Sarah Binder is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and professor of political science at George Washington University, where she specializes in Congress and Legislative politics.

She is the co-author with Forrest Maltzman of Advice and Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary (Brookings, 2009), author of Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock (Brookings, 2003), Minority Rights, Majority Rule:Partisanship and the Development of Congress (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and co-author with Steven S. Smith of Politics or Principle? Filibustering in the United States Senate (Brookings, 1997). She is also co-editor of The Legislative Branch (Oxford University Press, 2005) and The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions (2006). Her book on legislative gridlock was awarded the Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize by the American Political Science Association for the best book published on legislative politics in 2003. Her other work on congressional politics has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and elsewhere. Her current project focuses on Congress’s response to financial crisis, including a study of Congress’s relationship with the Federal Reserve.

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