Affiliated Faculty

E. Scott Adler (PhD, Columbia University)

(303) 492-6659
e-mail: esadler@colorado.edu

Scott Adler joined the political science department at University of Colorado in 1996. He received a Bachelors from the University of Michigan in 1988 and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1996.

Current research revolves around the data collected as part of the
Congressional Bills Project. This nearly completed project encompasses
a comprehensive database of information on all bills introduced in
Congress since 1947. Recent papers include an examination of the
effect of program reauthorization on legislative bill activity, a
study of the use of “institutional efficiency” as a decisive factor in
the determination of congressional committee jurisdictions, and a
study that offers a new theory of congressional committees as “policy
caretakers.”

New publications include a forthcoming edited volume (with John
Lapinski, Yale University), titled The Macropolitics of Congress
(Princeton University Press). Previously, Adler wrote, Why
Congressional Reforms Fail: Reelections and the House Committee System (University of Chicago Press, 2002). This book was the winner of 2003 Alan Rosenthal Prize from the Legislative Studies Section of the
American Political Science Association.

For more information, visit his website.