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Sarah A. Binder

Professor of Political Science

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1995

Office: Monroe 467
Phone: (202) 994-2167
Email: binder@gwu.edu
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Website: http://home.gwu.edu/~binder

Background

Professor Binder's research focuses on Congress, congressional development, and political parties. She has written Advice & Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary, 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, with Steven S. Smith (Brookings, 1997). Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere.