DANIEL PAUL FRANKLIN

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Personal Information

 

Mailing Address: Department of Political Science

                 Georgia State University

                 Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Office Telephone: (404) 651-4849/Fax (404) 651-1434

Home Telephone – (404) 892-4757

E-Mail Address: dfrankli@gsu.edu

Birth Date and Place: 12/19/54; Mt. Vernon, New York

 

 

Academic Interests

 

American Political Institutions - Congress and the Presidency

American Political Thought - Constitutional Development

American Foreign Policy - Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy

 

 

Education

 

1984 - PhD. Government Department, University of Texas, Austin

1979 - M.A. Government Department, University of Texas, Austin

1976 - B.A. University of California, Los Angeles

 

 

University Teaching Experience

 

 

-Studies in the Legislative Process (1986-2003) - Colgate University, Georgia State University

 (Upper Division and in Graduate Seminar - One Semester)

-The American Presidency /Chief Executives (1985-2006) - St. Edwards University, Colgate University,

 Georgia State University  (Upper Division and in Graduate Seminar - One Semester)

-Introduction to American Politics (1985-2005) - Colgate University, Georgia State University

 (Lower Division and Honors Seminar)

-Justice and the Distribution of Goods in America (1989, 1993, 1994, 1999) - Colgate University,

 Georgia State University  (Undergraduate Honors Seminar)

-Politics and Film (1996; 2001) - Georgia State University

 (Upper Division and Honors)

-Introduction to Political Science (1987-1989) - Colgate University

 (Lower Division - One Semester)

-Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy (1986-1994) - Colgate University,

 Georgia State University  (Upper Division and in Graduate Seminar - One Semester)

-American Foreign Policy (1982-1985) - University of Texas, The Colorado College,

 Colegio de Mexico  (Upper Division - One Semester)

-International Relations (1982) - The Colorado College

 (Upper Division - Two Semesters)

 

 

 


 

Honors and Professional Activities

 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Foundation Travel Grant 2006

-Harry S. Truman Presidential Library Foundation Travel Grant 2006

-Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association Copy Fund Grant 2006

-2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Named to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers

-1999 GSU Distinguished Honors Professor Award

-Nominated for the GSU Distinguished Honors Professor Award

 (Five Times) 1994-1997,2001-2002

-1990-1991 American Political Science Association Congressional

 Fellowship (Office of Cong. Larry Smith, Dem. - Fla.; Senator

 Tom Harkin, Dem. - Iowa)

-Recipient of a Colgate University Faculty Development Grant to

 attend the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta

-Recipient of a Colgate University Research Grant to fund ongoing

 research on Presidential Prerogative and the Legislative Veto

-Nominated for the 1983-1984 University Dissertation Award,

 University of Texas, Austin

-LBJ School of Public Affairs Policy Research Institute Grant

 (with Dr. David Prindle) in 1984

-Summer University Fellowship, University of Texas, 1982

-President of the Government Department, Graduate Student

 Organization, 1982

-Government Department representative to the University Graduate

 Council, 1981.

 

 

University and Community Service

 

-Executive Committee, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University (1991-1992, 1994 – 1996,

 2004 – )

-Chair, Departmental Promotion and Tenure Committee (2003 - )

-Departmental Director of the GSU Presidential Scholars Program (1997- )

-University Senate, Georgia State University (1992 - )

-University Senate Budget Committee, Georgia State University

            Chair, Subcommittee on Revenue Enhancement (1994 - 1995)

            Chair, Subcommittee on State Appropriations (1995 - 1996)

-University Senate – Chair Academic Dishonesty Policy Review Committee (2004 – 2005)

-University Senate Athletics Committee, Georgia State University  (1992 - ); Chair (1995 - 1998)

-University Senate Statutes and Bylaws Committee, Georgia State University (1997 - )

-University Senate Planning Committee, Georgia State University (1992)

-Board Member, Georgia State University Athletics Association Inc. (2002 - )

-Chair, Political Theory Recruitment Committee 1999

-Registered Lobbyist in the Georgia State Legislature representing  the Georgia AAUP,  (1997-1999)

-Executive Committee, GSU College of Arts and Sciences, (1997-1998)

-Paid Consultant, Comer Yates for Congress (Georgia 4th)

