Richard Fleisher (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. He has published articles on presidential-congressional relations, congressional elections, constituency influence on roll call voting, and electoral alignments in "American Political Science Review", "Journal of Politics", "American Journal of Political Science", "Political Research Quarterly", "Legislative Studies Quarterly", "American Politics Quarterly", and "Political Science Quarterly". He is coauthor of "The President in the Legislative Arena". He is currently se...