June 1, 2014 Joseph Cooper Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Academic Positions and Degrees Academy Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University. 2012-present Professor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1991-2012. Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in the American Foreign Policy Program, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1994-1998. Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Social Sciences, Rice University, 1987-1991. John M. Olin Visiting Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1988-1989. Lena Gohlman Fox Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University, 1978-1987. Visiting Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University, 1984-1985. Professor, Jones Graduate School of Administration, Rice University, 1978-1991. Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University, 1970-1977. Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University, 1967-1970. Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University, 1963-1967. Instructor, Department of Government, Harvard University, 1960-1963. Ph.D. (Political Science), Harvard University, 1961. M.A. (Political Science), Harvard University, 1959. A.B. (Political Science), Harvard College, 1955. II. Administrative Positions Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Johns Hopkins University, 1991-1996. President, Rice Institute for Policy Analysis, 1981-1991. Dean, School of Social Sciences, Rice University, 1979-1988. Staff Director, U.S. House Commission on Administrative Review (Obey Commission), 1976-1978. Acting Provost, Rice University, 1973-1974. Chairman, Department of Political Science, Rice University, 1967-1972. III. Professional Offices and Activities Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress, 1995-2010 (Appointee of the Speaker or Minority Leader). Academic Advisory Council, Center for Congress, Indiana University, 1999-present. 1
Board of Directors, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University, 1989-present Board of Directors, Dirksen Congressional Center, 1994-2000 and 2002-2008. Member of Commission on U.S. Congress, Annenberg Foundation Institutions of Democracy Project, 2003-2004. Editorial Advisory Committee-Congress Project, National Archives, Center for Legislative Archives, 2002--2006. Council, Legislative Studies Group, American Political Science Association, 1999-2001 American Political Science Association, Congressional Fellows Selection Committee, 1997. American Political Science Association Publications Committee, 1997-2000. Board of Directors, Consortium of Social Science Associations, 1995-1997.. President, National Capital Area Political Science Association, 1996-1997. Vice President, National Capital Area Political Science Association, 1994-1996 Council, National Capital Area Political Science Association, 1992-1997. Chair, Nominations Committee, American Political Science Association, 1991-1992. Editorial Advisory Board, The Encyclopedia of the U.S. Congress, 1990-1993. Associate Editor, The Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System, 1990-1993. E.E. Schattschneider Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 1989-1990. Associate Editor, Carlson Series on History of Congress, 1988-1990. Board of Editors, Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1987-1990 and 2001-2004. Board of Editors, Congress and the Presidency, 1982-2010. Co-Editor, Sage Yearbook on Electoral Studies, 1975-1982. Program Chair, 1985 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Board of Directors, Jefferson Davis Association, 1980-1991. Board of Directors, Project 87 (Joint Committee on American Political Science Association and American Historical Association Planning Bicentennial of U.S. Constitution), 1978-1981. Chairman, Political Science Subgroup, 1979-1980. National Secretary, American Political Science Association, 1979. President, Southwestern Political Science Association, 1977-1978. Vice President, Southwestern Political Science Association, 1975-1976. Executive Council, Southwestern Political Science Association, 1976-1978. American Political Science Association Committee on State and Local Government Internships, 1967-1968. IV. Other Positions Board of Directors, Residences at the Colonnade, 2013--present Board of Trustees, Baltimore Hebrew University, 1994-2001. Chair, Task Force on Public Trust in Congress Project, Dirksen Congressional Center, 1995-1999. Board of Directors, Asia Society/Houston, 1990-1991. Advisory Council, Houston World Affairs Council, 1990-1991. Chairman, Executive Committee, Mellon Summer Workshop Program, Rice University, 1979-1989. Co-Chairman, Committee on an Encyclopedia of Congress, LBJ Foundation, 1986-1988. Governmental Relations Advisory Committee, Houston Chamber of Commerce, 1985. Summer Research Grants Committee, Institute of Politics, JFK School of Government, Harvard 2
