About the Authors

• Published date: 01 May 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12176
• Date: 01 May 2017

About the Authors

John H. Aldrich (Ph.D., Rochester) is the Pf‌izer-Pratt University Profes-

sor of Political Science, Duke University. He is past President of the

Southern Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science

Association, and the American Political Science Association. He has

been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a Fellow of the American Academy

of Arts and Sciences. His articles have appeared in the major journals.

He is also the author or co-author of Why Parties, Before the Conven-

tion, Linear Probability, Logit and Probit Models, Interdisciplinarity,

and a series of books on elections, the most recent of which is Change

and Continuity in the 2012 and 2014 Elections. His and John Griff‌ins’

book, Why Parties Matter: Political Competition and Democracy in the

American South, 1832-2012 is forthcoming in 2017.

Email: aldrich@duke.edu

Matthew N. Beckmann is an Associate Professor of Political Science at

UC Irvine, where he studies Washington politics, particularly those

involving the White House. He is author of “Pushing the Agenda”

(Cambridge University Press, 2010), which reveals the systematic strate-

gies presidents employ to inf‌luence Congress and the factors that

determine when those strategies work – or don’t. Matt received his B.A.

from UCLA and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Email: beckmann@uci.edu

Neil Chaturvedi is an assistant professor of political science at California

State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His research focuses on the

power dynamics of the United States Senate, race and ethnicity, and the

presidency. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine,

and his B.A. from the University of California, Riverside. His work has

appeared in Social Science Quarterly, Politics, Groups, and Identities,

and Politics and Religion.

Email: nschaturvedi@cpp.edu

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