Michael A. Bailey is the Colonel William J. Walsh Associate Professor of American Government in the Department of Government and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.

Bailey teaches and conducts research on American politics and political economy. He is currently working on a book on the political context of the U.S. Supreme Court. His work covering trade, Congress, election law and the Supreme Court, methodology and inter-state policy competition has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, World Politics, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and elsewhere. He has also analyzed many congressional elections and has edited a book from Congressional Quarterly Press on the topic. In 2002-2003 Professor Bailey was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

A former Monbusho Scholar at Saitama University in Japan, Professor Bailey is conversational in Japanese and interested in Japanese politics.