Adler is Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is also a professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Boulder where his areas of expertise include American politics, political institutions, and the legislative process and structure. His current research uses theoretical models of legislative organization to examine congressional committee reforms. Other projects include a study of surges and slumps in the production of legislation in Congress and an examination of the effect of constituency characteristics on the behavior of legislators across various policy arenas. He has articles forthcoming and published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review. He is a recipient of two National Science Foundation research grants. His book Why Congressional Reforms Fail: Reelection and the House Committee System was published in spring 2002. During the 2006-2007 academic year he was a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of American Politics at Yale University. He is the co-editor and co-author of a chapter of The Macropolitics of Congress, published in 2006 by Princeton University Press.
…There is little doubt that my Scoville Fellowship had a profound impact upon my choice of graduate studies and career path. Subsequent to finishing my fellowship, I came to realize that I was not only concerned with important political issues such as arms control and the defense budget, but I was also fascinated by the mechanics of government and the structure of the policy-making process…