David Brichoux and Paul E. Johnson

David Brichoux is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas, studying American and comparative politics. His research interests include public opinion, the media, and agent-based modeling. His dissertation is an empirical study of the interaction between factual and normative elements of belief systems about distributions of wealth, based upon survey data from the United States, Europe, and Japan. He has taught comparative politics, international relations, research methods, and political theory at the university level, and plans to continue teaching and research after he receives his degree.

University of Kansas
Department of Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504
Lawrence, KS 66044-3177

email: br9x5@lark.cc.ku.edu

Paul E. Johnson is an associate professor at the University of Kansas. He has done research on interest group politics, elections, and social choice theory. He maintains the FAQ for the Swarm Simulation System and he recently released an updated version of the Santa Fe Artificial Stock Market (http://ArtStkMkt.sourceforge.net) that is described in a recent (Summer, 2002) issue of the Social Science Computer Review. He is an avid proponent of the Linux operating system and in his spare time does everything possible to talk people out of using MS Windows.

University of Kansas
Dept. of Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504
Lawrence, KS 66044-3177

email: pauljohn@ku.edu
web: http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn