adam Schiff, March 31, 2022, Co-hosted by CCPS and KPU and moderated by Professor Emeritus James Thurber. The recording of this event is available here.

Congressman Adam Schiff represents California’s 28^th Congressional District. In his 11^th term in the House of Representatives, Schiff currently serves as the Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the nation’s intelligence agencies. Schiff is on a leave of absence from the House Appropriations Committee, where he remains an ex officio member. He is also the author of Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could.

• Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, April 19, 2022, Co-hosted by CCPS and KPU and moderated by AU Professor Liz Suhay. The recording of this event is available here.Congressman Hakeem Jeffries represents the diverse 8^th Congressional District of New York, an area that encompasses large parts of Brooklyn and a section of Queens. Serving his fifth term in the United States Congress, Rep. Jeffries is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and House Budget Committee. He is also Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, having been elected to that position by his colleagues in November 2018. In thatcapacity, he is the fifth highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives. He is also the former Whip of the Congressional Black Caucus and previously co-chaired the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee where he helped develop the For The People agenda.
• Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, May 5, 2022. Hosted by CCPS and moderated by AU Professor Laura Paler. The recording of this event is available here. Harvard University political scientists Professor Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt discussed their 2018 New York Times Best Seller, How Democracies Die, and broader themes of their work in recent events.
• Jonah Goldberg, November 29, 2022, hosted by CCPS and moderated by Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News and AU SPA Executive in Residence and Professorial Lecturer Ron Elving. The recording of this event is available here. Jonah Goldberg is the Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute and a Fellow at the National Review Institute. He has been a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times since 2005 and a nationally syndicated columnist since 2000. He hosts the popular podcast The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg. His syndicated column appears regularly in the Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Dallas Morning News and scores of other papers. He has written three books, Liberal Fascism, The Tyranny of Clichés, and Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy.

V. Other Conferences, Public Events, Lectures, and Trainings

• First Annual International Legislators’ Forum on Innovations in Democracy, November 2022, brought together 12 U.S. Members of Congress with members of the EU Parliament and other international parliaments, including France, Greece, Italy, and the U.K. The Legislators’ Forum on Innovations in Democracy was organized by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), a nonprofit chartered by Congress in 1953 to strengthen civic life in America, the Institute for Democratic Engagement & Accountability (IDEA) at the Ohio State University and the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University.
• The Crisis in Democracy, May 10, 2022, with panelists Dick Simpson, Angelique Power and Elizabeth C. Matto. This event was moderated by Scott Simon. Co-sponsored by University of Illinois-Chicago's Institute of Government and Public Affairs, The Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University and the American Political Science Association.
• Arc of Power: Inside Nancy Pelosi’s Speakership 2005-2010 with John Lawrence, October 12, 2022. CCPS Distinguished Fellow Tom Kahn interviewed John Lawrence, former Chief of Staff to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, about his book Arc of Power: Inside Nancy Pelosi’s Speakership from 2005-2010, which documented his insider perspective.
• Is US Democracy Endangered? Lessons from Weimar Germany, October 24, 2022. This event was inspired by Professor Michael Brenner’s new book, In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, TheRevolution and the Rise of Nazism. Professor Brenner is the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and Director of AU’s Center for Israel Studies. He received his PhD at Columbia University and taught previously at Indiana and Brandeis Universities. Since 1997 he has been Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. He had visiting appointments at numerous universities, including Haifa, Paris, Budapest, Vienna, Stanford, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins. In this event, the panelists discussed in the context of the US today by considering what lessons we might draw and apply from his work. This event was sponsored by the AU History department, PERIL (Polarization & Extremism Research and Innovation Lab) and CCPS.
• The Fifth Annual Barbara Sinclair Lecture with Professor Rodney Hero, November 14, 2022, the Raul Yzaguirre Chair in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, in partnership with the American Political Science Association. Professor Rodney Hero’s research and teaching focus on American democracy and politics, especially as viewed through the analytical lenses of Latino Politics, Racial/Ethnic Politics, State and Urban Politics, and Federalism. He has authored several books including, "Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-tiered Pluralism," "Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics" and "Racial Diversity and Social Capital: Equality and Community in America.” He has also co-authored several other books and authored and co-authored a number of articles in scholarly journals, and chapters in edited books, and was a co-principal investigator on the Latino National Survey. The recording of this event is available here.

