Talks Given by Richard F. Fenno Jr.

These links provide access to unpublished talks given by Professor Fenno over the course of his career that are housed in the Richard F. Fenno Papers at the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries Department of Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation (RBSCP).


“Representative Paul Tsongas: US Senate Race,” talk delivered in Massachusetts, 1978

“Legislative Research on the Road: The Problems of Access,” paper written, 1980

“Running for President: The Case of John Glenn,” talk delivered at SUNY Geneseo, February 8, 1984

“Presidential Race: The Case of John Glenn,” talk delivered at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, 1984

“Specter-Quayle,” talk delivered at Indiana University, 1987

“Mark Andrews, North Dakota,” talk delivered at the University of Rochester seminar, 1987

“Down and out in Iowa: the John Glenn Campaign,” talk delivered at the University of Iowa, 1988

“The Senate through the Looking Glass: the Debate over Television,” talk delivered at the University of Nebraska, 1988

“Congressional Research, Ideas for the Next Generation,” luncheon talk delivered at the University of Oklahoma, 1988

Four talks delivered to Chinese Delegations, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1988, 1989, May 1990, October 1990

“The Changing Senate in the Cannon Years,” talk delivered at the University of Nevada, 1988

“Studying the United States Senate: Institutional Change and Individual Careers,” talk delivered at the meeting of the Japanese Political Science Association in Tokyo, Japan, 1990

“Adjusting to the Senate: the Problem of Governing,” talk delivered at Louisiana State University, 1991

“Four Senators,” talk delivered at Davidson College, 1990

“Campaigns and Career Paths,” talk delivered at Texas Tech University, 1991

“Campaigning and Governing,” talk delivered at Arizona State University, 1991

“Campaigning for the United States Senate,” talk, 1991

Talk delivered at the University of Rochester related to 1992 election, 1992.

“Some Thoughts on Renewing Congress,” talk delivered at the Brookings-AEI Conference, 1992

“Remarks prepared for Princeton University Conference on the Media and Politics,” 1992

“Men in Transition,” talk delivered at Rochester, New York Jewish Community Center (JCC), 1994

“Representational Durability: Two Senators,” talk delivered at Michigan State University, 1995

“American Election,” talk delivered at SUNY Brockport, 1995

“The American Elections of 1994,” talk delivered at Oxford University, 1995

Draft of 1995 talk delivered at Michigan State University, Fordham University and Oxford University related to Claiborne Pell and William Pryor, 1995

“The House in the 104th Congress: An Institutional View,” talk delivered at Louisiana State University, 1997

“Learning to Govern: An Institutional View of the 104th Congress,” talk delivered at the University of Iowa, 1998

“Concluding remarks,” talk delivered at a Florida International University conference, 1997

“Assessing the Republican Congress,” talk delivered at Case Western Reserve University, 1998

“Looking for the Senate: Reminiscences and Residuals,” talk delivered at Vanderbilt University, 1999

“Assessing the Republican Congress: Problem of Governing,” talk delivered at the University of Arkansas, 1999

“Chasing Politicians,” talk delivered at the University of Rochester, 1999

“Doing Political Science: Reflections on a Research Program,” talk delivered at Dartmouth College, 1999

“Doing Political Science Reflections on a Research Program,” talk delivered at Emory University, 2000

“Remarks, Roundtable on Black and Black, ‘The Rise of the Southern Republicans’,” talk delivered at the Southern Political Science Association conference, 2002

“Mostly Professional,” talk delivered at University of Wisconsin, 2004

“Our Politicians: What are they really like?” talk delivered at Purdue, 2005

“Politicians, Journalists and Authenticity,” talk delivered at the University of Minnesota, 2006

Graduation talk delivered at the University of Rochester, 2006

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