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Kevin R. Kosar, Ph.D., is a resident senior fellow<\/a> at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington, DC think-tank, where he studies the US Congress, congressional oversight, the administrative state, American politics, and the US Postal Service. He edits UnderstandingCongress.org<\/a> and hosts the Understanding Congress podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, he was the vice president of research partnerships at the R Street Institute. He co-founded the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group, which aimed to strengthen Congress, and established LegBranch.org, an online hub for congressional reform and scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 2003 and 2014, Kosar served as an analyst and research manager at the Library of Congress’s Congressional Research Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is the co-editor of Congress Overwhelmed: Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform<\/a> (University of Chicago Press), co-author of Unleashing Opportunity: Policy Reforms for an Accountable Administrative State<\/a> (National Affairs, 2017); and the author of Ronald Reagan and Education Policy<\/a><\/span>, Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education<\/a><\/span>, Whiskey: A Global History<\/a><\/span>, and Moonshine: A Global History<\/a>. He also wrote the preface to the recently republished Government Project<\/a><\/em> (AEI Press, 2023) by Edward C. Banfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has testified before Congress, and published on a variety of governance and public policy subjects: education policy, quasi governmental entities, privatization, the Postal Service, government communications, and propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kosar’s writings have appeared in scholarly and professional journals, such as National Affairs<\/em>, Presidential Studies Quarterly<\/em>, Public Administration Review<\/em>, Public Administration Times<\/em>, and Teachers College Record<\/em>; and in popular media, including  the American Spectator<\/em>, Chicago Sun-Times<\/em>, Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/em>, Daily Caller<\/em>, The Hill<\/em>, History New Network<\/em>, National Review<\/em>, Newsweek<\/em>, New York Times<\/em>, Philadelphia Inquirer, <\/em>Politico<\/em>, Roll Call, <\/em>U.S. News & World Report, <\/em>the Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner<\/em>, Washington Post,<\/em> The Weekly Standard<\/em>, and Washington Monthly<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He received his Ph.D in politics from New York University and lives in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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