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Laurel Harbridge-Yong is a Professor at Northwestern University in the Department of Political Science. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2009. Her research focuses on questions surrounding partisan conflict and the difficulties of reaching bipartisan agreements in American politics. She has worked on projects involving the U.S. Congress and state legislatures, and her research explores how public opinion and party conflict affect legislative behavior. Harbridge-Yong has authored books such as 'Bipartisanship Dead? Policy Agreement Agenda-Setting House Representatives' (2015) and 'Rejecting Compromise: Legislators’ Fear of Primary Voters' (with Sarah Anderson and Daniel Butler, 2020). Her academic contributions have been supported by entities such as the National Institute of Justice and the National Science Foundation. Current projects examine how primary elections shape representation and the impact of threats of violence on elected officials. She has published numerous journal articles examining various aspects of political behavior and public policy.
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