Jenna Bednar is an American political scientist currently serving as Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

[1] She moved to Stanford University as a doctoral researcher, where she earned a PhD in 1998.

[1] Bender studies the political mechanisms that give rise to stabilities in federal states.

Her research showed that the distribution of authority by a constitution can be meaningless if governments do not abide by them.

[5] The book is mainly theoretical, and was inspired by the writings of the Founding Fathers of the United States.