Biography & Research:
Matthew N. Beckmann is a Professor of Political Science at UC Irvine, where he studies Washington politics, particularly those involving the White House. Beckmann’s new book - The President’s Day: Managing Time in the Oval Office - explains and tests the seemingly pedestrian but actually fascinating rudiments of presidents’ daily work: time, people, and process. He recently published, "Did Reagan Decline?" in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.