Zachary Albert is assistant professor of politics at Brandeis University. He is the author of Partisan Policy Networks: How Research Organizations Became Party Allies and Political Advocates. Raymond J. La Raja is professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as cofounder and codirector of the UMass Amherst Poll. He is the coauthor of Hometown Inequality: Race, Class, and Representation in American Local Politics.