Sharece Thrower

About

Sharece Thrower is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is an associate professor of political science and Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include American political institutions, the politics of separation of powers, interbranch policymaking, and executive power. She currently serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Politics and Presidential Studies Quarterly.

She is a coauthor of the book Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power (Princeton University Press, 2022), which received the 2022 Alan Rosenthal Prize and the 2023 Richard E. Neustadt Award. Her second book project examines judicial constraints on executive power at the federal and state levels. Her scholarship has appeared in several journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Presidential Studies Quarterly.

She earned her PhD in politics from Princeton University in 2013 and her BA in political science and economics from The Ohio State University. Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty, she taught in the Political Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh (2013–16).