About the Authors

• Date: 01 May 2018
• Published date: 01 May 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12208

About the Authors

Eduardo Alem

an (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) is

Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Houston. He

specializes in the comparative analysis of political institutions and Latin

American politics. He is the co-editor of Legislative Institutions

and Lawmaking in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2016).

His research has been published in such journals as World Politics, Com-

parative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies

Quarterly, Electoral Studies, Latin American Politics and Society,and

Latin American Research Review.

Email: ealeman2@uh.edu

Adam Dynes is an assistant professor in the Department of Political

Science at Brigham Young University and a scholar at the Center for

the Study of Elections and Democracy at BYU. He received his Ph.D.

from Yale University in 2015. His work focuses on legislative behavior

and representation and has appeared in the American Political Science

Review and the American Journal of Political Science.

Email: adamdynes@byu.edu

Hans J. G. Hassell is an Assistant Professor of Politics, Cornell College,

600 1st St. SW, Mount Vernon, IA 52314.

Email: hhassell@cornellcollege.edu

Raphael J. Heuwieser is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics

and International Relations, University of Oxford, Manor Road, OX1

3UQ, Oxford, UK.

Email: raphael.heuwieser@politics.ox.ac.uk

Mirya R. Holman is an associate professor of political science at Tulane

University. She studies gender and politics, local politics, and political

ambition. Her book, Women in Politics in the American City is a com-

prehensive evaluation of the effect of gender on policy making in urban

America.

Email: mholman@tulane.edu

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