Karen Orren is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles. Her previous books include Belated Feudalism (Cambridge, 1992) and The Search for American Political Development (Cambridge, 2004), with Stephen Skowronek. Her most recent book is The Policy State (2017).
John W. Compton is Associate Professor of Political Science at Chapman University, California. He is the author of The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution (2014).
