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     Kenneth R. Mayer


Title: Professor
Website: http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/kmayer
Office: 201D North Hall
Office Hours: Wenesdays 2:00 - 3:00 or By Appointment
Phone: 608.263.2286
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: krmayer@wisc.edu
Keywords: Australia, Campaign Finance, Elections, Presidency, Unilateral Powers


His teaching and research interests are in American government and institutions (especially Congress and the Presidency) and campaign finance. He is the author of With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power (Princeton University Press, 2001), The Political Economy of Defense Contracting (Yale University Press, 1991), and The Dysfunctional Congress? The Individual Roots of an Institutional Dilemma (Westview Press, 1999, with David T. Canon). His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Public Administration Review, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Regulation. He is on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review, and is book review editor for Congress & The Presidency: A Journal of Capital Studies. His current research focuses on last-minute policy making by lame-duck presidents, and evaluating the effectiveness of recent state-level campaign finance reforms.
 


Recent Publications

Kenneth Mayer. 2009. “Thoughts on the Revolution in Presidency Studies.” Presidential Studies Quarterly  39 (no. 4, December).   
Kenneth Mayer. “Executive Orders,” in Joseph Bessette and Jeffrey Tulis, eds., The Constitutional Presidency.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.   
Kenneth Mayer. “Going Alone: The Presidential Power of Unilateral Action.” In George C. Edwards III and William G. Howell, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.   
Kenneth Mayer, Howard Schweber "Does Australia Have a Constitution? Part I: The Powers Constitution," 25 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal (Spring 2008).   
Kenneth Mayer, Howard Schweber “Does Australia Have a Constitution? Part II: The Rights Constitution," 25 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal (Spring 2008).   
David Canon, John Coleman, Kenneth Mayer. The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics. 5th ed. 2008. New York: W. W. Norton. 4th edition 2005; 3rd edition 2003.   
David Canon, John Coleman, Kenneth Mayer. Faultlines: Debating the Issues in American Politics. 2nd ed. 2007. New York: W.W. Norton. 1st edition 2004.   
David Canon, John Coleman, Kenneth Mayer. Readings in American Government. 7th ed. 2002. New York: W. W. Norton.   
 

Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010

408 - The American Presidency

Instructors: Kenneth Mayer      Field: American Politics