Richard W. Waterman
University of Kentucky
Department of Political Science
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027
859-257-1118 [Work] and 859-257-7034 [Fax]
Professional Experience:
2001-present:University of Kentucky, Department of Political Science and
The Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
1989-2001: University of New Mexico, Department of Political Science
1986-1989: West Virginia University, Department of Political Science
Administrative Experience:
2008-2009: President, Southwestern Political Science Association
2002-2005:Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky
2010-2012: Director Graduate Studies
2006-2011:Member and Chair, UK College of Arts and Sciences Advisory
Committee on Promotion and Tenure
2014: Chair of the UK Graduate School Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure
2005-2006:Internship Director, University of Kentucky
2015- : Internship Director, University of Kentucky
2008 -2009 Faculty Senate and Academic Program Committee, University of
Kentucky
1999-2001:Faculty Senate, University of New Mexico.
Degrees:
1986:Ph.D. in Political Science University of Houston
1983:MA in Political Science University of Houston
1976:M. Ed Bridgewater State College
1974:BA in History Rhode Island College
Books:
Waterman, Richard W., Carol L. Silva and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith. 2014. The Presidential Expectations Gap: Public Attitudes Concerning the Presidency. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Randazzo, Kirk A. and Richard W. Waterman. 2014. Checking the Courts: Law, Ideology and Contingent Discretion. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Rockman, Bert A. and Richard W. Waterman. 2008. Presidential Leadership: The Vortex of Power. New York: Oxford University Press.
Waterman, Richard W., Amelia Rouse, and Robert L. Wright. 2004. Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Waterman, Richard W. 2003/2007/2010/2013. The Changing American Presidency: New Perspectives on Presidential Power. Mason, Ohio: Cengage Publishing.
Waterman, Richard W., Robert L. Wright and Gilbert St. Clair. 1999. The Image-Is-Everything Presidency: Dilemmas in American Leadership. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Hunter, Susan and Richard W. Waterman. 1996. Enforcing the Law: The Case of the Clean Water Acts. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
Wood, B. Dan and Richard W. Waterman. 1994. Bureaucratic Dynamics: The Role of Bureaucracy in a Democracy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Waterman, Richard W. 1993. The Presidency Reconsidered. Wood Dale, IL: Peacock Publishers.
Waterman, Richard W. 1989. Presidential Influence and the Administrative State. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Articles:
Ouyang, Yu, Evan Haglund, and Richard W. Waterman. Forthcoming. “The Missing Element: Examining the Loyalty-Competence Nexus in Presidential Appointments.” Presidential Studies Quarterly.
Waterman, Richard W., John Bretting, and Joseph Stewart. Forthcoming. “The Politics of U. S. Ambassadorial Appointments: From the Court of St. James to Burkina Faso.” Social Science Quarterly.
Ouyang, Yu and Richard W. Waterman. 2015.“How Legislative (In)Activity Impacts Executive Unilateralism: A Supply and Demand Theory of Presidential Unilateralism.”Congress and the Presidency.42: 317-241.
Lewis, David and Richard W. Waterman. 2013. “The Invisible Presidential Appointments: An Examination of Appointments to the Department of Labor, 2001-2011.” Presidential Studies Quarterly. 43 (1): 35-57.
Olson, Jeremiah, Yu Ouyang, John Poe, Austin Trantham, and Richard W. Waterman. 2012. “The Teleprompter Presidency: Comparing Obama’s Campaign and Governing Rhetoric.” Social Science Quarterly. 93: Special Volume: 1402-1423.
Randazzo, Kirk A., Richard W. Waterman, and Michael P. Fix. 2011. “State Supreme Courts and the Effects of Statutory Constraint: A Test of the Model of Contingent Discretion.” Political Research Quarterly. 64 (4): 779-789.
Randazzo, Kirk A. and Richard W. Waterman. 2011. “Statutory Influences on the U. S. Supreme Court: The Effects of Constraint and Discretion.” Justice Systems Journal. 32 (4): 269-292.
