#  Vanessa Williamson 

PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2015.

Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution.

Senior Fellow, Urban–Brookings Tax Policy Center.

 

 

 



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Vanessa Williamson's second book, [Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10977.html), has been published by Princeton University Press (2017). Vanessa Williamson is the co-author, with Theda Skocpol, of [The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism](https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10977.html)*,* which examines how the Tea Party pushed the Republican Party

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farther to the right. Oxford University Press (2012).  *Selected one of the ten best political books of the year by The New Yorker.*



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Government and Social Policy](/alumni-department/government-and-social-policy)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2015](/alumni-year/2015)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)