IanDowbiggin is Professor of History at the University of Prince Edward Island. He is the author of A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America (2003) and The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century (2008). He is currently working on the history of marriage counseling in modern America. idowbiggin@upei.ca

JennaKelkresEmery is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at Binghamton University. jkelkre1@binghamton.edu

Scott A.Frisch is Professor of Political Science at California State University Channel Islands. He is the author of The Politics of Pork, and co-author with Sean Q. Kelly of Committee Assignment Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives and Jimmy Carter and the Water Wars: Presidential Influence and the Politics of Pork. Scott.frisch@csuci.edu

RobertHiggs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute’s quarterly journal, The Independent Review. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and Stanford University, and a fellow for the Hoover Institution and the National Science Foundation. He is also the author of Depression, War, and Cold War; Neither Liberty Nor Safety; Resurgence of the Warfare State; Against Leviathan; The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865–1914; Competition and Coercion; and Crisis and Leviathan. rhiggs@independent.org

Jennifer M. Jensen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Binghamton University. Her research focuses on state politics and intergovernmental relations, interest groups, and political careers. jjensen@binghamton.edu

Sheldon D. Pollack is Professor of Law and Legal Studies in the Department of Accounting & MIS in the Lerner College of Business & Economics of the University of Delaware. Pollack is the author The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy: Revenue and Politics (Penn State Press, 1996); Refinancing America: The Republican Antitax Agenda (State University of New York Press, 2003); and War, Revenue, and State Building: Financing the Development of the State (Cornell University Press, 2009), reviewed in this issue. pollack@udel.edu

MonicaPrasad is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Her book The Politics of Free Markets won the Barrington Moore book award. m-prasad@northwestern.edu

Ethan G. Sribnick is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Children and Poverty Homelessness in New York City. He is the editor of A Legacy of Innovation: Governors and Public Policy (2008) and is completing a manuscript on the history of child welfare policy from 1945 to 1980. esribnick@icpny.org

AndrewUrban is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in the American Studies and History departments at Rutgers University. He is currently working on a book about Irish and Chinese domestic servants in the late nineteenth century and how the “Servant Question” in the United States informed debates about race, labor, and American immigration policy. aturban@rci.rutgers.edu

DanielWakelee is Associate Professor of Public Administration at California State University Channel Islands, where he also serves as Associate Dean of the Faculty. Dan.wakelee@csuci.edu