Sunil Ahuja is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Seton Hall University. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Nebraska. His teaching and research focus on American political institutions and electoral politics. He has published in such journals as the AMERICAN POLITICS QUARTERLY and POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY. He is contributor to and coeditor of GOVERNMENT AT WORK (1998) and THE ROADS TO CONGRESS 1998 (2000). He is coeditor of the LEGISLATIVE STUDIES QUARTERLY.