Alexander C. Furnas, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He has a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. He specializes in the role of information and expertise in the US Congress. His dissertation examines the conditions under which Congress uses privately provisioned information produced by outside organizations in the policymaking process. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Legislative Studies Quarterly, among others. More generally, he studies the use of information, science, and expertise in policymaking, interest groups, and elite political behavior using survey, text analysis and network methods.