Jenna Bednar

Bednar studies the political mechanisms that give rise to stabilities in federal states.^[4] She has studied how institutions maintain and distribute authority. Her research showed that the distribution of authority by a constitution can be meaningless if governments do not abide by them. With a focus on the United States, she has examined how the federal government takes advantage of state governments.^{[citation needed]}

In 2009, Bednar published The Robust Federation, Principles of Design, a book which examines how federal constitution can produce resilient governments.^[5] The book is mainly theoretical, and was inspired by the writings of the Founding Fathers of the United States.^[5] In 2019, The Robust Federation: Principles of Design was awarded the American Political Science Association Martha Derthick Book Award.^[6]

• Bednar, Jenna (2009). The robust federation : principles of design. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-46431-7. OCLC 313651876.
• Ferejohn, John; Rakove, Jack N.; Riley, Jonathan (October 8, 2001). Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79370-4.
• Bednar, Jenna; Page, Scott (February 2007). "Can Game(s) Theory Explain Culture?: The Emergence of Cultural Behavior Within Multiple Games". Rationality and Society. 19 (1): 65–97. doi:10.1177/1043463107075108. S2CID 14181429.

• The Fractured Superpower, Foreign Affairs, September 6, 2022 (co-authored with Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar)^[7]