Lawrence Dodd

Lawrence Dodd holds the Manning J. Dauer, Jr. Eminent Scholar Chair in Political Science at the University of Florida. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1972.

Dodd’s primary scholarly focus is the U. S. Congress. His work is concerned with identifying conditions conducive to congressional reform, organizational adaptation to new societal contexts, and innovative policymaking. In addressing these concerns he draws on rational choice theory, social structural analysis, social learning theory and theories of socio-cultural evolution.