Background
Fenno, Richard Francis was born on December 12, 1926 in Winchester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Richard Francis and Mary Brooks (Tredennick) Fenno.
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Learning to Govern: An Institutional View of the 104th Congress
(The elections of 1994 produced the first Republican-contr...)
The elections of 1994 produced the first Republican-controlled Congress in 40 years. In this book, Richard Fenno makes the case that four decades out of power left Republicans without the experience they needed to properly interpret their electoral victory or govern the country. This inexperience produced serious consequences for the party and the American political system, including an accelerated loss of public confidence in Congress. Although the evidence pointed to voters' repudiation of the Democrats, the Republicans saw their victory as a mandate for wholesale change -- a Republican Revolution. Instead of trying to make careful, incremental changes, their aggressive tactics cost them their golden opportunity and cleared the way for the reelection of President Clinton. This book provides a timely focus on the attitudes and agendas of the inexperienced Republican freshman class and its contribution to the problem-plagued attempts to use the election campaign Contract with America as a blueprint for governing.
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Congressmen in Committees
(Book by Fenno, Richard F., Fenno, Richard F. Jr)
Book by Fenno, Richard F., Fenno, Richard F. Jr
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Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series)
( This is a book about the politics of representative dem...)
This is a book about the politics of representative democracy, written from the perspective of the politicians who make it work. Typically, political scientists study campaigns from the perspective of the voter and for the purpose of explaining election outcomes. But campaigns also need to be studied from the perspective of the candidate, for the purpose of understanding representation. Richard F. Fenno, Jr., traveled with ten U.S. senators as they campaigned in their home states-using what he calls the "drop in/drop out, tag along/hang around" method of research-to present a developmental picture of their activities. His focus here is on three such activities—pursuing a career, campaigning for office, and building constituency connections. Taken together, the three constitute the political underpinnings of representative democracy. Fenno describes the achievement, the testing, and the maintenance of representational relationships. He examines challengers and incumbents, winners and losers, and motivations, strategies, and behaviors; and he reports on differences, similarities, and patterns among them. In studying the candidates' varied careers, campaigns, and connections in stages and sequences and in depth—and in allowing us to hear them reflect on these experiences—Fenno has been able to offer rare insights into campaigns and elections, insights very different from conventional ones that concentrate on the behavior of voters. In its focus on the process of representative democracy, Senators on the Campaign Trail offers a rich, rounded, developmental view of some high-level individuals who work at the business of representation. For scholars, the book suggests some qualitative confirmation and added stimulation in forging generalizations about politicians. For citizens, the book argues for replacing the conventional blanket condemnation of our politicians, so prevalent today, with more discriminating judgments about what they do, and why and to what purpose they do it.
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National Politics and Federal Aid to Education (The Economics and Politics of Public Education)
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Richard Francis Fenno
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Student, Williams College, 1944-1946; AB, Amherst College, 1948; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Amherst College, 1986; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1956; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Union College, 1989.
Career
Instructor government, Wheaton (Massachusetts) College, 1951-1953; instructor political science, Amherst College, 1953-1956; assistant professor, Amherst College, 1956-1957; member of faculty, U. Rochester, New York, since 1957; professor, U. Rochester, since 1964; Don Alonzo Watson professor political science, U. Rochester, 1971-1978; William R. Kenan professor political science, U. Rochester, since 1978; Distinguished University professor, U. Rochester, since 1985.
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Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series)
( This is a book about the politics of representative dem...)
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Learning to Govern: An Institutional View of the 104th Congress
(The elections of 1994 produced the first Republican-contr...)
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Congressmen in Committees
(Book by Fenno, Richard F., Fenno, Richard F. Jr)
- National Politics and Federal Aid to Education (The Economics and Politics of Public Education 3)
- National Politics and Federal Aid to Education (The Economics and Politics of Public Education)
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Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series)
Membership
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Member American Political Science Association (council 1971-1973, vice president 1975-1976, president 1984-1985), National Academy Sciences, Social Science Research Council (director 1973-1975), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Nancy Davidson, September 10, 1948. Children: Mark Richard, Craig Pierce.
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Social Science Research Council fellow, 1960-1961. Rockefeller Foundation fellow, 1963-1964. Ford fellow, 1971-1972. Guggenheim fellow, 1976-1977. Russell Sage Foundation grantee, 1978, 80-85.Social Science Research Council fellow, 1960-1961. Rockefeller Foundation fellow, 1963-1964. Ford fellow, 1971-1972.
Guggenheim fellow, 1976-1977. Russell Sage Foundation grantee, 1978, 80-85.