Discussants

KATINA STAPLETON (Ph.D. Duke University) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University, where she teaches issues involving the mass media & politics. She has published in Media, Culture & Society, Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, and Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor.

KARLA CUNNINGHAM (Ph.D. University of Buffalo, 1997) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at SUNY/College at Geneseo. She regularly consults on issues related to the Middle East and terrorism. She has published on Jordanian information technology in The Middle East Journal and on Islamic fundamentalism in an Arabic language journal. She has forthcoming articles on female terrorism and elite decision-making in Jordan, a forthcoming book on Jordanian political history, and is currently writing a book focusing on cross-regional female terrorism.

THOMAS BRUNELL (Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 1997) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Binghamton University. His interests revolve around elections and the United States Congress. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, and Electoral Studies.

MARK S. HURWITZ (Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1998) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at SUNY, Buffalo. He has published articles on a variety of topics in American Politics, including: "Partisan and Distributive Issues in Agriculture Policy in the 104th House" in the American Political Science Review; "Explaining Judicial Diversity: The Differential Ability of Women and Minorities to Attain Seats on State Supreme and Appellate Courts" in State Politics and Policy Quarterly; and "Women and Minorities on State and Federal Appellate Benches, 1985 and 1999" in Judicature.

SEAN KELLY (Ph.D. University of Colorado, 1992) teaches in the Political Science Department at Niagara University, specializes in American politics, and is director of the Environmental Studies Program. An APSA Congressional Fellow in 1993-94, he worked with the Senate majority leadership. He has published in Congress and the Presidency, Southeastern Political Review, Journal of Policy History, Polity, Legislative Study Newsletter, and chapters on Congressional elections in The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress and divided government in New Perspectives on American Politics.

WILLIAM KEECH (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1966) is professor of Political Economy and past chair, Dept. of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University. He was at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill during 1964-97 & is past president of the Southern Political Science Association. He has written three books, including Economic Politics: The Costs of Democracy (Cambridge, 1995), The Party's Choice, w/ Donald Matthews (1976), and The Impact of Negro Voting (1968, 1981). He has written numerous article on US politics and political economy, in Journal of Politics (3), American Political Science Review (4), Comparative Politics, Policy Studies Journal, Public Choice, Public Administration Review, American Journal of Political Science, Policy Sciences, & Journal of Macroeconomics. He has contributed about 14 chapters in edited books.

STEPHEN KERSHNAR (Ph.D. University of Nebraska; J.D. University of Pennsylvania) is an associate professor of philosophy at SUNY/Fredonia. He is also an attorney. Kershnar is interested in political and legal philosophy. He has recently published a book, Retribution, Justice, and Therapy, on the philosophy of punishment. Kershnar has published articles in a number of areas of applied philosophy, including rights, desert, sex, and the concept of the most valuable player in sports.

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