Patrick J. Egan (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Policy at NYU, and an expert in public opinion, public policy and their relationship in American politics.  He is author of Partisan Priorities: How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics, published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press.  He is also co-editor of Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy, published by Oxford University Press in 2008. 

His research has appeared in academic journals including the Journal of Politics and the British Journal of Political Science, and his writing has been published in media outlets such as the New Republic and the New York Times.  In 2012, he received the NYU Golden Dozen Award in recognition for his outstanding contribution to learning in the classroom.  Before entering academia, he served as an Assistant Deputy Mayor of Policy and Planning in the office of Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell.