1. Anthony J. Nownesis associate professor of political science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research focuses on organized interests in American politics and has been published in American Politics Quarterly, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly. He is the author of Pressure and Power: Organized Interests in American Politics (Houghton Mifflin 2001).
2. Christopher A. Cooperis assistant professor of political science at Western Carolina University. His research interests include state and local politics, political communication, interest groups, and political psychology. His work has appeared in Social Science Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and State and Local Government Review and in edited volumes.