John H. Aldrich is Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He specializes in American and comparative politics and behavior, formal theory, and methodology. Aldrich is the author or coauthor of Why Parties, Why Parties Matter, Before the Convention, Interdisciplinarity, and Change and Continuity in the 2020 and 2022 Elections. He is past President of the Southern Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, and the American Political Science Association. Suhyen Bae is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, Duke University. Her research examines the political consequences of social connections, especially on loneliness and social isolation in American and comparative contexts. Bae has published in peer-reviewed journals and was the editor of and contributor to the book Khop Jai Laos and the academic web-magazine on Latin America, TransLatin, published in Korea. Bailey K. Sanders, PhD, JD, is an associate in the antitrust practice group at McDermott Will and Emery, LLP. Her research focuses on women's representation in politics and the judiciary, as well as the ways in which market competition advances gender equality. Sanders has published in Legislative Studies Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics (with Danielle Thomsen), The Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal (with Jane Wettach), and the UCLA Journal of Gender and Law.