E. Scott Adler is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His current research uses theoretical models of legislative organization to examine congressional agenda setting and committee power. He is author Why Congressional Reforms Fail: Reelection and the House Committee System (University of Chicago Press, 2002), which was awarded the Alan Rosenthal Prize from the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association. He is also co-editor of The Macropolitics of Congress (Princeton University Press, 2006). He has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review. Adler is co-PI of the Congressional Bills Project which has compiled and coded data on all bills introduced in Congress since World War II. In 2006-07, Adler was Visiting Professor at the Center for the Study of American Politics and Department of Political Science, Yale University. He received a BA from the University of Michigan in 1988 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1996.

COURSES:
PSCI 1101: American Political System
PSCI 3041: The American Congress
PSCI 3021: Campaigns and Elections
PSCI 7051: The United States Congress

Books

E. Scott Adler and John Lapinski, eds. The Macropolitics of Congress. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2006).

E. Scott Adler. Why Congressional Reforms Fail: Reelection and the House Committee System. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2002). Chapter 8 reprinted in American Politics Online Reader, W.W. Norton (2008).

Articles

E. Scott Adler and John Wilkerson. "Intended Consequences: Jurisdictional Reform and Issue Control in the U.S. House of Representatives." 2008 Legislative Studies Quarterly 33: 85-112.