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Professor Miller’s research interests are democratic accountability, political institutions, social policy, crime and criminal justice. She has written three books: The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty and the Politics of Crime Control (OUP, 2008) and the Politics of Community Crime Prevention (Dartmouth, 2001). Her work has appeared in Law and Society Review, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Race and Ethnic Politics, Policy Studies Journal, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, among others. She has written extensively about the structure of American politics, its relationship to political mobilization and social outcomes, particularly with respect to crime and punishment. Her more recent work is focused on the structure of the American constitutional system and its implications for democratic accountability. Professor Miller has served as a Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and as a Visiting Scholar at the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is currently working on a book project tentatively titled The Myth of Checks and Balances. Professor Miller is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Niskanen Center. Professor Miller earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington and her B.A. in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia. She joined the faculty at Rutgers in 2004.