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Curriculum Vitae:
John Lapinski
OFFICE:
Department of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania
208 South 37th Street
Stiteler Hall 240
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6215
(215) 898-6186
lapins@sas.upenn.edu
EDUCATION
Columbia University, Ph.D., Political Science, 2000 (October).
Dissertation: Representation and Reform: A Congress Centered Approach
to American Political Development. (Committee: Ira Katznelson, Nolan
McCarty, Robert Shapiro
and Sunita Parikh).
University of Chicago, M.A., Public Policy Studies, 1994.
University of Washington, Seattle Pacific University, B.A., Political Science,
1991.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor (untenured), University of Pennsylvania, July 2006-present
Associate Professor (untenured), Yale University, Spring 2006.
Assistant Professor, Political Science, Yale University, 2000/2006.
Lecture Convertible, Political Science, Yale University, 1999/2000 academic year.
MEDIA EMPLOYMENT
Election Analyst, NBC News, Rockefeller Center, NYC, 2000-present.
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
Resident Fellow, the Russell Sage Foundation, 2004-2005 (NYC).
Joint Appointment, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University,
2000-06
RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS
Congress; U.S. Elections; American Political Development; the Presidency and Political Methodology (Quantitative Methods).
AWARDS, GRANTS AND HONORS
Russell Sage Foundation Fellow, 2004-5, New York City.
National Science Foundation Grant Award# 0318280 Total $123,562.
Junior Faculty Award (competitive), Yale University, 2003.
Arthur Greer Memorial Teaching Prize, $4000, Yale University, Summer 2001.
Dirksen Center for Congressional Research (with E. Scott Adler), $2000, Spring
2001.
Provost’s Fund, Yale University, Macro-Politics Conference Grant, $7,500,
Spring 2001.
Young Leader Award, American Swiss Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, 2001.
Principal Investigator, Yale New Media and Survey Research Initiative, Institution
for Social and Policy Studies, $75,000, Fall 2001.
Principal Investigator, Yale Advertising Study, Institution for Social and Policy
Studies, $75,000, Fall 2000.
Block Fund, Yale University, New Media Grant, $5,000, Spring 2000.
Dirksen Center Congressional Research Grant, $2,500, 1998-1999.
Public Policy Consortium, Dissertation Research Grant, $8,300, 1997-1998.
President’s Fellowship, Columbia University, 1994-1998.
Tuition Fellowship, University of Chicago, Irving B. Harris School of Public
Policy, 1992-1994.
RESEARCH
BOOKS/MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS:
The Macropolitics of Congress, co-edited with E. Scott Alder. (February
2006).
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
The Substance of Representation: Congress, American Political Development and Policy Making, 1877-1994, Book manuscript in process. Under advance contract at Princeton University Press.
Southern Nation: On Policy, Representation, and Lawmaking, 1877-1965,
co-authored with Ira
Katznelson. Book manuscript in progess. Under contract at Princeton
University Press.
JOURNAL ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Policy Substance and Performance in American Lawmaking, 1877-1994.” American Journal of
Political Science. Forthcoming 52(2) April 2008.
“Testing the Implicit-Explicit Model of Racialized Political Communication,” co-authored with
Gregory Huber. Perspectives on Politics, Forthcoming March 2008.
“Congress and American Political Development: Missed Chances, Rich
Possibilities,” co-
authored with Ira Katznelson. Perspectives on Politics, 4(2): 243-260.
“The “Race Card” Revisited: Assessing Racial Priming
in Policy Contests,” co-authored
with Gregory Huber. April 2006. American Journal of Political Science,
50: 421-440.
“Measuring Legislative Accomplishment, 1877-1946,” co-authored
with Josh Clinton.
January 2006. American Journal of Political Science 50: 232-249.
“Measuring Significant Legislation, 1877 -1948,” co-authored with Joshua Clinton in Process, Party and Policymaking: Further New Perspectives on the History of Congress. David Brady and Matthew McCubbins eds.(forthcoming). Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
“The Substance of Representation: Studying Policy Content and Legislative
Behavior.” Co-
authored with Ira Katznelson in The Macropolitics of Congress. E.
Scott Adler and John Lapinski eds. February 2006. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
“‘Targeted’ Advertising and Voter Turnout: An Experimental
Study of the 2000 Presidential
Election,”co-authored with Joshua Clinton. February 2004. The Journal
of Politics, 66: 69-96.
“
American Federalism, Race and the Administration of Welfare,” co-authored
with
Robert Lieberman. April 2001. British Journal of Political Science,
31: 303-329.
"Testing Formal Theories of Political Rhetoric,”co-authored with Charles Cameron and Charles Riemann. February 2000. Journal of Politics, 62: 187-205.
“Veto Threats,” co-authored with Charles Cameron and Charles
Riemann in Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power,
Charles Cameron. July 2000.
Boston: Cambridge University Press.
“Demand Side Theory and Congressional Committee Composition: A Constituency Characteristics Approach,” co-authored with E. Scott Adler. July 1997. American Journal of Political Science, 41: 895-918.
“Welfare State Regimes and Subjective Well-Being: A Cross-National Study,” co-authored with Charles Riemann, Robert Y. Shapiro, Matt Stevens and Lawrence Jacobs. 1998. International Journal of Public Opinion Research (Oxford-University Press), 10: 2-24.
