10/31--The role of the vice president has changed Elaine Kamarck posits in a 2020 book Picking the Vice President.
A Senior Fellow and Founding Director of the Brookings Center for Effective Public Management, Elaine Kamarck shows that as the way of picking the vice president has changed, so has the job evolved. If Kamala Harris becomes Vice President, she will step into more power and responsibility than in the past.