Policy Strategist
Jennifer Dresden is a Policy Strategist at Protect Democracy, where she helps teams leverage leading social science research to inform their work in defense of democracy. She was previously a member of the faculty and the Associate Director of the Democracy and Governance Program at Georgetown University. Jen has published and lectured on democratic and authoritarian politics for both academic and policy audiences and has conducted research in the United States and overseas. She holds an A.B. from Harvard University, an M.Litt from the University of St. Andrews, and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University.
Learn more about Jennifer’s work on Political Violence.
Weakened political parties are contributing to democratic backsliding in the United States, but research shows that we need healthy political parties fulfilling critical functions to make our democrac
October 28, 2022
I asked Jennifer Dresden, Protect Democracy’s political parties expert who led our partnership with APSA and the task force, to explain some of the undercurrents to this strange primary season, the short-term consequences, and the long-term path to reform. Dr. Dresden is a political scientist and was previously a member of the faculty and the Associate Director of the Democracy and Governance Program at Georgetown.
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