Maggie Hassan won a bipartisanship award. Please hold your applause.

The New Hampshire Bulletin discussed the Portman Center's Bipartisan Public Service Awards and the Center's new Congressional Bipartisanship Scores.

Hassan grabs twin awards

The New Hampshire Union Leader covered Senator Maggie Hassan's recognition by the Portman Center for Policy Solutions following the launch of the Congressional Bipartisanship Scores Database.

Senator Hassan Receives National Recognition for Bipartisan Policymaking from University of Cincinnati

Senator Maggie Hassan's office highlighted the Portman Center's Congressional Bipartisanship Scores as a new public resource for understanding bipartisan activity in the U.S. Congress.

Portman Center launches Congressional Bipartisanship Scores Database

The Portman Center for Policy Solutions announced the public launch of the Congressional Bipartisanship Scores Database, developed by Jacob M. Lollis and Mackenzie R. Dobson to measure how members of Congress offer and attract bipartisan support across time and policy areas.

Meet our Faculty Affiliate: Jacob Lollis

The Center for Effective Lawmaking announced Jacob M. Lollis as one of its newest faculty affiliates, highlighting his research on descriptive representation, bipartisanship, and effective lawmaking in the U.S. Congress.

Congressional Bipartisanship Scores by Member and Issue Area, 1983–2024

The Center for Effective Lawmaking featured the Congressional Bipartisanship Scores project, a dataset developed with Mackenzie R. Dobson that measures how members of Congress attract and offer cross-party support across time and policy areas.

The University of Cincinnati Office of Research (URC) Announces 2026 Faculty Scholars Awardees

Building upon the rich legacy of the University Research Council (URC), UC’s oldest and most prestigious internal funding program, the URC Faculty Scholars Research Awards recognize outstanding early-career faculty whose work demonstrates exceptional promise and vision. Jacob M. Lollis is a grantee for his project: Democracy Denied: Explaining the Rise of Election-Denying Candidates in U.S. Politics.

The Concentration of Legislative Effectiveness in the American States

The Center for Effective Lawmaking featured work with Todd Makse on how legislative effectiveness is distributed across members within state legislative chambers.

I’m Coming Out! How Voter Discrimination Produces Effective LGBTQ Lawmakers

The Center for Effective Lawmaking featured work with Mackenzie R. Dobson on LGBTQ lawmakers, voter discrimination, and legislative effectiveness in the American states.

Are Workers Effective Lawmakers?

The Center for Effective Lawmaking featured Jacob M. Lollis's research on working-class lawmakers and state legislative effectiveness.

2023 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantees

The American Political Science Association named Jacob M. Lollis a 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant awardee. The APSA DDRIG program supports theoretically derived, empirically oriented doctoral dissertation research in political science.