VI. Prizes/Scholarships:

• Gill Family Foundation Scholarship- The Gill Family Foundation announces a $5,500 scholarship for dissertation support to a PhD student working on a dissertation in the areas of American Politics, Comparative Politics, Public Administration, or Policy Analysis at American University using quantitative methods.
• The James and Claudia Thurber Scholarship Endowment- American University honors the legacy of Professor James Thurber as he closes his 37-year tenure as director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (CCPS) with the creation of the James and Claudia Thurber Scholarship Endowment.
• CCPS Benefactor’s Award for the Campaign Management Institute, Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute Benefactors Award and European Public Affairs and Advocacy Margery Kraus Award- The Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies has established an award fund for the Campaign Management Institute, the Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute, and the European Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute through the generosity of friends and alumni of the Center. These awards are intended to provide financial assistance to students enrolled in the Institute.
• Griffin Scholarship for the Public Affairs & Advocacy Institute- Started by PAAI Director Pat Griffin and his wife Abbey, this fund provides up to two $1500 scholarships to students enrolled in the Public Affairs & Advocacy Institute (PAAI).
• The Annual Barbara Sinclair Lecture- Annually, in partnership with The American Political Science Association, CCPS honors the late political scientist Barbara Sinclair, a renowned expert on Congress, by hosting a lecture by a prominent Congressional scholar. 

VII. New Appointments and Awards:

• Jeff Crouch was named Series Co-Editor of Congressional Leaders Book Series by University Press of Kansas
• Liz Suhay was named Vice-Director, Science Policy Fellows Program at American University
• Andrew Flores was named Associate Editor, Political Research Quarterly, for Sage Publications and also named a PRRI Public Fellow for the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)
• David Lublin appointment to co-lead APSA Presidential Task Force on political parties and American democracy.
• Thomas Kahn, Outstanding Teaching in an Adjunct Appointment Award

VIII. Other Sponsored Research

• CCPS participated again the ongoing Cooperative Congressional Election Study. Data was collected in October 2021 (pre-election) and again in January (post-election).  
• CCPS sponsored new data collections by two CCPS Fellows (Professors Andrew Ballard and Jan Leighley) and three AU PhD students (Michael Heseltine, Ryan Detamble, and Marcus Johnson)

