I am Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. I also serve as a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and a contributor at FiveThirtyEight. I am the author of The Not-So-Special Interests, Artists of the Possible, Asymmetric Politics (with David Hopkins), Red State Blues, How Social Science Got Better, and Polarized by Degrees (also with David). I host The Science of Politics podcast.