Rebecca Eisler is an assistant professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a Graduate Research Fellow and the former Project Manager of the U.S. Policy Agendas Project, a member of the Comparative Agendas Project network.
Her areas of specialization include public policy and American politics with an emphasis on agenda-setting, the presidency, and information processing. Her previous research has been published in Policy Studies Journal.
Her current work, “Prioritizer-in-Chief: The Role of the President in the Policy Process from Reagan to Obama,” examines what policy areas and strategies presidents use to make policy and considers how presidents make trade-0ffs in attention and strategy.