Allen D. Hertzke is David Ross Boyd Professor of Political Science, University of Oklahoma and Faculty Fellow in Religious Freedom for OU’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage. He is also Distinguished Senior Fellow for the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University and Senior Scholar for Georgetown University’s project on Christianity and Freedom. He is author of Representing God in Washington, an award-winning analysis of religious lobbies, which has been issued in a Chinese-language translation, Echoes of Discontent, an account of church-rooted populist movements, Freeing God’s Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights, and co-author of Religion and Politics in America, a comprehensive text now in its fifth edition.