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14 Election L.J. 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/enlwjr14 and id is 1 raw text is: ELECTION LAW JOURNAL Volume 14, Number 1, 2015 © Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/elj.2015.1411 The Party Line Paul Gronke IN THIS ISSUE, the Election Law Journal is pleased to include an extended version of Policy Central featuring many of the academic research find- ings that helped to inform the Presidential Commission on Election Admin- istration's deliberations and final reports. Earlier versions of these research reports are available on the Commission's website, <http://supportthevoter .gov>, but the versions in this issue have undergone extensive revisions and were subject to peer review. Special thanks goes to the Policy Central editor, Doug Chapin, the director of the Program for Excellence in Election Administration at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Doug worked tirelessly, in partnership with Daron Shaw, University of Texas, and Stephen Ansolabe- here, Harvard University, to help shepherd the research articles featured in this issue. For the first time in my knowledge, Doug also reached into the election administration community, identifying a set of election administrators and field matter experts who acted as blind peer reviewers for these pieces. This was a new process for most of them, and we enjoyed helping them learn the ins and outs of peer review. The peer review experience, and Policy Central more generally, is our response to the Commission's call to develop a professionalized and academ- ically rigorous scholarly discipline of election administration. We also feature in this issue two additional pieces, both pertinent to the special issue content. The first, by Cheryl Boudreau, Chris Elmendorf, and Scott MacKenzie, relates in an interesting way to the work of the Commis- sion. The authors, via a survey experiment, show how partisan information can be conveyed to voters on the ballot and in so doing, help inform and improve voter decision making. Second, David Schultz, a member of the Election Law Journal editorial board, reviews Toby James's new book that compares election administration in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Paul Gronke is editor of Election Law Journal, a professor at Reed College in Portland, OR, and is the Daniel B. German Endowed Visiting Professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. 1