The Pomona Politics Department
David Menefee-Libey
- Professor of Politics, 1989
- B.A., St. Olaf College
- M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
- Contact Information
- Office: Carnegie 4
- Phone Number: 909-607-9323
- E-mail: david_menefeelibey@pomona.edu
- Classes
- Politics 3: Introduction to American Politics
- Politics 13: Democratic Theory and Practice
- Politics 30: The United States Congress (current)
- Politics 130: Political Parties and Elections
- Politics 135: Policy Implementation and Evaluation
- Politics 147: Education Politics Policy
- Politics 148: Education Policy Data Workshop (current)
- Politics 190A: Senior Seminar in American Politics
- Research Interests
- The politics of reform in urban public school districts, particularly in the Los Angeles region
- Directing sccore.org, the Southern California Consortium on Research in Education
- Campaigns and Elections, especially candidate and party strategy
- Campaign Finance
- Recent Publications and Papers
- "The Conditions of K-12 Education in the Los Angeles Region, 2003," an annual report published at sccore.org under the auspices of the Southern California Consortium on Research in Education, September 2003
- With D. Linzer and M. Muller, "The California 29th Congressional District Race," in The Last Hurrah? Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2002 Congressional Elections (D.B. Magleby and J.Q. Monson, eds., Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, Brigham Young University, 2003)
- co-author, "Accountability at the Improv: Brief Sketches of School Reform in Los Angeles," in James G. Cibulka and William Lowe Boyd, eds., Reforming Urban School Governance: Responses to the Crisis of Performance (Greenwood/Ablex, forthcoming).
- co-author, "Opening the Floodgates: Campaigning Without Scarcity in the California 27th Congressional District Race," published in a variety of forms and places, including online at http://www.byu.edu/outsidemoney/. Forthcoming in David Magleby, ed., Election Advocacy: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2000 Elections (Rowman and Littlefield).
- co-author, The Impact of the Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project on Public School Reform (Los Angeles Compact on Evaluation, 2000).
- The Triumph of Campaign-Centered Politics (Chatham House Publishers, 2000)
- "The Multiplier Effect: Combining Classroom Study with Field Research and Internships" presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, September 1998.
- "The Evolving Context of School Reform and Assistance in The Los Angeles Unified School District," a research report to the Los Angeles Educational Partnership, August 1998.
- co-author, Decentralization in Practice: Toward a System of Schools (Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research, 1998)
- Awards and Honors
- Pomona College, Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997, 1992 & 2002
- John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, Faculty Fellowship, "Conditions of K-12 Education in the Los Angeles Region: An Annual Report to Inform Public Debate on School Quality and Reform," 2002
- Visiting Fulbright Professor, University of Limerick, Ireland, 1999-2000
- Brookings Institution, Hartley Fellowship in Governmental Studies, 1986-1987
- Danforth Graduate Fellowship, 1980-1985