Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

1/1/2006 - 12/31/2006

Funding Totals

$40,000.00 (approved)
$40,000.00 (awarded)


The Age of Impeachment: U.S. Constitutional Culture since 1960

FAIN: FA-51587-05

David E. Kyvig
Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL 60115-2828)

The constitutional device of impeachment, previously little used, has been repeatedly employed since 1960. From campaigns during the 1960s to remove Supreme Court Justices to congressional investigations of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, four 1980s judicial impeachments, and the trial of Bill Clinton, impeachment has become a recurring feature of an increasingly strident and impatient political culture. A careful and well-contexualized historical inquiry will illuminate relatively unexamined interconnections and matters of fundamental public importance in evolving U.S. political/constitutional culture.





Associated Products

The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture since 1960 (Book)
Title: The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture since 1960
Author: David E. Kyvig
Abstract: Federal executive and judicial impeachments surged between 1960 and the end of the twentieth century, reflecting and shaping changes in American politics.
Year: 2000
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Type: Single author monograph