Julia Azari is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Marquette University and the Director of the Marquette Civic Dialogues Project. Her research and teaching interests include the American presidency, political parties, political communication, and American political development. She is the author of Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leadership in American History (Princeton, 2025) and Delivering the People's Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate(Cornell, 2014). She writes regularly at the Substack Good Politics/Bad Politics. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Politico, and MSNBC.