Michael A. Pagano is Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, Director of the Government Finance Research Center, and a professor of public administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and editor of The People's Money: Pensions, Debt, and Government Services, The Public Infrastructure of Work and Play, and other books in the Urban Agenda series.
Dennis R. Judd is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York (Minnesota, 2011).
Evan McKenzie is professor and head of the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government and Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government.
Alba Alexander is clinical associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
