Doing Archival Research in Political Science By Scott A. Frisch, ...

of Pork: A Study of Congressional Appropriations Earmarks and a coauthor with Sean Q Kelly of Committee Assignment Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press), Jimmy Carter and the Water Wars: Presidential Influence and the Politics of Pork (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press), and Cheese Factories on the Moon: Why Earmarks Are Good for American Democracy (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers).

Douglas B. Harris is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University, Maryland, and holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. His research on Congress, political parties, and media politics includes articles in Political Science Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, P.S.: Political Science & Politics, The New England Journal of Political Science, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. His archival research in the papers of numerous congressional leaders (including every Speaker of the House from John McCormack to Newt Gingrich) is featured in articles in Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Politics Research, The Historian, and Congress & the Presidency as well as in chapters in Winning with Words: The Origins & Impact of Political Framing (New York: Routledge) and An American Political Archives Reader (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press). Along with three colleagues, Dr. Harris is a coauthor of The Austin-Boston Connection: Fifty Years of House Democratic Leadership (College Station: Texas A&M University Press), which made use of dozens of archival collections spanning twentieth-century congressional history.

Sean Q Kelly is a professor of political science at California State University Channel Islands. He received his PhD from the University of Colorado. Professor Kelly is a former American Political Science Association congressional fellow (1993–1994) and is a coauthor of three books with Scott Frisch, most recently Cheese Factories on the Moon: Why Earmarks are Good for American Democracy (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers) and Jimmy Carter and the Water Wars: Presidential Influence and the Politics of Pork (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press). He is currently