Aseem Prakash is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Washington-Seattle. He serves as an adjunct faculty at the Evans School of Public Affairs. From 1997 to 2002, he was Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the School of Business, The George Washington University. Professor Prakash received a Joint Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, Bloomington and holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Aseem Prakash is interested in issues of governance: how do governance institutions emerge, how they function, and how they impact outcomes. Much of his research focuses on non-governmental institutions in the environmental policy area, and how business-government-NGO dynamics influence their adoption, functioning, and efficacy. Professor Prakash is the author of Greening the Firm (2000, Cambridge University Press) and the co-author of The Voluntary Environmentalists (2006, Cambridge University Press) and has published over two dozen articles in leading journals in the political and managerial sciences. Matthew Potoski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Iowa State University.