Matthew Beckmann studies Washington politics, particularly the White House and Congress. His overriding goal is to better understand the strategic interplay between Washington’s key players as they decide federal policy.

James Danziger is one of our most recognized and awarded teachers in the undergraduate program. Danziger's recent work includes the impact of technology on American politics, public policies related to technology, and public policy analysis.

Louis Desipio's scholarship in American politics focuses on how American institutions facilitate and impede the political incorporation of Latino immigrants. He is also an expert in the field of American elections at the national, state, and local levels.

Martha Feldman, the Johnson Chair in Social Ecology, has published widely in the field of public policy analysis and organizational theory.

Bernie Grofman is an authority on American politics and American political institutions. His co-edited book on the politics of racial redistricting in the South, Quiet Revolution (Princeton University Press), won the Richard Fenno Prize for best book published in Legislative Politics in 1994.

Helen Ingram is the Warmington Chair in Social Ecology, and the vast range of her scholarship includes American public policy. For example, her highly acclaimed co-authored Policy Design for Democracy (Kansas University Press, 1997) delineates the social construction of minority groups, and discusses the policy implications of such constructions.

Claire Jean Kim teaches jointly in the Political Science and Asian American Studies Departments on race relations in presidential politics and public policy, as well as urban politics.

David S. Meyer offers courses on social movements, and his latest scholarship concerns the relationship between movements and public policy politics, particularly in movements concerned with nuclear weapons, abortion, and violence against women.

Mark Petracca is an expert on American, state, and local politics, and is also one of the Department's award-winning teachers in the field of American governmental institutions, particularly, the U.S. Congress and the American presidency.

Katherine Tate offers courses in American government, public opinion and voting behavior. Her recent scholarship touches on questions of race in American legislative politics, notably, her recent book, Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in Congress (Princeton University Press, 2003).

Martin Wattenberg teaches and has produced a number of publications in the field of American elections and American political parties. His most recent work includes Where Have All the Voters Gone? (Harvard University Press, 2002).