Cary R. Covington

Covington's Website
Research Fields:
American Politics

Contact Information

Email: cary-covington@uiowa.edu
Phone: 319-335-2339
Office: 305 SH

Fall 2009 Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 AM-noon, and by appointment.

 

Faculty Profile



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Cary R. Covington

Associate Professor


Ph.D.: University of Illinois, 1981.

 

Fields: American Politics and the Presidency.

 

Sample Publications: The Coalitional Presidency, Dorsey Press (with L. Seligman, 1989); “Comparing Floor-Dominated and Party-Dominated Explanations of Policy Change in the House of Representatives,” Journal of Politics (with A. Bargen, 2004); “A ‘Presidency-Augmented’ Model of Presidential Success on House Roll Call Votes,” American Journal of Political Science (with J. M. Wrighton and R. Kinney, 1995).