Elizabeth Sanders, a professor of government at Cornell University, has published articles on American political development, economic regulation, social movements and presidential politics. She is the author of Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (University of Chicago Press, 1999).

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Executioner-in-Chief
Obama's drone attacks and the pathology of presidential power.
Elizabeth Sanders

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Do-It-Yourself Governance
Without new social movements, there will be no new New Deal.
Elizabeth Sanders
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