David Konisky is Professor at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington. His research focuses on U.S. environmental and energy policy, with particular emphasis on regulation, federalism and state politics, public opinion, and environmental justice. His research has been published in various journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Climatic Change, the Journal of Politics, Nature Energy, and Public Opinion Quarterly. He has authored or edited six books on environmental politics and policy, including Fifty Years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Progress, Retrenchment and Opportunities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, with Jim Barnes and John D. Graham), Failed Promises: Evaluating the Federal Government's Response to Environmental Justice (MIT Press, 2015), and Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2014, with Steve Ansolabehere). Konisky’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Konisky is currently co-editor of Environmental Politics.
Matthew Potoski is a Professor at UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. He currently teaches courses on corporate environmental management, and his research focuses on management, voluntary environmental programs, and public policy. His research has appeared in business journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Business Strategy and the Environment, and the Journal of Cleaner Production, as well as public policy and management journals such as Public Administration Review and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He co-authored The Voluntary Environmentalists (Cambridge, 2006) and Complex Contracting (Cambridge, 2014; the winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, American Society for Public Administration, Section on Public Administration Research) and was co-editor of Voluntary Programs (MIT, 2009). Professor Potoski is currently co-editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the International Public Management Journal.