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American political scientist

Julia Azari Azari in 2018 Education University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (BA) Yale University (MPhil, MA, PhD) Awards Best Public-Facing Scholarship Award, APSA Founder's Best Paper Award, APSA Scientific career Fields Political science Institutions Marquette University

**Julia R. Azari** is an American [political scientist](/source/Political_scientist). She is a professor of political science at [Marquette University](/source/Marquette_University), where she is also the assistant chair of the Department of Political Science. Azari studies the [American presidency](/source/President_of_the_United_States) and [political parties in the United States](/source/Political_parties_in_the_United_States), with particular attention to [partisanship in the United States](/source/Partisan_(politics)#United_States) and how these systems have changed since the early 20th century. Azari also engages in public communication about political science, including as a frequent contributor to the politics coverage of the data journalism website *[FiveThirtyEight](/source/FiveThirtyEight)*, a writer of the blog *Mischiefs of Faction*, and a host of the political science podcast *Politics in Question*.

## Education

Azari attended the [University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign](/source/University_of_Illinois_Urbana-Champaign).[1] She originally intended to become a [political journalist](/source/Political_journalism), but realized that she enjoyed academic political science.[2] She graduated with a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) degree in political science in 2002.[3] She then received an [M.Phil](/source/Master_of_Philosophy)., [M.A](/source/Master_of_Arts)., and [Ph.D.](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) in political science at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University).[1]

## Career

### Research

In 2014 Azari published the book *Delivering the People's Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate*, which studies the history of the idea of a [political mandate](/source/Mandate_(politics)) for the President of the United States, from [Herbert Hoover](/source/Herbert_Hoover) in 1928 to the election of [Barack Obama](/source/Barack_Obama) in 2008.[4] Azari uses [content analysis](/source/Content_analysis) on presidents' communications to analyze how presidents have used the notion of a presidential mandate, showing that over the last several decades presidents have increasingly invoked their mandate to defend the legitimacy of the office.[5]

With William D. Adler, Azari won the 2021 Founder's Best Paper Award from the [American Political Science Association](/source/American_Political_Science_Association) for their working paper "The Party Decides (Who the Vice President Will Be)". The Founder's Award "is given for the best paper on executive politics authored by a PhD-holding scholar at the previous year's" meeting of the American Political Science Association.[6][7]

Some of Azari's work in science communication, including posts on the *Mischiefs of Faction* blog, have also in turn been cited in academic literature.[8][9][10]

### In the media

Azari has been a frequent contributor to the data journalism website *FiveThirtyEight* since 2016,[11] both as an author of articles and as a guest on the *FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast*.[12][13] Azari regularly writes for *Mischiefs of Faction*, which was founded as an independent political science blog in 2012, and for a period after 2015 was incorporated into *[Vox](/source/Vox_(website))*.[14] Azari has also appeared as an expert on television panels and interviews, including appearances on [C-SPAN](/source/C-SPAN) dating back to 2009,[15] as well as on radio stations like [Wisconsin Public Radio](/source/Wisconsin_Public_Radio)[16] and [KCRW](/source/KCRW).[17] She has also directed or engaged in public events about politics.[18]

In 2019, Azari was the recipient of the inaugural Best Public-Facing Scholarship Award from the [American Political Science Association](/source/American_Political_Science_Association), which recognizes the "best public-facing scholarship published in the previous calendar year", including "blog posts and popular press publications intended for a broad public audience".[19] Azari has also been recognized for her public discussions of the role and value of political science communication, and the undervaluing of communication work by some of the evaluation criteria commonly used by universities.[20][21]

In [2020](/source/2020_United_States_presidential_election) Azari wrote a series of [op-eds](/source/Op-eds) in *[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)* on "how to improve the presidential nominating process". The headline of one of them, "It's time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president", was changed after it received backlash.[22]

## Selected works

- "Unwritten rules: Informal institutions in established democracies", *Perspectives on Politics* 10 (1), 37–55, with Jennifer K. Smith (2012)[23]

- *Delivering the People's Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate* (2014)[24]

- "How the news media helped to nominate Trump", *Political Communication* 33 (4), 677–680 (2016)[25]

## Selected awards

- Best Public-Facing Scholarship Award, American Political Science Association (2019)[20]

