Birth Date:  April 19, 1943
Place of Birth:  Pasadena, California
 

EDUCATION:

B.A.  Occidental College, 1964:  Political Science
M.A.  University of California, Santa Barbara, 1965:  Political Science
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1971:  Political Science
 

EMPLOYMENT:

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department  of Political Science:  Professor, 1998-present; Associate Professor, 1989-1998.
University of Minnesota, Department of Political Science:  Associate Professor, 1978-89; Assistant Professor, 1971-78; Acting Assistant Professor, 1968-71.
Hamline University, Graduate Program in Public Administration:  Adjunct Professor, 1983-89.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Political Science:  Teaching Assistant, 1967-68.
 

BOOKS:

Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott, Empowering the White House: Governance under Nixon, Ford, and Carter. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

Charles E. Walcott and Karen M. Hult, Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ.  Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Karen M. Hult and Charles Walcott, Governing Public Organizations .  Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1990.

Charles Walcott (ed.), Simple Simulations 2: A Collection of Simulation/Games for Political Scientists.  Washington, DC: American Political Science Association, 1980.

Charles Walcott (with Anne Walcott),  Simple Simulations: A Guide to the Design and Use of Simulation/Games in Teaching Political Science.  Washington, DC: American Political  Science Association, 1976.  

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

Charles E. Walcott and Karen M. Hult, "George Akerson's Legacy:  Continuity and Change in White House Press Operations," Presidential Studies Quarterly.  Vol. 38, No. 4, December 2008 (forthcoming)

Charles E. Walcott and Karen M. Hult, "Early Evaluations of the Bush Presidency," Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2007, 361-369.

Charles E. Walcott and Karen M. Hult, "White House Structure and Decision Making: Elaborating the Standard Model," Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2, June 2005, 303-318.

Charles E. Walcott and Karen M. Hult, "The Bush Staff and Cabinet System," Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer 2003. 150-155.
Expanded version published in Mark J. Rozell and Gary L. Gregg, eds. Considering the Bush Presidency.  New York: Oxford University Press 2003.

Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott, "Separating Rhetoric from Policy: Speechwriting Under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter," White House Studies , Vol 1, No. 4, 2001, 463-478.  Reprinted in Robert P Watson, ed., Contemporary Presidential Studies: A Reader.  New York: Nova History Publications, 2002.

Charles E. Walcott, Shirley Anne Warshaw, and Stephen J. Wayne, "The Chief of Staff," Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3, September 2001, 464-489.  Revised version appears in Martha Joynt Kumar and Terry Sullivan, eds. The White House World: Transitions, Organization, and Office Operations.  College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.

Peri E. Arnold, Charles E. Walcott and Bradley H. Patterson, Jr., "The Office of Management and Administration," Presidential Studies Quarterly , Vol. 31, No. 2, June 2001, 190-220.  Revised version appears in Martha Joynt Kumar and Terry Sullivan, eds., The White House World: Transitions, Organization, and Office Operations.  College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.

Karen M. Hult, Charles E. Walcott, and Thomas J. Weko, “Qualitative Research and the Study of the Presidency,”
Congress and the Presidency, Vol. 26, No. 2, Fall 1999, 133-152.

Charles E. Walcott and Karen M. Hult, “White House Staff Size:  Explanations and Implications,”
Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3, September 1999, 638-656.

Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott, "Policy-Makers and Wordsmiths: Writing for the President Under Johnson and Nixon," Polity, Vol. 30, No. 3, Spring 1998, 465-487.

Charles Walcott and Karen M. Hult, "White House Organization as a Problem of Governance: The Eisenhower System," Presidential Studies Quarterly , Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring 1994, 327-340.

Charles Walcott and Karen M. Hult, "Management Science and the Great Engineer: Governing the White House During the Hoover Administration," Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 1990, 557-579.

Karen M. Hult and Charles Walcott, "Organizational Design as Public Policy," Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, Spring 1989, 469-494.

Charles Walcott and Karen M. Hult, "Organizing the White House:  Structure, Environment, and Organizational Governance," American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 31, No. 1, February 1987, 109-126.

Charles Walcott, "Small Groups and Large Systems: The Uses of  Simulation in the Study of Public Administration," in Robert T. Golembiewski (ed.), The Small Group in Political Science: The Last Two Decades of Development .  Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 1978.

