Understanding the Political World

About our authors James N. Danziger is a Research Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he also has served as Chair of the Department of Political Science, campus-wide Dean of Undergraduate Education and Chair of the Academic Senate. He has received many honors and awards, including a Marshall Scholarship (to Great Britain), a Foreign Area Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Phi Beta Kappa and an IBM Faculty Award. He received the first UC Irvine Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award for Teaching in 1987, the UC, Irvine Distinguished Service Award in 1997 and the highest honor on the campus, the Extraordinarius Award, in 2009. His Ph.D. is from Stanford University, and he has held visiting appointments at the universities of Aarhus (Denmark), Pittsburgh and Virginia. His research has received awards from the American Political Science Association and the American Society for Public Administration. He has published extensively, particularly on information technology and politics, and is an active participant in local politics.

Lindsey Lupo is a professor of political science and chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Point Loma Nazarene University. She received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A. in Social Science from the University of California, Irvine; and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. Her fields of research are urban politics, social movements, democratization and political violence, and she is the author of Flak-Catchers: One Hundred Years of Riot Commission Politics, as well as a number of academic journal articles and book chapters. She teaches classes on urban politics, protests and social movements, comparative politics, U.S. public policy, democratization, research methods, and introduction to political science. She frequently travels with students, including to South Africa, Czech Republic and Washington, DC. She is also the director of the Institute of Politics and Public Service at PLNU, and she manages the internship program for international studies and political science students.