Dale Krane, an associate professor of public administration at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, is a coauthor of "Compromised Compliance: Implementation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act" (1982). Stephen D. Shaffer, a professor of political science at Mississippi State University, has contributed to such collections as "Political Parties and Elections in the United States" (1991) and "The 1988 Presidential Election in the South" (1991).