Steven Smith

Title:	Kate M Gregg Professor of Social Sciences in Arts & Sciences Director, the Weidenbaum Center
Degree:	PHD, University of Minnesota BS, Saint Cloud State University
Dept:	Political Science
Office:	Eliot Hall 300
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1027 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-5697
E-mail:	smith@artsci.wustl.edu

Research Interests
Congress, American politics, legislative institutions, Russian politics. Professor Smith has authored or coauthored many books on congressional politics and coauthored a book on the formation of the Russian State Duma. He is working on books on party leadership in the U.S. Senate and presidential-parliamentary relations in Russia.

Selected Publications:

The American Congress (Cambridge University Press, 2006; Houghton Mifflin, 1995, 1999, 2003)

Committees in Congress (CQ Press, 1984, 1990, 1997), with C.J. Deering

Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate (Brookings, 1989)

Managing Uncertainty in the House of Representatives: Adaptation and Innovation in Special Rules (Brookings, 1988), with S. Bach

Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the United States Senate (Brookings, 1997), with S. Binder