A Citizen's Guide to U.S. Elections: Empowering Democracy in America

Costas Panagopoulos is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy and the graduate program in Elections and Campaign Management at Fordham University. A leading expert on campaigns and elections, voting behavior, media and public opinion, political psychology and campaign finance, Professor Panagopoulos has co-authored or edited several books, including Politicking Online: The Transformation of Election Campaigns Communications (Rutgers University Press) and Public Financing in American Elections (Temple University Press). He has published over 60 scholarly articles in outlets including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Psychology and Political Analysis. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of Campaigns & Elections magazine, as Senior Editor of the Journal of Political Marketing, and as part of the NBC News Decision Desk team since the 2006 election cycle. In 1992, while an undergraduate at Harvard University, Professor Panagopoulos was a candidate for the Massachusetts State Legislature.?Aaron C. Weinschenk is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where he teaches classes on American government and politics, Congress, public policy, urban politics, and statistics. He is an expert on voting behavior, campaigns and elections, mayoral politics, public opinion, and political psychology, and has published over a dozen journal articles in outlets such as Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, American Politics Research, State and Local Government Review, Electoral Studies, and Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties.