Professor Eric Schickler
Political Science, UC Berekeley
“Investigating the President: Congress and Trump in Historical Perspective”
May 23, 2019
6:00 Networking; 6:30 Dinner
($28 members; $33 nonmembers)
7:00 Program
Crow Canyon Country Club
711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville
Please RSVP president@srvdems.org
The San Ramon Valley Democratic Club is very much looking forward to Dr. Schickler’s talk on one of the most timely, pertinent, and far-reaching issues of our times – the Congressional Hearings. As the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees’s subpoenas have been stonewalled, the leaders of these Committees contemplate fines and prison time. We look forward to learning about the history of such hearings, how they work, and their potential outcomes.
Eric Schickler is Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of three books which have won the Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative politics: Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress (2001), Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the United States Senate (2006, with Gregory Wawro), and Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (2016, with Douglas Kriner; also winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Prize for the best book on executive politics).
His book, Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965, was the winner of the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book on government, politics or international affairs published in 2016, and is co-winner of the J. David Greenstone Prize for the best book in history and politics from the previous two calendar years. He is also the co-author of Partisan Hearts and Minds, which was published in 2002.
He has authored or co-authored articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Polity, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Social Science History. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of American politics, the U.S. Congress, rational choice theory, American political development, and public opinion.
Schickler received his B.A.from New College of the University of South Florida, his M.A. along with his M.Phil. and his Ph.D. from Yale University.
Please join us at 6:00 pm to talk about the latest political news or to just socialize and have fun.
We have dinner meetings.
Members: $28
Non-members: $33,
Please email Brodie that you are coming by Thursday, May 16 (we need a ‘head count’ for the dinner). Thank you for your help.
RSVP: To make certain you have a dinner, please RSVP.
Please make checks payable to Brodie Hilp, and send to 130 Bridgeside Circle, Danville, 94506.