JEFFREY AYRES is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA. nbsp; LAURA MACDONALD is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, USA;nbsp;Chair of the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Centre on North American Politics and Society, USA.
Sean Chabot is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Eastern Washington University.