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**John C. Pierce** John Pierce (Ph. D., University of Minnesota) is Faculty Research Associate and Lecturer in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas and Graduate Faculty in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. Pierce is author or co-author of approximately 20 books and monographs and 150 articles, chapters and essays. **Brent S. Steel** Brent S. Steel is Professor and Director of the Public Policy Graduate Program in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. He teaches courses in comparative public policy, politics and administration. Steel is co-author of _State and Local Government: Prospects for Sustainability_ (Oxford University Press) and editor of _Science and Politics: An A to Z_ _Guide to_ _Issues and Controversies_ (Sage).