About the Authors

Todd Makse

Todd Makse is professor and associate chair in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University, where he studies state legislative politics and political behavior. His current research looks at geography and lawmaking in state legislatures, the social transmission of information in campaigns, and the relationship between policy priorities and knowledge in a multi-level political system.

His co-authored book, Politics on Display: Yard Signs and the Politicization of Social Spaces examines the consequences of political yard sign displays in residential neighborhoods. His work has been published in journals that include The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Behavior, American Politics Research, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, and Political Geography.

Drew Seib

Drew Seib joined the faculty at Murray State University in the fall of 2012. He served as Chair of the Department of Political Science and Sociology for five years and currently is the Interim Assistant Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. He teaches courses in American politics, including campaigns and elections, voting behavior, media and politics and legislative process. His research focuses on how voters make decisions. He is especially interested in how voters acquire information during campaigns under a variety of contexts and conditions. Drew's research has been published journals such as Electoral Studies and the Journal of Politics.

Drew received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Southern Illinois University with an emphasis in American political behavior and secondary fields in comparative politics and international relations and his B.A. from Westminster College in Fulton, MO, triple majoring in political science, Spanish, and international studies, and minoring in European studies.

Anand Sokhey

Anand Edward Sokhey (The Ohio State University, 2009) joined the CU faculty in 2009 after receiving his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Anand specializes in American politics, and his research examines how formal and informal political conversations, interpersonal networks, and environments -- whether defined in terms of organizations or geographic boundaries -- independently and interactively shape opinion formation and decision-making. His research intersects with scholarship on communication, gender, religion and politics, and political psychology. He is the co-author of Politics on Display: Yard Signs and the Politicization of Social Spaces (2019, Oxford University Press), The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (2022, Oxford University Press), and The Full Armor of God: The Mobilization of Christian Nationalism in American Politics (2023, Cambridge University Press). Anand's work has appeared in general interest journals and other outlets, he is a faculty fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Science, and he currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Politics.