Title: Burnet
C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions
Office address: Pitzer
Hall, CMC
850 North Columbia
Avenue
Claremont,
California 91711
Home Address: 875
North College Avenue
Claremont,
California 91711
Date of Birth: August
6, 1937
Marital Status: Married,
Myrna, two sons, William and Christopher
Harvard
University: A.B. 1959; A.M., Ph.D. 1968
University
of Virginia: LL.B. 1964
1965-67:
Teaching fellow, Harvard, Tutor in
Government, Kirkland House
1968-
Government Department, Claremont McKenna
College, Subjects: American Government, Constitutional Law, Representation and
the Supreme Court, Law and Social Change, Government and the Economy, Politics
of Population, Topics in Political Development; Politics, Philosophy &
Economics, Shakespeare Clinic
1960-61: Officer in Charge, Eighth U.S. Army
Order of Battle War Room, Korea.
1964: Law Associate, Covington &
Burling, Washington, D.C.
1968-72: Director, Henry Salvatori Center for the
Study of
Individual
Freedom in the Modern World.
1968-84: Chairman, Academic Advisory Symposium,
Fourth ROTC
Regional
Command. (formerly Sixth Army).
1976-78: Member, California Transportation Plan
Advisory Committee; Army Advisory Panel on ROTC Affairs.
1977-88:
Member South Coast Air Quality
Management District Advisory Council.
1980-81:
Member, National Commission on Air
Quality Southern California Advisory Committee.
1995-98: Member, SCAG/SCAQMD Reduce Emissions and
Congestion on Highways (REACH) Task Force.
National
Scholar, Harvard; Virginia Law School Scholarship; NSF Fellow; Henry Salvatori
Fellow, Claremont McKenna College; Earhart Fellow (twice); NIH Fellow;
Director, NEH Summer Seminar on Crime & Punishment; NEH Summer Research
Fellow; Haynes Fellow.
Distinguished
Civilian Service Medal, 1973
Roy
C. Crocker Prize for Merit, Claremont McKenna College, 1984
Life
member of CMC Alumni Association, 1986
Honorary
Member CMC Class of 1974
Phi
Beta Kappa, 1990
Burnet
C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions, 1994-
Presidential Award for Merit,
Claremont McKenna College, 1999
Member,
Virginia (former) and D.C. bars; American Association for the Advancement of
Science; Sierra Club; Planning and Conservation League; Chairman, Group Against
Smog Pollution, 1972- ; President, Coalition for Clean Air, 1980-86;
vice-president, 1972-80, 1986-88; board member, 1971-; Society for the
Preservation of the Middle Class, 1976-; Claremont Power Lawn Mower Precision
Drill Team, 1976-86.
The Rise of Guardian Democracy: The Supreme
Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes 1875-1969,
Harvard Political Studies, Harvard University Press, 1975.
“Prometheus,
Proteus, Pandora, and Procrustes Unbound The Political Consequences of
Reapportionment,” 37 Chicago L. Rev.
474 (1970).
“Why
Shouldn't Californians Be Able to Vote on Districts?” Los Angeles Times, 21 July 1983.
Review
of Bruce Cain, The Reapportionment Puzzle,
2 Constitutional Commentary 203
(1985).
13
Articles in Levy, Karst, and Mahoney, Eds., The
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, New York: Macmillan, 1986,
including: “Representation, l5th Amendment,” “Baker v. Carr,” “Electoral
College,” “Gerrymanders,” “Multi-Member Districts,” One Person, One Vote,” and
“Proportional Representation.”
7
Articles in Kermit Hall, Ed., The Oxford
Companion to the Supreme Court, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, on
“Gerrymandering” and six voting rights cases.
Review
of Bernard Grofman, Ed., Political
Gerrymandering and the Courts, 9 Constitutional
Commentary 105 (Winter 1992).
“Lessons
from the American Experience,” in John C. Courtney, et al., Drawing Boundaries Legislatures. Courts, and
Electoral Values, Saskatoon, Fifth House, 1992.
“Suffrage”
Forthcoming in the Oxford Companion to
United States History.
“Federal
Law and Population Control,” Ch. 22 in Environmental Law Institute, Federal Environmental Law, West
Publishing Co., 1974.
“Why
the EPA Should Stop Ignoring Population Growth,” 17 Population and the Environment 151 (November 1995)
End Game? The Politics of Population. Book-length manuscript on population
policy. Under preparation.
