Laurel Harbridge-Yong is a Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Her work spans projects on the U.S. Congress, state legislatures, and the mass public. She is the author of two books – "Is Bipartisanship Dead? Policy Agreement and Agenda-Setting in the House of Representatives" (2015) and "Rejecting Compromise: Legislators’ Fear of Primary Voters" (with Sarah Anderson and Daniel Butler, 2020) – and numerous journal articles.