Frances E. Lee

Frances E. Lee is Professor in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton University. She specializes in American politics with particular interest focusing on the U.S. Congress and institutional behavior. Lee is co-editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly and is the first editor of Cambridge University's American Politics Elements Series. Her 2009 book Beyond Ideology was the first academic work to define the role of partisanship in voting behavior within the US Senate and has been cited since then over 400 times in contemporary political science. Lee is also a co-author of the seminal textbook on congressional study, Congress and Its Members, currently in its sixteenth edition.

• E. E. Schattschneider Award from the American Political Science Association (1997)
• D.B. Hardeman Prize from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation (1999 and 2009)
• Richard F. Fenno Award from the American Political Science Association (2009)

• Lee, Frances E. and Nolan McCarty, eds. 2019. Can America Govern Itself? New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Lee, Frances E. 2016. Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Schickler, Eric and Frances E. Lee, eds. 2011. The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress. New York: Oxford University Press. Selected by Choice, the American Library Association’s reviews publication, as one of its top 25 outstanding academic titles for 2012. Part of the Oxford Handbooks of Political Science series
• Lee, Frances E. 2009. Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Lee, Frances E. and Bruce I. Oppenheimer. 1999. Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Lee, Frances E. Forthcoming 2018. “The 115th Congress and Questions of Party Unity in a Polarized Era.” Journal of Politics.
• Lee, Frances E. 2016. “Patronage, Logrolls, and Polarization: Congressional Parties of the Gilded Age, 1876-1896.” Studies in American Political Development 30: 116-127.
• Lee, Frances E. 2015. “How Party Polarization Affects Governance,” Annual Review of Political Science 18 (June): 261-282.
• Lee, Frances E. 2013. “Presidents and Party Teams: The Politics of Debt Limits and Executive Oversight, 2001-2013,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 43 (4): 775-791.
• Lee, Frances E. 2008. “Dividers, Not Uniters: Presidential Leadership and Senate Partisanship, 1981-2004” Journal of Politics 70 (October): 914-928.
• Lee, Frances E. 2008. “Agreeing to Disagree: Agenda Content and Senate Partisanship, 1981-2004.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 33 (May): 199-222.
• Lee, Frances E. 2004. “Bicameral Institutions and Geographic Politics: Allocating Federal Funds for Transportation in the House and Senate,” Legislative Studies Quarterly 24 (May): 185-214.
• Lee, Frances E. 2003. “Geographic Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives: Coalition Building and Distribution of Benefits,” American Journal of Political Science 47 (November): 713-727. September 2018, p. 3
• Lee, Frances E. 2000.“Senate Representation and Coalition Building in Distributive Politics,” American Political Science Review, 94 (March) 59-72.

As Editor

• Legislative Studies Quarterly (Co-editor) (2014–present)
• Elements Series in American Politics, Cambridge University Press (2017–present)

Editorial Boards

• American Journal of Political Science (2014–present)
• American Politics Research (2007–present)
• Congress & the Presidency (2007–present)
• Journal of Politics (2007-2009, 2013-2015)
• Legislative Studies Quarterly (2005-2010)

• Interview with Ezra Klein of Vox Media about gridlock.
• Interview on C-SPAN discussing majoritarian rule in the Senate.
• Contributor to The Washington Post

Previous

• Casey Burgat - R Street Institute
• James M. Curry - Assistant Professor,University of Utah
• Katrina McNally - Assistant Professor, Bethany College (West Virginia)
• Michael D. Parrot - Lecturer-in-Discipline, Columbia University
• Rebecca U. Thorpe - Associate Professor, University of Washington

Current

• Kelsey Hinchcliffe - University of Maryland
• Tristan M. Hightower - University of Maryland
• Nicholas Miras - University of Maryland
• SoRelle Wyckoff - University of Maryland