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Professor Emeritus of Political Science in Arts & Sciences
Expertise: American politics, interest groups, religion and politics, voting behavior, political participation
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Salisbury, the author of many books on urban government, is an expert on how lobbyists and interest groups work inside The Beltway. He studies how the Washington community of lawyers, congressional staffs, and interest groups interact to make national policy. He has written on how the electoral process and campaigning have been influenced by (and are contributing to) the decline in civic responsibility and sense of community in America. He notes that politics have become increasingly partisan as opposing factions square off along party lines and refuse to make trade-offs. He has served as consultant to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the U.S. Office of Education and the National Institutes of Health.
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Education:
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Ph.D. at University of Illinois
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M.A. at University of Illinois
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A.B. at Washington and Lee University

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Missouri mood bodes well for Bush
National Post (Canada)
and 3 others

Sept. 20,
2004 -- Robert Salisbury, professor emeritus of political science in Arts & Sciences, and Jim Davis, professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, comment on the status of the presidential race in Missouri.

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Additional Background:
Academic Career:
- Instructor to Professor, Washington University, 1955 - 1996, retired; Chairman, Department of Political Science, 1966 - 1973; 1986 - 1992.
- Sidney W. Souers Professor of American Government,1982-1996
- Director, Center for the Study of Public Affairs, 1974-1976;
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1990.
- Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1990.
PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
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State Politics and the Public Schools, with Masters and Eliot, Knopf, 1964.
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Citizen Participation in the Public Schools, Lexington Books, 1980.
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Interests and Institutions: Substance and Structure in American Politics, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.
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The Hollow Core: Private Interests in National Policy Making, with Heinz, Laumann, and Nelson, Harvard University Press, 1993.
Contributions to Books:
- "The Politics of Education", in Politics in the American States, Jacob and Vines, eds., Little, Brown, 1965, 1971.
- "The Analysis of Public Policy: Search for Theory and Roles," in Political Science and Public Policy, Ranney, ed., Markham, 1968.
- "A Theory of Policy Analysis and Some Preliminary Applications," with Heinz, in Sharkansky, ed., Policy Analysis in Political Science, Markham, 1970.
- "Organized Spokesmen for Cities: Urban Interest Groups," with Browne, in Hahn, ed., People and Politics in Urban Society, Volume 6 of Urban Affairs Annual Review, Sage, 1972.
- "Interest Groups," in Greenstein and Polsby, eds., Handbook of Political Science, Volume IV, Addison-Wesley, 1975.
- "Why No Corporatism in America," in Schmitter and Lehmbruch, eds., Trends Toward Corporatist Intermediation, Sage, 1979.
- "Toward a New Understanding of Interest Groups," in Allan Cigler and Burdette Loomis, eds., The Changing Nature of Interest Group Politics, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1983.
- "Washington Lobbyists: A Collective Portrait," in Cigler and Loomis, eds., Interest Group Politics, 2nd ed., Congressional Quarterly Press, 1986.
- "The Paradox of Interest Groups in Washington, D.C.: More Groups and Less Clout," in Anthony King, ed., The New American Political System, 2nd ed., AEI, 1990.
- "Putting Interests Back Into Interest Groups," in Allan Cigler and Burdette Loomis,eds., Interest Group Politics, 3rd. ed. CQ Press, 1990.
- "Organizations in Political Action: Representing Interests in National Policy Making," with Laumann, Heinz, and Nelson, in Bernd Marin and Renate Mayntz, eds. Policy Networks, Campus Verlag/Westview Press, 1991.
- "Triangles, Networks, and Hollow Cores: The Complex Geometry of Washington Interest Representation," with Heinz, Nelson, and Laumann, in Mark P. Petracca, ed. The Politics of Interests: Interest Groups Transformed, Westview Press, 1991.
- "The Social Organization of the Washington Establishment During the First Reagan Administration, A Network Analysis," with Laumann, Tam, Heinz, and Nelson, in Research in Politics and Society, Vol. 4, JAI Press, 1992, pp. 161-188.
- "Parties and Pluralism," in American Political Parties., Eric Uslaner, ed., F.E. Peacock Publishers, 1993.
- "Interest Structures and Policy Domains: A Focus for Research," in William Crotty, Mildred Schwartz, and John Green, eds.,Representing Interests and Interest Group Representation, University Press of America, 1994.
- "Democracy and Pluralism: The American Case," in Adolf Bibic and Gigi Graziano, eds., Civil Society, Political Society, Democracy. Slovenian Political Science Association, 1994.
- "Instrumental Versus Expressive Group Politics: The National Endowment for the Arts." with Conklin in Cigler and Loomis, eds., Interest Group Politics, 5th ed. CQ Press, 1998.
SELECTED ARTICLES
- "St. Louis Politics: Relationships Among Interests, Parties and Governmental Structure," Western Political Quarterly, Vol. XIII (June, 1960), pp 498-507.
- "The Dynamics of Reform: Charter Politics in St. Louis," Midwest Journal of Political Science, Vol. V (August, 1961), pp 260-275.
- "Class and Party in Partisan and Nonpartisan Elections: The Case of Des Moines," with Black, American Political Science Review, Vol. LVII (September, 1963), pp 584-593.
- "Urban Politics: The New Convergence of Power," Journal of Politics, Vol. 26 (November, 1964), pp 775-797.
- "The Urban Party Organization Member," Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. XXIX (Winter, 1965-66), pp 550-565.
- "Schools and Politics in the Big City," Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 37 (Summer, 1967), pp 408-424.
- "An Exchange Theory of Interest Groups," Midwest Journal of Political Science, Vol. XIII (February, 1969), pp 1-32.
- "Research on Political Participation," American Journal of Political Science, Vol. XIX (May, 1975), pp 323-341.
- "Modes of Participation and Policy Impact in American Education," International Journal of Political Education, Vol. 2 (1979), pp 297-310.
- "On the Study of Party Realignment," with MacKuen, Journal of Politics, Vol. 43 (May, 1981), pp 523-530.
- "Congressional Staff Turnover and the Ties-That-Bind," with Shepsle, American Political Science Review, Vol. 75 (June, 1981), pp 381-396.
- "Congressman as Enterprise," with Shepsle, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. VI (November, 1981), pp 559-576.
- "Interest Representation: The Dominance of Institutions," American Political Science Review, Vol. 78 (March, 1984), pp 64-76.
- "Private Representation in Washington: Surveying the Structure of Influence," with Nelson, Heinz and Laumann, American Bar Foundation Journal, (Winter, 1987), pp 141-200.
- "Who Works With Whom? Patterns of Interest Group Alliance and Opposition," with Heinz, Laumann and Nelson, American Political Science Review, Vol. 81 (December, 1987), pp 1217-1235
- "Lawyers and the Structure of Influence in Washington," with Nelson, Heinz and Laumann, Law and Society Review Vol. 22 (1988).pp. 237-300.
- "Political Movements in American Politics: An Essay on Concept and Analysis," National Political Science Review (1989), pp. 15-31.
- "Organized Sports and Urban Life," Urban Affairs Quarterly Vol. 24 (December, 1988), pp. 327-332.
- "Who You Know v. What You Know," with Johnson, Heinz, Laumann and Nelson, American Journal of Political Science (February, 1989), pp. 175-195.
- "Inner Circles or Hollow Cores? Elite networks in National Policy Systems," with Heinz, Laumann, and Nelson, Journal of Politics, Vol. 52 (1990), pp. 356-391.
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