About the Editors

Jeffery A. Jenkins is a professor of political scientist interested in American national institutions, with an emphasis on Congress and parties, and American political development. Two of his recent books include Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with Boris Heersink—which won the 2021 V. O. Key Award (from the Southern Political Science Association) and the 2021 J. David Greenstone Prize (from the American Political Science Association)—and Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861–1918 (University of Chicago Press, 2021) with Justin Peck. He is also coauthor of Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government (Princeton University Press, 2013) with Charles Stewart III. He was editor in chief of the Journal of Politics for six years (2015–2020) and recently started two new journals: the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (2020) and the Journal of Historical Political Economy (2021).

Jared Rubin is a professor of economics at Chapman University. His research focuses on historical relationships between political and religious institutions and their role in economic development. He is the author of two recent books: How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth (Polity Press, 2022; with Mark Koyama) and Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Rubin is codirector of Chapman University’s Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics and Society and president of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture.