About the Authors

• Date: 01 May 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12123
• Published date: 01 May 2016

About the Authors

Douglas J. Ahler is a Ph.D. candidate in the Travers Department of

Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research

focuses on representation, partisanship, and Americans’ political percep-

tions in the polarized era. Ahler’s work has been published in the

Journal of Politics.

Email: dahler@berkeley.edu

Michael M. Atkinson is a Professor in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate

School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan Campus. He has

published extensively in the areas of legislative studies, public adminis-

tration and public policy, most recently in Political Science Quarterly,

Canadian Public Administration and International Public Management

Journal. He is a past-president of the Canadian Political Science

Association.

Email: michael.atkinson@usask.ca

Jeeyang Rhee Baum is an Adjunct Lecturer and Aff‌iliate at the Ash

Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University.

She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Baum’s research focuses on the political economy of administrative

reform in developing democracies. She has conducted f‌ield research in

South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines, the results of which appear

in her book, Responsive Democracy: Increasing State Accountability in

East Asia (University of Michigan Press 2011).

Email: jbaum@fas.harvard.edu

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

Irvine, where he studies Washington politics, particularly those involv-

ing the White House. Beckmann is the author of Pushing the Agenda:

Presidential Leadership in US Lawmaking, 1953–2004 (Cambridge

University Press 2010).

Email: beckmann@uci.edu

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