Jennifer Victor
Associate Professor of Political Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia: @jennifernvictor
Associate Professor of Political Science at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Lead co-editor of the “Oxford Handbook of Political Networks” (2017) and co-author of “Bridging the Information Gap” (2013). Scholarly interests include legislative institutions, campaign finance, lobbying, political parties, and social networks. “I study politics because I seek to better understand how humans solve social problems, and I like politics best when it’s highly entertaining–but that’s always.” @jennifernvictor
Latest articles by Jennifer Victor
A good event for the upper tier of candidates, a bad one for Biden, and a forgettable one for the ones you’ve already forgotten.
Mueller does not set out to prove that the president engaged in obstruction of justice; he logically disproves all the ways in which he didn’t.
In the first post of a series, Jennifer Victor explains two of the biggest mistakes baked into US government from the start: slavery and suffrage.
Elections are terrible mechanisms for holding politicians accountable, but voting is important for democracy anyway.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski paired her vote with another Republican in a rare and savvy move.
Judge Kavanaugh broke the fourth wall, and showed a willingness not to protect the vulnerable.
Data can help us learn how and why something works, rather than just whether something is likely to happen.
Trump-era corruption is like nothing anyone alive has seen, but America has been here before.
Read news dispassionately, but call out reprehensible actions.
Happy fifth birthday, Mischiefs of Faction.