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WORK TITLE: The Particularistic President
WORK NOTES: with Andrew Reeves
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PERSONAL
Born 1979.
EDUCATION:Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 2001; Harvard University, Ph.D., 2006.
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CAREER
Boston University, assistant professor of political science, 2006-12, associate professor, 2012-17, professor, 2017–.
AWARDS:Richard E. Neustadt Award, 2016, for The Particularistic President.
WRITINGS
Contributor to books, including American Political Culture: An Encyclopedia, Governing America: Major Decisions of Federal, State, and Local Government from 1789 to the Present, and Debating the Presidency: Conflicting Perspectives on the American Executive, among others.
Contributor of articles to journals, including American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Energy Policy, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Science Communication, and others.
SIDELIGHTS
Douglas L. Kriner is a professor of political science at Boston University. His research interests include American political institutions, separation of powers dynamics, and American military policymaking. Kriner has collaborated with several authors on books about the U.S. presidency and wartime inequities. However, he is the sole author of his first book, After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War, which appeared in 2010.
In the same year, Kriner and cowriter Francis X. Shen published The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities. The book discusses how American wars since the 1950s have disproportionately killed and affected people from poorer and less-educated regions of the country. Wartime deaths affect not only service members, but also their communities, hometowns, and families. Inequities of wartime casualties have consequences for politics and democratic governance. According to a reviewer for Choice, M.A. Morris, the authors “are especially innovative in using multiple sources of evidence and methods.”
With cowriter Andrew Reeves, Kriner published the 2015 The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality. Born August 5, 1979, Andrew Reeves is associate professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and a research fellow at the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy. He studies elections, public opinion, the presidency, and political accountability in the United States.
The Particularistic President explores how electoral, partisan, and coalitional incentives allow presidents to target federal resources disproportionately toward some parts of the country and away from others. This is evident in actions such as disaster declarations and allocation of funds, military installation closings, trade policy, and federal spending. As the only office elected by the entire nation, presidents claim to work for all Americans. Kriner and Reeves argue that rather than serving the nation as a whole, presidents are susceptible to particularism, meaning they prioritize benefits and resources to certain Americans, groups, and regions based on partisanship and bias. They also cater to swing states and show favor to the interests of core political constituencies. Calling the book clearly written, J.P. Crouch commented in Choice: “The authors maintain a brisk and engaging narrative,” doing this by offering technical information in appendixes.
In 2016 Kriner partnered with cowriter Eric Schickler to publish Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Politics. The authors discuss how congressional investigations are more than just political theater; they serve the purpose of countering presidential aggrandizement, exert pressure on the president, and materially affect policy outcomes. Chronicling congressional investigations and oversight from 1898 to 2014, Kriner and Schickler show how hearings influence the president’s strategic calculations and shape public policy.
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Choice, February, 2011, M.A. Morris, review of The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities, p. 1171; July, 2011, S.Q. Kelly, review of After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War, p. 2191; April, 2016, J.P. Crouch, review of The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality, p. 1242.
ONLINE
Boston University Web site, http://www.bu.edu/ (April 5, 2017), author faculty profile.
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Douglas L. Kriner is an associate professor of political science at Boston University. His research interests include American political institutions, separation of powers dynamics, and American military policymaking. Professor Kriner graduated Phi Beta Kappa from MIT in 2001 and received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2006. He has recently published two books on inter-branch politics. The first, with Andrew Reeves, The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality (Cambridge 2015; winner of the 2016 Richard E. Neustadt Award), explores how electoral, partisan, and coalitional incentives compel presidents to target federal resources disproportionately toward some parts of the country and away from others. The second, with Eric Schickler, Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (Princeton 2016), examines Congress’ ability to retain some check on the aggrandizement of presidential power through the investigatory arm of its committees. He is also the author of After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War (Chicago 2010; winner of the 2013 D.B. Hardeman Award) and co-author, with Francis Shen, of The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Military Policymaking (Oxford 2010). Professor Kriner’s work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics, among other outlets.
