Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America

Alan S. Gerber is Divisional Director for the Social Sciences and Dilley Professor of Political Science at Yale University, Connecticut. Co-author of an award-winning textbook on experimental methods, his work has appeared in the leading journals in political science and has received various awards, including the Heinz Eulau Award for the best article in the American Political Science Review. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009) and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (2013).

Eric Schickler is Jeffrey and Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Disjointed Pluralism, which won the Richard F. Fenno, Jr Prize for the best book on legislative politics in 2002. He is the co-author of Partisan Hearts and Minds, which was published in 2002, and Filibuster, which was published in 2006 and won the Fenno Prize.