University, 1984-1985. Health Policy Coordinating Committee, University of Texas Health Science Center, 1983-1986. Advisory Board, C.R.I.M.E., 1981-1984. Board of Directors, Rice Campus Store, 1981-1984. Farfel Award Committee, University of Houston, 1981, 1986. Board of Directors, Energy Research and Educational Foundation, 1974-1975. Board of Directors, Southwest Center for Urban Research, 1967-1973, 1974-1976, 1978-1982. Secretary-Treasurer, 1970-1971, Secretary, 1979-1982. Consultant to U.S. Senate Rules Committee, 1965-1966. Consultant to Arthur D. Little, Inc., 1964-1966. Consultant to U.S. House Select Committee on Committees, 1974. V. Congressional Testimony U.S. Senate Rules Committee, 2003 (Holds). U.S. House Rules Committee, 1994 (Congressional reform). U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, 1983 (legislative veto). U.S. House Rules Committee, 1983 (legislative veto). U.S. House Rules Committee, 1979 (legislative veto). U.S. House Select Committee on Committees, 1973 (Congressional reorganization). U.S. House Rules Committee, 1973 (impoundment). U.S. Senate Conference on Separation of Powers, 1973. U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Separation of Powers, 1971 (impoundment). U.S. Senate Rules Committee, 1966 (limitation of debate). VI. Academic Honors Harvard College Scholarship, 1951-1955. Detur Prize, Harvard College, 1952. Phi Beta Kappa (Senior Sixteen), 1954. James Gordon Bennett Prize, Harvard College, 1955. A.B. Summa Cum Laude, Harvard College, 1955. Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, 1955-1956 (declined). Thomas Upham Fellowship, 1955-1957. Brookings Research Fellowship, 1959-1960. Social Science Research Council Congressional Interview Panel, 1961-1962. Harvard Research Fellowship, 1962. Brookings Fellowship, 1963. National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship, 1973. Japan Foundation Short-Term Visitor to Japan, 1986. Congressional Quarterly Press Award (co-author), 1989. Johns Hopkins Class of 1996, Old Gold and Sable Award, 1996. National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Fellowship, 2006. 3
Southern Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Panel on Career Accomplishments, New Orleans, 2011. VII. Publications Books and Monographs The Previous Question: Its Status as a Precedent for Cloture, Washington, DC, Government Printing Office 1962 The Origins of the Standing Committees and the Development of the Modern House, Houston, Texas, Rice University, 1970. The Impact of the Electoral Process, Beverly Hills, California, Sage Publications, 1977 (co-editor). Party Development and Decay, Beverly Hills, California, Sage Publications, 1978 (co-editor). Congressional Elections, Beverly Hills, California, Sage Publications, 1981 (co-editor). The House at Work, Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1981 (co-editor). Congress and its Committees, New York, New York, Garland Press, 1988. Congress and the Decline of Public Trust, Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1999 (editor). Articles and Chapters "The Legislative Veto: Its Promise and Its Perils," Public Policy, Vol. 7, pp. 128-174 (1956). "Schauffler and the Veto: A Commentary," Public Policy, Vol. 8, pp. 328-335 (1958). "The Legislative Veto and the Constitution," George Washington Law Review, Vol. 30, pp. 467-516, March, 1962 (co-author). "Jeffersonian Attitudes Toward Executive Leadership and Committee Development in the House of Representatives," Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 18, pp. 45-63, March, 1965. "The Importance of Congress," Rice University Studies, Vol. 54, pp. 53-68, 1968. "The Rise of Seniority in the House of Representatives," Polity, Vol. 1, pp. 53-88, Fall, 1968 (co-author). "Presidential Leadership and Party Success," Journal of Politics, Vol. 30, pp. 1012-1027, November, 1968 (co-author). "The Study of Congressional Committees: Current Research and Future Trends," Polity, Vol. 4, pp. 123-133, Fall, 1971. Berger: Congress v. The Supreme Court, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 85, pp. 702-712, January, 1972. "The House and Its Committees: Some Organizational Perspectives," Committee Organization in the House, U.S. House Select Committee on Committees, Washington, 1973, pp. 541-551, (co-author). "Strengthening the Congress: An Organizational Analysis," Harvard Journal on Legislation, Vol. 12, pp. 307-368, April, 1975. "Congress in Organizational Perspective," in L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered, pp. 140-163, Praeger, 1977. "The Electoral Basis of Party Voting," in L. Maisel and J. Cooper (eds.), The Impact of the Electoral Process, pp. 135-167, Sage Publications, 1977 (co-author). "Measuring Legislative Potential for Policy Change," Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 2, pp. 385-399, November, 1977 (co-author). 4
"Problems and Trends in Party Research: An Overview," in L. Maisel and J. Cooper (eds.), Party Development and Decay, pp. 7-31, Sage Publications, 1978 (co-author). "The Decline of Party in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1887-1968," Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 4, pp. 381-409, August, 1979 (co-author). "Congressional Career Patterns in the 1970's," in L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered, pp. 83-106, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1980 (co-author). "Voluntary Retirement, Incumbency, and the Modern House," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 96, pp. 279-300, Summer, 1981 (co-author). "Institutional Context and Leadership Style: The House from Cannon to Rayburn," American Political Science Review, Vol. 75, pp. 411-426, June, 1981 (co-author). "Toward a Diachronic Analysis of Congress," American Political Science Review, Vol. 75, pp. 988-1006, December, 1981 (co-author). "Organization and Innovation in the U.S. House of Representatives," in J. Cooper and C. Mackenzie (eds.), The House at Work, pp. 319-355, University of Texas Press, 1981. "The Legislative Veto: A Policy Analysis," Congress and the Presidency, Vol. 10, pp. 1-24, Spring, 1983 (co-author). "Congressional Adaptation in Modern America: The Legislative Veto and Administrative Rulemaking," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 98, pp. 285-305, Summer, 1983 (co-author). "Postscript on the Congressional Veto," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 98, pp. 427-429, Fall, 1983. "The Legislative Veto in the 1980's," in L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered, pp. 