Keeping the Republic, 3rd Brief edition + Clued in to Politics 3rd edition + Lone Star Politics + CQ Presss Guide to the 2010 Midterm Elections Supplement package

About Christine BarbourGerald C. WrightGerald WrightGregory GirouxJulie D. Harrelson-StephensKen CollierMatthew J. StrebSteven E. Galatas

Christine Barbour teaches in the Political Science Department at Indiana University and directs the departments IU POLS DC internship program. She is a faculty liaison for the Universitys dual-credit program which delivers an online version of her Intro to American Politics class to high school students across the state. At Indiana Professor Barbour has been a Lilly Fellow working on a project to increase student retention in large introductory courses and a member of the Freshman Learning Project a university-wide effort to improve the first-year undergraduate experience. She has served on the New York Times College Advisory Board working with other educators to develop ways to integrate newspaper reading into the undergraduate curriculum. She has won multiple teaching honors but the two awarded by her students mean the most to her: the Indiana University Student Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty and the Indiana University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award. When not teaching or writing textbooks Professor Barbour enjoys traveling with her coauthor blogging about food and travel and playing with her dogs and cat. She contributes to Bloom Magazine of Bloomington and is a coauthor several cookbooks. She also makes jewelry from precious metals and rough gemstones. If she ever retires she will open a jewelry shop in a renovated Airstream on the beach in Apalachicola Florida where she plans to write another cookbook and a book about the local politics development and fishing industry. Gerald C. Wright taught political science at Indiana University from 1981 until his recent retirement. An accomplished scholar of American politics and the 2010 winner of the State Politics and Policy Associations Career Achievement Award his work includes Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States (1993) coauthored with Robert S. Erikson and John P. McIver and more than fifty articles on elections public opinion and state politics. Professor Wrights research interests focus on representation the fundamental relationship among citizens their preferences and public policy. He writes primarily about state politics representation political parties and inequality. He is currently working on a book about parties and representation in U.S. legislatures. He has been a consultant for Project Vote Smart for a number of years and was a founding member of Indiana Universitys Freshman Learning Project. In retirement Professor Wright grows vegetables golfs fishes travels and plays with his dogs and cat. He is an awesome cook. Julie Harrelson-Stephens is an associate professor at Stephen F. Austin State University with a PhD from the University of North Texas. She has co-edited with Rhonda L. Callaway Exploring International Human Rights: Essential Readings and has been published in Conflict and Terrorism PS: Political Science and Politics Human Rights Review and International Interactions. Her primary research interests include human rights regime theory and the Texas governor. Ken Collier was a professor at Stephen F. Austin State University with a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He authored Between the Branches: The White House Office of Legislative Affairs and Speechwriting in the Institutionalized Presidency: Whose Line Is It? He published articles in such journals as Journal of Politics White House Studies Presidential Studies Quarterly Public Choice and Social Science Quarterly. Steven Galatas is an associate professor at Stephen F. Austin State University with a PhD from the University of Missouri. He has published articles in Journal of Politics Public Choice Party Politics Politics and Policy and PS: Political Science and Politics. His research and teaching concern comparative elections voting behavior and Texas judicial and legislative elections. Greg Giroux was previously a senior writer with CQ-Roll Call Group specializing in politics and elections. He has been a major contributor to the past six editions of CQs Politics in America the almanac that profiles all members of Congress and their constituencies. Giroux joined CQ in 1996 and served as editorial assistant and researcher at the CQ Weekly magazine prior to joining the political reporting staff in 1998. Giroux is a graduate of The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg Va.