Gwen Calais-Haase is a Ph.D. Candidate with an academic focus on American Politics, Congress, Legislative Procedure, and Representation. Her dissertation...

My dissertation focuses on political parties in advanced democracies and how they’ve used “identity politics” to appeal to voters from the early 20th...

My dissertation research investigates the roles of party leaders, campaign donors, and organized interests in exacerbating partisan polarization in U.S....

I research representation (the relationship between what people want out of government and what the government does) in American politics. Within...