Walker, Lee D. and Richard W. Waterman. 2010. “Gubernatorial Elections and Attitudes Toward the Police: State Elections as Focusing Events.” Electoral Studies. 29 (1): 117-127.
Waterman, Richard W. 2009. “The Administrative Presidency, Unilateral Power, and the Unitary Executive Theory.” Presidential Studies Quarterly. 39 (1): 5-9.
Walker, Lee D. and Richard W. Waterman. 2008. “Elections as Focusing Events: Explaining Attitudes Toward the Police and the Government in Comparative Perspective.” Law and Society Review. 42 (2): 337-365.
Carol L. Silva, Richard W. Waterman, and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith. 2007. “Why Did Clinton Survive the Impeachment Crisis? A Test of Three Explanations.” Presidential Studies Quarterly. 37 (3): 468-485.
Randazzo, Kirk A., Richard W. Waterman, and Jeffrey A. Fine. 2006. “Checking the Federal Courts: The Impact of Congressional Statutes on Judicial Behavior.” Journal of Politics. 68 (November): 1103-1114.
Jenkins-Smith, Hank C., Carol L. Silva, and Richard W. Waterman. 2005. “Micro and Macro Models of the Presidential Expectations Gap.” Journal of Politics. 67 (August): 690-715.
Waterman, Richard W. 2005. “The Myth of the Envirocrat.” The Environmental Forum. 22 (2) March/April 18-23.
Gill, Jeff and Richard W. Waterman. 2004. “Solidary and Functional Costs: Explaining the Presidential Appointment Contradiction.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 14 (December): 547-569.
Waterman, Richard W., Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, and Carol L. Silva. 1999. "The Expectations Gap Thesis: Public Attitudes toward an Incumbent President. Journal of Politics. 61 (November): 944-966.
Waterman, Richard W. and Amelia A. Rouse. 1999. "The Determinants of the Perceptions of Political Control of the Bureaucracy and the Venues of Influence." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 9 (October): 527-569.
Waterman, Richard W. and Kenneth J. Meier. 1998. "Principal-Agent Models: An Expansion?" Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 8 (April): 173-202.
Waterman, Richard W., Amelia A. Rouse, and Robert L. Wright. 1998. "The Venues of Influence: A New Theory of Political Control of the Bureaucracy." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 8 (January): 13-38.
Waterman, Richard W. 1996. "Storm Clouds on the Political Horizon: George Bush at the Dawn of the 1992 Presidential Election." Presidential Studies Quarterly. XXVI (Spring): 337-49.
Wood, B. Dan and Richard W. Waterman. 1993. "The Dynamics of Political-Bureaucratic Adaptation." American Journal of Political Science. 37 (May): 497-528.
Waterman, Richard W. and B. Dan Wood. 1993. "Policy Monitoring and Policy Analysis." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 12 (Fall): 685-699.
Waterman, Richard W. and B. Dan Wood. 1992. "What Do We Do with Applied Research?" PS: Political Science & Politics. (September): 559-564.
Hunter, Susan and Richard W. Waterman. 1992. "Determining an Agency's Regulatory Style: How Does the EPA Water Office Enforce the Law?" Western Political Quarterly. 45 (June): 401-417.
Wood, B. Dan and Richard W. Waterman. 1991. "The Dynamics of Political Control of the Bureaucracy." American Political Science Review. 85 (September): 801-828.
Waterman, Richard W., Bruce Oppenheimer, and James Stimson. 1991. "Sequence and Equilibrium in Congressional Elections: An Integrated Approach." Journal of Politics. 53 (May): 372-393.
Waterman, Richard W. 1990. "Institutional Realignment: The Composition of the U. S. Congress." Western Political Quarterly. 43 (March): 81-92.
Waterman, Richard W. 1990. "Comparing Senate and House Electoral Outcomes: The Exposure Thesis." Legislative Studies Quarterly. XV (February): 99-114.
Oppenheimer, Bruce, James Stimson, and Richard W. Waterman. 1986. "Interpreting U.S. Congressional Elections: The Exposure Thesis." Legislative Studies Quarterly. XI (May): 227-247. Reprinted in Silbey, Joel H. (Ed.) 1991. The Congress of the United States 1789-1989. Volume 4, The United States Congress: The Electoral Connection, 1789-1989. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing Company.
Frendreis, John and Richard W. Waterman. 1985. "PAC Contributions and Legislative Behavior: Senate Voting on Trucking Deregulation." Social Science Quarterly. 66, 2 (June): 401-412.
Book Chapters:
Waterman, Richard W. 2009.“Assessing the Unilateral Presidency.” In George C. Edwards III and William G. Howell (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency. New York: Oxford University Press: 477-498.
Waterman, Richard W. 2009. “Maintaining Political Control: George W. Bush and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.” In Colin Provost and Paul Teske (eds.) President George W. Bush’s Influence Over Bureaucracy and Policy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press: 203-218.
Waterman, Richard W. 1999. "Bureaucratic Views of the President." In Steve Shull (ed.) Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-Century Assessment. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe: 150-167.
Waterman, Richard W. and Thomas E. Garman. 1997. "The Role of the President in the Consumer Movement." The Encyclopedia of the Consumer Movement. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc.: 433-438.
Other Publications:
Waterman, Richard W. 2015. “Rulemaking: Pursuing a Policy Agenda.” Emerging Trends in Behavioral and Social Sciences, Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn (eds.). New York: Wiley.
Waterman, Richard W. 2015. “How Do You Become an Ambassador?” The Conversation.
Waterman, Richard W. 2008. “Presidential Signing Statements: The Constitution versus the New Government Models.” In AP Government and Politics: United States. Balance of Power Between Congress and the President. College Board: Princeton: 23-30.
Waterman, Richard W. 2005. “Put Your Tongue Back: A Muffled Response to the Ken Meier’s Politics of Ideas.” Policy Studies Journal. 33: 117-120.
Waterman, Richard W. “Unilateral Politics.” 2004. Public Administration Review. 64: 219-221. Winner of the Laverne Burchfield Award from the American Society for Public Administration.
Waterman, Richard W. 2002. “Executive-Legislative Relations and the Functioning of the Federal Bureaucracy: Case Examples from an Analysis of Views of the President and Congress by Enforcement Personnel in the Environmental Protection Agency.” In National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA) and the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). Tokyo: NIRA.
Waterman, Richard W. 2000. Excerpts from: “Bureaucratic Views of Congress and the President: An Analysis of the Attitudes of Environmental Protection Agency Enforcement Personnel.” In (National Institute for Research Advancement) NIRA Policy Research: International Conference: Sustainable Development, Environmental Conditions, and Public Management. 13 (12): 23-24.
Grants:
2015: University of Kentucky, College of Arts and Sciences, Summer Research Grant, $3,000.
2007-2008: National Science Foundation. “An Invitation to Struggle: Statutory Constraint and Judicial Decision Making,” Kirk Randazzo and Richard W. Waterman. $75,000.
1989-91: US Geological Survey, Water Research Institute. Susan Hunter and Richard W. Waterman. $35,000.
Research Awards and Honors:
2014: Panel Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the publication of Bureaucratic Dynamics: The Role of Bureaucracy in a Democracy. Western Political Science Association, Seattle, WA.
2014 and 2016: Nominated for University Research Professorship, University of Kentucky.
2005: American Society for Public Administration’s “Laverne Burchfield Award” for the best book review or TOPS article in Public Administration Review.
1997: Best Paper Award." From the University of New Mexico's Institute for Public Policy for: Waterman, Richard W., Amelia A. Rouse, and Robert L. Wright. "The Venues of Influence: A New Theory of Political Control of the Bureaucracy."
Editorial Responsibilities:
2011-Present: Editorial Board, Social Science Quarterly
Editor of special issue of the Social Science Quarterly on President Obama, December 2012.
