Larry Bartels

Larry M. Bartels is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law and 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 Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (with Christopher Achen), and Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2nd edition). He is also the author of numerous scholarly articles, and of commentaries in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other prominent outlets. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.