- Founder's Best Paper Award, American Political Science Association (2019)[6]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-profile_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-profile_1-1) ["Julia Azari, PhD"](https://www.marquette.edu/political-science/directory/julia-azari.php). Marquette University. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Julia Azari"](https://pol.illinois.edu/spotlight/alumni/julia-azari). University of Illinois. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Julia Azari Profile"](https://uofi150.news-gazette.com/people/julia-azari). *University of Illinois News-Gazette*. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Horton, Gemma (February 23, 2018). "Delivering the People's Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate". *Information, Communication & Society*. **21** (12): 1836–1838. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1080/1369118X.2018.1442490](https://doi.org/10.1080%2F1369118X.2018.1442490). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [149010227](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:149010227).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Seyb, R.P (December 1, 2014). "Azari, Julia R. Delivering the people's message: the changing politics of the presidential mandate. Cornell, 2014. 206p index afp ISBN 9780801452246 cloth, $39.95". *CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries*. **52** (4): 701.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-found_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-found_6-1) ["Founder's Best Paper Award"](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS1049096519001550). *PS: Political Science & Politics*. **52** (4). American Political Science Association: 838–858. 2019. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/S1049096519001550](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS1049096519001550).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["2019-20 Academic Year News"](https://www.marquette.edu/political-science/news-archive.php). Marquette University. 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Christopher M Federico; Agnieszka Golec de Zavala (February 21, 2018). ["Collective Narcissism and the 2016 US Presidential Vote"](https://research.gold.ac.uk/21878/1/Federico%20%26%20Golec%20POQ%202017.pdf) (PDF). *Public Opinion Quarterly*. **82** (1): 110–121. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/poq/nfx048](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fpoq%2Fnfx048).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Peter Buisseret; Richard Van Weelden (2020). "Crashing the Party? Elites, Outsiders, and Elections". *American Journal of Political Science*. **64** (2): 356–370. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1111/ajps.12457](https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fajps.12457). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [3412425](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3412425).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Daniel Schlozman; Sam Rosenfeld. Frances E. Lee; Nolan McCarty (eds.). *The Hollow Parties*. p. 353.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["All posts by Julia Azari"](https://web.archive.org/web/20230602103301/https://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/julia-azari/page/11/). FiveThirthyEight. 2020. Archived from [the original](https://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/julia-azari/page/11/) on June 2, 2023. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["Politics Podcast: Will Trump Face A Primary Challenge?"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190111151827/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-will-trump-face-a-primary-challenge/). FiveThirtyEight. January 10, 2019. Archived from [the original](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-will-trump-face-a-primary-challenge/) on January 11, 2019. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** ["Politics Podcast: What Does It Mean To Be 'Electable'?"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180824112059/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-what-does-it-mean-to-be-electable/). FiveThirtyEight. January 10, 2019. Archived from [the original](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-what-does-it-mean-to-be-electable/) on August 24, 2018. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** Azari, Julia (September 9, 2015). ["Mischiefs of Faction, now on Vox"](https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2015/9/9/9280495/mischiefs-of-faction). *Vox*. Retrieved April 8, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-15)** ["Julia Azari"](https://www.c-span.org/search/?searchtype=Videos&sort=Newest&personid%5b%5d=9266357). C-SPAN. 2018. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-16)** ["Julia Azari"](https://www.wpr.org/people/julia-azari). Wisconsin Public Radio. 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-17)** ["Julia Azari"](https://www.kcrw.com/people/julia-azari). KCRW Radio. 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-18)** ["Introducing Campaign 2020 Faculty Director for the DNC, Dr. Julia Azari"](https://resources.twc.edu/articles/introducing-campaign-2020-dnc-faculty-director-julia-azari). The Washington Center. June 13, 2019. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-19)** ["Best Public-Facing Scholarship"](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS1049096519001550). *PS: Political Science & Politics*. **52** (4). American Political Science Association: 838–858. 2019. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/S1049096519001550](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS1049096519001550).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-bps_20-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-bps_20-1) Berlatsky, Noah (March 25, 2019). ["We Need More Support For Public Facing Scholarship"](https://medium.com/@nberlat/we-need-more-support-for-public-facing-scholarship-b706b85862b7). Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-21)** Sydney Czyzon; Sarah Lipo (July 17, 2019). ["MU omits woman professor's title, but not men's"](https://marquettewire.org/4014420/news/mu-omits-woman-professors-title-but-not-mens/). *Marquette Wire*. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-22)** Wolfsuhn, Joseph (February 19, 2020). ["Washington Post slammed, changes headline after op-ed calls for 'elites' to have 'bigger say in choosing the president'"](https://web.archive.org/web/20211017100242/https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-changes-headline-after-op-ed-calls-for-elites-have-bigger-say-choosing-president). *Fox News*. Archived from [the original](https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-changes-headline-after-op-ed-calls-for-elites-have-bigger-say-choosing-president) on October 17, 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-23)** Julia Azari; Jennifer K. Smith (2012). "Unwritten rules: Informal institutions in established democracies". *Perspectives on Politics*. **10** (1): 37–55. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/S1537592711004890](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS1537592711004890). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [145308470](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145308470).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-24)** Azari, Julia (2014). *Delivering the People's Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-25)** Azari, Julia (2016). "How the news media helped to nominate Trump". *Political Communication*. **33** (4): 677–680. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1080/10584609.2016.1224417](https://doi.org/10.1080%2F10584609.2016.1224417). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [151773937](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:151773937).

## External links

- [Appearances](https://www.c-span.org/person/?9266357) on [C-SPAN](/source/C-SPAN)

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