Brandice Canes-Wrone

About

Brandice Canes-Wrone is the Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor in the Political Science department at Stanford. Canes-Wrone is the founding director of the Hoover Institution Center for Revitalizing American Institutions. Her current research focuses on representation and accountability, including projects on elections, campaign finance, and congressional behavior. She also writes on the effects of political phenomena on economic outcomes.

During the course of her career, Canes-Wrone has published numerous articles and books on political institutions, mass political behavior, and political economy. Her book Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and Public (University of Chicago, 2006) examines how US presidents leverage public opinion to influence policy and how they respond to public opinion in their policy choices. This work was awarded the 2007 Richard E. Neustadt Book Award by the American Political Science Association for the best book on the US presidency. Her more recent scholarship on executive politics investigates how unilateral executive authority is related to electoral cycles in economic uncertainty and investment. Other current research focuses on accountability and representation in the US context, including as a coeditor of the volume Accountability Reconsidered: Voters, Interests, and Information in US Policymaking (Cambridge, forthcoming, 2023) and forthcoming articles in the American Political Science Review and Journal of Politics.

Canes-Wrone has also been active in promoting academic freedom and civil discourse on college campuses, including as a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA); a founding and current board member of the American Association of Sciences and Letters (AASL); and as an advisory council member of the Stanford Civics Initiative and James Madison Program of Princeton University. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), she has served on the editorial boards of numerous political science and political economy journals, and on 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.