The title paraphrases something Nelson Polsby used to say about his co-author and friend, the famously prolific Aaron Wildavsky: “While Polsby sleeps, Wildavsky publishes!”
The same is true of Lee. I didn’t realize how true this was until earlier today, when I obtained a copy of his CV, as of May 2009. All 26 pages are here.
By my count, Lee authored or co-authored 5 books and edited 5 more. The (co-)authored books are:
* Modernization and the Political System: A Critique and Preliminary Empirical Analysis (here).
* Black Americans’ Views of Racial Inequality: The Dream Deferred (here). With Susan Welch.
* Computer Simulation Applications: An Introduction (here). With Marcia Lynn Whicker.
* Race and Place: Residence and Race Relations in an American City (here). With Susan Welch, Timothy Bledsoe, and Michael Combs.
* Attack Politics: Negative Campaigning in Preisdential Elections Since 1960 (here). With Emmett H. Buell, Jr.
In addition to these books, Lee published 269 peer-reviewed articles. He published about 10 articles since his diagnosis in September 2007 alone. Put differently, he published approximately 7.5 articles every year since he was awarded his doctorate. And these numbers are undercounts. I am told that he had 2 articles accepted for publication in the past week.
Here is a sampling of the topics on which Lee has written:
* Pork
* Sweden
* Yuppies
* Racism
* Football
Lee’s scholarly output is also a testament to his collegiality and generosity as a co-author. In fact, when I tried to find a copy of Lee’s vita on-line, none was forthcoming. Most of what I found was . . . the vitae of his co-authors. That is a testament to his modesty.
Various Monkey Cage bloggers and guest-bloggers will have more to say on Lee’s other contributions to political science, to our department, and to us individually. In the time it takes us to write these posts — and you to read them — I’m sure Lee will have published something else.