Steven S. Smith

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Steven S. Smith (born July 8, 1953) is Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. [1] He also is the Kate M. Gregg Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. For many years, he was the Director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, [2] [3] 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 [4] and is cited frequently by major news sources. [5] [6] [7] [8] He served as editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly [9] and chaired the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association. [10] He won the Barbara Sinclair Lecture Award from the American Political Science Association in 2023. [11]

Smith's popular "Steve's Notes on Congressional Politics" provides short background essays on important features of congressional policymaking. [12]

Smith has authored or edited many books on U.S. congressional politics and parliamentary politics in Russia. These include, Steering the Senate: The Emergence of Party Organization and Leadership, 1789–2024 [13] (Cambridge University Press), with Gerald Gamm, The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedure Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate (Univ of Oklahoma Press), [14] Party Influence in Congress (Cambridge), [15] Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate [16] [17] (Brookings), Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the United States Senate [18] [19] (Brookings), with Sarah Binder, The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma (Princeton), with Thomas Remington, [20] and Politics Over Process: Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress (University of Michigan Press), [21] [22] with Hong Min Park and Ryan J. Vander Wielen. Smith's textbook on congressional politics, The American Congress, is in its tenth 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), seven 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, was published by Brookings in 2009.

References

  1. ↑ "Steven Smith | ASU Search". search.asu.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  2. ↑ Washington University (2023). "Professor Steven Smith Retires After 20 Years of Scholarship". Washington University.
  3. ↑ Weidenbaum Center (2023). "Weidenbaum Center Award for Excellence". Weidenbaum Center.
  4. ↑ Parker, Deb (2012). "Smith on C BS 60 Minutes Sunday". The Source. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  5. ↑ "Senate Works on Infrastructure 'the Old-Fashioned Way': Painfully Slow (Published 2021)". 2021-08-08. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  6. ↑ Groppe, Maureen. "Giving her recognition she deserves: Dianne Feinstein funeral eclipsed by Washington chaos". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  7. ↑ "Analysis | A 90-something in line of presidential succession? Experts say it's time for a change". The Washington Post. 2022-10-22. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  8. ↑ Elving, Ron (2022-03-06). "It's a cliché to call an election-year Congress do-nothing. The history doesn't match". NPR. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  9. ↑ Loewenberg, Gerhard; Smith, Steven S.; Hamm, Keith (2000). "Editors' Introduction". Legislative Studies Quarterly. 25 (1): 1–2. ISSN   0362-9805. JSTOR   440390.
  10. ↑ Harbridge, L., & Sin, G. (2016, Spring). The Legislative Scholar: The newsletter of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association (Vol. 1, No. 1). https://connect.apsanet.org/s3/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2019/02/Legislative_Scholar_Spring_16.pdf
  11. ↑ Creeser, Gaby (2023-08-07). "Steven S. Smith Receives the 2023 Barbara Sinclair Lecture Award -". Archived from the original on 2024-06-07. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  12. ↑ Smith, Steven. "Steve's Notes on Congressional Politics | Steven Smith | Substack". stevesnotes.substack.com. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  13. ↑ Gamm, G. H., & Smith, S. S. (2024). Steering the Senate: The Emergence of Party Organization and Leadership, 1789-2024. Cambridge University Press.
  14. ↑ Lee, Frances E. (2015-01-02). "A Review of "Smith, Steven S. The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate.": Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. 408 pages. $34.95 (hardcover)". Congress & the Presidency. 42 (1): 109–111. doi:10.1080/07343469.2015.991643. ISSN   0734-3469.
  15. ↑ Heberlig, Eric S. (2008-09-01). "Party Influence in Congress by Steven S. Smith". Political Science Quarterly. 123 (3): 526–527. doi:10.1002/j.1538-165X.2008.tb01789.x. ISSN   0032-3195.
  16. ↑ Smith, S. S. (2000). Call to order: Floor politics in the House and Senate. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
  17. ↑ Jacob, C. E. (1990). Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 511, Foreign Language in the Workplace (Sep., 1990), pp. 200-202 <Book Review>
  18. ↑ Binder, S. A., & Smith, S. S. (2001). Politics or principle?: filibustering in the United States Senate. Rowman & Littlefield.
  19. ↑ "Politics or Principle?". Brookings. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  20. ↑ Smith, Steven S.; Remington, Thomas F. (2001-01-01). The Politics of Institutional Choice. Princeton University Press. doi:10.1515/9781400823949. ISBN   978-1-4008-2394-9.
  21. ↑ Park, H. M., Smith, S. S., & Vander Wielen, R. J. (2017). Politics over Process: Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the US Congress. University of Michigan Press.
  22. ↑ Evans, C. L. (2019). Politics Over Process: Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress. By Hong Min Park, Steven S. Smith, and Ryan J. Vander Wielen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. 204p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. - On Parliamentary War: Partisan Conflict and Procedural Change in the U.S. Senate. By James I. Wallner. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. 264p. $75,00 cloth. Perspectives on Politics, 17(2), 578–580. doi:10.1017/S1537592719000057
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