Douglas L. Kriner

Douglas L. Kriner is the Clinton Rossiter Professor in American Institutions at Cornell University. His research interests include American political institutions, separation of powers dynamics, and American military policymaking. Professor Kriner graduated Phi Beta Kappa from MIT in 2001 and received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2006. He has recently published two books on inter-branch politics. The first, with Andrew Reeves, The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality (Cambridge 2015; winner of the 2016 Richard E. Neustadt Award), explores how electoral, partisan, and coalitional incentives compel presidents to target federal resources disproportionately toward some parts of the country and away from others. The second, with Eric Schickler, Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (Princeton 2016; winner of the 2017 Richard E. Neustadt Award and 2017 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize), examines Congress’ ability to retain some check on the aggrandizement of presidential power through the investigatory arm of its committees. He is also the author of After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War (Chicago 2010; winner of the 2013 D.B. Hardeman Award) and co-author, with Francis Shen, of The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Military Policymaking (Oxford 2010). Professor Kriner’s work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics, among other outlets.