 Primary Election, June 1996; General Election, November 1994

-Project Coordinator, "Fiscal Federalism - USIA Funded Visit of Representatives

 from the People's Republic of China, Sponsored by the Policy Research Center,

 Georgia State University, Summer 1996

-Chair, American Politics Recruitment Committee (Two Positions),

 Department of Political Science (1995 - 1996)

-College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, Curriculum Committee (1994 - 1996)

-Chair, Departmental African-American/Public Policy Search Committee, Georgia State University

 (1992-1993)

-Search Committee, Colgate Dean of Faculty/Provost, 1989-1990

-Colgate Athletic Affairs Committee, 1989-1990

-Political Science Department Representative, Colgate Social Science Colloquium, 1988-1990

-Colgate Alumni Corporation Speaker: Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Long Island, Syracuse, Houston, San

 Antonio/Austin, Norfolk/Virginia Beach Alumni Clubs

-Participant in the "Colgate Today Program," 1987-1989

-Participant in the "Colgate Seminar Program," 1989

-1990 Chair of the Village of Hamilton Democratic Party Nominating Committee

-Town of Hamilton Representative to the Madison County (N.Y.) Democratic Committee

-Democratic Mayoral Nominee, Village of Hamilton (N.Y.) 1987

 

Conference Participation

 

-“Lame Duck Presidencies,”  Roundtable Chair, Participant and Organizer, annual meeting of the Southwest Political Science Association, April 13, 2006, San Antonio Texas.

 

-“Term Limits and Budgeting in the States,” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Political Science Association, March 26, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

-“(With Curt Nichols) “Challenge and Response: Revisiting Skowronek’s Presidential Regime Theory,” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 17, 2004, Chicago, Illinois.

 

-“(With Allison Calhoun-Brown) “Legislative Term Limits in the States: Affects on Minority and Gender Representation,” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, January 6 – 8, 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

-“Legislative Term Limits, Professionalism, and Democratization in the American States,”

Presented at the annual meeting of the Georgia Political Science Association,

January 31, 2003, Savannah, Georgia.

 

-“Congressional Career Patterns and the Biological Imperative: The Impact of Lengthening Life Expectancies on Congressional Careers,” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August/September 2002, Boston, Mass.

 

-"Legislative Professionalism and the Delivery of Public Goods: A Comparative View from the States," Presented at the Southwest Social Science Association Convention, March 2002, New Orleans, La.

 

-Panel Chair, “Presidential Administration of Regulatory Agencies,” Southern Political Science Association Convention, November 2000, Atlanta, Georgia

 

-Discussant, “Political Parties and Presidential Success in Congress,” American Political

 Science Association Convention, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia

 

-“Impact of the Clinton Impeachment on the Presidency,” Roundtable Participant at the

 Georgia Political Science Association Annual Meeting, February 1999, Savannah, Georgia

 

-(With Craig S. Gordon) “Expectations and Turnout in U.S. Presidential Elections: A Test

 of the Assumptions of Rational Choice Theory,” Presented at the Southern Political

 Science Association Convention, October 1998, Atlanta, Georgia

 

-Discussant, “Religion and Politics,” Southern Political Science Association Convention,

 October 1998, Atlanta, Georgia

 

-Discussant, “Presidential Power,” American Political Science Association Convention,

 September, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts

 

-(With Craig S. Gordon) APre-election Polls and Turnout in U.S. Presidential Elections,@

 Presented at the Southern Political Science Association Convention, November 1997,

 Norfolk, Virginia

 

-Section Chair, "Congress and Executive Politics," Southwestern Social

 Science Association Convention, March 1997, New Orleans, Louisiana

 

-Panel Chair and Discussant, "Congressional Representation,"

 Southwestern Social Science Convention, March 1997, New Orleans,  Louisiana

 

-(With Eric Grier) "The Effects of Motor Voter Laws on Registration, Turnout,

  and Partisanship," paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association Convention,

  November 1995, Tampa, Florida

 

-"Presidential Leadership," Panel Discussant, Southern Political

  Science Association Convention, November 1994, Atlanta, Georgia

 

-(With Eric Grier) "Motor Voter Legislation: Voter Turnout and

 Partisan Trends in the 1992 Presidential Elections," paper

 presented at the Southwestern Political Science Association


 Convention, March 1994, San Antonio, Texas

 

-"Committee Policy-Making," Panel Discussant, Southwestern

 Political Science Association Convention, March 1994

 

-"Executive-Congressional Relations in the Aftermath of the Cold

 War," Roundtable participant at the American Political Science

 Association Convention, September 1993, Washington D.C.

 

-"Voting Rights and the Second Wave: The Voting Rights Act of

 1965 and Institutionalization in the U.S. House of

 Representatives," paper presented at the Southern Political

 Science Association Convention, Atlanta, November 1992

 

-"Constitutional Structure in an Emerging Azeri Democracy," paper

 presented at a Conference on "Azerbaijan and the World

 Community," Baku, Azerbaijan S.S.R., September 12-18, 1991

 

-(With Robert Shepard) "Analyzing the Bush Foreign Policy," paper

 presented at the American Political Science Association

 Convention, September 1991, Washington D.C.

 

-"The Concept of a Congressional Prerogative," paper presented at

 the American Political Science Association Convention, September

 1990, Chicago, Ill.

 

-Panel Chair, "The Presidency and the Political System," at the

 Northeastern Political Science Association Convention,

 Philadelphia, Pa., November, 1989

 

-"Presidential Prerogative and the Legislative Veto," paper

 presented at the American Political Science Association

 Convention, September 1987, Washington D.C.

 

-"Resource Allocation, Demographics and the Senate Incumbency

 Advantage," paper presented at the Midwestern Political Science

 Association Convention, April 1987, Chicago, Ill.

 

-"War Powers in the Modern Context," paper presented at the

 International Studies Association Convention, March 1985

 

-"Testing Two Purposive Theories of Congressional Behavior,"

 (with Dr. David Prindle) paper presented at the Western

 Political Science Association Convention, June 1985

 

Publications

 

BOOKS

 

Politics and Film: Political Culture and Film in the United States  (Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2006), Pp. 223.

 

(Edited and Co-Authored With Michael Baun) Political Culture and Constitutionalism: A Comparative Approach (Armonk, N.Y.: Comparative Politics Series, M.E. Sharpe Press, 1995), Pp. 246.

 

Making Ends Meet: Congressional Budgeting in the Age of Deficits (Washington, D.C.:  Congresional Quarterly Press, October 1992), Pp. 254.

 

Extraordinary Measures: The Exercise of Prerogative Powers in the United States (Pittsburgh, Pa.: Policy and Institutional Studies Series, University of Pittsburgh Press, April 1991), Pp. 172.

 

Departure or Debacle: Congressional Resurgence in the Aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate (Unpublished Dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, 1984)

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

 

"Washington and/or Versailles: The White House as a Court Society," in Ryan J. Barilleaux, ed. Presidential Frontiers: Unexplored Issues in White House Politics (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998) pp. 37 - 53.

 

(Coauthor With Matthew R. Kerbel, Norman W. Provizer, and Ricardo Salas) The St. Martin's Guide to the Movies (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996)

 

"Is The President Too Powerful in Foreign Affairs?" (With Rejoinder), in Herb Levine, ed. Point -

Counterpoint, 4th ed. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992) pp. 175 - 183, 190 - 192 (5th Edition, 1994)

pp. 191 - 199.

 

(With Robert Shepard) "Is Prudence a Policy? George Bush and the World," in Ryan Barilleaux and Mary Stuckey, eds., Leadership and the Bush Presidency: Prudence or Drift in an Era of Change (New York: Praeger Series in Presidential Studies, Praeger Press, 1992) pp. 165 - 176.

 

"The War Powers Resolution: An effective Mechanism of Control," in Herb Levine and Jean Smith, eds., The Conduct of American Foreign Policy Debated (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990) pp. 154 - 163.

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLES

 

(With Eric Grier) Turnout and Registration: Effects of Motor Voter Legislation in the 1994 Midterm Elections

Southeastern Political Review

Vol. 26 #4 (December) 1998; pp. 923 - 932

 

(With Tor Westin) "Predicting the Institutional Effects of Term Limits"

Public Choice

Vol. 96 # 3 & 4  (September) 1998; pp. 381 - 393; Erratum Vol. 96. #3 &4 (June) 1999; p. 481

 

(With Eric Grier) "The Impact of Motor Voter Legislation: Turnout, Registration, and Partisan Trends"

American Politics Quarterly

Vol. 25 #1 (January) 1997; pp. 104-117

 

