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Morris P. Fiorina

Senior Fellow

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Morris P. Fiorina

Senior Fellow

Morris Fiorina is the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution. Fiorina has studied American politics, with special emphasis on elections, public opinion and representation, for more than fifty years. His books include Congress—Keystone of the Washington Establishment, 1977), Retrospective Voting in American National Elections, 1981) and Divided Government, 1992). His groundbreaking book on polarization, Culture War: The Myth of a Polarized America (with Samuel Abrams and Jeremy Pope, 2004) went through three editions, was noted in hundreds of national media outlets, and adopted in classes at more than 700 different colleges and universities. Successor books included Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics (with Samuel Abrams, 2009) and Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting and Political Stalemate, 2017. Hoover Press will publish his current work as Unstable Majorities Continue: The Trump Elections, in 2026. Fiorina has served on the editorial boards of more than a dozen journals in political science, law, political economy, and public policy, and served as chairman of the Board of the American National Election Studies. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. He has received two career achievement awards from organized sections of the American Political Science Association. Fiorina received his BA degree from Allegheny College and his MA and PhD from the University of Rochester and taught at Caltech and Harvard coming to Stanford in 1998. He lives in Portola Valley, California with his wife who has humored him for more than half a century.

Brandice Canes-Wrone

Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow | Director of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions

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Brandice Canes-Wrone

Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow | Director of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions

Brandice Canes-Wrone is the Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor in the Political Science department at Stanford. Canes-Wrone is the founding director of the Hoover Institution Center for Revitalizing American Institutions. Her current research focuses on representation and accountability, including projects on elections, campaign finance, and congressional behavior. She also writes on the effects of political phenomena on economic outcomes. During the course of her career, Canes-Wrone has published numerous articles and books on political institutions, mass political behavior, and political economy. Her book Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and Public (University of Chicago, 2006) examines how US presidents leverage public opinion to influence policy and how they respond to public opinion in their policy choices. This work was awarded the 2007 Richard E. Neustadt Book Award by the American Political Science Association for the best book on the US presidency. Her more recent scholarship on executive politics investigates how unilateral executive authority is related to electoral cycles in economic uncertainty and investment. Other current research focuses on accountability and representation in the US context, including as a coeditor of the volume Accountability Reconsidered: Voters, Interests, and Information in US Policymaking (Cambridge, forthcoming, 2023) and forthcoming articles in the American Political Science Review and Journal of Politics. Canes-Wrone has also been active in promoting academic freedom and civil discourse on college campuses, including as a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA); a founding and current board member of the American Association of Sciences and Letters (AASL); and as an advisory council member of the Stanford Civics Initiative and James Madison Program of Princeton University. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), she has served on the editorial boards of numerous political science and political economy journals, and on the boards of the American National Elections Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, and the Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

Justin Grimmer

Senior Fellow

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Justin Grimmer

Senior Fellow

Justin Grimmer is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Morris M Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on American political institutions, elections, and developing new machine-learning methods for the study of politics. His research examines how representation occurs in US politics using new statistical methods. His first book, Representational Style in Congress: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters (Cambridge University Press, 2013), shows how senators define the type of representation they provide constituents and how this affects constituents’ evaluations. The book was awarded the Fenno Prize in 2014 for best book published about Congress. His second book, The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability (Princeton University Press, 2014, with Sean J. Westwood and Solomon Messing), demonstrates how legislators ensure they receive credit for government actions. His current research projects include a book project on text as data methods for the social sciences, an examination of how electoral rules affect political participation, and an analysis of how social media affect democracies. His previous work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Regulation and Governance, and several top computer science publication outlets. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and an AB from Wabash College.