Leadership and Affiliates

PAIR Leadership

Jesse Crosson, Co-Director, examines the transformation of American politics by partisan competition for control of institutions, and studies their response to the challenges that hyperpartisanship has introduced. He specializes in legislative politics, policy expertise, lobbying, and money in politics, and his work has examined how a variety of institutional changes, such as primary reform and the introduction of term limits, have influenced politics in each of these areas. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Political Science and Core Faculty in Urban Studies at Trinity University, as well as Fellow and Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. Currently, Crosson is a Faculty Fellow with the Center for Effective Lawmaking, an advisory board member at the Levin Center’s State Oversight Academy, a Jack Miller Center Fellow, and a research contributor to both Unite America and New America’s Electoral Reform Research Group. 

Logan Strother, Co-Director, focuses primarily on law and judicial institutions, often with a focus on the interactions between courts and the mass public. Previously, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Program on Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and at the Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.