Kenneth R. Mayer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is the author of With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power (Princeton University Press, 2001), which won the Richard M. Neustadt Award for the best book on the presidency published in 2001. His research focuses on presidential unilateral powers, as well as election administration and campaign finance. In 2006 he was the inaugural Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Political Science at the Australian National University (Canberra, ACT).