Larry Bartels holds the May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. His scholarship and teaching focus on public opinion, electoral politics, public policy, and political representation. His books include Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age and Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (with Christopher Achen).
Publications:
Project Title: Political Inequality in Affluent Democracies: The U.S. in Comparative Perspective
In the News:
- 2016 Was An Ordinary Election, Not a Realignment (The Washington Post)
