Peverill Squire
Hicks and Martha Griffiths Chair in American Political Institutions
Office: 301 Professional Bldg.
Phone: 573-882-0097
Email: squirep@missouri.edu
CV (pdf)
Peverill Squire joined the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri in 2007. He holds his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1986). Professor Squire previously taught at the University of Iowa and has been a visiting professor at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan, and a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, holding the John Marshall Chair in Political Science at the Budapest (Hungary) University of Economic Sciences. He is co-editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly. Professor Squire specializes in American politics and legislative studies.
Research Statement
My research focuses primarily on American politics, with particular emphasis on legislative institutions and elections. In recent years my work has revolved around questions of how and why legislatures as organizations change over time. During the longer course of my career I have had an abiding interest in the interaction between political careers and political institutions. In examining these questions I have typically concentrated on looking at Congress and state legislatures, but in the last few years I have expanded the scope of my work to include American colonial assemblies and representative assemblies outside the United States.
Courses Taught
American Government
Congress and Legislative Policy
Comparative State Politics
American Political Institutions (graduate)
Legislative Institutions (graduate)
The Evolution of American Legislatures, 1619 to the Present (graduate)
Recent Representative Publications
Squire, Peverill. Forthcoming. "The State Wealth-Legislative Compensation Effect," Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Squire, Peverill. Forthcoming. "Measuring the Professionalization of State Courts of Last Resort." State Politics and Policy Quarterly.
Wittrock, Jill N., Stephen C. Nemeth, Howard Sanborn, Brian DiSarro, and Peverill Squire. Forthcoming. "The Impact of the Australian Ballot on Member Behavior in the U.S. House of Representatives." Political Research Quarterly.
Squire, Peverill. 2007. "Measuring Legislative Professionalism: The Squire Index Revisited." State Politics and Policy Quarterly 7:211-27.
Squire, Peverill. 2006. "Historical Evolution of Legislatures in the United States." Annual Review of Political Science 9:19-44.
Squire, Peverill, and Keith E. Hamm. 2005. 101 Chambers: Congress, State Legislatures, and the Future of Legislative Studies. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press.
Squire, Peverill. 2005. "The Evolution of American Colonial Assemblies as Legislative Organizations." Congress & the Presidency 32:109-31.
Squire, Peverill, Keith E. Hamm, Ronald D. Hedlund, and Gary Moncrief. 2005. "Electoral Reforms, Membership Stability, and the Existence of Committee Property Rights in American State Legislatures." British Journal of Political Science 35:169-81.
Loewenberg, Gerhard, Peverill Squire, and D. Roderick Kiewiet, eds. 2002. Legislatures: Comparative Perspectives on Representative Assemblies. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Moncrief, Gary F., Peverill Squire, and Malcolm E. Jewell. 2001. Who Runs for the Legislature? Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.