I am a professor of political science at Boston University. My research interests include American political institutions, separation of powers dynamics, and military policymaking. I have recently published two books on inter-branch politics. The first, with Andrew Reeves, The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality (Cambridge 2015; winner of the 2016 Richard E. Neustadt Award), explores how electoral, partisan, and coalitional incentives compel presidents to target federal resources disproportionately toward some parts of the country and away from others. The second, with Eric Schickler, Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (Princeton 2016), examines Congress' ability to retain some check on the aggrandizement of presidential power through the investigatory arm of its committees. My first two books focused on domestic politics and American military policymaking. After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War (Chicago 2010; winner of the 2013 D.B. Hardeman Award) uncovered the informal mechanisms through which Congress substantially influences the initiation, conduct and duration of major American military actions, even when it fails to legislatively compel the president to alter his preferred policy course. My first book, with Francis Shen, The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Military Policymaking (Oxford 2010), documented the emergence of socioeconomic inequalities in who bears the human costs of war and the ramifications of these inequalities for politics and policymaking.
CV: http://people.bu.edu/dkriner/krinercv.pdf
Douglas Kriner
Professor
Office: PLS 206
Phone: 617.358.4643
E-mail: dkriner@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Areas of Specialization: American Politics, Separation of Powers, Domestic Politics and the Use of Force.
Webpage: http://people.bu.edu/dkriner/
Douglas Kriner is a professor of political science and the Director of Graduate Studies. His research interests include American political institutions, separation of powers dynamics, and American military policymaking. Professor Kriner graduated Phi Beta Kappa from MIT in 2001 and received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2006. He has recently published two books on inter-branch politics. The first, with Andrew Reeves, The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality (Cambridge 2015; winner of the 2016 Richard E. Neustadt Award), explores how electoral, partisan, and coalitional incentives compel presidents to target federal resources disproportionately toward some parts of the country and away from others. The second, with Eric Schickler, Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (Princeton 2016), examines Congress’ ability to retain some check on the aggrandizement of presidential power through the investigatory arm of its committees. He is also the author of After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War (Chicago 2010; winner of the 2013 D.B. Hardeman Award) and co-author, with Francis Shen, of The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Military Policymaking (Oxford 2010). Professor Kriner’s work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics, among other outlets. Professor Kriner’s teaching interests include courses on the presidency, Congress, domestic politics and the use of force, separation of powers, and quantitative methods.
For additional information and copies of publications, please see Professor Kriner’s personal homepage.
Professor Kriner regularly teaches the following courses:
PO 300
PO 317
PO 510
PO 518
PO 711
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Curriculum Vitae
Douglas Kriner
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences
Douglas Kriner is an associate professor of political science and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. His research interests include American political institutions, separation of powers dynamics, and American military policymaking. Professor Kriner graduated Phi Beta Kappa from MIT in 2001 and received his PhD in government from Harvard University in 2006. His first book (with Francis Shen), The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Military Policymaking, documents the emergence, beginning in the Korean War, of socioeconomic inequalities in who bears the human costs of war. It then traces the ramifications of these inequalities for politics and policymaking. His second book, After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War, investigates the mechanisms through which Congress shapes the initiation, conduct, and duration of major American military actions, even when it fails to write its policy preferences into law. Professor Kriner’s work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and British Journal of Political Science, among other outlets. Professor Kriner’s teaching interests include courses on the presidency, Congress, domestic politics and the use of force, separation of powers, and quantitative methods.
Kriner, Douglas L.: The particularistic president: executive branch politics and political inequality
J.P. Crouch
53.8 (Apr. 2016): p1242.
