patrick andelic is Lecturer in American History at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. He received his D.Phil. in History from the University of Oxford in 2015 and also holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh. patrick.andelic@northumbria.ac.uk

matthew j. baltz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. His work has appeared in Review of International Political Economy and Theory and Society and focuses on the politics of state building, institutional change, nationalism, and development. mjb077@bucknell.edu

john a. dearborn is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Yale University, studying the Presidency, Congress, and American Political Development. His dissertation examines the influence of the idea of presidential representation on the political development of the institutional presidency and its implications for American constitutional government. john.dearborn@yale.edu

ryan larochelle is Lecturer at the Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service at the University of Maine. Ryan.M.LaRochelle@maine.edu

samuel milner is a lecturer in the Yale University Department of History specializing in twentieth-century American economic history. He is completing a book on corporate efforts to contain collective-bargaining costs following World War II and is beginning a second project that examines African American economists during the civil rights movement. samuel.milner@yale.edu