Biographical note

Alvin Rabushka is the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University. His principle work focuses on tax policy. He is co-author, with Robert E. Hall, of The Flat Tax, 2nd edition (Hoover Press, 1995). His work on the flat tax has provided the inspiration for the introduction of numerous flat-tax bills in the U.S. Congress and the adoption of the flat tax in more than a dozen countries, largely in Central and Eastern Europe, since 1994.

Kenneth A. Shepsle is the George D. Markham Professor of Government and a founding member of The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard. Professor Shepsle has written numerous articles on formal political theory, congressional and parliamentary politics, public policy, and political economy. He was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He was editor of Public Choice, and served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association. In 1990 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was chair of the Department of Government at Harvard, 1995-98. His current research focuses on formal models of political institutions and intergenerational politics.