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Kenneth R. Mayer
His teaching and research interests are in American government and institutions (especially Congress and the Presidency), campaign finance, and election administration. His current research focuses on and evaluating the effectiveness of recent state-level campaign finance reforms, and election administration.
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, Election Law Journal, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Regulation.
Awards include: Leon Epstein Faculty Fellow award (College of Letters and Science (2012-2015); Jerry J. and Mary M. Cotter Award (College of Letters and Science, 2011-2012); Fulbright Distinghuished Chair in Political Science, Australian National University, Canberra ACT (2006); the Alliant Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award (UW System, 2006); the Vilas Associates award (College of Letters and Science, 2003-2004); and the 2002 Richard M. Neustadt Award, awarded by the Presidency Research Group of the American Political Science Association for the best book published on the presidency in 2001, for With the Stroke of a Pen).
He is active as an expert witness in campaign finance, redistricting, and voter ID litigation. Recent cases include NAACP et al. v. Scott Walker, et al. (voter ID case heard in Dane County, 2012); Baldus et al. v. Brennan et al (Eastern District of Wisconsin, redistricting litigation, 2011-2012); and McComish et al. v Brewer et al. (Arizona public election funding case, 2008-2009)
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Recent Publications
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Barry Burden, David Canon, Kenneth Mayer, Donald Moynihan. "Early Voting and Election Day Registration in the Trenches: Local Officials' Perceptions of Election Reform." Election Law Journal 10(2): 89-102.
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David Canon, John Coleman, Kenneth Mayer. Faultlines: Debating the Issues in American Politics. 3rd ed. 2011. Previous editions: 2007, 2004. New York: W.W. Norton.
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David Canon, John Coleman, Kenneth Mayer. The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics. 6th ed. 2011. Previous editions: 2008, 2005, 2003. New York: W. W. Norton.
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Kenneth Mayer. 2009. “Thoughts on the Revolution in Presidency Studies.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 39 (no. 4, December).
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Kenneth Mayer, “Executive Orders,” in Joseph Bessette and Jeffrey Tulis, eds., The Constitutional Presidency. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
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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.
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Kenneth Mayer, Howard Schweber "Does Australia Have a Constitution? Part I: The Powers Constitution," 25 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal (Spring 2008).
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Kenneth Mayer, Howard Schweber “Does Australia Have a Constitution? Part II: The Rights Constitution," 25 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal (Spring 2008).
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David Canon, John Coleman, Kenneth Mayer. Readings in American Government. 7th ed. 2002. New York: W. W. Norton.
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Current Courses taught for Spring 2012-2013
408 - The American Presidency
Instructors: Kenneth Mayer Field: American Politics
Section Number: 001
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466 - Campaign Finance
Instructors: Kenneth Mayer Field: American Politics
Section Number: 001
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