JAMES ROBERT BOWERS. Dissertation: Regulating the Regulators: The Legislative Review of Administrative Rulemaking in Illinois

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1 Office Address: Department of Political Science St. John Fisher College 3690 East Avenue Rochester, New York (585) Home Address: 122 Springfield Avenue Rochester, New York (585) Education: Ph.D., August Political Science Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois JAMES ROBERT BOWERS Dissertation: Regulating the Regulators: The Legislative Review of Administrative Rulemaking in Illinois Work Experience: Professor of Political Science, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1999 to present. Associate Professor of Political Science, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, July 1994 to Assistant Professor of Political Science, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, September 1988 to July Courses Taught: American Legal System American National Government American National Government Learning Community American Presidency Bureaucracy & Administration Campaigns & Elections Congress and Its Members Congress and the Presidency Constitutional Law Environmental Science and Public Policy (team-taught) Government Internships Introduction to Political Science Introduction to Public Policy Media and Public Life (team-taught) Political Behavior Political Parties & Interest Groups

2 Politics & Identity Senior Seminar State and Local Government The Supreme Court in American Politics Urban Politics Writing and Research in Political Science (team-taught) 2 College and Department Service: Acting-Chairperson for the Department of Political Science Spring 2002 Acting-Chairperson for the Department of Political Science Fall 1999 Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Search Committee 1998 Chairperson for the Department of Political Science Fall 2003-Spring 2004 College Core Review Committee 1997 to 1998 College Core Revision Committee 1988 to 1991 Committee on Small High School on College Campus Fall 2005 to 2006 Faculty Council 1990 to 1991 Faculty Welfare Committee (and chair) 1998 to 2001, 2002 to 2003 Pre-law Advisor 1988 to present Provost Search Committee Fall 2001 to Spring 2002 Summer Grants Committee 1994 to 1995 Community Service: Advisor on the application process of and inaugural president of the Board of Trustees of the Career Mentoring Charter High School of Rochester to Advisor to the North Edge Associated Neighborhoods to Candidate for the Rochester City Council, Northeast District Commissioner of Schools, Rochester City School District Contributing Lecturer. Project ADEPT. Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), 1992 to Founding Member and President of the Board of Directors of North Edge Community Organization to Leadership Rochester, Class of Member of the 21 st Democratic Part Legislative Committee Member of the Advisory Committee of the Fair Housing Enforcement Project to Member of the Law and Government Advisory Board, John Marshall High School, Rochester City School District to 2000, Member of Rochester Mayor William A. Johnson, Jr.'s Stewardship Council. December, 1995 to Political Analyst for Rochester, Western New York, and occasionally national media outlets, 1991 to present. Political Analyst and Commentator. RNEWS, 1993 to Research Interests: Constitutional Theory Executive Leadership Political Ambition Urban Government and Politics

3 Published Books: Inside Campaigns. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. (Co-editor Stephen Daniels, American Bar Foundation) forthcoming 2010 Governing Middle-Sized Cities: Studies in Mayoral Leadership. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. (co-editor Wilbur C. Rich, Wellesley College) Hypotheticals: Supreme Court Decision-Making and Constitutional Interpretation. New York: Addison Wesley Longman (Co-author Stephen Daniels, American Bar Foundation) Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion: Constitutional Theory and Public Policy. Wesport, CT, Praeger (Paperback edition with new afterword) Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion: Constitutional Theory and Public Policy. New York: Praeger American Stories: Case Studies in Politics and Government. Belmont, CA. Wadsworth Publishing Company Regulating the Regulators: An Introduction to the Legislative Oversight of Administrative Rulemaking. New York: Praeger Published Articles: Public Journalism and Voting Participation in State-Wide Referendums: Results From a "Media Partnership" in Rochester, New York. Joe Harper and Thom Yantex, eds. Media. Profit and Politics. Kent, OH: Kent State University Pres. (Co-author Gary Walker), Mayor William A. Johnson, Jr. and Education Politics in Rochester, NY. Dr. James R. Bowers and Wilbur G. Rich, eds. Governing, Middle-Sized Cities. Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner Publishers. (Co-author Paul C. Baker), A Case Study from Rochester, NY: The Impact of Civic Journalism Projects on Voting Behavior in State-Wise Referendum. Pew Center for the Study of Civic Journalism. cj/research/rochester.html (with assistance from Blair Claflin of the Des Moines Register and Gary Walker of WXXI-TV). Political Correctness in Political Science: A Question of Perception; Perspectives in Political Science. Fall (Co-author John D. Harman, St. John Fisher College) What If Abortion Were Illegal? Policy Alternatives Won't Be Easy. In Martin Goggin, ed. The New Politics of Abortion. Beverly Hills, CA.: Sage Publishing Co (Co-author Ellen Dran, Northern Illinois University) Looking at OMB's Regulatory Review From a Shared Powers Perspective; Presidential Studies Quarterly. Spring 1993.