IX. New Published Research (selected, peer reviewed)

• Ballard, Andrew, Ryan DeTamble, Spencer Dorsey, Michael Heseltine, and Marcus Johnson. 2022. Incivility in Congressional Tweets. American Politics Research, 50(6): 769-780.
• Ballard, Andrew. 2022. Bill Text and Agenda Control in the U.S. Congress. The Journal of Politics, 84(1): 335-350.
• Barker, David C. and Ryan DeTamble. 2022. “American Populism: Dimensions, Distinctions, and Correlates.” Global Public Policy and Governance.
• Barker, D. C., Carman, Christopher Jan and Shaun Bowler. 2023. Humanitarianism, Egalitarianism, and Public Support for Political Compromise. American Politics Research, 51(1), 91–107.
• Bryan, James D. and Jordan Tama. 2022. “The Prevalence of Bipartisanship in U.S. Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Important Congressional Votes,” in Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ideas, Institutions, and Implications, Special issue of International Politics 59, 5: 874-897
• Byers, Jason and Jeff Gill. October 2022. “Applied Geospatial Bayesian Modeling in the Big Data Era: Challenges and Solutions.” Mathematics, Probability and Statistics Special Issue on Advances in Statistical Computing.
• Cao, Jian, Seo-young Silvia Kim, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2022. “Bayesian Analysis of State Voter Registration Database Integrity.” Statistics, Politics and Policy 13(1): 19–40. doi: 10.1515/spp2021-0016.
• Cohen, Michael, editor. 2022. James K. Polk and His Time: Essays at the Conclusion of the Polk Project. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
• Crouch, Jeffrey. 2022. “The Law: President Trump’s Clemency Record: Extraordinary or Just Ordinary?” Presidential Studies Quarterly 52 (3): 692-708. Edelson, Chris. (2021). No Watchman in the Night: How Presidential and Congressional Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic Undermine the Hamiltonian–Madisonian model of Accountability. Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07343469.2021.1950868
• Crouch, Jeffrey. September 5, 2022. “The Nixon Pardon at Nearly Fifty: What President Ford’s Successors Should Learn from His Courageous Clemency Grant.” Ford Leadership Forum, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation.
• Friedrichs, Gordon and Jordan Tama. 2022. “Polarization and US Foreign Policy: Key Debates and New Findings,” in Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ideas, Institutions, and Implications, Special issue of International Politics 59, 5: 767-785.
• Green, Matthew N. and Jeffrey Crouch. August 22, 2022. “Did Newt Gingrich Wreck American Politics?” The Hill.
• Green, Matthew N. and Jeffrey Crouch. Forthcoming, 2022. “Foreword.” In Tom Foley: The Man in the Middle. R. Kenton Bird and John C. Pierce, Authors. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas
• Green, Matthew N. and Jeffrey Crouch. July 2022. Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
• Murr, Andreas, Richard Traunmuler, Jeff Gill. 2022. Computing Quantities of Interest and Their Uncertainty Using Bayesian Simulation. Political Science Research and Methods, 26, 1-10
• Suhay, Elizabeth. 2022. Human interaction, politics, and democratic reform: Integrating political science with an interpersonal systems approach. Cognition and Emotion 36(8): 1485-1490.
• Suhay, Elizabeth, Aparna Soni, Claudia Persico, and Dave E. Marcotte. 2022. Americans’ Trust in Government and Health Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(8): 221-244.
• Suhay, Elizabeth, Mark Tenenbaum, and Austin Bartola. 2022. Explanations for Inequality and Partisan Polarization in the U.S., 1980-2020. The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics 20(1): 5-36.
• Tama, Jordan. 2022. “Congressional Democrats and Republicans Are United in Confronting Russia. That Unity Won’t Last,” Washington Post.
• Kim, Seo-young Silvia. 2022. “Automatic Voter Reregistration as a Housewarming Gift: Quantifying Causal Effects on Turnout Using Movers.” American Political Science Review. First published online. doi: 10.1017/S0003055422000983.
• Kim, Seo-young Silvia, and Jan Zilinsky. 2022. “Division Does Not Imply Predictability: Demographics Continue to Reveal Little About Voting and Partisanship.” Political Behavior. First published online. doi: 10.1007/s11109-022-09816-z.
• Lopez, Jennifer,∗ R. Michael Alvarez, and Seo-young Silvia Kim. 2022. “Latinos, Group Identity, and Equal Opportunity on the 2020 California Ballot.” Social Science Quarterly. First published online. doi: 10.1111/ssqu.13217.
• Thurber, James A. 2022. Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 7^th edition.

X. Community Engagement:

• Reached almost 600 Twitter followers, over 1,000 LinkedIn connections, and expanded our email listserv to 3,500
• We established a new collaborative partnership with the Center for Effective Lawmaking at the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University/

ANNUAL REVIEW: 2020-2021 (In Brief)

In 2021, CCPS continued pursuing our mission of strengthening the democratic square through research, training institutes, and public events. Specifically, we accomplished the following items:

External Grants Received:

• $1.2 million to renew our Program on Legislative Negotiation with a new round of support from the Hewlett Foundation’s U.S. Democracy Program, which helps national and state policymakers negotiate more effectively
• $200,000 to promote New Perspectives in Studies of American Governance (NP), in partnership with Purdue University, which incentivizes a broader range of perspectives with respect to gender, race/ethnicity, capacity, and culture in studies of American governance at the federal level

Scholarly Conferences Hosted:

• The “New Perspectives and New Questions in Legislative Studies” virtual conference with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman (Professor of Political Science, Purdue University) and Bettina Poirier (Professor of Law and Director of AU’s Program on Legislative Negotiation) with support from the Hewlett Foundation’s US Democracy Program; this conference aimed to foster innovation and collaboration on new lines of legislative scholarship that reflect the broadening perspectives of American lawmakers (and the constituents they serve)
• The Understanding Legislative Negotiation virtual conference with American University’s Program on Legislative Negotiation and the Hewlett Foundation’s US Democracy Program

Public Events Hosted:

• A Conversation with James E. Clyburn, U.S. Majority Whip (D-SC)
• Thurber Dialogues on Democracy. This series of public conversations featured (1) U.S. Senator Cory Booker, (2) Pulitzer Prize winning author Anne Applebaum, (2) renowned social scientists Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
• The Future of the GOP with three prominent thought leaders within the GOP (Sara Fagen, Henry Olsen, and Tevi Troy)
• Congress Overwhelmed, with the Program on Legislative Negotiation, the Sine Institute of Policy & Politics, and the R Street Institute
• The Fourth Annual Barbara Sinclair Lecture with Professor Wendy Schiller from Brown University, in partnership with the American Political Science Association

