Edward G. Carmines is Warner O. Chapman Professor of Political Science and Rudy Professor at Indiana University. He is also the Research Director at the Center on Congress at Indiana University. Professor Carmines has published research on public opinion, party identification, political behavior, and research methodology in the top journals of the discipline including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Politics. The author/co-author of seven books, Professor Carmines is currently working on two book projects, one with Jessica Gerrity and Michael Wagner focusing on public attitudes toward Congress, and the other with co-authors J. Merrill Shanks, Henry Brady, and Douglas Strand about the importance of issues in the 2004 election. Two of his books, Issue Evolution (with James A. Stimson) and Reaching Beyond Race (with Paul Sniderman) have won the American Political Science Association’s Kammerer Award for Best Book in the Field of U.S. National Policy. Professor Carmines was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 2000-2001.

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Patrick Egan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies public opinion, public policy, and their relationship in American politics using formal and empirical research methods. His dissertation, titled “Issue Ownership and Representation in the United States,” examines how “issue ownership”--the varying degree to which the American public trusts the two parties to handle different policy issues--allows candidates and parties to take positions that are unresponsive to public opinion. In the dissertation, the concept of issue ownership is incorporated in a formal model of two-party electoral competition. This generates the prediction that candidates exploit issue ownership to take positions that are more extreme than the preferences of the typical voter. The theory is confirmed by examining the relationship between opinion in Congressional districts (drawn from the National Annenberg Election Survey) and Congressional roll-call votes cast on a range of issues.

Egan is currently involved in two additional projects: research that examines the substantial rise in Americans' favorability toward gay rights (co-authored in part with Kenneth Sherrill), and a volume (co-edited with Nathaniel Persily and Jack Citrin) exploring American public opinion on controversial issues before the United States Supreme Court. Before graduate school, he served as an Assistant Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning for the City of Philadelphia under former mayor Ed Rendell.

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Daniel Gingerich is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University. His doctoral thesis, Corruption in General Equilibrium: Political Institutions and Bureaucratic Performance in South America, examines the relationship between political institutions and the modes of patronage politics in Bolivia, Brazil and Chile. This work draws upon extensive survey research conducted with the participation of nearly 3,000 public employees in the aforementioned countries. Daniel’s primary research interests include corruption (theoretical and empirical approaches), Latin American politics and the impact of electoral institutions.

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Karen Long Jusko is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science, at the University of Michigan, with major specializations in quantitative methodology and comparative politics. With the support of a National Science Foundation Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (NSF-EITM) fellowship for advanced graduate training in formal and empirical methods, she came to Princeton University as a visiting student in September 2003. Her research has been supported by a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Dissertation Fellowship, a SSHRC Federalism and Federations Dissertation Supplement, and research grants from the National Poverty Center, and the Luxembourg Income Study.

Her dissertation research addresses the following questions: How do electoral rules affect the poor? How responsive are elected governments to the interests of low-income citizens? When do parties have an incentive to seek the support of the low-income citizens? These questions structure a comparative analysis of the relationship between antipoverty policy and electoral rules, and establish the foundation of a research agenda motivated by broader questions about the relationship between democratic ideals and democratic practice.

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Tasha Philpot is an Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also affiliated with the Center for African and African American Studies and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies. She specializes in American Politics. Her particular interests are in African-American Politics, Public Opinion and Political Behavior, Political Communication, and Political Parties. She received her B.A. from Marquette University, her M.P.P. from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. Her research examines the consequences of using racial images in political communication. Her work has been published in The American Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, National Political Science Review, and the Journal of Politics. In addition, she is the author of Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln (2007, University of Michigan Press), which examines the circumstances under which political parties can use racial symbols to reshape their images among the electorate.

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Robert D. Putnam is Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. Raised in a small town in the Midwest and educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and Yale, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. His recent books include Better Together: Restoring the American Community (2003); Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society (2002); Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000); Disaffected Democracies: What’s Troubling the Trilateral Countries? (2000); Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (1993); Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics (1993); and Hanging Together:The Seven-Power Summits (1984). His books and articles have been translated into eighteen languages. Making Democracy Work was praised by the Economist as "a great work of social science, worthy to rank alongside de Tocqueville, Pareto and Weber," and both MDW and Bowling Alone are among the most cited publications in the social sciences worldwide in the last several decades. He has taught at the University of Michigan and Harvard and served on the staff of the National Security Council. He has also served as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. He is currently working on three major empirical projects: (1) the changing role of religion in contemporary America, (2) the effects of workplace practices on family and community life, and (3) practical strategies for civic renewal in the United States in the context of growing social and ethnic diversity.

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