Gary C. Jacobson is a distinguished professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since 1979. He previously taught at the University of California at Riverside, Yale University, Trinity College, and Stanford University. Dr. Jacobson specializes in the study of U.S. elections, interest groups, parties, and Congress. He is the author of The Electoral Origins of Dividend Government: Competition in the U.S. House Elections, 1946 – 1988, and A Divider, Not a Uniter: George W. Bush and the American People, and Money in Congressional Elections: The Politics of Congressional Elections, and is co-author with Samuel Kernell of Strategy and Choice in Congressional Elections. Jacobson is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.