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Kevin Arceneaux is Associate Professor of Political Science and an Institute for Public Affairs Faculty Affiliate at Temple University. He specializes in the study of mass political behavior, focusing on how people arrive at political judgments. His ongoing research uses experimental methods in both field and laboratory settings to study how political rhetoric and mass communication influence political attitudes and behavior. Professor Arceneaux’s work has appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Analysis,and Political Psychology.

Jack Citrin is Heller Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research centers on political trust, national identity, immigration, and multiculturalism in the United States and Europe. Among his publications are Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California, California and the American Tax Revolt, How Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration are Changing the California Electorate and, with David Sears, the forthcoming American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism. Among his recent articles and book chapters dealing with immigration and national identity are ‘Testing Huntington: Is Hispanic Immigration a threat to American Identity?’ (2007), ‘Saved by the Stars and Stripes, Protest Imagery and Immigration Attitudes’ (2010), ‘Alternative Measures of National Identity: Implications for the Ethnic–Civic Distinction’ (2012), and ‘Do Patriotism and Multiculturalism Collide? Competing Perspectives from Canada and the United States’ (2012).

Cornell W. Clayton is Director of the Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service and the C.O. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Washington State University. His research focuses on judicial politics and American political institutions. He has published numerous articles and books, including: Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches and The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations (both co-edited with Howard Gillman); The Politics of Justice: The Attorney General and the Making of Legal Policy; and Government Lawyers: The Federal Legal Bureaucracy and Presidential Politics. He and J. Mitchell Pickerill are currently working on a book about the Supreme Court and regime politics.

Jennifer R. Garcia is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests focus on the representation of Latinos and Blacks in the U.S. Congress, race, public opinion, and political participation. Garcia has published co-authored works in these areas. She is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Democracy at UC Irvine.

Matt Grossmann is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University and Director of the Michigan Policy Network. He is the author of The Not-So-Special Interests: Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance (Stanford University Press). His research also appears in the Journal of Politics, American Politics Research, and twelve other journals. His next book, Artists of the Possible: Governing Networks and American Policy Change Since 1945 (Oxford University Press) is under contract. He is also co-author of Campaigns & Elections: Rules, Reality, Strategy, and Choice (W. W. Norton).

Martin Johnson is Associate Professor of Political Science and operates the Media & Communication Research Laboratory at University of California, Riverside. His research investigates political communication, public opinion, and public policy with a particular interest in U.S. subnational politics. His research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly,and Social Science Quarterly, among other journals. Professor Johnson’s research has been supported by the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

Raymond J. La Raja is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and editor of The Forum, an electronic journal of applied research in contemporary American politics. His research on American political parties, interest groups, campaign finance and electoral reform has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly and other noted journals and edited volumes. He is the author of Small Change: Money, Political Parties and Campaign Finance Reform (University of Michigan Press), which explains how political finance laws shaped parties and elections through American history. He serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Campaign Finance Institute in Washington, DC.

Keena Lipsitz is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Queens College, City University of New York. Her main field is American political behavior with a focus on how political campaigns affect voters, but she has broader interests in democratic theory, public opinion, election law, and media effects. She is the author of Competitive Elections and the American Voter (2011) and Campaigns and Elections: Rules, Reality, Strategy, Choice (with John Sides, Daron Shaw, and Matt Grossmann, 2012). Her research has appeared in a variety of journals, including Political Behavior and Journal of Political Philosophy. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004.

Seth Masket is associate professor and chair of political science at the University of Denver. He is the author of No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures (University of Michigan Press, 2009). He writes and teaches on the subjects of party organizations, state legislatures, political networks, and campaigns and elections. Masket received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2004.

Joanne M. Miller is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology and Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 2000 from the Ohio State University. Her research addresses the ways in which the media affect political attitudes and the motivations underlying a wide array of political behaviors (voting, protesting volunteering, contributing money, becoming a party delegate, and the like). Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and has appeared journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Psychology.

Daniel Palazzolo is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses on American Government, Campaigns and Elections, Legislative Process, and Public Policy. He is the author of two books, including Done Deal? The Politics of the 1997 Budget Agreement, and author or co-author of over twenty articles or book chapters. He is also co-editor, with James W. Ceaser of the University of Virginia, of Election Reform: Politics and Policy. His current research, with Randall Strahan of Emory University, seeks to explain the formation of coalitions in Congress that involve bipartisan cooperation in an era of polarized parties.

Paul J. Quirk, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, is Phil Lind Chair in U.S. Politics and Representation at the University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University, was a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and held faculty positions at several American universities—most recently, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—before moving to Canada in 2004. He has published widely in several areas of American politics—administrative politics, public policy, the presidency, Congress, and public opinion. He is author or co-author of Industry Influence in Federal Regulatory Agencies (1981), The Politics of Deregulation (1985), and Deliberative Choices: Debating Public Policy in Congress (2006); and co-editor of The Legislative Branch (2005). His work on public opinion includes articles and essays on “The Rising Hegemony of Mass Opinion,” “Reconsidering the Rational Public,” “Misinformation and the Currency of Citizenship,” and “The Conceptual Foundations of Citizen Competence.” His awards include the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration and the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Achievement Award of the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.

David Brian Robertson is Curators’ Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His most recent book is Federalism and the Making of America (Routledge, 2011). He also is the political analyst for KSDK Television (NBC).

Andrew Rudalevige is Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government at Bowdoin College. He has held teaching and visiting posts at Dickinson College, Harvard University, the University of East Anglia, and Sciences Po (Lyon). Rudalevige has written extensively on presidential power, interbranch relations, presidential management of the bureaucracy (especially via the Office of Management and Budget), and public policy. His books include Managing the President’s Program; The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate; and the edited volumes The George W. Bush Legacy and The Obama Presidency: Appraisals and Prospects. In a former life Rudalevige was a city councilor and State Senate staffer in his native Massachusetts.

Robert P. Saldin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Montana. He writes and teaches about American government, political development, and public policy. His first book, War, the American State, and Politics since 1898, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011, and his articles have appeared in outlets such as The Journal of Politics, the Journal of Policy History, Political Research Quarterly, and The Forum. Previously, Saldin was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at Harvard University, the Patrick Henry Scholar at Johns Hopkins University, a Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2008.

JoBeth Surface Shafran is a graduate student at the University of Texas, where she studies American politics and public policy. She is a Graduate Research Fellow with the Policy Agendas Project. 

Katherine Tate is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is also affiliated with UC Irvine’s African American Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Democracy. She is the author of several books, including Concordance: Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama (University of Michigan Press, 2013). Her Ph.D. in political science is from the University of Michigan.

Sean M. Theriault is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas. He is the author of The Power of the People, Party Polarization in Congress, and a number of articles on a variety of topics. Professor Theriault has earned numerous teaching awards and has been inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Matthew Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at American University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010. In his research, he has explored numerous topics relevant to American politics and comparative politics more generally. These include: the causes and implications of political identity; immigration, assimilation, and citizenship policies; the politics of ethnic diversity; national identity and patriotism; religion and politics; political culture; social capital, civic engagement, and trust; and U.S. voting behavior. He has published work in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Comparative Political Studies, American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, Psychological Science, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Political Psychology, and Perspectives on Politics.