Daniel Franklin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his B.A. in political science from UCLA and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He has taught American politics and American foreign policy at Colgate University, The Colorado College, El Colegio de Mexico (Mexico City) and the University of Texas, Austin. He served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the offices of Rep. Larry Smith (Florida) and Sen. Tom Harkin (Iowa). Franklin has published a number of articles, book chapters, and reviews focusing primarily on the relationship between the U.S. Congress and the President. He is also the author of several books, including Extraordinary Measures: The Exercise of Prerogative Powers in the United States (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), Making Ends Meet: Congressional Budgeting in the Age of Deficits (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1993), Political Culture and Constitutionalism: A Comparative Approach (M.E. Sharpe Press, 1995) of which he is also co-editor, and Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Film in the United States (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006). In 1999 Franklin received the Georgia State University Distinguished Honors Professor award.