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World Politics 57.2 (2005) ii



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The Contributors

Pepper D. Culpepper is an associate professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Creating Cooperation: How States Develop Human Capital in Europe (2003) and editor, with David Finegold, of The German Skills Machine: Sustaining Comparative Advantage in a Global Economy (1999). He is the coeditor with Peter a. Hall and Bruno Palier of a recently completed volume on the politics of social change in France (forthcoming in English and French editions). His current research focuses on mechanisms of institutional change in the political economies of the advanced capitalist countries.
Thomas Banchoff is an associate professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of The German Problem Transformed: Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy, 1945–1995 (1999). His current projects center on the politics of the life sciences and on the intersection of religion and politics in Atlantic democracies.
Lucan Way is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Temple University and was an Academy scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in 2004–5. He has published numerous articles and is currently working on a book on the obstacles to authoritarian consolidation in the former Soviet Union.
Kurt Weyland is a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin He is the author of Democracy without Equity: Failures of Reform in Brazil (1996), The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela (2002), and of numerous journal articles and book chapters on democratization, neoliberalism, populism, and social policy in Latin America; and he is the editor of Learning from Foreign Models in Latin American Policy Reform (2004). His current book project focuses on the cross-country diffusion of social policy innovations in Latin America.
Margaret M. Pearson is a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China (1991) and China's New Business Elite: The Political Results of Economic Reform (1997). Her current research interests include, in addition to regulatory politics in China, the integration of China into the global economy.


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