Robin Kolodny

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Education

The Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. in Political Science May 1992 Master of Arts, Political Science May 1989 The University of Michigan Certificate in Quantitative Methods, ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political Research) August 1987 Florida International University (The State University of Florida at Miami) Bachelor of Arts in Political Science December 1985
Positions Held
Associate Professor of Political Science (with tenure), Temple University, 1999- Fellow, American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellowship 1995 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Temple University, 1992-99 Instructor, Temple University, 1991-92 OTHER POSITIONS HELD President, National Capital Area Political Science Association (NCAPSA), 2000-01 Advisory Board Member, Campaign Finance Institute at George Washington University, 2000- Research Fellow, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University, 2000-2002

Editorial Board Member, Party Politics Editorial Board Member, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

Reviews and Other Publications

“Where Have All the POP Panels Gone?” VOX POP: Newsletter of Political Organizations and Parties, Volume 25, Issue 2, Fall 2006, pp. 1, 4, 5. Remarks from email forum on Campaign Finance and the Courts. American Bar Association’s Focus on Law Studies, May 2006. Remarks “Political Parties’ Likely Response to the Constitutional Challenges to BCRA,” Journal of Constitutional Law (University of Pennsylvania), Volume 6, Number 1, September 2003, 132-138. Review of Pippa Norris’s Democratic Phoenix: Reinventing Political Activism for International Politics, December 2003. Review of David R. Mayhew’s Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre, for Perspectives on Politics, Volume 1, Number 4, December 2003, 788. Review of Gerald C. Lubenow’s A User’s Guide to Campaign Finance Reform in Political Studies Review (LSE). Available online at www.psa.ac.uk. Review of J.P. Monroe’s The Political Party Matrix: The Persistence of Organization in Party Politics 8 (2002) pp. 738-40. Review of Dean McSweeney and John E. Owens’ The Republican Takeover of Congress in The Journal of Legislative Studies. Volume 6, Number 3, Autumn 2000, 122-4. Research Report. “Pennsylvania Thirteenth District.” In David B. Magleby, ed. Election Advocacy: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2000 Congressional Elections. A Report of a Grant Funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, David B. Magleby, Principal Investigator, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. With Sandra Suarez and Michael Rodriquez. February 3, 2001, pp. 239-250. “Improving Campaign Conduct: Ethics, Consultants, and Elections,” in VOX POP: Newsletter of Political Organizations and Parties. Volume 18, Issue 3, March 2000, with James Thurber, Candice Nelson, and David Dulio. Review of Kelly D. Patterson’s Political Parties and the Maintenance of Liberal Democracy in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1999. Research Report. “Pennsylvania Thirteenth District.” In David B. Magleby and Marianne Holt, eds. Outside Money: Soft Money & Issue Ads in Competitive 1998 Congressional Elections. A Report of a Grant Funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, David B. Magleby, Principal Investigator, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. With Sandra Suarez and Michael Rodriquez. February 1, 1999, pp. 165-175. Review of David C. King’s Turf Wars: How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction posted on H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 1998, www.h-net.msu.edu. Review of Susan E. Scarrow’s Parties and their Members: Organizing for Victory in Britain and Germany in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September 1998. Review of Christine DeGregorio's Networks of Champions in the American Political Science Review 92 (March 1998) 227-8. Review of John Aldrich's Why Parties? and John J. Coleman's Party Decline in America in Party Politics 4 (1998): 136-8. Review of Nelson Polsby and Aaron Wildavsky's Presidential Elections, 9th edition. Party Politics 3 (1997): 136-138. "Scholar Finds Congressional Archives Rich in Resources," Congress: A Report on Activities of The Dirksen Congressional Center, Fall issue, 1991, pp. 5.