Jesse Crosson

Promoted to Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
jcrosson@purdue.edu

Jesse Crosson earned his PhD in 2019 from the University of Michigan’s Department of Political Science and a B.A. (summa cum laude) in 2013 from Hofstra University. Previously, he was assistant professor of political science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and a fellow and visiting research scholar at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics.

Crosson’s research agenda is motivated by a long-standing interest in why public policy changes when it does, and why it often fails to do so—even when many elites and citizens appear unsatisfied with the status quo. His work examines the institutional underpinnings of policy change and gridlock, with a particular interest in how legislative parties and electoral competition, interest group activity, and legislative professionalism influence how, when, and why public policy changes.

Crosson is Co-Director of Purdue's Program on American Institutional Renewal (PAIR), which seeks to advance the generation, communication, and use of new knowledge about the workings of America's governing institutions.