Brandice Canes-Wrone

During the course of her career, Canes-Wrone has published numerous articles and books on political institutions, mass political behavior, and political economy. Her current research focuses on representation and accountability in the U.S. context. She has a series of recent publications on campaign finance, including on the preferences of donors, the affluent, and general public (with Michael Barber, Joshua Clinton, Gregory Huber), the motivations of campaign donors (with Michael Barber and Sharece Thrower) and congressional members’ responsiveness to donors (with Kenneth Miller and, in separate work, Nathan Gibson). Additionally, she coedited Accountability Reconsidered: Voters, Interests, and Information in U.S. Policymaking (Cambridge, forthcoming, 2023) with Chuck Cameron, Sanford Gordon, and Gregory Huber, in which she and Michael Kistner have a chapter that examines how changes in the US local media are associated with developments in congressional electoral accountability. Canes-Wrone is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. She has served on the editorial boards of numerous political science and political economy journals in addition to the boards of the American National Elections Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, and the Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.