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political activities. She served as an American Political Science Association congressional fellow in the Senate.
Brandon Rottinghaus is an associate professor of political science at the University of Houston and holds a PhD from Northwestern University. His research interests include the presidency, public opinion, executive-legislative relations, and research methods; his work on these subjects has appeared in several academic journals. Dr. Rottinghaus is the author of The Provisional Pulpit: Modern Conditional Presidential Leadership of Public Opinion (College Station: Texas A&M University Press). He is the founding designer of the Presidential Proclamations Project at the University of Houston, an online resource documenting the presidential use of unilateral powers through executive proclamation.
Patricia Strach is an associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and Public Administration and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research examines the relationship between social and political institutions in American public policy. She is currently using archival research in her projects on why people turned to government for public policy solutions in late twentieth-century disease advocacy and in nineteenth-century municipal garbage collection. Dr. Strach is the author of All in the Family: The Private Roots of American Public Policy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press) as well as articles appearing in Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Policy History, Polity, and American Politics Research. From 2008 to 2010, she was a Robert Wood Johnson scholar in health policy research at Harvard University.
Kathleen Sullivan is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines political authority and civic formation in nineteenth-century municipalities in the United States in studies ranging from garbage collection (with Patricia Strach) to juvenile courts (with Carol Nackenoff) to the regulation of sailors in port