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Patrick Driessen is a former government economist and revenue estimator. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Michigan.

David Leite is an applied economist focusing on public finance. He recently completed his Ph.D. in economics at the Paris School of Economics and will start a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Bureau of Economic Research in September 2025.

Paul Pierson is the John Gross Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a B.A. in government from Oberlin College, and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.

Yotam Margalit is the Brian Mulroney Chair in Government at the School of Political Science and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University and a professor in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. Margalit holds a B.A. in economics and history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Jamila Michener is an associate professor of government at Cornell University. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and her undergraduate degree from Princeton University.

Sirus H. Dehdari is an associate senior lecturer in political science at Stockholm University. Dehdari holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University.

Timothy J. Bartik is a senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization. He co-directs the Institute’s research initiative on policies for place. Bartik received his B.A. from Yale University in political philosophy and M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Katherine J. Cramer is the Virginia Sapiro Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds a B.A. in political science and journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan.

Jonathan D. Cohen is the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Senior Program Officer for American Institutions, Society, and the Public Good at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He holds a B.A. from McGill University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia.

Marc Aidinoff is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study, a research associate at the Cornell Digital Due Process Clinic, and an incoming assistant professor of the history of technology at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and B.A. from Harvard College.