Steven S. Smith

Steven S. Smith (b. 1953) is the Director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, the Kate M. Gregg Professor of Social Sciences, and Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He served on the faculties of George Washington University, Northwestern University, and the University of Minnesota and was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Smith is one of the leading scholars of legislative institutions and congressional politics. He served as editor of "Legislative Studies Quarterly" and chaired the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association.

Smith has authored or edited many books on U.S. congressional politics and parliamentary politics in Russia, including a 2007 book, "Party Influence in Congress" (Cambridge).

Smith's monographs include "Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate" (Brookings), "Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the United States Senate" (Brookings), with Sarah Binder, and "The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma" (Princeton), with Thomas Remington.

Smith's textbook on congressional politics, "The American Congress" (Cambridge), is in its fifth edition; the later editions were coauthored with Jason Roberts and Ryan Vander Wielen.

Smith edited popular readers for undergraduates: "The Principles and Practices of American Politics" (CQ Press), three editions with Samuel Kernell, and "The American Congress Reader" (Cambridge), with Roberts and Vander Wielen.

Smith's edited volume, "Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process", with Melanie Jane Springer, will be published by Brookings in late 2008.

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