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...Peterson's lectures are lucid and insightfull. He is delightfully conversational and--unlike many Harvard professors--encourages student participation during lectures. His desire to get to know the students in his courses is best evinced by his frequent admonition to come to my office hours! He loves interacting with students and takes a genuine interest in what they have to say, whether it's an insight into the presidential race or an observation about life at Harvard...
...Peterson's commitment to undergraduates at Harvard has gone far beyond shooting the bull in his third-floor Littauer office and holding seminars in his Belmont home. From February 1987 to June 1990--a remarkably long tenure--he was the Head Tutor of the Government Department. In those three and a half years, the number of government concentrators increased 45 percent--the biggest boom the department has seen in decades. Peterson oversaw it all, and took an active role in restructuring the department...
...addition to his large personal investment in the department and his students, Peterson has established himself as a serious scholar of American government with his book Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill From Eisenhower to Reagan, published in 1990. The book--which advances a new theory of presidential-congressional interactions--introduces a "tandem institutions" approach to understanding the two branches of Government. Using both statistical analyses and scores of in-depth interviews as evidence for his theory, Peterson forcefully rejects the popular "presidency-centered perspective" that views the president as the only real force in legislation and demonstrates...
...Peterson is also author or co-author of numerous articles and papers on American government. His graduate work at Michigan earned him the 1986 E. E. Schattschneider Award of the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in American government. And Peterson has begun a new study of the origins and politics of American national health care policy...
...Peterson denied tenure? He seems a compelling candidate: an ideal mix of teaching and research, of concern for undergraduates and respect for scholarship. But there are several possible explanations for why his tenure bid was rejected...