Samuel KernellSamuel Kernell is a distinguished professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He has also taught at the University of Mississippi and the University of Minnesota and has served as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Instittion. Kernell received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He has written numerous articles and books, including Strategy and Choice in Congressional Elections, second edition (1983, with Gary C. Jacobson); James Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican Governance (2005); Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership, fourth edition (2006); and The Logic of American Politics, sixth edition (2014, with Gary C. Jacobson, Thad Kousser, and Lynn Vavreck). Read More Read Less