Education

A.B., Stanford University, 1963

PhD., University of Chicago, 1972

Selected Publications

Books:

Corporate Power and Social Change: The Politics of the Life Insurance Industry, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974 (paperback, 1976)

Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States, Cambridge University Press, 1991

The Search for American Political Development (with Stephen Skowronek), Cambridge University Press, 2004

The Policy State: An American Predicament, (with Stephen Skowronek), Harvard University Press, 2017

 

Edited Book:

The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution (with John Compton), Cambridge University Press, 2018

 

Articles:

“Presidential Assassination: A Case Study in the Dynamics of Political Socialization,” (with Paul E. Peterson,) Journal of Politics, May, 1967, 388‑404

“Standing to Sue: Interest Group Conflict in the Federal Courts,” American Political Science Review, Dec., 1976,   723‑741

“Corporate Power and the Slums: Is Big Business a Paper Tiger?” in Michael Lipsky, ed., Theoretical Perspectives on Urban Politics, Prentice Hall, 1976, 45-66

“The Insurance Industry and the Other Consumer,” in Robert Katz, ed. Protecting Consumer Interest, Ballinger, 1976, 233-246

“Liberalism, Money, and the Situation of Organized Labor,” in David Greenstone, ed. Public Values and Private Power in American Politics, University of Chicago Press, 1982, 173‑206

“Judicial Whipsaw: Interest Conflict, Corporate Business and the Seventh Amendment,” Polity, Fall, 1985, 70‑97

“Union Politics and Post‑War Liberalism in the United States, 1946-1979” Studies in American Political Development,1986, 215‑254

“Organized Labor and the Invention of American Liberalism,” Studies in American Political Development, 1987, 317‑336

“Metaphysics and Reality in Late Nineteenth Century Labor Adjudication,” in Christopher Tomlins and Andrew J. King, eds. Labor Law in America: Critical and Historical Perspectives, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, 160‑79

“Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a New Institutionalism,” (with Stephen Skowronek) in Lawrence Dodd and Calvin Jillson, eds. The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Perspectives, Westview Press, 1993, 311‑30. Essentially the same article appears under the title, “Order and Time in Institutional Study: A Brief for the Historical Approach,” in Political Science in History: Research Programs and Political Traditions, eds. James Farr, John S. Drysek, and Stephen T. Leonard, Cambridge University Press, 1995

“Labor Regulation and Constitutional Theory in the United States and England,” Political Theory, Spring, 1994

“Institutions, Influences, and Antinomies: Reply to Professor Fisk,” 19 Law and Social Inquiry (1994) 187‑194

“The Work of Government: Recovering the Discourse of Office  in Marbury v. Madison,” 8 Studies in American Political  Development (1994), 60‑80

“The Primacy of Labor in American Constitutional Development,” 89 American Political Science Review (1995) 377-88

“Institutions and Intercurrence: Theory‑Building in the Fullness of Time,” (with Stephen Skowronek), in Russell  Hardin and Ian Shapiro, eds., 38 Nomos: Political Order, 1995. (Replies by Fiorina, Burnham; rejoinder, Orren and Skowronek)

“Institutions and Ideas,” Symposium on History and Political Institutions, Polity, 1995

“The Belly and the Members: An Historical‑Institutionalist Perspective on the Pullman Strike,” Studies in Law, Society, and Politics, 1996

“Structure, Sequence, and Subordination: What’s Traditions Got To Do With It?;” and Reply to Rogers Smith, Journal of Policy History, Fall, 1996

“The Union Officer Before and After the Wagner Act,” Industrial Relations Research Association, Proceedings, IRRA, Dialogues, May, 1996

“‘A War Between Officers’: The Enforcement of the Law of Slavery in the Northern United States, and of the Republic for Which it Stands, Before the Civil War,”

Studies in American Political Development, Spring, 1998

“Regimes and Regime Building: Some Lessons from the 1940s,” with Stephen Skowronek, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 113, Winter 1998-99

“In Search of Political Development,” with Stephen Skowronek, in American Political Development: Unitary, Conflicting or Multiple Traditions? eds. D. Ericson and Greene, Routledge, 1999

“The Law of Master-and-Servant and Constitutional Rights in the United States during the Nineteenth Century” in Private Law in Industrializing Societies, ed. Wilibald Steinmetz, Oxford University Press, 2000, 313-334

“Benjamin Harrison,” in Alan Brinkley, ed. Readers’ Companion to the American Presidency, Houghton Mifflin, 2000, 269-275

“Officers’ Rights: Toward a Unified Field Theory of American Constitutional Development,” 4 Law and Society Review,2000, 873-909

“Feudalism and the Constitution,” entry in The Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution, eds. Kenneth Karst, Leonard Levy, and Adam Winkler, Macmillan, 2001

“Constitutional Development in the United States and Argentina,” in Multiple Modernities: Comparative Perspectives on the Americas, eds. Luis Roniger and Carlos Waisman, eds. Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2002

“Contempt,” entry in The Encyclopedia of American Law, ed. David A. Schultz, New York, Facts on File, Inc. 2002

“American Political Development: Premises Unraveled, Inquiries Redirected,” (with Stephen Skowronek) in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, The State of the Discipline, 2000, Norton and APSA, 2002

“Early American Local Government,” Encylopedia of The New American Nation, 1740-1820, ed. Paul Finkelman, Scribners and Sons, forthcoming 2005

“The Laws of Industrial Organization, 1870-1920,” Cambridge History of Law in America, Vol. 2, Michael Grossberg and Christopher Tomlins, eds., 2008

“What is Political Development: A Constitutional Perspective.” Review of Politics 72: (2011): 275-294. (with Stephen Skowronek) “Doing Time: A Theory of the Constitution,” Studies in American PoliticalDevelopment 26: (2012), 71-82

“Cold Case File: Indictable Acts and Officer Accountability in Marbury v. Madison,” American Political Science Review 107 (2013)., 241-258 (with Chris Walker)

“Political Theory in Institutional Context: The Case of Patriot Royalism,” American Political Thought 3 (2014), pp. 1-31 (with John Compton)

“Constitutional, Civil, Criminal, ” The Review of Politics 76 (2015), 635–65

“Pathways to the Present: Political Development in America,” Oxford Handbook of American Political Development, eds. Robert Lieberman and Susanne Mettler, Oxford University Press, 2016

“Rights as Process: A View from the Progressive Century,” in Stephen Engel and Stephen Skowronek, eds., The Progressive Century, Yale University Press, 2016

“The Adaptability Paradox: Constitutional Resilience and Good Government in Twenty-First Century America,” Perspectives on Politics, June, 2020. (with Stephen Skowronek)