Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy

Director, Kate M. Gregg Professor of Social Sciences: Steve S. Smith Associate Director: Paul Rothstein

Home Page: http://wc.wustl.edu/ Location: 300 Elliot Hall Telephone: (314) 935-5630

The Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis supports scholarly research, public affairs programs, and other activities in the fields of economics, government, and public policy. The Center works closely with the Department of Economics, the Department of Political Science, and other academic units of the University. The Center was created in 1975 as the Center for the Study of American Business under the direction of Murray Weidenbaum. The Center was named in honor of Professor Weidenbaum in 2001. The Center serves as a bridge between scholarship and policy makers. The Center supports research conducted by University faculty, sponsors scholarly workshops, and maintains a website to support these activities. Public affairs programs are sponsored by the Weidenbaum Center Forum. Forum programs are recorded and made available online. The Center's director is Professor Steven S. Smith.

News Stories & Tip Sheets:

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Is this any way to elect a president? Iowa's special role in primaries may end in 2008, expert suggests Jan. 3, 2008 -- Steven Smith Today's Iowa Caucuses may be the last in which the largely rural, sparsely populated and predominately white conservative Midwestern state exerts such a huge influence on the presidential nomination process, predicts Steven S. Smith, a political expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

Lessons from 1918? St. Louis response to deadly bird flu pandemic is focus of public forum, Nov. 9 Oct. 19, 2007 -- "An Impending Influenza Pandemic? What has been learned from 1918" is the focus of a St. Louis community forum from 7:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Nov. 9 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom, Anheuser-Busch Hall, Washington University in St. Louis.

Politics of privilege Bush power struggle with Congress poses messy constitutional, political issues, expert says July 27, 2007 -- Steven Smith By claiming far-reaching and unprecedented executive privilege in its power struggles with the U.S. Congress, the Bush White House has roiled the political waters, forcing both Democrats and Republicans to weigh near-term political consequences of their response against a real and tangible threat to the long-term constitutional powers of Congress, suggests a congressional expert from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Faculty Experts:

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Murray Weidenbaum Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor Weidenbaum Download Weidenbaum is honorary chairman of the Weidenbaum Center and Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor at Washington University. He is known for his research on economic policy, taxes, government spending, and regulation. In 1981-82, he served as President Reagan's first Chairman of the Council ... Expertise: economy, government, public policy, President Reagan, Federal Trade Deficit Review Commission, economic policy, taxes, … Direct contact: (314) 935-5662 / moseley@wustl.edu

Steven Smith Kate M. Gregg Professor of Social Sciences, Director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy Steven Smith Download Steven S. Smith is director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University. He has authored or coauthored six books on congressional politics and recently a book on the formation of the Russian State Duma. He is working on books on party leadership in ... Expertise: Congress, American politics, legislative institutions Direct contact: (314) 935-5697 / smith@wc.wustl.edu

James Gibson Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts & Sciences James Gibson Download Gibson has research interests comparative politics (especially processes of democratization), American politics (including political parties, public opinion, and especially courts and legal processes), and all areas of quantitative research methods (especially survey research). He currently is working ... Expertise: judicial politics, democratization, political psychology, political tolerance, survey research, quantitative research methods, Russian politics, … Direct contact: (314) 935-5897 / jgibson@artsci.wustl.edu

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George W. Bush: The bygone American The Globe and Mail (Canada) March 31, 2008 -- All presidents in the final year of a final term are lame ducks, but the media now is mostly ignoring Bush and focusing more on the battling candidates. WUSTL economics professor Murray Weidenbaum comments.

LUNCHTIME LIVE! Today: Q & A with political analyst Steve Smith KARE 11 News (MN) Feb. 5, 2008 -- Steve Smith answers questions on the Minnesota caucuses for KARE 11, LUNCHTIME LIVE!. Smith is the director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

The High-Court Battle That Never Was Wall Street Journal Jan. 18, 2006 -- The only step left in the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito looks to be the vote, raising the question of what happened to the much anticipated struggle over high-court nominees. Foremost among a number of forces that drained some electricity from the fight was a bipartisan agreement among a group of 14 mostly centrist senators. That changed the dynamic of judicial debates, moving the Senate decisively away from a confrontation over judicial selections such as the one that paralyzed the chamber in the spring of 2005. WUSTL political science professor Steven Smith comments.

Research supported by the Center includes:

• Judicial Strategy and Preferences -- Professors Lee Epstein and Andrew Martin
• The Legitimacy of American Political Institutions -- Professors James Gibson and Lester Spence
• New Democracies, Institutions, and Party Systems -- Professors Mikhail Filippov and Olga Shvetsova
• The Reproductive Rights of Women in U.S. Jails and Prisons -- Professor Rachel Roth
• The Politics of Multi-Party Systems -- Professors Itai Sened and Norman Schofield
• Women in Parliaments and the Rise of Gender Quota Laws -- Professor Lisa Baldez
• Globalization and International Financial Markets -- Professor Andrew Sobel
• Trust in Principal-Agent Negotiations -- Professors William Bottom and Gary Miller
• Political Parties in Latin America; Comparative Legislative Parties -- Professor John Carey
• Trends in Congressional Policy Making, Professors -- Randall Calvert and Steven Smith
• The Organization of the State in China: Copyright and Patent Enforcement, Professor Andrew Mertha