About the Authors

JAMES MORONE (BA, Middlebury College, and MA and PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Political Science 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 nine books, including 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 Ameri- can Political Science Association’s Kammerer Award for the best book on American politics). 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 jour- nals, has written over 150 articles and essays, and com- ments on politics in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, and the American Prospect.

ROGAN KERSH (BA, Wake Forest University, and MA and PhD, Yale) is Provost and Professor of Polit- ical 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 inter- est groups/lobbying. As a political science faculty member at Syracuse from 1996–2006, he won three dif- ferent teaching awards; from 2006–2012, as Associate Dean of NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, he won both Wagner and NYU-wide teaching awards, as well as the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for scholarship, teach- ing, and university service. Dr. Kersh has published two books and more than fi fty academic articles, and has provided commentary on US politics for dozens of diff er- ent media outlets including CNN, Newsweek, and the New York Times. He was president of the American Pol- itical Science Association’s organized section on health politics and policy in 2011–2012 and is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. xv