About the Authors

• Date: 01 February 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12201
• Published date: 01 February 2018

About the Authors

Robin E. Best is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of

Graduate Studies at Binghamton University, SUNY. She received her

Ph.D. from Binghamton University in 2007. Her various journal articles

and book chapters focus on political parties and party systems, electoral

politics, and democratic representation.

Email: rbest@binghamton.edu

Anthony M. Bertelli is Professor of the Politics of Public Policy at New

York University.

Email: bertelli@nyu.edu

Ian Budge is Professor Emeritus of Government at the University of

Essex and founder of the International Manifesto Research Group as

well as of the Essex Summer Schools in Quantitative Social Science. He

received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1967. His several dozen

books, various journal articles, and book chapters focus on democracy,

party competition, and representation through direct and republican

forms of democratic institutions.

Email: budgi@essex.ac.uk

Pamela J. Clouser McCann is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the

University of Southern California.

Email: pmccann@price.usc.edu

Kevin Fahey’s areas of specialization include: Legislative Institutions,

Subnational Politics, and Elite Behavior. He received his Ph.D. at

Florida State University in 2017. He has forthcoming articles in

State Politics & Policy Quarterly, as well as the Handbook of Territorial

Politics.

Email: kf12d@my.fsu.edu

Alyx Mark is Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central

College and Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. Her

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