adam chamberlain is Associate Professor of Politics at Coastal Carolina University. He has published in many journals, including Public Opinion Quarterly and Social Science History. Currently, his research is focused on the development of political organizations and public opinion, with an emphasis on the historical nature of both areas. achamber@coastal.edu
jennifer l. erkulwater is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond. She is coauthor of Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health (Harvard, 2009) with Rick Mayes and Catherine Bagwell, and the author of Disability Rights and the American Social Safety Net (Cornell, 2006). jerkulwa@richmond.edu
james hillyer completed his Ph.D. at University College London in November 2017. His thesis examined the career of Walter W. Heller and used this as a lens onto the rise, ascendancy, and eclipse of Keynesian liberalism in the United States. Hillyer is currently an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, where he previously worked as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant in American History. j.hillyer.12@ucl.ac.uk
robert b. horwitz is Professor of Communication at University of California, San Diego. He is author of The Irony of Regulatory Reform: The Deregulation of American Telecommunications (Oxford, 1989), Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa (Cambridge, 2001), and America’s Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party (Polity, 2013). rhorwitz@ucsd.edu
nicholas f. jacobs is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. nfjacobs@virginia.edu
kathryn a. nicholas holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Her research interests focus on women’s role in American Political Development as it relates to public education. An earlier version of this article was presented at the June 2014 Policy History Conference held in Columbus, Ohio. nichok42@uw.edu
james d. savage is Professor of Politics and Public Policy in the Department of Politics and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. jds2y@virginia.edu
susan stein-roggenbuck is Assistant Professor of History in the James Madison College at Michigan State University. She is the author of Negotiating Relief: The Development of Social Welfare in Depression-Era Michigan, 1930–1940 (Ohio State University Press, 2008). steinrog@msu.edu