P. Terrence Hopmann and Charles Walcott, "The Impact of External Stresses and Tensions on Negotiations," in Daniel Druckman (ed.), Negotiations: A Social-Psychological Perspective.  Beverly Hills:  Sage-Halsted, 1977.

Charles Walcott, P. Terrence Hopmann and Timothy D. King, "The  Role of Debate in Negotiation," in Daniel Druckman (ed.), Negotiations: A Social-Psychological Perspective.  Beverly Hills:  Sage-Halsted, 1977.

Virginia Gray and Charles Walcott, "Simulation, Learning, and Student Attitudes," Teaching Political Science, Vol. 4, No. 3, April 1977, 295-306.

P. Terrence Hopmann and Charles Walcott, "The Impact of International Conflict and Detente on Bargaining in Arms Control Negotiations," International Interactions, Vol. 2, No. 4, November 1976, 189-206.

P. Terrence Hopmann and Charles Walcott, "Research Note: The  Bargaining Process in International Arms Control  Negotiations," International Interactions, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1975, 63-64.

Charles Walcott and P. Terrence Hopmann, "Interaction Analysis and Bargaining Behavior," Experimental Study of Politics, Vol. 4, No. 1, February 1975, 1-19.  Reprinted in Robert T. Golembiewski, ed., The Small Group in Political Science: The Last Two Decades of Development.  Athens:  University of  Georgia Press, 1978.

Charles Walcott, "Incrementalism and Rationality: An Experimental Study of Budgetary Decision-Making," Experimental Study of Politics .  Vol. 1, No. 3, December 1971, 1-34.
 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Current presidency syllabus available from Presidency Research Group site at http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/Renka/PRG/presidency_syllabi.asp

Charles E. Walcott, "Teaching the Presidency: Presidential Advising Simulation," PRG Report, Vol. 23, No. 1, Fall 2000, 11-15.

Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott, “Decision Making in the Presidency: A Way Out of the Thicket,” PRG Report, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring 1998, 1-5.

Charles E. Walcott, Shirley Anne Warshaw, and Stephen J. Wayne, "The Chief of Staff," White House Interview Program, White House 2001 Project.  Available on the Web at http://www.ibiblio.org/whtp/

Peri E. Arnold, Charles E. Walcott, and Bradley H. Patterson, Jr., "The Office of Management and Administration," White House Interview Program, White House 2001 Project.  Available on the Web at http://www.ibiblio.org/whtp/

Charles E. Walcott, Virginia State Government Activities.  New York: Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 1997.  (Supplement to Richard C.  Remy, United States Government: Democracy in Action, a high school text)

Charles Walcott, "Memorial Minute" (in remembrance of Benjamin E. Lippincott), Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter, 1991, 219.

Karen M. Hult and Charles Walcott, "Studying the White House: Some Observations and a Brief Argument," Presidency Research, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 1989, 5-17.

Charles Walcott, "Observing Political Behavior in Its Natural Setting:  A Comment," Politics and the Life Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 1, August 1983, 33-34.

Charles Walcott, "Bureaucracy," Dictionary of American History,  2nd ed., New York:  Scribner's, 1976, 383-384.
 

BOOK REVIEWS:

Terry Sullivan (ed.), The Nerve Center: Lessons in Governing from the White House Chiefs of Staff in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2005.

Walter Williams, Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy in White House Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2004.

David A. Crockett, The Opposition Presidency: Leadership and the Constraints of History;  Paul A. Kowert, Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors? in Perspectives on Politics Vol. 1, No. 4, December 2003.

Tevi Troy, Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? in Political Studies Review, Vol. 1, Issue 3, September 2003.

Iwan Morgan, Nixon, in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2, June 2003.

Robert Y. Shapiro, Martha Joynt Kumar and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds., Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the Twenty-First Century in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Vol 4, No. 4, Winter 2001.

Michael A. Genovese, The Watergate Crisis, in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 2000.

Charles O. Jones, The Presidency in a Separated System; Craig  Allen Smith and Kathy B. Smith, The White House Speaks: Presidential Leadership as Persuasion, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
v. 546, July, 1996.

David J. Ott, et al, Public Claims on U.S. Output, in American Political Science Review, Vol. 71, No. 3, September 1977.

James David Barber, Power in Committees, in American Political Science Review, Vol. 64, No. 2, June 1970.
 

AWARDS FOR SCHOLARSHIP:

Sturm Award for Excellence in Research, Mu of Virginia chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Virginia Tech, 2008.

Virgnia Social Science Association 2008 VSSA Scholar Award in Political Science.

