{"id":2279,"date":"2021-03-10T09:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2279"},"modified":"2021-03-10T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:50:54","slug":"dr-sean-theriault","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/dr-sean-theriault\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sean Theriault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Sean Theriault is a professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a leading scholar of American political institutions, and the U.S. Congress in particular. Sean has published five\u00a0books:\u00a0<em>Congress: The First Branch<\/em>\u00a0(with Mickey Edwards; Oxford University Press, 2020),\u00a0<em>The Great Broadening<\/em>\u00a0(with Bryan Jones and Michelle Whyman; University of Chicago Press, 2019),\u00a0<em>The Gingrich Senators<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2013),\u00a0<em>Party Polarization in Congress\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2008), and\u00a0<em>The Power of the People<\/em>\u00a0(Ohio State University Press, 2005). He has also published numerous articles in a variety of journals on subjects ranging from presidential rhetoric to congressional careers and the Louisiana Purchase to the Pendleton Act of 1883.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2280,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-2279","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Theriault","speaker_classification":["Current Staff","Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2279\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}