Articles by Miller Center Scholars

Below is a collection of articles written by Miller Center scholars, who are experts on a wide array of topics in American public affairs.

Also online: Miller Center in the News – an index of news coverage featuring Miller Center scholars, programs, initiatives and events, encompassing 1999–2007.

For more information, contact Lisa Todorovich, Assistant Director for Communications, (434) 243-4096; ltodorovich@virginia.edu

2008

How Vice Presidential Debates Came to BeThe Chronicle Review, October 1, 2008

James K. Polk: Man of Manifest Destiny, by Sheila Blackford, Managing Editor of American President and Library Specialist, Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, September 18, 2008

Outside the Big Box, by 2007 Miller Center Fellow Nicole Kazee, Michael Lipsky, and Cathie Jo Martin, Boston Review, July/August 2008

Now diplomacy is appeasement?, by Miller Center Fellow Robert Rakove San Francisco Chronicle, May 22, 2008

Tax can help workers, employers, by Miller Center Fellow Nicole Kazee The State, May 7, 2008

The Mass Media as Sentinel: Why Bad News About Issues is Good News for Participation, by Paul Martin Political Communication, Volume 25, Issue 2 April 2008 , pages 180-193

Debates Contribute to Public Discourse, by Miller Center Director Gerald L. Baliles Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 6, 2008

Keep your enemies closer, By Mel Leffler Los Angeles Times, April 6, 2008

Our First Black President?, By 2002 Fellow Beverly Gage New York Times Magazine, April 6, 2008

Presidential Power: The unitary executive, in theory and practice, by Michael Nelson
The Chronicle Review, March 21, 2008

John Adams, in Brilliant Colors, by Michael Nelson
The Chronicle Review, March 21, 2008

2007

Effective policy that keeps Iran in check, by Rachel Loeffler
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 18, 2007

To win SCHIP battle, enlist employers, by 2007 Fellow Nicole Kazee
Baltimore Sun, November 9, 2007

Nixon's Final Campaign, by Michael Nelson
Chronicle of Higher Education, October 5, 2007

Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy, by Vesla Weaver
Studies in American Political Development, Fall 2007, 230–265

George W. Bush, the Republican Party, and the 'New' American Party System, by Sidney Milkis (co-written with 2007 Fellow Jesse Rhodes)
Perspectives on Politics, September 2007

What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power, by Jeffrey Legro
Perspectives on Politics, September 2007

Presidential Oral History: The Clinton Presidential History Project, by Russell Riley
Oral History Review, September 2007

Nixon vs. the Imaginary 'Jewish Cabal', by Guian McKee
History News Network, September 24, 2007

The Missiles of November, December, January, February . . . The Problem of Acceptable Risk in the Cuban Missile Crisis Settlement, by David Coleman
Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3, Summer 2007; 5–38

In Praise of the Values Voter, by 2004 Fellow Jon Shields
Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2007

Presidential Oral History: The Clinton Presidential History Project, by Russell Riley
The Oral History Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2007

Learning from past poverty wars, by Guian McKee
Boston Globe, July 26, 2007

Nixon's Final Campaign, by Michael Nelson
Chronicle of Higher Education, July 20, 2007

The Myth of the Falwell Insurgency, by 2004 Fellow Jon Shields
First Things: The Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life, July 2, 2007

Is There a Place for Private Conversation in Public Dialogue? Comparing Stakeholder Assessments of Informal Communication in Collaborative Regional Planning, by 2005 Fellow Caroline Lee
American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 113, No. 1 (July 2007); 41–96

"Europe's Flickering Philadelphia Moment, by Russell Riley
Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 8, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2007

Ignoring Nigeria: The election that wasn't and other disturbing portents, by 2004 Fellow David Adesnik
Weekly Standard, May 14, 2007

Partisan Rancor and Representative Democracy, by Sidney Milkis
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2, 2007

A challenge to Obama: Jump ship!, by 2006 Fellow Larycia Hawkins
Chicago Tribune, February 5, 2007

Divided We Stand, by Russell Riley
The Politico, January 31, 2007

2006

Reflections on a Polarized America: Partisan Rancor and Development in the U.S., by Sidney Milkis
Clio, Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2006

The Lion in Whimper, by Tim Naftali
Slate, April 5, 2006

Those who forget history, by Jeff Chidester
Chattanooga Times-Free Press, February 5, 2006

Snoop Dogs, by Shane Harris and Tim Naftali
Slate, February 3, 2006

Friendship has its benefits, by Jeff Chidester
Toronto Star, February 2, 2006

Tinker, Tailor, Miner, Spy, by Shane Harris and Tim Naftali
Slate, January 3, 2006

2005

George W. Bush and the 'New' American Party System, by Sidney Milkis
Clio, Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2006–05

For History's Sake, Nothing Like a Paper Trail, by Russell Riley
Washington Post, November 6, 2005

Superiority Complex, by Tim Naftali
Slate, November 2, 2005

Send in the Cavalry, by Tim Naftali
Slate, October 11, 2005

Department of Homeland Screw-Up, by Tim Naftali
Slate, September 6, 2005

Cracking the London Case, by Tim Naftali
Slate, July 13, 2005

Chertoff's Bad Move, by Tim Naftali
Slate, June 30, 2005

Milan Snatch, by Tim Naftali
Slate, June 30, 2005

2000

Trusting and Joining? A test of the reciprocal nature of social capital, by Michele P. Claibourn and Paul Martin
Political Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2000: 267–291

1999

JFK and the Fall of Diem, by Ken Hughes
Boston Globe Magazine, October 24, 1999

1998

Unity and Diversity in American Political Culture: An Exploratory Study of the National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity,
by Richard M. Merelman,
Greg Streich, and Paul Martin
Political Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1998: 781–807

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