Michael Korzi, Ph.D.

Chair and Professor

Name

Contact Info

Phone:
Office:
CLA 3210D

Education

Ph.D. University at Albany,
SUNY, 1998

M.A. Pennsylvania State University,
1993

B.A. University of Pittsburgh,
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1991

Areas of Expertise

Congress
The Presidency
Political Philosophy
Democratic Theory

Publications

  • "100,000 Unarmed Men in Washington": Public Opinion and the 1876 Election Compromise. Studies in American Political Development. Published online 2024:1-22. doi:10.1017/S0898588X2300007X.
  • Presidential Leadership at the Crossroads: William Howard Taft and the Modern Presidency (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2021).
  • "Resolved, the Twenty-Second Amendment Should be Repealed: Con," in Debating Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System, 4th edition, eds. Richard J. Ellis and Michael Nelson (Los Angeles: SAGE/CQ Press, 2020).
  • "The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in the US," in The Politics of Presidential Term Limits, eds. Alexander Baturo and Robert Elgie (Oxford University Press, 2019).
  • "Term Limits and Voter Turnout in Presidential Democracies: An Empirical Analysis," Acta Politica: International Journal of Political Science (April 2017). Co-authored with Matthew Hoddie.
  • "William Howard Taft, the 1908 Election, and the Future of the American Presidency," Congress & the Presidency, 43, No. 2 (2016).
  • "Presidential Term Limits," "Redistricting," and "War Powers Resolution of 1973," in American Governance, 1st Edition, ed. Stephen Schechter (New York: Macmillan, 2016).
  • "A 'Legitimate Functon': Reconsidering Sigining Statements," Congress & the Presidency, 38, No. 1 (2011).
  • Presidential Term Limits in American History: Power, Principles, and Politics (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011).
  • "'If the Manner of It Be Not Perfect:' Thinking Through Electoral College Reform," in Electoral College Reform: Challenges and Possibilities, ed. Gary Bugh (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2010).
  • "The Presidency: 1787-1945," in A History of the U.S. Political System: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions, ed. Richard A. Harris and Daniel J. Tichenor (ABC-CLIO, 2009).
  • "Changing Views of Executive Tenure in Early American History," White House Studies, 8, No. 3 (2009).
  • "Theorizing Presidential Tenure: The Difficult Case of FDR's Fourth Term," Congress & the Presidency, 35, No. 2 (Autumn 2008).
  • A Seat of Popular Leadership: The Presidency, Political Parties and Democratic Government (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
  • "The President and the Public: Inaugural Addresses in American History," Congress & the Presidency, 31, No. 1 (Spring 2004).
  • "A New Migration of Political Forces: Party Decline and Presidential Leadership in Late 19th Century America," Polity, 36, No. 2 (January 2004).
  • "Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers: A Reconsideration of William Howard Taft's 'Whig' Theory of Presidential Leadership," Presidential Studies Quarterly, 33, No. 2 (June 2003).
  •  "Lapsed Memory? The Roots of American Public Opinion Research," Polity, 33, No. 1 (Fall 2000).
  • "The Seat of Popular Leadership: Parties, Elections, and the Nineteenth-Century Presidency," Presidential Studies Quarterly, 29, No. 2 (June 1999).