Brandice Canes-Wrone is Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. During the course of her career, Canes-Wrone has published extensively in the areas of political institutions, mass political behavior, and political economy in leading journals of political science and other social sciences. Her book, Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public (University of Chicago Press, 2006) was awarded the Richard E. Neustadt prize by the American Political Science Association for the best book on the US presidency that year. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts of and Sciences, she has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals as well as on the boards of the American National Elections Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, and the Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, including as head of that section. Prior to returning to Stanford, where she obtained her Ph.D., Canes-Wrone was a faculty member of MIT, Northwestern, and Princeton.

Sanford C. Gordon is Professor in and Chair of the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University and an Associated Professor (by courtesy) in the New York University School of Law. His work has appeared in The American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among many other leading journals. He is also a frequent contributor to public discussion of politics in venues such as The Washington Post. In 2019 The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences cited his work as making a large impact on public understanding of science and scientific inquiry. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and is the recipient of numerous grants from the National Science Foundation and foundations.