364-389, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1985. "The Rise of Administrative Clearance," in G. Edwards, et. al. (eds.), The Presidency and Public Policy Making, pp. 192-214, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985 (co-author). "Congress and the Legislative Veto: Choices Since the Chadha Decision," in R. Hunter, et. al. (eds.), From White House to Congress: Making Government Work, Westview Press, 1986, pp. 31-68. "Assessing Legislative Performance: A Reply to the Critics of Congress," Congress and the Presidency, Vol. 13, pp. 21-41, Spring, 1986. "Presidential Power and Republican Government: The Theory and Practice of OMB Review of Agency Rules," Journal of Politics, Vol. 50, pp. 864-895, November, 1988 (co-author). "Multiple Referral and the "New" Committee System in the House of Representatives," in L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered, pp. 245-272, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1989 (co-author). "Bill Introduction in the 19th Century: A Study of Institutional Change," Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 13, February, 1989, pp. 67-105 (co-author). "Legislative Influence v. Presidential Dominance: Competing Models of Bureaucratic Control," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 104, pp. 581-607, Winter, 1990 (co-author). "Multiple Referral and the Transformation of House Decision Making," in L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered, pp. 211-235, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1993 (co-author). "The Role of Congressional Parties," in J. Silbey, et. al. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System, pp. 899-930, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994 (co-author). Partisanship, Bipartisanship, and Crosspartisanship, in L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer (eds.), Congess Reconsidered, pp.246-274, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1997 (co-author). The Puzzle of Distrust, Performance and Expectations in American Politics, and Epilogue: The Clinton Impeachment, in J.Cooper,ed., Congress and the Decline of Public Trust, pp. 1-27 and 131-185, Westview Press, 1999. 5
The Twentieth-Century Congress, in L. Dodd and B.Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered, pp. 335-367, Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001. Analyzing Institutional Change: Bill Introduction in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1890", in Bruce Oppenheimer, ed., Senate Exceptionalism, Ohio State University Press, pp.182-212, 2002 (co-author). Party and Preference in Congressional Decision Making: Roll Call Voting in the House of Representatives,1889-1999", in M. McCubbins and D. Brady, eds., New Directions in Studying the History of the U.S. Congress, Stanford University Press, pp. 64-106, 2002 (co-author). Stability in Parliamentary Regimes:The Italian Case, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, May, 2002, pp.163-191(co-author). From Congressional to Presidential Preeminence: Power and Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century and Today, in L. Dodd and B.Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered, Congressional Quarterly Press, 2005 and 2009. Congress from 1947-1975, Chapter in Encyclopedia of US Political History, Thomas Langsdon, ed., Vol. 6, CQ Press, Washington, DC, 2010. Review Essay on Approaches to the Study of Congressional Leadership, The Forum, December, 2011, pp. 1-15. The Modern Congress, in L. Dodd and B.Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered, Congressional Quarterly Press, 2013, pp. 401-436. An Intellectual Biography of Congressional Change, Review Symposium, Journal of Politic, Vol. 75, July, 2013, pp.1-2. Other Writings "President's Harbor Isn't Safe," Feature Article in Sunday Outlook Section, Washington Post, December 26, 1965 (co-author). "Executive Impoundment of Appropriations," Hearings on Impoundment of Appropriated Funds, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Separation of Power, Washington, 1971. "Analysis of 1803 Precedent for Impoundment," Hearings on Impoundment of Appropriated Funds, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Separation of Power, Washington, 1973, pp. 676-677. "The Legislative Veto and the American Political System," Hearings on Congressional Veto, U.S. House Rules Committee, Washington, 1979, pp. 498-517. "Macro vs. Macro Analysis of Legislative Institutions," Vol. 12, Legislative Studies Newsletter, November, 1988. "Commentaries on Congressional Research," in R. Davidson and R. Sachs (eds.), Understanding Congress: Research Perspectives, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991, pp. 90-97. "Comment on Knowledge, Power and the First Congress," in W. Robinson and C. Wellborn (eds.), Knowledge, Power and the Congress, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1991, pp. 66-72. Reviews in American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Congress and the Presidency, and Journal of Southern History. IX.. Reports of the U.S. House Commission on Administrative Review "Scheduling the Work of the House," H. Doc. 95-23, Washington, D.C., 1977. 6
"Financial Ethics," H. Doc. 95-73, Washington, D.C., 1977. "Administrative Reorganization and Legislative Management," H. Doc. 95-232, Washington, D.C., 1977, (2 vols.). "Background Information on Administrative Units, Members' Offices, and Committee and Leadership Offices," H. Doc. 95-178, Washington, D.C., 1977. "Final Report," H. Doc 95-272, Washington, D.C., 1977 X. Memberships and Directories American Political Science Association Southern Political Science Association National Capitol Area Political Science Association Phi Beta Kappa Sigma Xi Who s Who in America 7