About the Authors

• Published date: 01 November 2015
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12093
• Date: 01 November 2015

About the Authors

James M. Curry is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the

University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. in 2011 from the Univer-

sity of Maryland. Curry’s research interests include the role of par-

ties and leaders in the U.S. Congress and the inf‌luence of electoral

institutions on legislative politics. His research has been published in

Legislative Studies Quarterly and Congress Reconsidered, and his

book, Legislating in the Dark, was published by the University of

Chicago Press in September 2015.

Email: james.curry@utah.edu.

Kentaro Fukumoto is Professor of Political Science at Gakushuin Uni-

versity and Visiting Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. He

received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2007. Fukumoto’s

research interests include political methodology, legislative studies, and

electoral studies. He is the author of Nihon no Kokkai Seiji: Zen Seifu

Rippo no Bunseki [Politics in the Japanese Diet: A Statistical Analysis of

Postwar Government Legislation] (Tokyo Daigaku Shuppan Kai 2000)

and Rippo no Seido to Katei [Legislative Institutions and Process]

(Bokutaku Sha 2007). His articles have appeared in the American Politi-

cal Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of

American Statistical Association, and Japanese Journal of Political

Science.

Email: kentaro.fukumoto@gakushuin.ac.jp

Miriam A. Golden is Professor of Political Science at the University of

California at Los Angeles. Her Ph.D. was awarded by Cornell University

in 1983. Golden’s research focuses on issues related to political account-

ability. As a 2014 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial

Foundation, she is currently working on a comparative study of political

malfeasance in democratic regimes entitled Bad Government. The author

of two previous books, Golden’s work has also appeared in journals

such as the American Political Science Review,theAmerican Journal of

Political Science,andtheBritish Journal of Political Science.

Email: golden@ucla.edu

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