“The
Los Angeles Affliction: Suggestions for a Cure,” The Public Interest,
Winter 1975, reprinted, Los Angeles Times,
2 March 1975.
“The
Case for Congestion Charges on the Golden Gate Bridge,” Rose Institute, CMC,
August 1975.
“VMT
Disincentive Choices for the Los Angeles Basin,” Rose Institute, CMC, September
1975, reprinted, Proceedings of Los Angeles Council of Engineers and
Scientists, TRANSPO LA, November 12, 1975.
“Giving
the Plan a Bottom Line: Suggestions for Adding Cost-Benefit Comparisons to the
California Transportation Plan,” Rose Institute, CMC, May 1976, reprinted in
USC Center for Public Affairs, Inst. for Public Policy Research, Transportation Alternatives for Southern
California, April 1976.
“Road
Use Charges and Jitneys: Some Thoughts on How to Introduce Them to Los
Angeles,” Rose Institute, CMC, July 1976.
“Planning
Committee Study on Congestion Charges,” South Coast Air Quality Management
District Advisory Committee, February 1983.
“Fumbling
Toward the Edge of History: California's Quest for a Road Pricing Experiment.”
20A Transportation Research 151 (May
1986).
“The
Time is Now for Peak-Hour Road Charges -- A Rational Response to Smog and
Congestion.” Golden State Briefings,
March 1990.
“The
Traffic Congestion Problem in Florida: Congestion Charges as an Alternative to
Growth Management,” with Stephen Hayward. In Mandate for Prosperity, 1990.
“Peak-Hour
Road Charges for Southern California: Has Their Hour Come Round at Last?” 46 Transportation Quarterly 517 (October
1992).
“Greenbacks
Über Gridlock: The L.A. Freeway
Solution,” The Washington Post, April
17, 1994, p. 5, c. 1.
“Toll
Lanes Aren't Elitist; They're Smooth Riding for All,” Los Angeles Times, December 8, 1995
“The
Fast Lane Factor: Why Southern
California Needs Congestion Charges And How it Can Get Them.” White paper for REACH Task Force, October 9,
1995
“Greenbacks
Über Gridlock II: Pricing the Way to Cleaner Air and Faster Roads in the South
Coast Air Basin.” White paper for REACH
Task Force, January 22, 1997
“Greenbacks
Über Gridlock: REACH Task Force Shows L.A. How to Save Billions in Smog and
Congestion Costs.” 3 Planning and Markets,
Issue 1, October 2000, http://www-pam.usc.edu/
“Greenbacks
Über Gridlock: REACH Task Force Shows L.A. How to Save Billions in Smog and
Congestion Costs.” Longer, more documented version of the Planning and Markets
article above, Claremont Economic Papers,
http://econ.mckenna.edu/papers/2000-42.pdf.
“A
Program for Accelerated Smog Control, 1972 and later,” GASP white paper,
reprinted as “Prospects for Clean Air,” Planning & Conservation League,
April 1972.
“Oil
Policy and the Energy Crisis: The Problems of Developing a Longer View,” Rose
Institute of State and Local Government, Claremont Men's College, 1974.
“Blueprint
for Clean Air: A Survey of Smog Control Strategies for the Los Angeles Basin,”
Coalition for Clean Air White Paper, April, 1975.
“The
$62 Question: Review Essay on David Harrison, Who Pays for Clean Air,” Technology and Society, Winter 1977.
“Pricing
Pollution in the South Coast Basin: The Case for Emissions Charges,” Coalition
for Clean Air White Paper, May 1977.
“The
Costs of Smog in the South Coast Basin,” Coalition for Clean Air White Paper,
February 1978.
“The
South Coast Air Quality Management Plan: Map or Mandate?”, Coalition for Clean
Air White Paper, December 1978.
“The
Case for Smog Charges in the South Coast Basin,” Proceedings of the Air
Pollution Control Association: Economic
Incentives for Clean Air, January 1971.
“Full-Cost
Emissions Charges for the South Coast Basin,” 7 The Environmental Professional 49 (1985)
“Economic
Incentives for Smog Control: A Survey of Alternatives,” Coalition for Clean Air
Discussion Paper, May 1991.
Matching Shakespeare, 1988: Computer Testing of
Elizabethan Texts for Common Authorship with Shakespeare.
Claremont Colleges New Liberal Arts Program, April 1989.
