Representation: Elections and Beyond

List of Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS André Blais holds a Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies and is Professor of Political Science at the University of Montreal. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and past president of the Canadian Political Science Association. Pradeep Chhibber is Professor of Political Science at the University of California , Berkeley, where he also directs the Institute of International Studies and holds the Indo-American Endowed Chair and the Bedford Chair. Archon Fung is Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is author of numerous books and articles on governance, participation, and transparency. Jacob Hacker is Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University , where he also directs the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. His most recent book is Winner-Take-All Politics, co-authored with Paul Pierson. Zoltan Hajnal is Professor of Political Science at the University of California , San Diego. He is author of America’s Uneven Democracy (winner of the award for Best Book in Urban Politics of the American Political Science Association ) and Why Americans Don’t Join the Party. Matthew Hindman is Associate Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He is author of an awardwinning book, The Myth of Digital Democracy. David Karpf teaches in the School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University. He served for six years as a member of the national board of directors of the Sierra Club. He is author of The Move-On Effect. 316 Contributors Georgia Kernell teaches Political Science at Northwestern University. A former postdoctoral fellow in the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship , and Constitutionalism, she is working on a book examining how party organization affects electoral success in parliamentary systems. Alexander Keyssar is Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The first edition of his book The Right to Vote was named best book in American history by the American Historical Association. In 2004–5, Keyssar chaired the Social Science Research Council National Research Commission on Voting and Elections. Anthony McGann is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of The Logic of Democracy. Jack Nagel is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his retirement in 2012, he served as Penn’s Associate Dean for the Social Sciences. His recent research focuses on electoral systems and electoral reforms. Susan Ostermann is a Ph.D. student in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research concerns state capacity in the developing world, with a focus on India and Nepal. Paul Pierson is John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he chaired the political science department in 2007–10. He is author of numerous books on American politics, including most recently Winner-Take-All Politics, co-authored with Jacob Hacker. Rogers M. Smith is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. His most recent book is Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama’s America, coauthored with Desmond King. Dennis Thompson is Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University. His most recent book is The Spirit of Compromise , co-authored with Amy Gutmann. Contributors 317 Jessica Trounstine is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Merced. She is author of Political Monopolies in American Cities, which won the prize for Best Book in Urban Politics from the American Political Science Association. Mark Warren holds the Harold and Dorrie Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy in the Department of Political Science of the University of British Columbia, where he formerly directed the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He is author of the prize-winning book, Democracy and Associations. This page intentionally left blank ...