About the Authors

• Published date: 01 November 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12163
• Date: 01 November 2016

About the Authors

Andrew Clarke is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at the

University of Virginia. His research focuses on political institutions,

legislative politics, and party factions.

Email: andrewclarke@virginia.edu

William Egar is a Social Science Analyst at the U.S. Government

Accountability Off‌ice. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of

Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Egar’s

research interests include Congress, legislative procedure, political

history, political parties, and quantitative methods.

Email: egarw@gao.gov

Benny Geys is Professor of Economics at Norwegian Business School

(BI) in Oslo and Research Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bel-

gium. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit

Brussel in 2004. Geys’ research focuses on (local) public policy, inter-

governmental relations, and political accountability. His work has been

published in Economic Journal,European Journal of Political Research

and other academic journals.

Email: benny.geys@bi.no

Bryce Loidolt is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science

at George Washington University, in Washington DC. He has worked as

an adjunct research aff‌iliate at RAND Corporation and as adjunct faculty

at National Defense University. He specializes in the study of militant

Islam, civil conf‌lict, and political violence. He has previously published

in Studies in Conf‌lict and Terrorism and Terrorism and Political

Violence.

Email: bloidolt@gwu.edu

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