About The Authors
Volume 6, Issue 3 (Fall 2006)

Clyde Brown is a professor of political science at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, where he teaches American politics and research methods. His research focuses on citizen participation in interest groups, elections and social movements, and interest group behavior. He has also worked as a congressional staffer, campaign manager, and political organizer.

Thomas M. Carsey is a professor of political science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Michael Givel is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Professor GivelÕs current research interests include domestic and international health policy, including tobacco policy.

John C. Green is a professor of political science and Director of the Ray Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron.

Richard Herrera is an associate professor of political science at Arizona State University.

Karl T. Kurtz is Director of State Services for the National Conference of State Legislatures and has been working with and studying American legislatures for over 30 years. He is co-author of Republic on Trial: The Case for Representative Democracy (CQ Press) and co-editor of Institutional Change in American Politics: The Case of Term Limits.

Geoffrey C. Layman is an associate professor of political science at the University of Maryland.

Gary Moncrief, University Foundation Research Scholar and a professor of political science at Boise State University, is co-author of Who Runs for the Legislature? (Prentice Hall, 2001) and co-editor of Campaign Finance in State Legislative Elections (CQ Press, 1998). His current research is on the recruitment of women candidates and the changing role of state governments in the federal system.