About the Authors

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12151
• Published date: 01 August 2016
• Date: 01 August 2016

About the Authors

Sarah E. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Environmental Politics

at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Univer-

sity of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford

University in 2006. Anderson’s research focuses on party inf‌luence, leg-

islative and bureaucratic politics, and environmental policy. Her work

has appeared in the Public Administration Review,American Politics

Research,andPolitical Analysis, among others.

Email: sanderson@bren.ucsb.edu

William Bendix is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Keene State

College. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in

2012. His areas of research include the U.S. Congress, legislative delib-

erations, and homeland security and civil liberties policies. His work has

appeared or is forthcoming in Congress & the Presidency and the

Journal of Policy History.

Email: wbendix@keene.edu

Daniel M. Butler is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Wash-

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

University in 2007. Butler’s research often leverages experiments to

study elites and representation. He is the author of Representing the

Advantaged: How Politicians Reinforce Inequality (Cambridge 2014).

His work has also appeared in the American Journal of Political Science,

the Journal of Politics,andPolitical Analysis, among others.

Email: daniel.butler@wustl.edu

Lindsey Cormack is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ste-

vens Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from New York

University in 2014. Cormack’s research focuses on political communica-

tion, issue emergence, and legislative-executive relations. Her work has

appeared in The Washington Post and has been featured in The New

York Times.

Email: lcormack@stevens.edu

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