Rate My Professor Kenneth Lowande

Lowande’s research examines leadership and policymaking in American civic institutions, with a focus on congressional oversight, presidential power, bureaucratic politics, and policy implementation. His scholarship has appeared in premier outlets including the American Political Science Review (“Who Polices the Administrative State?”, 2018; “Executive Power in Crisis”, 2021, with Jon Rogowski), American Journal of Political Science (“Bureaucratic Responsiveness to LGBT Americans”, 2020, with Andrew Proctor; “Descriptive and Substantive Representation in Congress”, 2019, with Melinda Ritchie and Erinn Lauterbach), The Journal of Politics, and Nature Human Behaviour (“Police Demilitarization and Violent Crime”, 2021). In 2024, he published the book False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age with the University of Chicago Press, which earned the 2025 Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best book on the American presidency, the 2025 Jewell-Loewenberg Prize in American Politics, and the 2025 Emerging Scholar Award from APSA’s Presidency and Executive Politics section. Additional honors include the 2022 Samuel Eldersveld Prize from Michigan’s Political Science department, the 2019 American Journal of Political Science Best Article Award from the Midwest Political Science Association, and the 2020 Kenneth J. Meier Award. Lowande contributes to the field through editorial board service for the American Journal of Political Science (2025-2027) and the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (2023-2025), as well as departmental committees including the Executive Committee (2025-2027). His work has influenced public discussions through opinion pieces in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog and The Hill.