Contributors

John B. Londregan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written on ethnic politics, legislative politics, macro-political economy, and the politics of income redistribution. He is currently working on a study of legislative politics in contemporary Chile.

Keith T. Poole is Professor of Politics and Political Economy in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University. He is the author and coauthor of numerous articles about the U.S. Congress and the history of economic regulation. His latest book is Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting (1996), coauthored with Howard Rosenthal.

Kevin J. O'Brien is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. He is the author of Reform without Liberalization (1990) and his current research draws on theories of popular resistance and collective action to study political change in the Chinese countryside.

David Collier is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coauthor of Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America (1991). His current book project is entitled "Putting Concepts to Work: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research."

James Mahoney is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation is a comparative-historical analysis of liberalism and regime change in five Central American countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is coauthor of "Labor and Democratization: Comparing the First and Third Waves in Europe and Latin America."

Peter M. Lewis is Assistant Professor at the School of International Service, American University. During 1995-96, he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He works on comparative political economy and democratic reform, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. He has published several articles on political and economic change in Nigeria and is currently completing a book on the politics of development in Indonesia and Nigeria.

Anthony M. Messina is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. He is the author of Race and Party Competition in Britain (1989) and coeditor of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (1992). He is currently working on a book that examines the logics and consequences of post-World War II migration to Western Europe.

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