Keith Hamm is an American political scientist and Edwards Professor of political science at Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

. He's an expert on state legislatures. His research focuses on legislative behavior, campaign finance

Campaign finance

Campaign finance refers to all funds that are raised and spent in order to promote candidates, parties or policies in some sort of electoral contest. In modern democracies such funds are not necessarily devoted to election campaigns. Issue campaigns in referendums, party activities and party...

, interest groups

Advocacy group

Advocacy groups use various forms of advocacy to influence public opinion and/or policy; they have played and continue to play an important part in the development of political and social systems...

, state politics and urban politics

Urban politics

Urban politics is politics in and about cities. This term refers to the diverse political structure that occurs in urban areas where there is diversity in both race and socio-economic status. Urban politics is political science that falls into the field of urban studies, which incorporates many...

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Keith graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1969 and obtained his master and doctoral degrees from Florida Atlantic University

Florida Atlantic University

Florida Atlantic University, also referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a public, coeducational, research university located in , United States. The university has six satellite campuses located in the Florida cities of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Port St. Lucie, and in Fort...

 in 1973 and from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1977.

Editorial Boards

• Co-Editor, Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1997-2002
• Editor, APSA
  American Political Science Association
  The American Political Science Association is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903, it publishes three academic journals...
  
   Legislative Studies Section Newsletter, 1991-1997

Books and chapters

• 101 Chambers: Congress, State Legislatures, and the Future of Legislative Studies" (with Peverill Squire), Ohio University Press, 2005.
• "Legislative Politics in the States"(with Gary Moncrief), Politics in the American States 9th Edition (2007):154-191.
• "Legislative Lobbying: Placing Research on Legislative Lobbying in a Comparative Context." (with Robert E. Hogan), Research Guide to U.S. and International Interest Groups(2004):167-175.
• "Legislative Politics in the States" (with Moncrief, G.), Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis, Eighth Edition (2004):157-193.
• "Legislative Lobbying" (with Roberrt Hogan), Handbook of Political Literature and Research on Interest Groups
• "Legislative Politics in the States" (with Gary Moncrief), Politics in the American States (1999):144-190.
• "Committees in State Legislatures",(with Ronald D. Hedlund)The Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System pp. 669–700, edited by Joel J. Silbey, et al.; (Scribner's, 1994)

Articles

• “Structuring Committee Decision Making: Rules and Procedures in U.S. State Houses and Senates”, Journal of Legislative Studies. 7 (Summer 2001): 13-34. With Ronald Hedlund and Nancy Martorano.
• "A Transforming South: Exploring Patterns of State House Seat Contestation”, The American Review of Politics 21 (2000 Spring): 201-224. With Nancy Martorano and R. Bruce Anderson. 1996-1999
• “Political Parties as Vehicles for Organizing U.S. State Legislative Committees”, Legislative Studies Quarterly, (August 1996): 383-408. With Ronald D. Hedlund.
• “Legislative Politics and the Paradox of Voting; Electoral Reform in Fourth Republic France”, British Journal of Political Science, (April 1996): 165-198. With Eric Browne.
• “Explaining State Aid Allocations: Targeting Within Universalism”, Social Science Quarterly; (September 1994): 524-540; with Robert M. Stein.
• “The Impact of Lobbying Laws and Their Enforcement: A Contrasting View” Social Science Quarterly, (June 1994): 378-381; with A. R. Weber and R. B. Anderson.
• "Legislative Party Development and the Speaker System", Journal of Politics; (November 1993): 1140-1151, with Robert Harmel.
• "Interest Group and Party Influence in the Legislative Process", Journal of Politics, (February 1992): 82-100; with C. Wiggins and C. Bell.
• "Accounting for Change in the Number of Committee Positions", Legislative Studies Quarterly, (May, 1990): 201-226; with R. D. Hedlund.
• "The Role of 'Subgovernments' in U.S. State Policy Making: An Exploratory Analysis", Legislative Studies Quarterly (August 1986): 321-351.
• "Ethnic and Partisan Minorities in Two Southern State Legislatures", Legislative Studies Quarterly (May 1983): 177-189; with R. Harmel and R. J. Thompson.
• "Consistency Between Committee and Floor Voting in U.S. State Legislatures", Legislative Studies Quarterly (November 1982): 473-490.
• "Effects of Structural Change in Legislative Committee Systems on Their Performance in U.S. States", Legislative Studies Quarterly (August 1982): 383-399; with G. Moncrief.
• "Impacts of Districting Change on Voting Cohesion and Representation," Journal of Politics (May 1981): 544-555; with R. Harmel and R. J. Thompson.
• "Factors Influencing the Adoption of New Methods of Legislative Oversight in the U.S. States", Legislative Studies Quarterly (February 1981): 133-150; with R. D. Robertson.

Awards & grants

• Fulbright Chair in North American Studies, Carleton University
  Carleton University
  Carleton University is a comprehensive university located in the capital of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. The enabling legislation is The Carleton University Act, 1952, S.O. 1952. Founded as a small college in 1942, Carleton now offers over 65 programs in a diverse range of disciplines. Carleton has...
  
   (Ottawa, Canada), 2006.
• “The Impact of Election Finance Laws: Preliminary Results from the Canadian Provinces.” Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada, 2005.
• “Testing the Effects of Campaign Finance Laws on State Legislative Elections” (Co-PI: Robert Louisiana State University), National Science Foundation
  National Science Foundation
  The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
  
  , 2002-2004.
• “The Evolution of Specialization and Its Effects on Performance: Model Testing for American State Legislative Committees in the Twentieth Century.”, National Science Foundation
  National Science Foundation
  The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
  
  , 1995-2000.
• “A Proposal to Collect, Analyze and Disseminate State Legislative Campaign Finance Data” (with Joel Thompson, Gary Moncrief, David Breaux and Anthony Geirzynski.), National Science Foundation
  National Science Foundation
  The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
  
  , 1998.

External links

• Homepage at Rice University