About the Authors

• Date: 01 May 2015
• Published date: 01 May 2015
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12077

About the Authors

Markus Baumann is a Doctoral Researcher at the Mannheim Centre for

European Social Research (MZES). His research focuses on legislative

decision making, parliamentary behavior, intra-party competition, and

political communication.

Email: mbaumann@uni-mannheim.de

Daniel Butler is Associate Professor of Political Science at Washington

University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University

in 2007. Butler’s research uses experiments to study issues of representa-

tion. He is author of Representing the Advantaged: How Politicians

Reinforce Inequality (Cambridge University 2014). His work has also

appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal

of Politics.

Email: daniel.butler@wustl.edu

Marc Debus is Professor of Comparative Government at the University

of Mannheim, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from

the University of Konstanz, Germany in 2006. Debus’s research interests

include political institutions and their effects on the political process,

party competition and coalition politics, and political decision-making in

multi-level systems. His articles have appeared in the European Journal

of Political Research, Public Choice, European Union Politics, Party

Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, Political Research

Quarterly, Electoral Studies,andWest European Politics, among others.

Email: marc.debus@uni-mannheim.de

David Doherty is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola

University Chicago. His work examines the factors that shape citizen

responses to political events and politicians’ behavior. Doherty’s

previous work has appeared in outlets including the American Political

Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Behavior,andPublic

Opinion Quarterly.

Email: ddoherty@luc.edu

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