Gregory Koger

Professor
University of Miami

gkoger@miami.edu

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Gregory Koger is a professor of political science at the University of Miami. Koger specializes in legislative politics and political parties. After earning his B.A. at Willamette University, Koger worked as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House, then earned his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2002.

Gregory Koger is the author of Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate; and Strategic Party Government, written with Matthew Lebo, with both books published by the University of Chicago Press. Filibustering was awarded the 2011 Fenno Prize for the best book on legislative studies. Koger has also published research articles on parties, lobbying, and Congress in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Political Research, the British Journal of Political Science, PS: Political Science and Politics, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics.