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July 17, 2017
Notes from the Capital: Kinder Scholars D.C. Updates, Round 2
For Round 2 of our “Notes from the Capital” series of updates from our undergrads out in D.C., we have first-person accounts of the intern’s life and more from rising senior Lauren Russ (International Studies) and rising junior Tom Coulter (Journalism/History). We’ll let them take it from here… from Lauren “This summer I’m interning with […]
June 26, 2017
Notes from the Capital: Kinder Scholars D.C. Updates, Round 1
Since late-May, a group of 21 Mizzou undergrads have been living, studying, working, and exploring in (and around) the capital as part of the Kinder Scholars D.C. Summer Program. We reached out to them recently for news about the first few weeks in Washington, and what follows is a wrap-up of some of their responses, […]
June 1, 2017
Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government
The U.S. Constitution requires laws to be made by elected representatives. Today, most policies are made by administrative agencies whose officials are not elected. Not coincidentally, many Americans increasingly question whether the political system works for the good of the people. In this trenchant intellectual history, Postell demonstrates how modern administrative law has attempted to […]
March 8, 2017
John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence Receives Scribes Book Award Honorable Mention
Hearty congratulations are due to University of Oklahoma Assistant Professor of Classics & Letters Andrew Porwancher, whose John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence: The Hidden Origins of Modern Law, the second title in the Kinder Institute and University of Missouri Press’ Studies in Constitutional Democracy monograph series, was one of two books to receive […]
March 1, 2017
Electing the House: The Adoption and Performance of the U.S. Single-Member District Electoral System
Electing the House is the first book-length study to explore how the US came to adopt the single-member district system, how it solidified into a seemingly permanent fixture of American government, and whether it performs well by the standards it was intended to achieve. Dow traces the history of the present system from its origins […]
February 10, 2017
Horner and Endersby to Receive 2017 Missouri Conference on History Book Award
A big congratulations to the MU Political Science Professors Bill Horner and James Endersby for being selected as recipients of the 2017 Missouri Conference on History Book Award for their co-authored Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation, the first title in the Kinder Institute and University of Missouri Press’ Studies in Constitutional Democracy book […]