Laurel Harbridge-Yong
· Associate Professor of Political ScienceNorthwestern University · Political Science
Active 2016–2024
About
Laurel Harbridge-Yong is a Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She received her PhD in 2009 from Stanford University. Her research and teaching explore questions surrounding partisan conflict and the difficulty of reaching bipartisan agreements and legislative compromises in American politics. Her work spans projects on the U.S. Congress, state legislatures, and the mass public. She is the author of two books – Is Bipartisanship Dead? Policy Agreement and Agenda-Setting in the House of Representatives (2015) and Rejecting Compromise: Legislators' Fear of Primary Voters (2020) – and numerous journal articles. Her research has been supported by various organizations including the National Institute of Justice, National Science Foundation, and the Dirksen Congressional Center. Her current research projects examine how primary elections shape representation, and how threats and violence against elected officials influence legislative behavior and public perceptions of political violence.
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