Matching Shakespeare, 1989: Computer Testing of
Elizabethan Texts for Common Authorship with Shakespeare.
Claremont Colleges New Liberal Arts Program, July 1989.
Matching Shakespeare, 1990: Computer Testing of
Elizabethan Texts for Common Authorship with Shakespeare.
October 1990. With Rob Valenza. Final report of the 1990 Clinic.
Matching Shakespeare, 1995: Computer Testing of
Elizabethan Texts for Common Authorship with Shakespeare. Final report of 1992-94 Shakespeare Clinics,
CMC Practicum Program.
“The
Shakespeare Clinic,” in the Shakespeare
Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1989.
“The
Shakespeare Clinic Post-Season Update,” Shakespeare
Newsletter, Summer 1990.
“Glass
Houses and Glass Slippers: The Shakespeare Clinic and Its Critics, summary of
debate with Oxfordians,” Shakespeare
Newsletter, Winter, 1990.
“Pretenders
Sound Wrong Chords,” The Los Angeles Times,
Apr. 26, 1991, P. B7, c. 1.
“Who
Was Shakespeare?” Chance, Vol. 4, No.
3, Summer, 1991. June 24, 1991 version
updated from printed version.
“A
Touchstone for the Bard.” 25 Computers
and the Humanities 199 (Dec. 1991) with Robert J. Valenza.
“Computers
and the Oxford Candidacy,” October 1990.
With Robert J. Valenza.
Unauthorized paper presented at the Shakespeare Oxford Society Pasadena
Convention.
“Was
the Earl of Oxford the True Shakespeare?
A Computer-Aided Analysis,” 236 Notes
and Queries 501 (December 1991). With Robert J. Valenza.
“And
Then There Were None: Winnowing the Shakespeare Claimants,” January 1996. With Robert J. Valenza. Summary of 1992-94 Shakespeare Clinics'
final report, 30 Computers and the
Humanities 191 (April 1996, appeared January 1997).
“Glass
Slippers and Seven-League Boots: C-Prompted Doubts About Ascribing A Funeral Elegy and A Lover's Complaint to Shakespeare.” With Robert J. Valenza. 48 Shakespeare
Quarterly 177 (June 1997)
“The
Professor Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks: Problems with the Foster
‘Response.’” With Robert J. Valenza. 32 Computers
and the Humanities 425 (1998).
“So
Many Hardballs, So Few of them Over the Plate: Conclusions from our ‘Debate’
with Donald Foster.” With Robert J. Valenza. Abbreviated version, forthcoming
in Computers and the Humanities
“So
Much Hardball, So Little of it Over the Plate: Conclusions from our ‘Debate’
with Donald Foster.” With Robert J. Valenza.
http://govt.claremontmckenna.edu/welliott/hardball.htm. (September, 2000). This is a longer, more
substantiated version of our “So Many Hardballs” above.
“Smoking
Guns and Silver Bullets: Could John Ford Have Written the Funeral Elegy?” With Robert J. Valenza. Forthcoming in Linguistic and Literary Computing.
“Can
of Oxford Candidacy be Saved? A Response
to W. Ron Hess: ‘Shakespeare’s Dates.’” 3 The
Oxfordian 71, 2000.
In Search of Shakespeare: Computer-Aided Testing
of Elizabethan Texts for Common Authorship with Shakespeare. With Robert J. Valenza. Under preparation.
“The
Peacock Syndrome: Barriers to Economic Development in Egypt,” 15 Public Policy 212 (1968).
“Guilt
and Overguilt: Some Reflections on Moral Stimulus and Paralysis,” 78 Ethics 247 (1968), reprinted in Jane
Scheiber, Ed., Moral Choices in
Contemporary Society, Publisher's, Inc., 1977.
“ROTC:
Effective Brake on the War Machine,” Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1969, excerpts syndicated for 50 newspapers by
Chicago Tribune.
“The
Assault on ROTC,” The Alternative,
December 1970, p. 5, reprinted, Army,
January 1971.
“Political
Attitudes at the Claremont Colleges,” CMC Government Dept., March 10, 1989.
“Left,
Right, and Center: Student Politics Since the '60's,” Claremont McKenna College
Profile, Summer, 1996.
Translation
of Carmina Burana for Claremont
Chorale, June 8, 1991, reprinted for 50th-Anniversary performance by Concert
Choir and Claremont Concert Orchestra, Oct. 26-27, 1996.