Congress and Its Members, 13th Edition
Roger H. Davidsonis professor emeritus of government and politics at the University of Maryland, and has served as visiting professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. For the 2001 and 2002 academic year, he served as the John Marshall Chair in political science at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. His books includeRemaking Congress: Change and Stability in the 1990's, co-edited with James A. Thurber (1995), andUnderstanding the Presidency, Third Edition, co-edited with James P. Pfiffner (2003). Davidson is co-editor with Donald C. Bacon and Morton Keller ofThe Encyclopedia of the United States Congress(1995).Walter J. Oleszekis a senior specialist in the legislative process at the Congressional Research Service. He has served as either a full-time professional staff aide or consultant to every major House and Senate congressional reorganization effort beginning with the passage of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970. In 1993, he served as Policy Director of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress. A long-time adjunct faculty member at American University, Oleszek is a frequent lecturer before various academic, governmental and business groups. He is the author or co-author of several books, includingCongress and Its Members, 12th ed. (2009),with Roger H. Davidson, andCongress Under Fire: Reform Politics and the Republican Majority(1997), with C. Lawrence Evans.Frances E. Leejoined the faculty at Maryland in 2004, where she is associate professor of government. She received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1997. She has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution and an APSA Congressional Fellow, and she previously taught at Case Western Reserve University. She coauthoredSizing Up The Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representationwith Bruce I. Oppenheimer, which won the D. B. Hardeman Prize in 1999. Her articles have appeared inAmerican Political Science Review,Journal of Politics,Legislative Studies Quarterly, and theAmerican Journal of Political Science, among others.