Gerald C. Wright, Jr., University of Indiana; Leroy N. Rieselbach, University of Indiana; and Lawrence C. Dodd, University of Colorado, Editors

Gerald Wright, Jr. is Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and Director of the Indiana Political Data Archive and Laboratory. He was previously Program Director for Political Science at the National Science Foundation. His research interests are in congressional and state elections and particularly on the relationship between public opinion and public policy. He is the author of Electoral Choice in America as well as numerous articles in professional journals. Leroy N. Rieselbach is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. His  research focuses on Congress, and his publications include The Roots of Isolationism  (1966); Congressional Politics (1973);  and other books, as  well as a variety of journal articles and chapters contributed to books.   Lawrence C. Dodd is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Director of the University’s Center for the Study of American Politics. He is currently working on a general theory of legislative change, focused particularly on the US Congress. Additional research interests include a comparative state study of the career patterns of professional and citizen legislators, and a crossnational study of the effect of electoral laws on the representativeness of democratic regimes. He is the author of Coalitions in Parliamentary Government; the coauthor, with Richard Schott, of Congress and the Administrative State; and the coeditor, with Bruce Oppenheimer, of Congress Reconsidered.