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- Director, Initiative on Improving Interbranch Relations and Government and visiting fellow with Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
- Host, Democracy in Question podcast, Brookings Institution
- Advisory board member, White House Transition Project
Areas Of Expertise
- The First Year
- Governance
- Elections
- Leadership
- Politics
- The Presidency
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas is director of the Initiative on Improving Interbranch Relations and Government and a visiting fellow with Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. She is also an advisory board member of the White House Transition Project.
A recent recipient of a Packard Foundation grant, Tenpas is a scholar of the American presidency focusing on White House staffing and turnover and presidential transitions. She also studies interbranch relations, particularly the complex relationship between federal courts and Congress. She is the author of Presidents as Candidates: Inside the White House for the Presidential Campaign and has published more than 80 articles, book chapters, and papers on these topics.
Tenpas earned her BA degree from Georgetown University and her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Virginia.
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