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Kriner, Douglas L. The particularistic president: executive branch politics and political inequality, by Douglas L. Kriner and Andrew Reeves. Cambridge, 2015. xii, 237 pages ISBN 9781107038714 cloth, $84.99; ISBN 9781107616813 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781316308875 ebook, $24.00
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Kriner (Boston Univ.) and Reeves (Washington Univ., St. Louis) have crafted a bold, compelling argument for "presidential particularism." Kriner and Reeves aim for the "universalistic presidency," where "presidents are not driven by special interests ... and instead pursue policies that are in the best interests of the nation as a whole." In contrast, Kriner and Reeves contend that presidents "engage in particularism, [meaning] that they pursue policies that target public benefits disproportionately toward some political constituencies at the expense of others." Indeed, in a variety of policy arenas--including trade policy, military base closings, and others--they discover "unambiguous evidence of presidents catering to swing states and privileging the interests of core political constituencies at the expense of a politically neutral distribution of federal resources." The book is clearly written, and the authors maintain a brisk and engaging narrative in part by including most of the technical information in appendixes. Summing Up: *** Highly recommended. All readership levels.--J. P. Crouch, American University
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Crouch, J.P. "Kriner, Douglas L.: The particularistic president: executive branch politics and political inequality." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Apr. 2016, p. 1242. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA449661872&it=r&asid=02c2b3851975052f2804550f81b6fcbc. Accessed 27 Feb. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A449661872
Kriner, Douglas L.: After the Rubicon: Congress, presidents, and the politics of waging war
S. Q. Kelly
48.11 (July 2011): p2191.
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Kriner, Douglas L. After the Rubicon: Congress, presidents, and the politics of waging war. Chicago, 2010. 322p bibl index alp ISBN 9780226453552, $90.00; ISBN 9780226453569 pbk, $30.00 The US Constitution grants the power of commander in chief of the armed forces to the president. To restrict this power, the founders reserved to Congress the power to "declare war." In theory, Congress's war power--and its power to appropriate funds for military adventures--would check presidents' pell-mell use of military force. Presidents quickly learned that their ability to order the use of force gave them a strong upper hand. Many thus concluded that Congress has little to no influence over how presidents use military force. This book is a powerful corrective to that long-held view. Kriner (Boston College) marshals considerable quantitative and qualitative evidence--the use of archival data from the Reagan Library is particularly welcome--to illustrate how congressional actions influence the use of military force, the scope of military actions, and the duration of military actions in the post-WW II period. Building on a well-developed theoretical model, he demonstrates that legislation, congressional hearings, and the resulting national debates shape how presidents prosecute wars. An important contribution to the scholarly literature, the book is accessible to general readers and practitioners and would be a useful book for college-level courses. Summing Up: Highly recommended. *** General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above.--S. Q. Kelly, California State University Channel Islands
Kelly, S. Q.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Kelly, S. Q. "Kriner, Douglas L.: After the Rubicon: Congress, presidents, and the politics of waging war." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, July 2011, p. 2191. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA260331225&it=r&asid=1f05839e88e0acab8a121db6b219dbbf. Accessed 27 Feb. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A260331225
Kriner, Douglas L. The casualty gap: the causes and consequences of American wartime inequalities
M.A. Morris
48.6 (Feb. 2011): p1171.
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Kriner, Douglas L. The casualty gap: the causes and consequences of American wartime inequalities, by Douglas L. Kriner and Francis X. Shen. Oxford, 2010. 302p bibl index afp ISBN 0195390962, $29.95; ISBN 9780195390964, $29.95
This is an important book that carefully documents a casualty gap in recent US wars. A casualty gap refers to the most important cost of US military campaigns--the loss of human life and particularly how this price has been paid disproportionately by poorer and less-educated communities since the 1950s. Recent wars with a casualty gap include Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, where the unequal distribution of combat deaths adversely affected political participation in hard-hit US counties. The book includes nine chapters, extensive notes and references, and an index. Chapters 2-8 include a technical appendix at the end of each chapter, which is justified because of the importance of assessing the empirical data to demonstrate the casualty-gap thesis of the book. The concluding chapter poses some key questions, including how the casualty gap impacts democracy adversely, how policy can respond to these adverse impacts, and how the casualty gap is likely to be reflected in future wars. Shen (Vanderbilt Univ. Law School) and Kriner (Boston Univ.) are especially innovative in using multiple sources of evidence and methods to connect participation in recent wars to political participation at home. Summing Up: Recommended. ** General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, and above.--M. A. Morris, Clemson University
Morris, M.A.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Morris, M.A. "Kriner, Douglas L. The casualty gap: the causes and consequences of American wartime inequalities." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Feb. 2011, p. 1171. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA247738995&it=r&asid=08eb6027268004f5112eaf6491d99499. Accessed 27 Feb. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A247738995