Sarah A. Binder is an American political scientist, author, senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, and professor of political science at George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Science. ^[1]

Early life and education

Binder graduated with a B.A. in political sciences from Yale University in 1986 and obtained a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1995.

Career

Binder started her career serving as Lee Hamilton's legislative aide and press secretary from 1986 to 1990. In 1995, Binder became a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she serves as a senior fellow in Governance Studies. ^{[2] [3]} She also served as Robert Hartley Research Fellow and in 1999, joined George Washington University, where she serves as a professor of political science today.

Binder is regularly requested as a political commentator and has been featured in different media outlets for more than two decades. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

Works

Binder has authored and co-authored different books and various publications. ^[8]

Among her notable works are:

• Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress (1997) ^[9]
• Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock (2003) ^{[10] [11]}
• Advice and Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary (together with Forrest Maltzman, 2009) ^[12]
• The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve (together with Mark Spindel, 2017) ^{[13] [14]}

Binder served as co-editor of the Wiley Library's publication Legislative Studies Quarterly and also serves as and editor and contributor of the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog. ^{[15] [16] [17]}

Additional affiliations

Binder is a member of the Center for Effective Public Management and serves as President of the Midwest Political Science Foundation for the 2018–2019 term. ^[18] She also chairs the MPSA's publishing-ethics committee, which oversees the editorial process at the American Journal of Political Science to guard against conflict-of-interest concerns. ^[19]

Awards and recognitions

In 2003, Binder received the American Political Science Association's (APSA) Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize, recognizing her book "Stalemate" as the best book in legislative politics. ^[20]

In 2015, she became an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. ^[2]

In 2018, she was awarded the APSA's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book published in the field of U.S. national policy in 2017. ^[21]

References

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN