Dr. Jeffery Jenkins

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Jeffery Jenkins holds appointments as a professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law at the USC Gould School of Law and serves as the Provost Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Law. He is the Judith & John Bedrosian Chair in Governance and Public Enterprise and the Director of the Bedrosian Center and the Political Institutions and Political Economy (PIPE) Collaborative at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. He has previously held tenure-stream positions at the University of Virginia, Northwestern University, and Michigan State University. His research interests encompass American political institutions and their development, with a special emphasis on Congress and political parties, lawmaking, and separation of powers within the context of political economy. Jenkins' work takes a positive political theory approach, examining how political actors pursue their interests, constrained by formal and informal institutional arrangements. His current research includes papers on the ideological content of federal lawmaking during the post-war era and book projects on civil rights policy as it was addressed by Congress during the evolution of the Republican Party in the South after the Civil War.

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