Michael E. Kraft is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is the author of, among other works, Environmental Policy and Politics, 8th ed. (2022), and coauthor of Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (2011), with Mark Stephan and Troy D. Abel. In addition, he is the coeditor of Environmental Policy: New Directions in the 21st Century, 12th ed. (2025), with Barry G. Rabe and Norman J. Vig; Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. (2009), with Daniel A. Mazmanian; and Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the American Political System (2007) and The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy (2013), with Sheldon Kamieniecki. For over forty years, he taught courses in environmental policy and politics, American government, Congress, and public policy analysis.