Steven S. Smith (born July 8, 1953) is Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University.
Smith is one of the leading scholars of legislative institutions and congressional politics.
Smith's books include "Steering the Senate: The Emergence of Party Organization and Leadership, 1789–2024" (Cambridge University Press), with Gerald Gamm, The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedure Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate (Univ of Oklahoma Press), Party Influence in Congress (Cambridge), Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate (Brookings), Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the United States Senate (Brookings), with Sarah Binder, The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma (Princeton), with Thomas Remington, and Politics Over Process: Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress (University of Michigan Press), with Hong Min Park and Ryan J. Vander Wielen.
Smith edited popular readers for undergraduates: The Principles and Practices of American Politics (CQ Press), seven editions with Samuel Kernell, and The American Congress Reader (Cambridge), with Roberts and Vander Wielen.
Smith's edited volume, Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process, with Melanie Jane Springer, was published by Brookings in 2009.