The Contributors
Timothy Frye is a professor political science at Columbia University. He is the author of Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Market Institutions in Russia (2000) and is completing a book manuscript on the politics of economic reform in the postcommunist world. He can be reached at tmf2@columbia.edu.
Hongbin Cai is a professor of economics at the Guanghua School of Management and director of the Institute of Economic Policy Research at Peking University. He has published a number of articles on decentralization and is currently working on several projects on firm behavior and institutional environments in China. He can be reached at hbcai@gsm.pku.edu.cn.
Daniel Treisman is a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of The Architecture of Government: Rethinking Political Decentralization (forthcoming). He can be reached at treisman@polisci.ucla.edu.
Tomila V. Lankina is a research fellow with the Local Governance Research Unit, Faculty of Business and Law, De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K. She is the author of Governing the Locals: Local Self-Government and Ethnic Mobilization in Russia (2004). Her current research focuses on comparative local governance and on the impact of transnational and supranational actors on local democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. She can be reached at tlankina@dmu.ac.uk.
Lullit Getachew is a senior economist with the Pacific Economics Group in Madison, Wisconsin. Her areas of interest are statistical benchmarking, the measurement of productivity growth, and energy and regulatory economics. She has published on these topics in numerous journals. She can be reached at lget@alumni.rice.edu.
Macartan Humphreys is an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University. His ongoing research uses experimental techniques to study ethnic politics, electoral accountability, and postconflict democratization. He can be reached at mh2245@columbia.edu.
William A. Masters is a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University; in 2003–4 he was a visiting professor at Columbia University, where research on this project began. His most recent book is Economics of Agricultural Development (2006). He can be reached at wmasters@purdue.edu.
Martin E. Sandbu is a lecturer in business ethics at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is on the political economy of development, the economic theory of fairness, and political philosophy. He can be reached at sandbu@wharton.upenn.edu.
Wade Jacoby is a professor of political science at Brigham Young University and director of the byu Center for the Study of Europe. His recent books include The Enlargement of the European Union and nato: Ordering from the Menu in Central Europe (2004) and Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany (2001). He can be reached at wade.jacoby@byu.edu.
