About the Editors

Jennifer Nicoll Victor holds a Ph.D. in political science from Washington University in St. Louis (2003) and is Associate Professor of Political Science at the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government. She is the coauthor of Bridging the Information Gap: Legislative Member Organizations as Social Networks in the United States and the European Union with Nils Ringe (University of Michigan Press 2013) and her research on legislative politics, political parties, organized interests, and campaign finance has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, Party Politics, PS: Political Science & Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and elsewhere.

Alexander H. Montgomery holds a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University (2006) and is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at Reed College. His research on international relat ions, network analysis, and nuclear proliferation has been published in International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Security, Intelligence and National Security, and elsewhere.

Mark Lubell holds a Ph.D. in political science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1999) and is Professor at the University of California, Davis, Department of Environmental Science and Policy as well as Director of the UC Davis Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior. He is the coauthor of Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management with Paul Sabatier, Will Focht, Zev Trachtenberg, Arnold Vedlitz, and Marty Matlock (MIT Press 2005) and his research on environmental policy, collective action, and social networks has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Public Administration Review, Ecology and Society, Policy Studies Journal, and elsewhere.