Joseph A. Pika, PhD

JAMES R. SOLES PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

jpika@udel.edu e-mail
302-831-2355 phone/voice-mail
302-831-4452 fax

180 Graham Hall | University of Delaware | Newark, Delaware 19716-7380

 
Dr. Pika has been deeply involved in departmental, college and university governance, including his position as department Chair and previous position as Faculty Director of the Delaware Social Studies Education Program. He has served on or chaired committees dealing with general education, undergraduate studies, interdisciplinary programs, and recruitment of minority students and faculty. In summer 1993, he attended the Lilly Endowment's Workshop on the Liberal Arts as part of the university's team working on general education reform. He has received both of the University's faculty awards for work with undergraduates—the Excellence in Teaching and Undergraduate Advising awards—and has been inducted into multiple honor societies and served two years as President of the local Phi Beta Kappa chapter. During spring 1993, Dr. Pika served as Executive Director of the Governor's Commission on Government Reorganization and Effectiveness, a statewide effort focused on reinventing ways to conduct public business. After nine months with the commission, he returned to his position as Associate Chair and assumed the responsibilities of Chair in fall 1994. In 1997, he was appointed to the Delaware State Board of Education and was named President in 2001. He has held numerous other education-related positions.

He is the co-author of two books that have undergone several revisions, more than 20 articles and book chapters published in professional journals and collections, a major government report, and numerous papers presented at professional meetings and conferences.
 

 
PhD, University of Wisconsin 1979, Political Science

MA, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies 1970, International Relations

BA, The Johns Hopkins University 1970, International Relations
 

 
Excellence in Advising Award, University of Delaware, 1992
Phi Kappa Phi, University of Delaware, 1992
Golden Key National Honor Society, U. of Delaware, 1992
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Delaware, 1987
Omicron Delta Kappa, University of Delaware, 1986
Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978 (Graduate Student Award)
Phi Beta Kappa, The Johns Hopkins University, 1968
 

 

2008 - present		James R. Soles Professor, Department of Political Science & International Relations, University of Delaware
2000 - 2008		Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Political Science & International Relations, University of Delaware
1999 - 2001		Faculty Director, Delaware Social Studies Education Project, University of Delaware
1994 - 1999		Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science & International Relations, University of Delaware
1993 - 1994		Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Political Science & International Relations, University of Delaware
1989 - 1993		Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Political Science & International Relations, University of Delaware
1987 - 1989		Associate Professor, University of Delaware
1981 - 1987		Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
1978 - 1981		Assistant Professor, SUNY at Buffalo (Buffalo, N.Y.)
1977 - 1978		Visiting Lecturer, University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wis.)
1976 - 1977		Instructor, Western Maryland College (Westminster, Md.)
1970 - 1973		The Gilman School (Baltimore, Md.)

 
Board of Trustees, University of Delaware
Member, State Board of Education, 1997-present; President, 2001-present
Member, Accountability Advisory Committee, 1998-2000
Chair, Education Salary Schedule Improvement Committee, 1998-1999
Chair, Educational Compensation Committee, 1999
Jobs for Delaware Graduates
Delaware Law-Related Education
H. Fletcher Brown Scholarship Committee
Executive Director, Governor's Commission on Government Reorganization and Effectiveness, 1993
 

 
POSC150 - American Political System
POSC407 - The American Presidency
POSC413 - Problems in American Government
POSC442 - Problems of Western European Politics: British Politics
POSC467 - Road to the White House
POSC808 - American Political Institutions
 

 
BOOKS

The Politics of the Presidency, 5th ed. rev’d. with Norman C. Thomas and John Maltese (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2001).
Previous editions 1996, 1993, 1992.

The Presidential Contest, 5th ed. with Richard Watson (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1996).
Previous edition 1991 with Zelma Mosley and Richard Watson.

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

"The 2002 Delaware Senate Race," in The Last Hurrah? Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2002 Congressional Elections, David B. Magleby and J. Quin Monson, eds., (Salt Lake City: Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, 2003) 327-333.

"The 2000 Delaware Senate Race," in Election Advocacy: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2000 Congressional Elections, David B. Magleby, ed., (Salt Lake City: Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, 2001) 51-61.

"Interest Groups: A Doubly-Dynamic Relationship," in Presidential Policymaking: An End of the Century Assessment, ed. Steven A .Shull (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999) 59-78.

"The Vice Presidency: New Opportunities, Old Constraints," in The Presidency and the Political System, 4th edition, Michael Nelson, ed. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1994), 496-528.
5th edition, Nelson (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1997), 527-564.
6th edition, Nelson (Washinton, D.C.: CQ Press, 2000) 533-569.

"Delaware: Friends and Neighbors Politics," with Janet B. Johnson in Interest Groups in the Northeast, edited by Ronald J. Hrebenar and Clive S. Thomas (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), 61-93.

"Reaching Out to Organized Interests: Public Liaison in the Modern White House," in The Presidency Reconsidered, ed. Richard W. Waterman (Wood Dale, IL.: Peacock Press, 1993), 149-172.

"The Presidency Since Mid-Century," with Norman C. Thomas, in Congress and the Presidency, Vol. 19:1 (Spring 1992): 33-46.

"White House Staffing: Salvation, Damnation and Uncertainty," in Executive Leadership in Anglo-American Systems, edited by Colin Campbell and Margaret J. Wyszomirski, (Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), 319-340.

"Opening Doors for Kindred Souls: The White House Office of Public Liaison," in Interest Group Politics, 3rd ed. A. Cigler and B. Loomis, eds., (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1991), 277-298.

"Bush, Quayle, and the New Vice Presidency," in The Presidency and the Political System, 3rd edition, Michael Nelson, ed. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1990), 501-528.

"The President As Institution Builder: The Reagan Case," (with Norman C.Thomas), in Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration, Vol. 3, No. 4 (October 1990): 438-456.

"Recent Trends in Studying the Presidency: Reagan and Beyond," in American Studies International, Vol. 28:1 (April 1990): 13-31.

"Assessing Reagan's Legacy," in Congress and the Presidency, Vol. 16:2 (Autumn 1989): 163-169.

"Governing the Government," in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 7:4 (Fall 1988) 738-741.

"A New Vice Presidency?" in The Presidency and the Political System, 2nd edition, Michael Nelson, ed., Congressional Quarterly Press, 1987, 463-482.

"Management Style and the Organizational Matrix: Studying White House Operations," in Administration and Society, Vol. 20:1 (May 1988) 3-29.

"Interest Groups and the White House Under Roosevelt and Truman," in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 102:4 (Winter 1987-88) 647-688.

"White House Boundary Roles: Marginal Men Amidst the Palace Guard," in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 16:4 (Fall 1986) 700-715.

"Library Research and Elite Interviewing: A Comparison," in Presidency Research, Vol. VIII: 2 (Spring 1986).

"Interviewing Presidential Aides: A Political Scientist's Perspective," in Studying the Presidency, Stephen J. Wayne and George C. Edwards, eds., University of Tennessee Press, 1983, 272-302.

"Interest Groups and the Executive: Presidential Intervention," in Interest Group Politics, Allen Cigler and Burdette Loomis, eds., CQ Press, 1983, 298-323.

"Moving Beyond the Oval Office: Problems in Studying the Presidency," in Congress and the Presidency, Vol. 9:1 (Winter 1981-82) 17-36.

"The President and Interest Groups," in Dimensions of the Modern Presidency, Edward N. Kearny, ed., Forum Press, 1981.