Congressional Testimony:
2006, June 28: Provided congressional testimony, upon request of the committee, before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee regarding findings from my books Bureaucrats, Politics and the Environment and Enforcing the Law. The subject of the hearing was regional variations in Environmental Protection Agency enforcement.
Novels and Short Stories:
Waterman, Richard Wayne. 2011. “The First Battle.” Missing Pieces. Dragon Roots Magazine. 2: 125-135.
Waterman, Richard Wayne. 2010. The Oracle: The Succession War. Louisville, KY: Otherworld Publications.
Book Reviews:
Rethinking the Administrative Presidency: Trust, Intellectual Capital, and Appointee-Careerist Relations in the George W. Bush Administration. By William G. Resh. Forthcoming. American Review of Public Administration.
The Unilateral Presidency and the News Media: The Politics of Framing of Executive Power. By Mark Major.2015. Congress and the Presidency.
Take Up Your Pen: Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics. 2014.By Graham G. Dodds. Congress and the Presidency. 41: 147-48.
Overreach: Leadership in the Obama Presidency. By George C. Edwards III. 2012. American Review of Politics. 33: 350-52.
Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal. 2009. By Stephen Skowronek. American Review of Politics: 29: 418-420.
Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy and the Public. 2007. By Brandice Canes-Wrone. Governance. 20: 155-57.
Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design: Political Insulation in the United States Government Bureaucracy, 1946-1997. By David Lewis. Journal of Politics.
Reelection: William Jefferson Clinton as a Native-Son Presidential Candidate. By Hanes Walton, Jr. 2001. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 4: 762-764.
A Two-Way Street: The Institutional Dynamics of the Modern Administrative State. 2000. By George A. Krause. Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science.
The Environmental Presidency.1999. Edited by Dennis L. Soden. Presidential Studies Quarterly.
The President's Call: Executive Leadership from FDR to George Bush. 1998. By Judith Michaels. Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science. 560: 203-204.
The Presidential Republic: Executive Representation and Deliberative Democracy1997 By Gray L. Gregg II. Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science. 559: 213-214.
Regulation in the Reagan-Bush Era: The Eruption of Presidential Influence by Barry D. Friedman. 1996. American Political Science Review. 90: 647-48.
Technical Reports:
Waterman, Richard W. 2000. “Implementation of the Pathway to the Diploma in New Mexico.” University of New Mexico, Institute for Public Policy.
Jenkins-Smith, Hank C., Amy Sue Goodin, Carol L. Silva, Richard W. Waterman, and Scott D. Hughes 1999. “Nuclear Reactions: A Synthesis of Survey Research Findings on Public Perceptions of Nuclear Materials Management Programs.” University of New Mexico, Institute for Public Policy.
Special Invited Conferences:
Ouyang, Yu. and Richard W. Waterman. 2015. “How Legislative (In)Activity Impacts Executive Unilateralism: A Supply and Demand Theory of Presidential Unilateralism.” Conference on Executive Unilateral Politics. University of Houston. Houston, TX.
Participant. 2012. Appointee Politics and the Implications for Government Effectiveness. Virginia Tech. Alexandria, VA.
Waterman, Richard W. 2007. “Putting Politics into the Politics-Administration Dichotomy: The Case of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.” Paper presented for a Conference on George W. Bush and the Bureaucracy at the University of Oxford, Nuffield College.
Participant. 2006. “Presidential Power in America: The Constitution, the Defense of a Nation, and the National Ethos.” Massachusetts School of Law. Andover, MA.
Gill, Jeff and Richard W. Waterman. 2003. “The Presidential Appointment Contradiction.” Paper presented at the 7th National Public Management Research Conference. Georgetown University.
Waterman, Richard W. 2000. “Executive-Legislative Relations and the Functioning of the Federal Bureaucracy: Case Examples from an Analysis of Views of the President and Congress by Enforcement Personnel in the Environmental Protection.” Paper Presented for the International Conference on Sustainable Development, Environmental Conditions, and Public Management: Public Reform Sector Reform and Strategies for Sustainable Development in the United States, Japan, and other Public Rim Nations. National Academy of Public Administration and National Institute for Research Advancement. Tokyo, Japan.
