James Wallner Joins R Street Institute as Senior Fellow

James Wallner has joined the R Street Institute as a senior fellow and member of R Street’s Governance Project team and Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group.

Dr. Wallner will research and write on Congress, especially the Senate; the separation of powers; legislative procedure; and the federal policy process. He is the author of two books, The Death of Deliberation: Partisanship and Polarization in the United States Senate, published in 2013 by Lexington Books, and the forthcoming On Parliamentary War: Partisan Conflict and Procedural Change in the United States Senate, which is scheduled to be published in November by the University of Michigan Press.