Jefferson LECTURE SERIES

Parties and Mavericks: On the Necessity of Political Parties in

The Fortunes of Some American Mavericks

Richard F. Fenno, Kenan Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester

About Richard F. Fenno

Richard Fenno is an American political scientist whose work focuses mainly on the U.S. Congress and its members. Fenno is known for his style of research which relies on the undertaking of empirical observations of the movements of political actors on the stage of politics rather than simply relying on data sets or rational choice theory.