Legislative Labyrinth

Victoria A. Farrar-Myers is associate professor of political science at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research on the presidency, presidential-congressional relations, and campaign finance reform has been published in such journals as Political Research Quarterly and Congress & the Presidency as well as in numerous edited volumes. She also authored the book Scripted for Change: The Institutionalization of the American Presidency. She has received such honors as the American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship, a research grant from the Dirksen Congressional Center, and several teaching awards.


Diana Dwyre is professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science at California State University, Chico. Her research on campaign finance, Congress, and political parties appears in several journals and in books, such as The Election after Reform and Financing the 2004 Election. She was the 1998 American Political Science Association Steiger Congressional Fellow and is cochair of the Campaign Finance Research Group.