Jeffery Jenkins


Jeffery Jenkins

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Phone: 434-924-3192

Jeffery A. Jenkins is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia and Faculty Associate in the GAGE program at the Miller Center.

Jenkins works at the intersection of mainstream American Politics and American political history, with research focusing on the origins and development of American political institutions, notably congressional and partisan institutions, as well as the use of historical data to test contemporary theories of legislative organization and behavior. He is a current editorial board member of Congress & the Presidency, and was previously an editorial board member of Legislative Studies Quarterly (2005-2007)


Selected Publications

For a complete list of Jenkins's articles and books, please see his curriculum vitae.

Upcoming Books
  • Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government. With Charles Stewart III. Under contract, Princeton University Press.
  • Analyzing Parties. Under contract, W.W. Norton. Series: The New Institutionalism in American Politics. Series Editor, Kenneth A. Shepsle.
Articles
  • "In Search of Killer Amendments in the Modern U.S. House." 2008. Legislative Studies Quarterly 33:263-94. With Charles J. Finocchiaro.
  • "Partisanship, the Electoral Connection, and Lame-Duck Sessions of Congress, 1877–2006." 2008. Journal of Politics. 70:450-65. With Timothy P. Nokken.
  • "Legislative Shirking in the Pre-Twentieth Amendment Era: Presidential Influence, Party Power, and Lame-Duck Sessions of Congress, 1877-1933." 2008. Studies in American Political Development 22: 111-40. With Timothy P. Nokken.
  • "Negative Agenda Control in the Senate and House: Fingerprints of Majority Party Power." 2007. Journal of Politics 69: 689–700. With Sean Gailmard.
  • "Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and The Salary Grab of 1873." 2006. Journal of Economic History 66: 674–706. With Lee J. Alston and Tomas Nonnenmacher.
  • "Running to Lose?: John C. Breckinridge and the Presidential Election of 1860." 2006. Electoral Studies 25: 306–28. With Irwin L. Morris.
  • "Partisanship and Contested Election Cases in the Senate, 1789-2002." 2005. Studies in American Political Development 19: 53–74.
  • "Parties as Procedural Coalitions in Congress: An Examination of Differing Career Tracks." 2005. Legislative Studies Quarterly 30: 365–89. With Michael H. Crespin and Jamie L. Carson.
  • "Constituency Cleavages and Congressional Parties: Measuring Homogeneity and Polarization, 1857–1913." 2004. Social Science History 28: 537–73. With Eric Schickler and Jamie L. Carson.
  • "Partisanship and Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives, 1789–2002." 2004. Studies in American Political Development 18: 113–35.
  • "Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal." 2004. Political Analysis 12: 176–79. With Jamie L. Carson, Michael H. Crespin, and Ryan Vander Wielen.
  • "Out in the Open: The Emergence of Viva Voce Voting in House Speakership Elections."2003. Legislative Studies Quarterly 28: 481–508. With Charles Stewart III.
  • "Investigating the Incidence of Killer Amendments in Congress." 2003. Journal of Politics 65: 498–517. With Michael C. Munger.
  • "The Impact of National Tides and District-Level Effects on Electoral Outcomes: The U.S. Congressional Elections of 1862–63." 2001. American Journal of Political Science 45: 887–98. With Jamie L. Carson, David W. Rohde, and Mark Souva.
  • "Race and the Representation of Blacks' Interests During Reconstruction." 2001. Political Research Quarterly 54: 181–204. With Michael D. Cobb.
  • "Examining the Robustness of Ideological Voting: Evidence from the Confederate House of Representatives." 2000. American Journal of Political Science 44: 811–22.
  • "The Institutional Origins of the Republican Party: Spatial Voting and the House Speakership Election of 1855–56." 2000. Legislative Studies Quarterly 25: 101–30. With Timothy P. Nokken.
  • "Partisanship and Confederate Constitution-Making Reconsidered: A Response to Bensel." 1999. Studies in American Political Development 13: 245–62.
  • "Why No Parties?: Investigating the Disappearance of Democrat-Whig Divisions in the Confederacy." 1999. Studies in American Political Development 13: 279–87.
  • "Examining the Bonding Effects of Party: A Comparative Analysis of Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. and Confederate Houses." 1999. American Journal of Political Science 43: 1144–65.
  • "Ideology, Economic Interests, and Congressional Roll-Call Voting: Partisan Instability and Bank of the United States Legislation, 1811–1816." 1999. Public Choice 100: 225–43. With Marc Weidenmier.
  • "The Spatial Theory of Voting and the Presidential Election of 1824." 1998. American Journal of Political Science 42: 1157–79. With Brian R. Sala.
  • "Property Rights and the Emergence of Standing Committee Dominance in the Nineteenth-Century House." 1998. Legislative Studies Quarterly 23: 493–519.
  • "A Reexamination of Salary Discrimination in Professional Basketball." 1996. Social Science Quarterly 77: 594–608.
Course List
  • Introduction to American Government (undergrad)
  • American Political Development (undergrad)
  • American Legislative Process (undergrad)
  • Congress and the Legislative Process (undergrad)
  • Proseminar in American Politics (undergrad)
  • The Development of the American Party System (undergrad)
  • The Development of the American Party System (grad)
  • American Political Institutions and Behavior (grad)
  • Congress: Institutional Organization and Development (grad)
  • Congress: Representation, Roll-Call Voting, and Elections (grad)
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