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Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Department of Political Science

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Department of Political Science

Harvard University Press
(2013-04-01)
270 pages
ISBN: 978-0674072695
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Essays

Looking for the Senate: Reminiscences and Residuals

In U.S. Senate Exceptionalism, ed. Bruce Oppenheimer (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002), pp. 63-90

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Strategy and Sophisticated Voting in the Senate

Calvert, Randall and Richard F. Fenno, Journal of Politics, Vol. 56, Issue 2, (May, 1994), pp. 349-376

The Changing Senate in the Cannon Years

Halcyon, Vol. 11 (1989), pp. 65-84

Political Scientists Need to Study Politicians by Observation at the Closest Possible Range

Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 35, Issue 18 (January 11, 1989), pp. B1

The Senate through the Looking Glass: The Debate over Television

Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Aug., 1989), pp. 313-348
JSTOR

Observation, Context, and Sequence in the Study of Politics

The American Political Science Review, Vol. 80, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 3-15

JSTOR

Adjusting to the U.S. Senate

in Congress and Policy Change, ed. Gerald Wright et al. (New York: Agathon Press, 1986), pp. 123-147

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What’s He Like? What’s She Like? What Are They Like?

in The United States Congress: Proceedings of the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Symposium on the U. S. Congress, ed. Dennis Hale (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Boston College, 1982), pp. 107-128.

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Strengthening a Congressional Strength

in Congress Reconsidered, eds. Lawrence Dodd and Bruce Oppenheimer (New York: Praeger, 1977), pp. 261-268

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U.S. House Members in Their Constituencies: An Exploration

The American Political Science Review, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Sep., 1977), pp. 883-917
Published by: American Political Science Association

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If, as Ralph Nader Says, Congress is ‘The Broken Branch,’ How Comes We Love Our Congressmen so Much?

Paper prepared for delivery at a conference on the Role of Congress sponsored by Time. Inc. at the Harvard Club, Boston, MA, December 12, 1972.
Reprinted in American Government: Readings and Cases, 14th ed., ed. Peter Woll (New York: Longman, 2001), pp. 384-391

The Freshman Congressman: His Views of the House

In American Governmental Institutions, eds. A. Wildavsky and N.W. Polsby (New York: Rand McNally, 1968) and Congressional Behavior, ed. N. W. Polsby (New York: Random House, 1971)

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Impact of PPBS on the Congressional Appropriations Process

In Information Support, Program Budgeting and the Congress, eds. R. Chartrand et al. (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1968), pp. 175-194

The Internal Distribution of Influence: The House

In Congress and America’s Future, 1st ed., ed. David Truman (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 1965), pp. 52-76

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The House Appropriations Committee as a Political System: The Problem of Integration

The American Political Science Review, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Jun., 1962), pp. 310-324

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The Cabinet: Index to the Kennedy Way

New York Times Magazine, April, 22, 1962, p. SM4

New York Times

Balance in the Cabinet

New Republic, Vol. 144, Issue 2 (January 9, 1961), pp. 19-21

Now is the Time for Cabinet Makers

New York Times Magazine, November 20, 1960

New York Times

Coolidge: Representative of the People

Current History (October 1960), pp. 208-212

President-Cabinet Relations: A Pattern and a Case Study

The American Political Science Review, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Jun., 1958), pp. 388-405
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Essays about, and inspired by the work of Richard Fenno:

Aldrich, John H. and Kenneth Shepsle.
“Explaining Institutional Change: Soaking, Poking, and Modeling in the U.S. Congress.”
Prepared for a conference in honor of Richard F. Fenno, University of Rochester, October 24-25, 1997.
Article stable URL.

Bianco, William T, editor (2000).
Congress on Display, Congress at Work.
A collection of essays compiled in honor of Richard F. Fenno’s contribution to legislative studies, including:

  • Richard Fenno’s Conventional Wisdom / William T. Bianco
  • Explaining Institutional Change: Soaking, Poking, and Modeling in the U.S. Congress / John H. Aldrich and Kenneth A. Shepsle
  • Building Reputations and Shaping Careers: The Strategies of Individual Agendas in the U.S. Senate / Wendy J. Schiller
  • Majority Party Leadership, Strategic Choice, and Committee Power: Appropriations in the House, 1995-98 / Bryan W. Marshall, Brandon C. Prins and David W. Rohde
  • What We Don’t Know about Congressional Party Leadership / Richard Forgette
  • Preferences and Governance in the U.S. House of Representatives: The Great Republican Experiment / Christine DeGregorio
  • Republican House Majority Party Leadership in the 104th and 105th Congresses: Innovation and Continuity / Barbara Sinclair
  • Can Advisory Committees Facilitate Congressional Oversight of the Bureaucracy? / Steven J. Balla and John R. Wright
  • Representation, Careerism, and Term Limits: A Simulation / Linda L. Fowler and Brian Frederking
  • Understanding Presentation of Self / William T. Bianco
  • Member Goals and Party Switching in the U.S. Congress / David Castle and Patrick J. Fett
  • The Distribution of Pork Barrel Projects and Vote Buying in Congress / Diana Evans
  • Congress, the President, and the Unrealized Bargaining Power of the Line-Item Veto: A Brief Note on a Short-Lived Law / Patrick J. Fett, Jeffrey S. Hill and Richard Delaney.

Published by: University of Michigan Press.
University of Rochester River Campus Library.
University of Michigan Press.

Binder, Sarah.
“Through the Looking Glass Darkly: What has Become of the Senate?”
The Forum, Vol. 9: Iss. 4, Article 2 (2011).
Article stable URL.

Fitzpatrick, Thomas.
“Watching Politicians.”
Rochester Review (Spring, 1991).
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