CLYDE WEED Political Science

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

The Nemesis of Reform: The Minority Republican Party During the Domestic New Deal. Columbia University Press, 1994.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"What Happened to the Republicans in the 1930's: Minority Party Dynamics During Political Realignment." Polity 22:1 (Fall 1989): 5-23.

BOOK REVIEWS:

"Building a Democratic Political Order.  American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s APSR Winter 1997

A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics, by Amy Bridges, in Corruption and Reform 3:1 (1988).

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

"Changing Perspectives on Political Realignment." Faculty Political Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 28, 1995.

"Political Elites: The Forgotten Dimensions of Partisan Change." Faculty Political Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 28, 1994.

"Changing Attitudes of Political Elites During the New Deal." Northeastern Political Science Association Meeting, April 1993.

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

Research Grant 1998 from the Connecticut State System to visit archives at Stanford University.  Faculty Scholarship Grant.

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

I am writing a second book currently.  Encounter with Leviathan on the adjustment of business and conservative elites to to the expansion of the state in the 20th century.  

CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

A proposal (with Everett Carll Ladd) to reproduce some of the important theoretical pieces written on the New Deal at the time.

Research has begun on a second book examining the adjustment of business and conservative elites in the United States to the expansion of the state in the twentieth century. Columbia University Press's new American Institutions series has expressed interest in this book.

MASTER'S THESES ADVISEMENT:

I have served on five honors committees this semester

INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:

Columbia University