American Politics
The Illusion of Accountability
Perceptions of Party Incongruence and Nascent Political Ambition
Do Elections Keep the Compassionate out of the Candidate Pool?
Morrison
Jeffry Morrison is Professor of American Studies and Honors at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, and Director of Academics at the federal government’s James Madison Foundation in Alexandria. In 2024-25 he will be Visiting Professor in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy, Department of Politics, at the University of Virginia. He has also taught in the Government Department at Georgetown University, the Political Science Department at the U. S. Air Force Academy, and the Politics Department at Princeton University. He earned the M.A. and Ph.D.
Mackey
Amber Mackey studies race and ethnic politics, representation and public policy in the United States. Her research examines when legislation about race reaches the political agenda and how these policies eventually impact existing racial inequalities. Through this work, she aims to document how variations in attention, responsiveness, and policy outputs affect the lived realities of racial and ethnic minorities.
Keiser
Howell Keiser is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy. He is an American historian specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. History. His primary research focus is on political economy, the Civil War era, Southern politics, and American political thought. His current book project documents how the political economies of Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo shaped Southern economic thought and action during the sectional crisis.
TerBeek
Calvin TerBeek is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Chicago and holds a JD from Tulane University. His work focuses on American politics, particularly public law, political parties and political ideology, and political economy. His work has been published in American Political Science Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and Studies in American Political Development.
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