Kenneth Mayer
Expert on the American presidency and presidential powers, legislative redistricting, campaign finance reform, election law and administration and defense policy
Professor, political science; affiliate faculty, La Follette School of Public Affairs Work: 608-263-2286 — Home and cell phones available upon request kmayer@polisci.wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- Presidency and presidential power
- Election administration and redistricting
- Campaign finance
- Defense policy
- Australian politics and elections
Achievements
- Author of Presidential Leadership: Politics and Policy (11th edition, 2020), with George C. Edwards, III and Stephen J. Wayne
- Expert witness in Gill v. Whitford (WI legislative redistricting case)
- Inaugural Fulbright-ANU Distinguished Chair of Political Science, Australian National University (Canberra, ACT), 2006
- 2002 Neustadt Award for best book on the presidency, "With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power"
- 2006 Alliant Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin System