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Kenneth Janda received his B.S. in Education from Illinois State University in 1957 and his PhD from Indiana University in 1961. He joined Northwestern University the same year and taught there throughout his career. He won the College of Arts and Sciences' Outstanding Teacher Award in 1983, was appointed Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science in 1987, and held the Fulbright Program's John Marshall Chair at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences oin 1993-94. He became Professor Emeritus in 2002. Outside of American politics, his major research interests lie in the cross-national analysis of political parties. In 2000 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association. He is co-editor of Party Politics, an international journal devoted to the study of political parties and party systems <partypolitics.org>. In 2005, Janda published a cross-national survey and analysis of national laws regulating political parties for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. In 2009, he received the Fank J. Goodnow Award from the American Political Science Association for service to the association and the profession. His e-mail address is <k-janda@northwestern.edu>, and he maintains a web site at janda.org.

 

Jeffrey M. Berry is Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, where he has taught since receiving his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1974. He did his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley. His work includes The Interest Group Society, (4th ed., Longman, 2007) and The Rebirth of American Democracy, with Kent Portney and Ken Thomson (Brookings, 1993), which won the 1994 APSA's Gladys Kammerer Award for the best book on American politics. His book, The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups (Brookings Institution, 1999), received the Policy Studies Organization's Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best book in the field of public policy. Recent books include Surveying Nonprofits: A Methods Handbook (Aspen Institute, 2003) and A Voice for Nonprofits (Brookings Institution, 2003). Recipient of the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award of the Political Organizations and Parties section of the APSA, Berry is the co-author of Democracy at Risk (2005), a study of civic engagement in America, published by the Brookings Institution. He also received the Tufts Distinguished Scholar Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association in 2009. You can access his web page at ase.tufts.edu/polsci and you can write to him at <jeffrey.berry@tufts.edu>.

 

Jerry Goldman is Research Professor at Kent College of Law in Chicaro and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northwestern University. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1974 and served as a Research Associate in the Federal Judicial Center in Washington for a year before joining Northwestern University. He won the College of Arts and Sciences' Outstanding Teacher Award in 1984 and was named Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence for 1992-95. He also received the 1997 EDUCOM Medal for his contributions to computing and higher education. In 2005, Goldman and Janda won the Outstanding Instructional Software Award from the Information Technology and Politics Section of the APSA for IDEAlog.org, an Internet application for analyzing political values. In 1998, the American Bar Association awarded Goldman its Silver Gavel Award for his development of The Oyez Project <www.oyez.org>, an archive of U.S. Supreme Court audio. He received the APSA Award for Teaching Innovation (sponsored by CQPress) in 2010 for "Pocket Justice," an iPhone4 application for searching and hearing aural arguments before the Supreme Court. You may contact him at <j-goldman@northwestern.edu>.