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Assistant Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
michael.p.olson@wustl.edu
Since EITM, I finished my Ph.D. at Harvard University, with a dissertation on “Legislative Politics in the Solid South,” and have continued working on a variety of projects on legislative politics, elections, and political parties.