About the Authors
JAMES MORONE (BA, Middlebury College, and MA and PhD, University of Chicago) is the John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Brown University and fi ve-time winner of the Hazeltine Citation for outstanding teacher of the year. Dr. Morone, an award- winning author, has published ten books, including The Devils We Know (2014), The Heart of Power (2009, a New York Times Notable Book), Hellfi re Nation (2003, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize), and The Democratic Wish (1990, winner of the American Political Science Association’s Kammerer Award as the best book on American politics and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year). Dr. Morone served as president of the politics and history section of the American Political Science Association and the New England Political Science Association. He has been on the board of editors for eight scholarly journals, has written more than 150 articles and essays, and comments on politics in the New York Times , the London Review of Books, and the American Prospect. He is currently the chair of the Brown University faculty and serves as director of the Brown Public Policy Center.
ROGAN KERSH (BA, Wake Forest University, and MA and PhD, Yale) is Provost and Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University. A leading scholar in American political science, Dr. Kersh is best known for his work on health reform, obesity politics, and interest groups and lobbying. As a political science faculty member at Syracuse University from 1996 to 2006, he won three dif- ferent teaching awards; from 2006 to 2012, as Associate Dean of New York University’s Wagner School of Public Ser- vice, he won both Wagner and NYU-wide teaching awards, as well as the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for scholarship, teaching, and university service. Dr. Kersh has published two books and more than fi fty academic articles and has provided commentary on U.S. politics for dozens of dif- ferent media outlets including CNN, Newsweek , and the New York Times . He was president of the American Polit- ical Science Association’s organized section on health pol- itics and policy in 2011–2012 and is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. xv