Political Science Conference Papers:
Warber, Adam L., Yu Ouyang, and Richard W. Waterman. 2016. “Landmark Executive Orders: Presidential Leadership Through Unilateral Action.” Presented at the American Political Science Association meeting, Philadelphia.
Ouyang, Yu. and Richard W. Waterman. 2016. “Measuring Executive Unilateral Action: A New Theoretical and Quantitative Approach.” Presented at the Southern Political Science Association meeting, San Juan.
Ouyang, Yu. and Richard W. Waterman. 2015. “How Legislative (In)Activity, Ideological Divergence and Divided Government Impact Executive Unilateralism: A Test of Three Theories. Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting, Chicago.
Ouyang, Yu, Evan Hagland and Richard W. Waterman. 2014. What Do We Mean By Loyalty and Competence in Presidential Appointments? Presented at the International Political Science Association meeting. Montreal.
Lewis, David and Richard W. Waterman. 2012. “The Invisible Presidential Appointments: An Examination of PAS, Schedule C, and SES Appointments to the Department of Labor.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago.
Waterman, Richard W. 2011. “The Speech of a Lifetime.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Social Science Association. Las Vegas.
Randazzo, Kirk A., Richard W. Waterman, and S. Andrew Martin. 2009. “The Evolution of Legal Constraint and the Supreme Court.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Toronto.
Randazzo, Kirk A., Richard W. Waterman, and Michael P. Fix. 2009. “State Supreme Courts and the Effects of Statutory Constraint: A Test of the Model of Contingent Discretion.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA.
Randazzo, Kirk, A., Richard W. Waterman, and Jason Kehrberg. 2008. “Presidential Rhetoric and the Judiciary.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association. Boston, MA.
Randazzo, Kirk A., Richard W. Waterman, and Michael P. Fix. 2007. “Statutory Constraint and State Supreme Court Judges: A Test of the Contingent Attitudinal Model.” Paper Presented at the American Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.
Waterman, Richard W., John G. Bretting, and Joseph Stewart Jr. 2007. “A Tradeoff Model of the Presidential Appointment Calculus: From the Court of St. James to Burkina Faso.” Paper Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.
Randazzo, Kirk A. and Richard W. Waterman. 2006. “Statutory Influences on the U. S. Supreme Court: The Effects of Constraint and Discretion.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, PA.
Lee Walker and Richard W. Waterman. 2006. “Whom to Serve and Protect? Attitudes Toward the Police and the Government In Comparative Perspective.” Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.
Randazzo, Kirk A. and Richard W. Waterman. 2005. “Political Control of the Supreme Court: The “Splendid” Myth of Judicial Independence.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association. Washington, D.C.
Waterman, Richard W. and Jeff Gill. 2005. “When Bureaucracy’s Mission and Structure Changes: The Department of Homeland Security. Paper Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.
Randazzo, Kirk A., Richard W. Waterman, and Jeffrey A. Fine. 2004. “Statutory Constraint and the Federal Judiciary.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.
Fine, Jeffrey A. and Richard W. Waterman. 2004. “The Dynamics of Divided Government: A Theoretical and Methodological Critique.” Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association. New Orleans, LA.
Gill, Jeff and Richard W. Waterman. 2002. “Generalizing the Principal-Agent Model: A New Theory and an Empirical Test.” Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association. Savannah, GA.
Waterman, Richard W. and Jeff Gill. 2002. “Shirking Off Old Theories!: A New Information Exchange Model of Principal-Agent Interaction.” Paper presented at the Conference on State and Local Policy. Milwaukee.
Waterman, Richard W. and Jeff Gill. 2001. “A Bayesian Dynamic Information Exchange Model of Principal-Agent Interaction.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. San Francisco.
Waterman, Richard W., Carol L. Silva, and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith. 2000. "The Gender Gap and the Expectations Gap: Examining Different Attitudes About Presidential Performance." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington, D.C.