About the Authors

• Published date: 01 August 2015
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12085
• Date: 01 August 2015

About the Authors

E. Scott Adler is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colo-

rado Boulder. His expertise is the US Congress, elections, political insti-

tutions, and policymaking. Among his books are Why Congressional

Reforms Fail: Reelection and the House Committee System (University

of Chicago Press 2002) and The Macropolitics of Congress, co-edited

with John Lapinski (Princeton University Press 2006). Adler’s most

recent book, co-authored with John Wilkerson, is Congress and the

Politics of Problem Solving (Cambridge University Press 2012).

Email: esadler@colorado.edu

Website: https://sites.google.com/a/colorado.edu/adler-scott/

Jeremy Gelman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political

Science at the University of Michigan. His research interests focus on

presidential and congressional behavior, interbranch bargaining dynamics,

and legislative agenda setting. Gelman’s dissertation examines how

parties in Congress use their legislative agendas to electioneer by pro-

posing bills that are intended to fail.

Email: jgelman@umich.edu

Melanie M. Hughes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Univer-

sity of Pittsburgh. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from The Ohio

State University in 2008. She uses quantitative approaches to study

women’s empowerment, often focusing on women’s representation in

national legislatures worldwide. She is co-author of Women, Politics,

and Power: A Global Perspective (Sage Publications), currently in its

2nd edition (2013). Hughes’s scholarship on gender and politics has also

appeared in journals such as American Political Science Review,Ameri-

can Sociological Review,andInternational Studies Quarterly.

Email: hughesm@pitt.edu

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