Research Supported:

• Announced The New Perspectives in Studies of American Governance small grants program, which will award 5-10 grants (up to $20,000 each) to new projects asking new questions that stand to transform political scientists’ collective understanding of American governance and representation
• Announced a special issue of Congress and the Presidency, guest-edited by David C. Barker and Valeria Sinclair-Chapman (Purdue University), on “New Perspectives in American Legislative Studies”
• Funded four new survey data collections and research assistance for Andy Ballard, and PhD students Ryan DeTamble, Michael Heseltine, and Marcus Johnson
• Hired five undergraduate researchers under the supervision of Prof. Andy Ballard, including Josh O’Steen, Jane Cronin, Mergentevne Naragerel, Emily Minster, and Finn Dobkin

Prizes/Scholarships Awarded:

• Gill Family Foundation Scholarship
• The James and Claudia Thurber Scholarship Endowment
• CCPS Benefactor’s Award
• Griffin Scholarship for the Public Affairs & Advocacy Institute

Institutes Conducted:

• Campaign Management Institute
• The Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute
• Legislative Negotiation Institute

New Published Research

• Alvarez, R. Michael, Nicholas J. Adams-Cohen, Seo-young Silvia Kim, Yimeng Li. 2020. “Securing Elections: How Data-Driven Election Monitoring Can Improve Democracy.” Cambridge University Press
• Alvarez, R. Michael, Jonathan N. Katz, and Seo-young Silvia Kim. 2020. “Hidden Donors: The Censoring Problem in U.S. Federal Campaign Finance Data.” Election Law Journal. 19(1): 1–18. doi: 10.1089/elj.2019.0593.
• Ballard, Andrew and Hans Hassell. (2021). “Congressional Behavior: The Electoral Party Connection.” Party Politics[DB2] .
• Ballard, Andrew and James Curry (2021). Minority Party Capacity in Congress. American Political Science Review, 115(4): 1388-1405. 1
• Ballard, Andrew, Hans Hassell, and Michael Heseltine (2021). Be Careful What You Wish For: The Impacts of President Trump’s Midterm Endorsements. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 46(2): 459-491.
• Barker, David C., DeTamble, Ryan, and Morgan Marietta (2021). “Intellectualism, Anti-Intellectualism, and Epistemic Hubris in Red and Blue America.” American Political Science Review
• Barker, D. C., & Suhay, E. (2021). The Politics of Truth in Polarized America. Oxford University Press.
• Bryan, James D. and Jordan Tama. 2021. “The Prevalence of Bipartisanship in U.S. Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Important Congressional Votes,” International Politics
• Cao, Jian, Seo-young Silvia Kim, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2021. “Bayesian Analysis of State Voter Registration Database Integrity.” Statistics, Politics and Policy. Forthcoming. doi: 10.1515/spp-2021-0016.
• Cohen, Michael. 2021. Correspondence of James K. Polk, vol. 14, April 1848–June 1849 (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press).
• Michael Cohen also edited 13 volumes and coedited 12 of the same series, published in print earlier, were published digitally in 2021 by the University of Virginia Press/Rotunda as part of its American History Collection.
• Crouch, Jeffrey. 2021. “The Office of the Pardon Attorney: What Comes Next?” Federal Sentencing Reporter 33 (5): 337-340.
• Crouch, Jeffrey and Mark J. Rozell. 2021. “Presidential Statesmanship in the New Media Era.” In American Statesmanship: Principles and Practice of Leadership. Joseph R. Fornieri, Kenneth L. Deutsch and Sean D. Sutton, Eds. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 699-719.
• Edelson, Chris. (2021). No Watchman in the Night: How Presidential and Congressional Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic Undermine the Hamiltonian–Madisonian model of Accountability. Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07343469.2021.1950868
• Green, Matthew N. and Jeffrey Crouch. Forthcoming, July 2022. Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
• Kafura, Craig, Dina Smeltz, Joshua Busby, Joshua D. Kertzer, Jonathan Monten, and Jordan Tama, “Divisions on US-China Policy: Opinion Leaders and the Public,” Chicago Council on Global Affairs (2021)
• Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Hannah Lebovits, and Sarah Shugars. 2021. “Networking 101 for Graduate Students: Building a Bigger Table.” PS: Political Science & Politics: 1–6. doi: 10.1017/S1049096521001025.
• Kim, Seo-young Silvia, R. Michael Alvarez, and Christina M. Ramirez. 2020. “Who Voted in 2016? Using Fuzzy Forests to Understand Voter Turnout.” Social Science Quarterly. 101(2): 978– 988. doi: 10.1111/ssqu.12777.
• Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Spencer Schneider, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2020. “Evaluating the Quality of Changes in Voter Registration Databases.” American Politics Research. 48(6): 670– 676. Article first published online: Sep 9, 2019. doi: 10.1177/1532673X19870512.
• Long, Meri, Ryan Dawe, and Elizabeth Suhay. 2021. Gender Attitudes and Candidate Preferences in the 2016 US Presidential Primary and General Election. Politics & Gender. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X21000155
• Marcotte, Dave E. and Elizabeth Suhay. 2021. An Initial Evaluation of the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN) 2020-2021. School of Public Affairs, American University.
• Smeltz, Dina and Jordan Tama. May 27, 2021. “Did Trump Remake the GOP? On Foreign Policy, Not so Much,” Politico
• Tama, Jordan, Craig Kafura, Dina Smeltz, Joshua Busby, Joshua D. Kertzer, and Jonathan Monten, 2021., “Cooperation or Coercion: The Views of US Opinion Leaders on Foreign Policy Approaches,” Chicago Council on Global Affairs (2021)
• Tama, Jordan. 2021.“Anti-Presidential Bipartisanship in Foreign Policy in the Trump Era,” in Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott, editors, Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy: Activism, Assertiveness and Acquiescence in a Polarized Era (Rowman and Littlefield), 21-36
• Tama, Jordan, February 24, 2021. “How a January 6 Commission Can Succeed: What Empirical Research Tells Us,” Just Security
• Tama, Jordan, January 19, 2021. “Members of Congress Want a Commission to Investigate the Capitol Invasion. Here’s When These Work,” Washington Post
• Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations (2022, 7th Ed.) which will be out in July 2022.
• Valenzuela, Ali A. and Tyler Reny. 2021. "The Evolution of Experiments on Racial Priming." In Druckman, J. and Green, D. P.  (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Political Science (pp. 447-467). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108777919.031

