Julia Azari is a professor of political science at Marquette University. Her research focuses on American political parties, the American presidency, and the relationship between formal and informal political institutions. She is the author of Delivering the People’s Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate (Cornell, 2014), co-editor of the Presidential Leadership Dilemma (SUNY Press, 2013), and has several forthcoming book projects under contract with Princeton University Press and the University Press of Kansas. Her scholarly work has appeared in journals such as the Forum, Perspectives on Politics, the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Foreign Affairs, and Social Science History. An active public-facing scholar, Azari has published commentary on presidential and party politics in FiveThirtyEight, Politico, Vox, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian. She was a long-time contributor to the political science blog Mischiefs of Faction and currently maintains a Substack (self-titled) where she writes about party politics and the presidency in the United States. She is a founding co-host of the podcast Politics in Question. She holds a PhD from Yale University and a BA in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.