Sarah A. Binder
| Title: | Professor of Political Science |
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| Office: | Monroe 467 |
| Phone: | 202-994-2167 |
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[email protected] |
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Professor Binder's work focuses on the politics of legislative institutions, including their origins, development and impact on legislative policy outcomes.
Current Research
Professor Binder's most recent work examines the ways in politics and economics intersect to shape the governance of and decision making by the Federal Reserve.
Education
Publications
Professor Binder's most recent book is The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve, co-authored with Mark Spindel (Princeton, 2017. Her previous books include Advice & Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary, co-authored with Forrest Maltzman (Brookings 2009), Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock (Brookings, 2003), Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress (Cambridge, 1997) and Politics or Principle? Filibustering in the United States Senate, co-authored with Steven S. Smith (Brookings, 1997). Her work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Office Hours
by appointment only
Classes Taught
PSC 2218W Legislative Politics
PSC 8210 American Political Process
Department of Political Science
Monroe Hall
2115 G St. NW
Suite 440
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: 202-994-6290 | Fax: 202-994-1974
[email protected]
