“Democracy Declined is an elegant and timely book...an important and original work which will be widely read and cited.”
“SoRelle’s meticulously researched, engaged, and insightful book is a major and much-needed contribution to our understanding of this crucial but long-overlooked feature of the American political economy...”
Mallory is an assistant professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Her work explores how public policies influence inequality in the American political economy.
Mallory’s first book—Democracy Declined: the Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection—explores why the political response from policymakers, interest groups, and borrowers failed to successfully address predatory lending in the wake of the financial crisis. Her current projects investigate 1) how low-income people’s experiences with civil legal problems like evictions and debt collection influence their political power and 2) the emerging politics of student loan debt relief.
She holds a PhD in Government from Cornell, an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a BA with honors from Smith College. Mallory has also worked in both electoral politics and policy advocacy.