Community Engagement:

• Reached almost 450 Twitter followers, made almost 300 LinkedIn connections, and expanded our email listserv to 2,700.

New Leadership/Staff:

• Professor Patrick Griffin, new Director of the Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute
• Professor Korneliya Bachiyska, new Director of the European Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute
• Ph.D. candidate Ryan M. DeTamble, new Managing Editor for Congress & the Presidency
• Amy Larrabee Cotz, new Associate Editor of the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore Project

The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor & Millard Fillmore project:

• Received $90,471 from the NHPRC, the Summerlee Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the University of Virginia as part of its NHPRC/Mellon Foundation–funded UVA Digital Publishing Cooperative
• Welcomed Amy Cotz as associate editor, five new undergraduate students as interns and hired SPA’s Alaysia Bookal as editorial assistant
• Published six blog articles and Professor Michael Cohen wrote an op-ed about Taylor for the Baton Rouge Advocate’s Presidents’ Day issue

ANNUAL REVIEW: 2019-2020 (In Brief)

It was another active and productive year for CCPS. Specifically, from September 2019 to December 2020, we:

• Received $50,000 from The Hub Project and the Groundwork Collaborative for The Black Swing Voter Study, in collaboration with the African American Research Collaborative and Pennsylvania State University
• Received $75,117 in external grants to support The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor & Millard Fillmore Project
• Received a grant from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation ($12,800) to organize and host the New Perspectives in Legislative Studies conference, in collaboration with Purdue University
• Sponsored or co-sponsored 10 events and symposia (see here)
• Continued programming with the Program on Legislative Negotiation, an initiative started last year with support from the Hewlett Foundation and in partnership with Harvard University, the Partnership for a Secure America, the Library of Congress, and the National Conference of State Legislatures

• Awarded over $100,000 in small research grants to 7 research teams, to study legislative negotiation
• Created the Legislative Negotiation Institute for students and professionals, and conducted first round of trainings

