Dr. Andrea McAtee is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. She earned a BA from the University of Kentucky and her MA and PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on American political institutions on both the national and state levels. Her primary research interests are political parties as organizations, and the impact of partisanship on public policy, especially in state legislatures. She has published an article on judicial decision-making in Law & Society Review, and her research on state politics, divided government, and policy-making appears in the Journal of Politics and Political Research Quarterly.