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Frances E. Lee

Frances E. Lee, an American political scientist, is currently a professor of politics and public affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.[1] She previously taught at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Maryland, College Park.[2][3] Lee specializes in American politics focusing on the U.S. Congress.[4] From 2014 to 2019, Lee was co-editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly[5] and is the first editor of Cambridge University Press's American Politics Elements Series.[6] Her 2009 book Beyond Ideology has been cited over 600 times in the political science literature.[7] Lee is also a co-author of the seminal textbook Congress and Its Members, currently in its eighteenth edition.[8]

For the American silent era film actress, see Frances Lee.

Frances E. Lee

Author, professor

American

University of Southern Mississippi (B.A.)
Vanderbilt University (PhD)

Political Science

Lee graduated with honors from the University of Southern Mississippi with a B.A. in English in 1991. In 1997, she completed her PhD in political science at Vanderbilt University. Her doctoral dissertation, "The enduring consequences of the Great Compromise: Senate apportionment and congressional policymaking," was supervised by Bruce I. Oppenheimer.[9]

E. E. Schattschneider Award from the (1997)[10]

American Political Science Association

from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation (1999 and 2009)

D.B. Hardeman Prize

Richard F. Fenno Award from the American Political Science Association (2009)

[4]

Member of the , elected 2019[11]

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Gladys M. Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association (2021) (with James M. Curry)

[12]

Frances E. Lee and Bruce I. Oppenheimer. 1999. : The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sizing Up the Senate

Frances E. Lee. 2009. Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

and Frances E. Lee, eds. 2011. The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress. New York: Oxford University Press. Selected by Choice, the American Library Association's reviews publication, as one of its top 25 outstanding academic titles for 2012. Part of the Oxford Handbooks of Political Science series

Eric Schickler

Frances E. Lee 2016. Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Frances E. Lee and , eds. 2019. Can America Govern Itself? New York: Cambridge University Press.

Nolan McCarty

James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee. 2020. The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Frances E. Lee, Eric Schickler, and James M. Curry. 2021. Congress and Its Members, 18th ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Interview with of Vox Media about gridlock.[13]

Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein Show, "Why bipartisanship is irrational."

[14]

Interview on discussing majoritarian rule in the Senate.

C-SPAN

Frances E. Lee. "Repeal-and-Replace Is Probably Doomed. Congress Rarely Works Along Party Lines," The Washington Post, July 21, 2017.

[15]

James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee. "A Senate Majority is Overrated. (We Checked.)," The New York Times, November 18, 2020.

[16]

Frances E. Lee and James M. Curry. "What’s Really Holding the Democrats Back," The Atlantic, April 23, 2021.

[17]

James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee. "There’s a Curse in Washington, and the Party in Control Can’t Seem to Shake It," The New York Times, October 13, 2021.

[18]

Interview on New Books in Political Science Podcast, October 6, 2021.

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"Frances E. Lee Princeton webpage"

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"Frances E. Lee | the Federalist Society"

Washington Monthly

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Frances E. Lee