Empowering the White House: Governance under Nixon, Ford and Carter selected as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2005 by Choice Magazine.

Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2004.

Richard E. Neustadt Award -- Best Book on the U.S. Presidency  published in 1995, for Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ.

Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ selected as an Outstanding Academic Book in 1996 by Choice Magazine.

Theodore Lowi Award -- Best Article, Policy Studies Journal , 1989.  Awarded by the Policy Studies Organization for "Organizational Design as Public Policy.".

Pi Sigma Alpha Award -- Best Paper, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 1985.  For "Organizing the White House: Structure, Environment, and Organizational Governance."

Finalist, Third International Prize Competition for Most Original New Contribution to the Field of Organization Analysis and Design, The Institute of Management Sciences, 1985.  For "Organizations as Polities:  A Governance Approach to Complex Organizations," co-authored with Karen M. Hult.
 

AWARDS FOR TEACHING:

Named Professor of the Year by the Virginia Tech Political Science Club, 2008.

Voted one of Virginia Tech's "most valuable professors" by the Panhellenic Council, 2005.

Certificate of Teaching Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2003.

Department of Political Science Teaching Award, Virginia Tech, 1996, 2001, 2002.

Named Honorary Member of Golden Key Honor Society, Virginia Tech, 1995.

Outstanding Teacher Award, Graduate Program in Public Administration, Hamline University, 1988, 1989.

Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 1988.
 

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Book, The Legacy of AIAW:  Governing Intercollegiate Athletics  (tentative title), with J.S. Hult, under contract with University of Illinois Press.

Project on recent Chiefs of Staff with David B. Cohen aand Karen M. Hult.
  

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Political Science Association
  Organized Section on Presidency Research
  Organized Section on Public Administration
  Organized Section on Public Policy
  Organized Section on Undergraduate Education
  Organized Section on Politics and History
Center for the Study of the Presidency
Southern Political Science Association
Northeastern Political Science Association
 

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND RESEARCH PAPERS:

Chair, section on Bureaucracy and Public Administration, Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, 1996.

Chaired numerous panels at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, and Midwest Political Science Association.

Served as discussant on panels at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Midwest Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association, and Minnesota Political Science Association.

Presented approximately 40 papers at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, American Society for Public Administration, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Central States Speech Association, Institute of Management Science, International Studies Association, Minnesota Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, and Western Political Science Association.

Selected Recent Papers:

David B. Cohen and Charles E. Walcott, "The Performance of the White House Chiefs of Staff in the Reagan through Clinton Administrations," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 2006.

David B. Cohen and Charles E. Walcott, "From the Arkansas Outsider to the Washington Insider: The White House Chiefs of Staff During the Clinton Years," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Assocriation, September 2005.

Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott, "Organizing the White House: Alternatives to the Standard Model?" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, January 2004.

Charles E. Walcott, "New Wine in Old Bottles: The Development of Governing Institutions for Women's Intercollegiate Athletics" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, October 1999.

Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott, “Speech Writing Under Ford  and Carter:  The Demise of the Nixon Model?” presented  at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science  Association, October 1998.

RESEARCH GRANTS:

1974 -- Grant from Dept. of Defense for studies of arms control negotiation processes (P. Terrence Hopmann, co-investigator).

1981 -- Grant from University of Minnesota Graduate School for work on Bargaining Process Analysis coding system.

1987 -- Grants from University of Minnesota Graduate school, Center for Conflict Resolution, and National Endowment for the Humanities for project on White House staff.

1987-88 -- Bush Foundation Sabbatical Fellowship

1994 -- Grant from Virginia Tech College of Arts & Sciences for research at the Nixon Archives.

1996 -- Grant from Virginia Tech College of Arts & Sciences for research on the AIAW.

1996 -- Grant from Ford Library Foundation for research at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.

1997 -- Grant from American Political Science Association for research at the Carter Center.
 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected):

Co-editor, Congress and the Presidency (2001 - )

Member, Editorial Board, Presidential Studies Quarterly (1999 -  )

Secretary-Treasurer, APSA Organized Sectrion on Presidency Research (PRG), 2006-07.

