Second Verse, Same as the First: The 2012 Presidential Election in the South

Contributors

277 Contributors Scott E. Buchanan is associate professor of political science at The Citadel. Professor Buchanan has been the executive director of The Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics since 2009. His research focuses on southern politics and elections, and he is the author of the only published biography of former Georgia governor Marvin Griffin. Branwell DuBose Kapeluck is associate professor of political science at The Citadel. Since 2004, Professor Kapeluck has been codirector of the Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics. He is the author and editor of a number of publications, including A Paler Shade of Red: The 2008 Presi­ den­ tial Election in the South. Patrick Miller is assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas. His primary research areas include public opinion, political psychology, elections, and survey and experimental methods. He has recently published research in Political Psychology, American Review of Politics, and IRB: Ethics & Human Research. His professional background includes a year as a postdoctoral associate at the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology at Duke University and two years teaching fifth grade in Atlanta public schools through Teach for America. John A. Clark is professor of political science at Western Michigan University. His research focusing on political parties, elections, and legislative politics has appeared in a variety of academic journals and edited volumes. He is coeditor of Party Organization and Activism in the American South and Southern Political Party Activists: Patterns of Conflict and Change, 1991–2001. Shannon L. Bridgmon is assistant professor of political science at Northeastern State University. Her primary research areas are southern politics and state political party issues. She has published in the American Review of Politics and the Criminal Justice Policy Review. Other research projects have ex­ amined party responsibility in various policy areas, state party legislative performance, and the Alabama Constitution of 1901. She earned her PhD in 2009 from the University of Alabama. Since 2003, she has taught at James Madison University, the University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa, the University of Alabama–Huntsville, and Northeastern State University. Charles S. Bullock III is the Richard B. Russell Professor of Political Science and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia. He has authored, coauthored, edited, or coedited 28 books and more than 150 articles. His most recent books are the fifth edition of The New Politics of the Old South and The Oxford Handbook of Southern Politics, both coedited with Mark Rozell; the second edition of Georgia Politics in a State of Change, coauthored with Keith Gaddie; Redistricting: The Most Political Activity in 278 H Contributors America; and The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South, coauthored with Keith Gaddie and winner of the V. O. Key Award as the best book published on southern politics in 2009. In 2011 and 2012, Georgia Trend Magazine named Bullock one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians. Robert E. Hogan is associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University. He conducts research on various aspects of American electoral politics in the states. His most recent projects focus on the role of candidate decision making and its effects on the representation process. His work has appeared in journals such as Social Science Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Politics. Joshua D. Hostetter is a PhD candidate at Louisiana State University in the Political Science Department. His research focuses on the effects of institutional differences in state elections and voting behavior. David A. Breaux is dean of the graduate school and professor of political science at the University of Louisiana–Lafayette. He has published articles in various journals, including Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Review of Politics, American Politics Quarterly, and Public Administration Review. Dr. Breaux has also published numerous book chapters on state political party activists, state electoral politics, state policy making, and southern politics. In addition, he has been the recipient of various research grants, including three from the National Science Foundation. Stephen D. Shaffer is professor of political science at Mississippi State University. He has published extensively on Mississippi party organizations and political campaigns, as well as on national public opinion and federal elections. Professor Shaffer directs the Mississippi Poll. He coauthored Mississippi Government and Politics and the 2006 V. O. Key award–winning Politics in the New South: Representation of African Americans in Southern State Legislatures and has published in the American Journal of Political Science, Western Political Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly. Cole Blease Graham Jr. is visiting professor at the George H. W. Bush School of...