• Awarded the Barbara Sinclair Lecture, the Gill Family Foundation Scholarship, the James and Claudia Thurber Scholarship Endowment, and the CCPS Benefactor’s Award for the Campaign Management Institute and the Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute
• Added one new CCPS fellow (Korneliya Bachiyska), who will direct the European Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute (EPAAI)
• Continued supporting 2 visiting scholars and 6 graduate students
• Increased online engagement with CCPS community, including reaching almost 300 Twitter followers, about 250 LinkedIn connections, and 2,600 on our email Listserv
• Established/Deepened partnerships and working relationships with the following entities:
• • National Issues Forums
  • Library of Congress’s Kluge Center
  • Pew Research Center
  • Sine Institute of Policy & Politics
  • William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  • Kettering Foundation
  • Public Religion Research Institute
  • National Conference of State Legislatures
  • US Capitol Historical Society

• Maintained the quality of Congress and the Presidency, under editor Jeff Crouch, Managing Editor Aaron Stuvland, and book editor Adam Warber and new Editorial Fellow Grant Allard
• Maintained the success of our professional Institutes and Weekend Workshops: 
  Campaign Management Institute (CMI)
  Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute (PAAI)

ANNUAL REVIEW: 2018-19 (In Brief)

It was another active and productive year for CCPS. Specifically, from September 2018 to July 2019, we:

• Sponsored or co-sponsored 13 events and symposia (see here).
• Published 2 books, 5 peer-reviewed articles, 11 book chapters, and 12 editorials/pieces of public scholarship
• Received 2 new grants, totaling $1.1 million dollars
• Inaugurated the Program on Legislative Negotiation, with support from the Hewlett Foundation and in partnership with Harvard University, the Partnership for a Secure America and the Library of Congress.
• Added five new CCPS fellows
• Supported 2 visiting scholars and 7 graduate students
• Awarded the Madison Prize and the Barbara Sinclair Lecture
• Sponsored Eagles Elect, a student-led voter registration drive
• Established/Deepened partnerships and working relationships with the following entities:
  • National Issues Forums
  • Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center
  • Pew Research Center
  • William + Flora Hewlett Foundation
  • Kettering Foundation
  • Public Religion Research Institute
• Continued our long-standing relationship with the US-China Education Trust (USCET)
• Maintained the quality of Congress and the Presidency, under editor Jeff Crouch, Managing Editor Aaron Stuvland, and book editor Adam Warber
• Maintained the success of our professional Institutes and Weekend Workshops:

• Campaign Management Institute (CMI)
• Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute (PAAI)
• European Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute (EPAAI)

The inaugural year of Professor Barker’s directorship was active and productive. Specifically, from September to June, we:

• Sponsored or co-sponsored 8 events (2017 and 2018) and 1 national conference
• Received 3 new grants, including one from the National Science Foundation
• Finalized One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts & American Democracy (Oxford U. Press)
• Completed 2 other research projects, and initiated 2 more
• Completed 2 new data collections, supporting faculty colleagues and SPA students
• Published 6 blog posts on The Monkey Cage, The Conversation, and Mischiefs of Faction
• Added over a dozen new CCPS fellows
• Supported 2 visiting scholars (including a Fulbright Scholar) and 6 graduate students
• Initiated the Madison Prize and the Barbara Sinclair Lecture
• Began work on a new bipartisan congressional internship program
• Sponsored a student-led voter registration drive

NEW PARTNERSHIPS AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

• • New York Times (Trump Administration Deregulation Tracker)
  • The Congressional Management Foundation
  • US Capitol Historical Society/US Capitol Visitor Center
  • National Issues Forums
  • Library of Congress's John W. Kluge Center
  • Pew Research Center
  • William + Flora Hewlett Foundation
  • Kettering Foundation
  • R Street Institute
  • Bipartisan Policy Center
  • PSB Research
  • Public Religion Research Institute
  • AU Center for Latin American and Latino Studies
  • AU Metropolitan Policy Center
• Continued our long-standing relationship with the US-China Education Trust (USCET)
• Created a new website, strategic plan, and Twitter page
• Maintained the quality of Congress and the Presidency Journal, under new editor Jeff Crouch
• Maintained the success of our professional Institutes and Weekend Workshops:
  • Campaign Management Institute (CMI)
  • Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute (PAAI)
  • European Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute (EPAAI)