George S. Parthemos Lecture

“Legislating in Partisan Times”

presented by

Dr. Sarah Binder

Professor of Political Science at George Washington University & Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institute

WHEN:

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
1:00-2:00 pm
A reception will immediately follow the lecture.

WHERE:

Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries
Auditorium (271)
300 S. Hull Street
Athens, GA 30605

Sarah Binder is professor of political science at George Washington University and senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, specializing in Congress and legislative politics, as well as Congress’s relationship with the Federal Reserve.

She is most recently the co-author with Mark Spindel of The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve (Princeton University Press 2017), which was awarded the Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for the best book published in legislative politics in 2017 and the Gladys Kammerer Award for the best book published in 2017 on U.S. national policy. Her earlier books include Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress (Cambridge University Press 1997); with Steven S. Smith, Politics or Principle? Filibustering in the United States Senate (Brookings Institution Press 1997); Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock (Brookings Institution Press, 2003), winner of the Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for the best book in legislative studies; and with Forrest Maltzman, Advice and Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary (Brookings Institution Press 2009). Her work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review and elsewhere.

Binder was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. She is also an American politics editor at Good Authority (a political science blog), a former coeditor of Legislative Studies Quarterly, and George Washington University’s Faculty Senate parliamentarian.

Binder received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1995 and B.A. from Yale University in 1986. She joined Brookings in 1995 and George Washington University in 1999.

This lecture series is named after George S. Parthemos, who served the University of Georgia with great distinction for over 30 years until his death in 1984. During that time he served as Head of the Department of Political Science and Vice President for Instruction. He was also an extraordinary teacher. This series, sponsored by the Department of Political Science, honors his commitment to education. Each year, the Parthemos Scholar not only delivers this lecture, but teaches classes and interacts with students and faculty over two to three days.

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