Jody C Baumgartner, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, teaches political science at East Carolina University (ECU), Greenville, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Miami University, Oxford, USA, in 1998, specializing in the study of campaigns and elections. He has been at ECU since 2003. Baumgartner has authored or edited 11 books, numerous journal articles, and book chapters, individually or in collaboration with others, on political humor, the vice presidency, and other subjects.

Bruce I. Newman is a Professor of Marketing and Wicklander Fellow in Business Ethics in the Department of Marketing at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University, Chicago, USA. Dr. Newman is the author/editor of several books and articles on political marketing, most recently Brand (2018 with Todd P. Newman), The Marketing Revolution in Politics (2016), and The Marketing of the President (1994). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Political Marketing and former Advisor to the Clinton White House in 1995-96.