"Wishful Thinking and the Budget Deficit"

Public Affairs Quarterly

Vol. 3 #4 (October) 1989; pp. 1-14

 

"War Powers in the Modern Context"

Congress and the Presidency

Vol. 14 (Spring) 1987; pp. 77-92

 


"Why the Legislative Veto Isn't Dead"

Presidential Studies Quarterly

Vol. 16 #3 (Summer) 1986; pp. 491-502

 

 

Other Publications

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Book Review of The Congressional Experience in Perspectives on Politics (September 2005; p. 649)

 

Book Review of Hollywood’s White House: The American Presidency in Film and History in Rhetoric and Public Affairs (Summer 2004; pp. 235-236)

 

Book Review of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2000) in Rhetoric and Public Affairs (Spring 2002; pp. 200-201)

 

Book Review of Presidential-Congressional Relations: Policy and Time Approaches (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2000) in Congress and the Presidency (Spring 2001; pp. 109-110)

 

Book Review of Presidential Defiance of Unconstitutional Laws: A Return to the Royal Prerogative (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Publishers, 1998) in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (May 2000: pp. 189-190)

 

Book Review of The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1999) in Rhetoric and Public Affairs (Winter 1999; pp. 677-678)

 

Book Review of American Presidential Elections: Process, Policy and Political Change

(Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1996) in the The Southeastern Political Review

(September 1997; pp. 563-564)

 

Book Review of The Cardinals of Capitol Hill: The Men and Women Who Control Government Spending (New York: Grove/Atlantic, 1994) in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (July 1995; p. 175)

 

Book review of Mostafa Rejai and Kay Phillips, Demythologizing an Elite: American Presidents in Empirical, Comparative, and Historical Perspective (Westport, Ct.: Praeger Press, 1993) in The Southeastern Political Review (December 1994; pp. 800-801)

 

Book review of Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl, and Denise Scott; Money Talks: Corporate PAC's and Political Influence (New York: Basic Books, 1992) in Social Science Quarterly (March 1994; pp. 243-244)

 

Book review of Larry M. Schwab, The Illusion of a Conservative Reagan Revolution (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1991) in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (March 1993; pp. 223-224)

 

Book review of David M. Welborn and Jesse Burkhead, Intergovernmental Relations in the American Administrative State: The Johnson Presidency (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1989) in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (March 1991; pp. 197-198)

 

Book review of Robert J. Spitzer, The Presidential Veto (Albany: SUNY Press, 1988) in Review of Politics (Summer 1989; pp. 454-456)

 

Book review of A. James Reichley, ed., Elections American Style (Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1987) in Corruption and Reform (Fall 1988; pp. 135-136)

 

Book review of Dean Keith Simonton, Why Presidents Succeed (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987) in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Fall 1988; pp. 844-846)

 


Book review of W. Henry Lambright, Presidential Management of Science and Technology: The Johnson Presidency (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985) in The American Political Science Review (September 1986; pp. 1025-1026).

 

Book review of Kim Ezra Sheinbaum, Beyond the Electoral Connection: A Reassessment of the Role of Voting in Contemporary American Politics (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984) in The Annals (Spring 1985; p. 181)

 


Book review of Mack C. Shelley, The Permanent Majority: The Conservative Coalition in the U.S. Congress (University: The University of Alabama Press, 1983) in The Annals (Spring, 1985; pp. 202-203)

 

 

EDITORIALS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

 

“Set Sail: Adventure Cruise on the M/V Amazing Grace,” Caribbean Travel and Life, March 2004.

 

"Don't Look to States for Balanced Budget Example," Editorial in The Orlando Sentinel, February 5, 1995, pp. G1, G5

 

"A Day at the Movies: `The Client' Breeds Anarchy," Editorial in The Atlanta Constitution, August 4, 1994, p. A15

 

"Beyond Whitewater: Getting on with the Nation's Business," Editorial in The Orlando Sentinel, April 3, 1994, pp. G1, G4

 

 

References

 

-Professor Martha Brill Olcott - Department of Political Science,

 Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, 13346

-Professor Bruce Buchanan - Government Department, University of

 Texas, Austin, 78712

-Professor David Prindle - Government Department, University of

 Texas, Austin, 78712

-Professor Jack S. Levy - Department of Political Science,

 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08903

-Professor Glenn Abney - Chair, Department of Political

 Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 30303