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Welcome. I am an Assistant Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. I have a PhD in political science from University of Chicago and a JD from Tulane University. My research focuses on polarization, political parties and ideology, public law, and race over the course of 20th Century American politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research has been published in\u00a0American Political Science Review, Law & Social Inquiry<\/em>,\u00a0Studies in American Political Development<\/em>, American Political Thought<\/em>, Journal of American Constitutional History<\/em>, and\u00a0an Oxford Handbook\u00a0<\/em>chapter, among other venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My book manuscript — Enemy Establishments: The Constitution, the Modern American State, and the Political Development of Polarization — <\/em>is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. I have a second co-authored monograph that is complete: Institutions Without Ideas: Legal Liberalism and the Failure of<\/em> the American Constitution Society<\/em> (currently shopping to presses). Research is underway for a second solo-authored book project— Progressively Polarized: The Liberal Establishment and the Democratic Party, From 1980 to Today<\/em> — and I have various papers either under review or in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, click on my CV.<\/a> The research tab contains PDFs of my published articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can be reached at cterbeek@cmc.edu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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