Overview
Suzanne Mettler, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, conducts research and teaches on American politics and public policy.
Research Focus
Suzanne Mettler's research and teaching focus on American political development, public policy, and political behavior. She is particularly interested in issues pertaining to democracy (both democratization and backsliding), inequality, and citizenship.
In the news
- Global experts look abroad for lessons in super election year
- Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans
- A.D. White professor addresses threats to democracy
- What’s worth protecting about a free press? NPR’s Folkenflik asks panelists
- Panel offers advice for students interested in public affairs internships
- Award-winning journalists to discuss role of the press
- Experts will offer day-after election analysis
- Exploring the Widening Chasm Between Urban and Rural Voters
- $2M in New Frontier Grants boost high-impact A&S research
- President Clinton: U.S. in ‘dogfight’ for democracy
- President Clinton to speak on the future of U.S. democracy
- Perceived erosion of democracy spawns new campaign
- Op-Ed: Four deadly threats to American democracy are raging all at once
- It Happened in the 1850s—And Holds a Lesson for Today
- Democracy 20/20 webinar to assess ‘deep state’
- ‘Already Authoritarian?’ webinar focuses on violence, policing and democracy
- Mettler explores threats to US democracy in new book
- American Democracy Collaborative launches webinar series
- Cornell experts probe threats to democracy from COVID-19
- Republicans are relying on the Affordable Care Act to respond to the pandemic
- Mettler selected as 2019 Radcliffe Institute fellow
- Democracy scholar wins Guggenheim fellowship
- Interpreting public opinion
- Government professor featured in new documentary
- Citizens feel disconnected from government. If they knew what government did for them, they wouldn’t.
- New book investigates the government-citizen disconnect
- The welfare boogeyman
- 2018 Merrill scholars honor their teachers, mentors
- Conference to examine health of American democracy
- Congressional oversight, faltering?
- Four faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Poll: We like health care reform, not its politics