ABOUT THE AUTHORS

• Published date: 01 August 2003
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3162/036298003779970208
• Date: 01 August 2003

443About the Authors

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

William D. Anderson is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at The Ohio State

University. His recent publications include “Influencing from Impaired

Administrations: Presidents, White House Scandals, and Legislative

Leadership,” with Scott R. Meinke (Legislative Studies Quarterly 2001).

Anderson’s areas of research are legislative politics and political economy.

James S. Coleman Battista is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the

University of North Texas, Denton. He received his Ph.D. in political science

from Duke University in 2000. Battista’s recent publications include

“Conditional Party Government in the States,” with John H. Aldrich (American

Journal of Political Science 2002). His current area of interest is using state

legislatures to explore legislative institutions, especially committees and parties.

William T. Bianco is Associate Professor of Political Science at Penn State

University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1987.

Bianco’s areas of interest include American politics, methodology, and formal

theory.

Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier is Associate Professor of Political Science at the

Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at

Austin in 1993. Her forthcoming book, Timing and Political Science (University

of Michigan Press, Techniques in Political Analysis Series 2004), is on duration

modeling in the social sciences. She is also the author of numerous articles,

including most recently “Macropartisanship and Macroideology in the

Sophisticated Electorate,” with Suzanna DeBoef (The Journal of Politics 2001).

David C. King is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s

John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he is faculty director of the

Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress. He received a Ph.D. in Political

Science from the University of Michigan in 1992. King is co-author of The

Generation of Trust: Confidence in the U.S. Military Since Vietnam (American

Enterprise Institute 2003) and author of Turf Wars: How Congressional

Committees Claim Jurisdictions (University of Chicago Press 1997). His current

research focuses on political polarization in the U.S. Congress.