Steven S. Smith

Steven S. Smith is the Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Political Science, and the Director of the Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University.  He has taught at George Washington University, Northwestern University, and the University of Minnesota, where he was the Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Political Science and Law.  He has authored or coauthored several books on congressional politics and a book on the formation of the Russian State Duma, coauthors The American Congress, a Cambridge University Press textbook, and coedits a volume on American politics. He has worked on Capitol Hill in several capacities, served as a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association, and was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He served as the chair of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association, served on the Executive Committee of the Research Committee of Legislative Scholars of the International Political Science Association, and served as a member of the board of directors of the Dirksen Congress Center.  He served as an editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly and on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Congress & the Presidency.

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