The Contributors
Walter Korpi is a professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. His articles have appeared in numerous journals of political science, economics, and sociology. His research interests are welfare state development, political sociology, political economy, unemployment, class, and gender. He can be reached at walter.korpi@sofi.su.se
Robert W. Rauchhaus is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently completing a book entitled, "Power, Information, and Conflict Management." He can be reached at rauchhaus@polsci.ucsb.edu.
David C. Earnest is an assistant professor of political science and international studies at Old Dominion University. He is coauthor (with James N. Rosenau, Yale H. Ferguson, and Ole R. Holsti) of On the Cutting Edge of Globalization: An Inquiry into American Elites (2005). He is currently working on a book on the enfranchisement of noncitizens in democratic states. He can be reached at dearnest@odu.edu.
Elise Giuliano is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Miami. She is completing a book on why popular support for nationalism develops and declines, entitled "Why Secession Fails: The Rise and Fall of Ethnic Nationalism in Russia." She is currently researching the role of ethnicity in the labor markets of post-Soviet states. She can be reached at egiulian@miami.edu.
Daniel Ziblatt is an assistant professor of government at Harvard University. He is the author of Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (2006), as well as of several articles on decentralization and federalism. His current research focuses on the politics of electoral reform and democratization. He can be reached at dziblatt@fas.harvard.edu.
