Steven S. Smith (born July 8, 1953) is the Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, and Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. For many years, he was the Director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, He served on the faculties of

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, and the

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and was a senior fellow at the

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. Smith is one of the leading scholars of legislative institutions and congressional politics. He served as editor of '' Legislative Studies Quarterly'' and chaired the Legislative Studies Section of the

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. Smith's popular "Steve's Notes on Congressional Politics" provides short background essays on important feature of congressional policy making. Smith has authored or edited many books on U.S. congressional politics and

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, including a 2014 book, ''The Senate Syndrome.'' Smith's books include ''The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedure Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate'' (Univ of Oklahoma Press), ''Party Influence in Congress'' (Cambridge), ''Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate'' (Brookings), ''Politics or Principle:

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ing in the United States Senate'' (Brookings), with Sarah Binder, ''The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the

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'' (Princeton), with Thomas Remington, and ''Politics Over Process: Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress'' (University of Michigan Press), with Hong Min Park and Ryan J. Vander Wielen. Smith's textbook on congressional politics, ''The American Congress'', is in its tenth edition; the later editions were coauthored with Jason Roberts and Ryan Vander Wielen. Smith edited popular readers for

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: ''The Principles and Practices of American Politics'' (

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), seven editions with Samuel Kernell, and ''The American Congress Reader'' (Cambridge), with Roberts and Vander Wielen. Smith's edited volume, ''Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process'', with Melanie Jane Springer, was published by Brookings in 2009.

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