“The Polls: Immigrants and Immigration,” co-authored with
Pia Peltola, Greg Shaw and
Alan Yang. Summer 1997. Public Opinion Quarterly, 61: 356-383.
WORKING PAPERS
“Representation and Reform: The 17th Amendment and the Emergence of the Modern Senate.” Received Revise and Resubmit at the American Journal of Political Science.
“The Relationship Between Roll Call Voting and Lawmaking, 1877-1988” co-authored
with
Joshua Clinton. Under review.
“Splitters Versus Lumbers: Policy Substance and Lawmaking in the
United States, 1877-1994.” Under Revision.
INVITED WORKSHOP TALKS
Brown, Spring 2006; Cal Tech, Winter 2005; Rutgers, Fall 2004; University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2004; Northwestern, Spring 2004; Stanford, Spring 2004; MIT, Spring 2004; University of Michigan, Spring 2004.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Lawmaking and Position Taking in the United States House of Representatives, 1889-1986,” co-authored with Joshua Clinton. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2006.
“Testing Theories of Lawmaking Using Roll Call Votes,” co-authored
with Joshua Clinton.
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September
2005.
“Policymaking in the U.S. Congress: An Empirical Assessment of Theories
of Lawmaking,
1877-1993,”co-authored with Joshua Clinton.Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, April 2005.
“Legislative Significance, Lawmaking and Crises,” co-authored
with Joshua Clinton. Annual
Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, April
2005.
“Measuring Significant Legislation: A Statistical Model of Measurement.” Annual
Meeting of
the American Political Science Association, September 2004.
“The Behavioral and Institutional Effects of Direct Election: A Study of Direct Election and the 17th Amendment.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, September 2003.
“Candidates, Strategies, Voters and TV: Testing Alternative Hypotheses
of Candidate
Advertising in the 2000 New York Senate Election.” Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, September
2003.
“Bringing Policy and History Back In: Issues of Measurement and
Conceptualization in the
Study of Macropolitics.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association.
Chicago, April 2003.
“An Experimental Study of Political Advertising Effects in the
2000 Presidential Race,” with
Joshua Clinton. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association. San Francisco, September 2001.
“Does Policy Make Politics? “Issue Space and Policy Coalitions in Congress, 1930-1954,” with Ira Katznelson and Rose Razaghian. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. San Francisco, September 2001. Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Working Paper 01-02, Columbia University.
"Going Negative, the Media and American Public Opinion." Annual
Meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association. Chicago, April 2001.
"Does Policy Make Politics? Congressional Agendas, Lawmaking and
Sectionalism, 1930-
1952," with Ira Katznelson and Rose Razaghian. Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, April 2001.
“
Testing Television Advertising Using Interactive Television: The
Effectiveness of Political
Advertisements,” with Joshua Clinton. Annual Meeting of the
World Association of Opinion and Market Research Professionals, Barcelona,
February 2001.
“Congress, Legislative Performance, and American Political Development.” Presented
at
the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Legislative Politics Division, Washington D.C., 2000.
The Next Generation of Internet Research, Chair & Discussant. Annual
Meeting of the
American Association of Public Opinion Research, Portland, Oregon,
2000.
“Congress and American Political Development.” Presented at
the Midwest Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Legislative Politics Section, Chicago,
Illinois, 2000.
“
Representation and Legislative Performance.” Annual Meeting of the
Social Science History
Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1998.
“Representation and Reform: Institutional Change, Electoral Transformations, and Legislative Production in the United States Congress.” Poster session at the 15th Political Methodology Summer Conference, San Diego, California, 1998.
"Congress and American Political Development," with Ira Katznelson. Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Legislative Politics Section, Chicago, Illinois, 1998.
"A Parsing of Political History," Presented at the Midwest Political
Science Association
Annual Meeting, Methodology Section, Chicago, Illinois, 1998.
“The Forgotten State: The Military in American Political Development,
1815-1860,” with Ira
Katznelson. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science
History Association, Washington, D.C., 1997.
"The Paradoxical State: Congress, the Military, and Statebuilding
in Antebellum America,”
co-authored with Ira Katznelson. Presented at the Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science Association, Politics and History Division,
Washington D.C., 1997.
“Representational Performance: A New Approach to Understanding Policy
Change and
American Political Development.” Poster session at the 14th Political
Methodology Summer Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 1997.
UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES
Yale Graduate Student Dissertations: Matthew Green (advisor); Deborah
Jordan Brooks (reader); Helen Abbie Erler (reader).
ISPS: Summer Program, Experiments in the Social Sciences, Instructor,
Yale University, July 2001/2002/2003.
American Politics Workshop Coordinator, 2002-2003; ISPS Seminar Series Coordinator, 2005-06.
Yale Committees: University Executive Committee; Initiative Hiring Committee (twice); Graduate Admissions; Library Committee; Computer Distribution Committee.
Graduate Courses: Theories of Lawmaking; American Political Institutions; Political Advertising; American Political Development; Research and Writing.
Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to United State Government; Introduction
to Statistics; Analysis of Presidential Elections; Analysis of Congressional
and Presidential Elections; American Political Institutions; Strategy and
Persuasion.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviewer for the American Political Science Review; American Journal
of Political Science;
Journal of Politics; Legislative Studies Quarterly; Political Analysis;
Studies in American Political Development; and Political Science Quarterly.
Sponsor and co-director, Macro-Politics Conference, Boulder, Colorado,
June 2001.
Sponsor and co-director, History of Congress Conference, New Haven,
CT, May 2006.