JOHN B
John B. Gilmour
THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY 110 BARLEY MILL PLACE
Department of Government Williamsburg, VA 23188
Williamsburg, VA 23187 757-258-4816
757-221-3085 fax 757-221-1868 jbgilm@wm.edu
Education:
University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D. in Political Science. 1985.
Thesis: “The Most Bizarre Way to Legislate: Congress and Its Budget Process.”
University of Virginia. M.A. in Public Administration. 1981.
Oberlin College. A.B. with Honors in History. 1977.
Academic Employment:
The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Department of Government and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy. Assistant Professor, 1995-1998. Associate Professor, 1998-present.
Washington University in St. Louis. Department of Political Science. Assistant Professor, 1987-1995.
University of California, San Diego. Department of Political Science. Visiting Assistant Professor, 1986-1987.
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Political Science. Instructor, 1985-1986; Visiting Assistant Professor, Summer 1994.
Fellowships and Awards:
Patrick Fett Award for Best Paper on Congress and the Presidency presented at 2001 Midwest Political Science Meeting
Dirksen Legislative Research Center Grant, Summer 2002
Faculty Research Leave, College of William & Mary. 1999-2000
Summer Research Grant, College of William & Mary. 1996.
Fellow, Center in Political Economy, Washington University. 1988-1995.
Faculty Research Grant, Washington University. 1990.
Research Fellowship, The Brookings Institution. 1984-85.
Bennett Prize in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. 1984.
Courses Taught:
Undergraduate: Introduction to American Politics; U.S. Congress; American Presidency; Politics of Taxing and Spending; Seminar on Recent Presidents; Seminar on Congress and the President
Graduate: U.S. Congress; Legislative-Executive Relations; Budgetary Politics; Public Management
Publications:
Books
Strategic Disagreement: Stalemate in American Politics (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995).
Reconcilable Differences? Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Does Performance Measurement Work? An Examination of OMB’s PART Scores,” Public Administration Review [with David E. Lewis] (Forthcoming)
“Institutional and Individual Influences on the President’s Veto,” Journal of Politics 64 (February 2002), pp. 198-218.
“United States Congress” in The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (New York: Elsevier Science, 2002).
“The Powell Amendment Voting Cycle: An Obituary,” Legislative Studies Quarterly (May 2001), pp. 249-262.
“Explaining Congressional Approval,” American Journal of Political Science 41
(January 1997), pp. 175-207 [with Robert H. Durr and Christina Wolbrecht].
“A Dynamic Model of Tenure, Loss, and Retirement in the U.S. House of Representatives,” Journal of Politics 58 (February 1996), pp. 54-68 [with Paul Rothstein].
“Term Limitation in a Dynamic Model of Partisan Balance,” American Journal of Political Science 38 (August 1994), pp. 770-796 [with Paul Rothstein].
Reprinted in Bernard Grofman, ed., Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996).
“Blue Ribbon Commissions” in The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994).
“Bargaining” in The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994).
“Early Republican Retirement: A Cause of Democratic Dominance in the House of Representatives,” Legislative Studies Quarterly 18 (August 1993), pp. 345-365 [with Paul Rothstein].
“Summits and Stalemates: Bipartisan Negotiations in the Post-Reform Era,” in Roger Davidson, ed., The Post-Reform Congress (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), pp. 233-256.
Other Publications
“Life After the Balanced Budget Amendment,” Roll Call, March 13, 1997, p. 6.
“Republicans Should Call the President’s Bluff by Passing His Agenda,” Roll Call, February 26, 1996, p. 5.
“It’s Time to Curb the Filibuster,” IGS Public Affairs Report (September 1994), pp. 14-15.
“Senate Democrats Should Curb Use of the Filibuster,” Roll Call, Jan. 24, 1994, p. 5. Reprinted in IGS Public Affairs Report (March 1994), pp. 10-11.
Book Reviews
Review of Fred R. Harris, In Defense of Congress in Political Science Quarterly (Summer 1995), pp. 314-315.
Review of David R. Mayhew, Divided We Govern in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (Winter, 1993), pp. 221-223.
Work in Progress:
“Political Appointees and the Competence of Federal Program Management.” Revise and
resubmit at American Politics Research [with David E. Lewis]
“Getting to No: The Politics of Presidential Vetoes” (Book manuscript in progress)
“Sequential Veto Bargaining and Blame Game Politics as Explanations of Presidential Vetoes.”
Conference Papers:
“The Role of Uncertainty if Legislative-Executive Bargaining,” to be presented at the 2004 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago.
“The Emergence of Veto Bait as a Tactic in American Politics, 1920 to the Present.” Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. San Francisco.
“Sequential Veto Bargaining and Blame Game Politics as Explanations of Presidential Vetoes.” Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago. [Winner of the Patrick Fett Award for best paper on Congress and the Presidency presented at 2001 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting.]
“Uncertainty and Inexperience in the Budget Showdown, 1995-1996.” Presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington, DC.
“Objectionable Legislation and the Presidential Propensity to Veto.” Presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle.
“Statutory vs. Constitutional Approaches to Balancing the Federal Budget.” Presented at the 1997 APPAM Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC.
"The Contest for Senate Cloture Reform, 1949-1975." Presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago.
"Explaining Congressional Approval" [with Robert Durr and Christina Wolbrecht]. Presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York.
“A Dynamic Model of Tenure, Loss and Retirement in the House of Representatives” [with Paul Rothstein]. Presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.
“The Strategy of Disagreement in Bargaining Between Congress and the President.” Presented at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago.
“Early Republican Retirement: A Cause of Democratic Dominance in the House of Representatives” [with Paul Rothstein]. Presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.
“The Impact of Term Limitation on Relative Party Balance in Legislatures” [with Paul Rothstein]. Presented at the UC Irvine Conference on Term Limitation. May 29-30, 1991.
“The Bidding-Up Phenomenon: Bargaining Between Congress and the President.” Presented at the 1990 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco.
“Summit Negotiations as a Means of Resolving Partisan Stalemate: Social Security and the Budget.” Presented at the 1989 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta.
“Hardball and Softball Politics.” Presented at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington, DC.
“Political Consequences of the Congressional Budget Process.” Presented at the 1985 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago.
“Integration and Disintegration of Committees in Congress.” Presented at the 1983 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association. Seattle.
Other Professional Activities:
Member, American Political Science Association & Midwest Political Science Association
Manuscript referee for Princeton University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, Economics and Politics, and Journal of Policy History.
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