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"The Illinois Tenth Congressional District: The Role of Soft Money." In David B. Magleby (ed.). 
Election Advocacy: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in          the 2000 Congressional  Elections. 2001. Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young  University. Provo, UT. Also
          published at
PS Online [June, 2001].

Race and Racism: Effects on Illinois Voters, Paper Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Illinois Political Science Association.
          University Park, IL.

Rethinking the Evasion Hypothesis: Disaggregating Senate-Executive Interaction, Paper Presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
          Science Association.  Chicago, IL.

The Exponential Executive Agreement: The Necessity of Understanding International Agreement Data, Paper Presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of
          the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.

Executive Agreement Stasis: Implications in Determining President’s Evasion, Paper Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
          Science Association.  Chicago, IL.

Who’s Got the Power? Evasive Presidents With Executive Agreements vs. Congress With the Purse and Approval, Paper Presented at the 2006
          Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Diplomacy Under Crisis: Executive Agreements in a Turbulent Global Arena, Paper Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
          Science Association. Chicago, IL.  (Forthcoming).

Treating Crises With Treaties: Treaties in a Turbulent Global Arena, Poster Session Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political
           Science Association. Chicago, IL.  (Forthcoming).
Professional Works
Listed below are various pieces of professional work that I have written.
If you are interested in reading any of these works, please contact me via E-mail:
randall_d_smith@yahoo.com