Academic Consultant, Glencoe Press (1996 - )

Member, Advisory Board, H-TEACHPOL Discussion List (1996 - 2003)

Member, Editorial Board, Experimental Study of Politics (1971- 1990)

Member, Executive Committee, APSA Organized Section on Presidency Research (PRG) (1986-89, 2004-06)

Member, Executive Committee, APSA Organized Section on Undergraduate Education (1995-96)

Associate Editor, Teaching Political Science (1970-78); Acting  Editor, 1974-75

Chair, PRG Founder's Award Committee for Best Paper Presented by a Graduate Student, 1996-97

Member, PRG Founder's Award Committee for Best Paper Presented at the APSA meeting, 1999.

Instructor, Seminar on Simulation in Teaching Political Science, APSA Professional Development Program (1976-79)

Section Coordinator, NSF-sponsored Institutes for College Teachers, 1971-72

Co-leader, NSF-sponsored Conference on Small Groups and Political Research, 1970

Reviewed articles for American Journal of Political Science,  American Political Science Review, Behavioral Science, Congress and the Presidency, Experimental Study of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Political Methodology, Political Psychology,  Presidential Studies Quarterly, P.S., Social Science Quarterly, and Western Political Quarterly.

Reviewed research proposals for the National Science Foundation.

Reviewed book manuscripts and prospecti for numerous publishers, including University Press of Kansas, SUNY Press, Lynne Reinner, Harper Collins, Brooks/Cole, McGraw-Hill, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Addison-Wesley, Houghton Mifflin, Peter Lang, Palgrave Macmillan, and John Wiley & Sons.
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Introductory:  American Politics, Public Policy, Introduction  to Political Analysis, World Politics, Contemporary Political Ideologies.

Advanced:    American Bureaucracy, American Presidency, Interest Groups, Organization Theory, Administrative Process, Public Administration,
                    Political Parties, International Bargaining and Diplomacy, International Organization.

Graduate:     Executive Process, U.S. Presidency, Organization Theory, U.S. Public Policy, Public Administration, Interest Groups, Research Methods,
                   Teaching Political Science.

Thesis:         Advised four doctoral dissertations, numerous Master's and senior honors theses.

Advising/Administrative:   Coordinator, Cross-Disciplinary Sequence on  "American Experiences," 1973-74; Adviser,
                 Bachelor of Individualized Studies Program, 1976-1989; Adviser, Metro-Executive Internship Program, 1974-89 (all at University
                 of Minnesota); Intern Adviser, 1989-93, 1997-8; Political Science and International Studies Career Adviser, 1989-93;
                 Co-operative Education Adviser, 1989-93; Undergraduate Academic Adviser, 1993- 1996, 2002-2003. (all at Virginia Tech).
 

ACADEMIC GOVERNANCE EXPERIENCE (selected):

University Governance (University of Minnesota):
 Chair, Intercollegiate Athletic Committee
 Chair, Internal Review Committee, Department of Women's
    Intercollegiate Athletics
 Chair, Faculty Athletic Representative Search Committee
 Member, Educational Development Committee
 Member, University Committee on Grading
 Member, Experimental College Evaluation Committee
     Member, Board of Governors, Coffman Memorial Student Union
     Member, Recreational Sports Board of Governors

Collegiate Governance (University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts)
 Chair, Curriculum Policy Committee
 Member, Experimental Courses Committee
 Member, College Assembly
 Member, Dean's Executive Committee
 Member, Curriculum Committee
 Member, Cross-Disciplinary Studies Committee

Collegiate Governance (University of Minnesota, Graduate School)
 Chair, Social Science Policy and Review Committee
 Chair, Internal Review Committee, Dept. of Anthropology
 Member, Dean's Executive Committee

University and Collegiate Governance (Virginia Tech)
 Chair, Internal Review Committee, Dept. of Political Science
 Member, Graduate Honor System
 Member, Teaching Planning Committee (College of Arts & Sciences)
 Chair, Public Policy and Administration Subcommittee,
    Curriculum Committee, School of Public and International
    Affairs
 Chair, Truman Scholarship Committee
 Member, Curriculum Committee (College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences)

Departmental Governance (University of Minnesota)
 Acting Chair, Department of Political Science
 Director of Graduate Studies
 Director of Undergraduate Studies
 Director of Graduate Placement
 Co-Director, Political Science Small Groups and Simulation
    Laboratory

Departmental Governance (Virginia Tech)
 Director of Undergraduate Studies
     Chair, Curriculum Committee
     Chair, Honors Committee
     Member, Executive Committee
     Member, Graduate Committee
     Member, Teaching Evaluation Committee
     Member, Graduation Committee
 Departmental Publicity Representative
 Departmental Representative, Combined Virginia Campaign