Alexander D. BoltonAssociate Professor

• Ph.D., Princeton University, 2015
• B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2010

Alex Bolton writes and teaches on a variety of questions in the realm of American political institutions, with a focus on the US executive branch, Congress, and separation of powers politics. His research has been published in leading journals, including American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and others. He is also the coauthor of Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power (Princeton University Press, 2022), which won the Neustadt Award and Rosenthal Award from the American Political Science Association. His current research projects are focused on the causes and consequences of diversity among congressional staff; the political development of the administrative state and executive power; unionization in the federal workforce; and the intersection of administrative law and politics.