4 Classical Liberalism, the Constitution, and Abortion Policy: Can Government Be Both Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion? University of Dayton Law Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, Fall 1991: Establishing the Constitutional Legitimacy of OMB's Review of Regulations: A Shared Powers Perspective; New England Law Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, November/December 1990: Agency Responsiveness to the Legislative Oversight of Administrative Rulemaking; American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 19, September 1989: pp An Overview of Rules Review in Illinois; Comparative State Politics, December Reprinted in Thad Beyle, ed. State Government: CC's Guide to Current Issues and Activities , Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. Published Book Reviews: Book Review: Black Mayors and School Politics: The Failure of Reform in Detroit, Gary, and Newark by Wilbur C. Rich. Journal of Urban Affairs. Vol. 19, No. 3, Book Review: The Dynamics of Conflict Between Bureaucracies and Legislators by Cathy M. Johnson. American Review of Public Administration. Vol. 24, No. 1, June Book Review: When Incumbency Fails: The Senate Career of Mark Andrews by Richard F. Fenno Jr. Public Administration Review. Vol. 53, No. 5, September/October Book Review: The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict by Suzanne Staggenborg. Perspectives on Political Science. Fall Book Review: Keeping, a Watchful Eye by Joel D. Aberbach. Journal of Politics. Vol. 53, No. 3, August Conference Papers: Public Journalism and Voting Participation in State-Wide Referendums: Results From a "Media Partnership" in Rochester, New York. Paper Presented at the 2001 Second Annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy: Media, Profit and Politics, Kent, OH. (Co-author Gary Walker, WXXI) Mayor William A. Johnson, Jr. and Education Politics in Rochester, NY. Paper presented at the 1998 Northeast Political Science Association Meeting, Boston, MA. (Co-author Paul C. Baker)

5 The Impact of Civic Journalism Projects on Voting Behavior in State-Wide Referendums. Paper presented at the 1998 New England Political Science Association Meeting, Worcester, Massachusetts. (with assistance from Blair Claflin of the Des Moines Register and Gary Walker of WXXI-TV) 5 The Two Faces of Citizen Participation: Neighbors Building Neighborhoods in Rochester, N.Y. Paper presented at the 1997 Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. Mayors as Visionary Leaders: Some Considerations and Illustrations. Paper presented at the 1995 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. The Abortion Decision and Minor Women. Paper presented at the 1993 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Political Correctness in Political Science: The Case in New York. Paper presented at the 1992 New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Buffalo, New York. (Coauthor John D. Harman, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York) What If Abortion Were Made Illegal: Would the Public Support State Funded Alternatives? Paper presented at the 1992 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. (Co-author Ellen Dran, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois) Classical Liberalism, the Constitution, and Abortion Policy: Can Government be Both Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion? Paper presented at the 1991 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and the 1991 Association for Politics and the Life Science, Washington, D.C. Adoption as the Solution to Abortion: Who Supports It? Paper presented at the 1991 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. (Co-author Ellen Dran, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois) Establishing the Constitutional Legitimacy of OMB's Regulatory Review: A Shared Powers Perspective. Paper presented at the 1990 New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Albany, New York Agency Responsiveness to the Legislative Oversight of Administrative Rulemaking: A Case Study of Rules Review in the Illinois General Assembly. Paper presented at the 1989 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

6 v Other Conference Activities: Roundtable Organizer and Chair-Inside Campaigns: Political Scientists in the Electoral Trenches. Roundtable discussion held at the 2009 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Panel Organizer and Chair - Mayoral Leadership and Sustainability in Middle Size Cities. Paper panel held at the 1998 American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. Panel Organizer and Chair -- Round table on Rethinking Constitutional Law and Constitutional Theory in the Classroom. Panel held at the 1995 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Panel Organizer and Chair--Qualitative Methods in Political Science. Panel held at the 1990 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Discussant -- Professionalism and Influence in State Legislatures. Panel held at the 1990 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Panel Organizer -- Controlling Administrative Discretion. Panel held at the 1989 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Discussant -- Legislative Oversight of Bureaucracy. Panel held at the 1988 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Addresses: Reconciling the Irreconcilable. Special Interest Course, Chautauqua Institution, August Correct Meaning and the Constitution. Special Interest Course, Chautauqua Institution, July The Political Scene in Address given to Unirondack at Chautauqua, Chautaqua Institution, August Can Government Be Both Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion? Address given as part of the "Both Sides Now" lecture series sponsored by the Rochester Public Library, Rochester, New York, November Third Party Politics. Address given before Rochester high school students in Project ADEPT, organized by the Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Rochester, New York, October Turning on a Turned Off Electorate. Address given to St. John Fisher College Downtowner Luncheon, Rochester, New York, May 1992 Reflections on Rules Review. Address given to the Council of State Governments' Midwest Legislative Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, 1991.

7 Legislative and Executive Responsibilities for Regulatory Review. Address given to the National Association of Secretaries of State Meeting (Administrative Codes and Registers Section), Ashville, North Carolina, Awards: 2006 Monroe County Democratic Committee Public Service Award 2004 Junior Achievement of Rochester President s Award 2004 Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley Community Leadership Award 1998 Trustee Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award 1997 Father Dorsey Faculty Service Award 1995 St. John Fisher Dean's Citation Award as a Teacher-Scholar 1990 Best Faculty Paper New York State Political Science Association Meeting for "Establishing the Constitutional Legitimacy of OMB's Regulatory Review Methodological skills: Elite Interviewing Survey Research Archival Research SPSSX Average Statistics References: Dr. Stephen Daniels Senior Project Director American Bar Foundation 750 North Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL (312) Dr. Richard Fenno Kenan Professor of Political Science Distinguished University Professor Department of Political Science Harkness Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY (585)

8 Dr. Gary Glenn Department of Political Science Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois (815) Dr. John Harman Department of Political Science St. John Fisher College Rochester, New York (585) Dr. Irene S. Rubin Division of Public Administration Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois (815)