Professor of Political Science. Professor Stewart specializes in the fields of American politics, political institutions, and elections. His research and teaching interests have focused on congressional politics and history, budgetary politics, the separation of powers, electoral politics, and election technologies and practices, and research methods. His research on the roots of the congressional budgetary process has resulted in the book Budget Reform Politics: The Design of the Appropriations Process in the House, 1865-1921 (Cambridge University Press, 1989). His research on budgetary politics, congressional elections, the history of Congress, and the separation of powers has also appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Studies in American Political Development, and numerous edited volumes. Professor Stewart's current research concentrates on three areas: the history and development of congressional committees, the development of political careerism in the United States, and the transformation of American national politics in the decades following the Civil War. His text, Analyzing Congress, is an introduction to the study of the U.S. Congress from a rational choice perspective. His four-volume Committees in the United States Congress, 1879-1946 [ http://www.cqpress.com/product/Committees-in-the-US-Congress-1789-1946.html ] (with David Canon and Garrison Nelson) is a comprehensive account of the committee system in Congress from its founding to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. He is currently putting the finishing touches on Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government, with Jeffery A. Jenkins, and co-PI (with Wendy Schiller) on the U.S. Senate Database, 1871-1913 project [ http://senate.jot.com/WikiHome]
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