The Contributors
Kristin M. Bakke is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. In 2007–8, she will be a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her dissertation examines federal states' diverse capacity to contain intrastate struggles, looking closely at the separatist struggles in Chechnya, Punjab, and Quebec. She can be reached at kmbakke@u.washington.edu.
Erik Wibbels is an associate professor of political science at the University of Washington. He is the author of Federalism and the Market (2005). He is currently working on two projects, one aimed at explaining the emergence of diverse social spending regimes in the developing world and the other examining the resource curse literature in light of unusual empirical settings. He can be reached at ewibbels@u.washington.edu.
Shigeo Hirano is an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University. He has published journal articles and book chapters on elections and representation and is currently working on several projects related to intraparty competition and to the distribution of public expenditures. He can be reached at sh145@columbia.edu.
Keith Darden is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University. He is the author of Economic Liberalism and the Formation of International Institutions among the Post-Soviet States (2007). He can be reached at keith.darden@yale.edu.
Anna Grzymala-Busse is an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Redeeming the Communist Past (2002) and Rebuilding Leviathan (2007). Her current research projects focus on political competition and the impact of religion on public policy. She can be reached at abusse@umich.edu.
Kellee S. Tsai is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China (2002), Rural Industrialization and Non-governmental Finance: Wenzhou's Experience [in Chinese] (2004), and Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China (2007). She can be reached at ktsai@jhu.edu.
Margarita Estévez-Abe is an associate professor of political economy in the department of government at Harvard University. She is the author Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan (forthcoming) and is currently working on a book titled, "Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism." She can be reached at mestevez@wcfia.harvard.edu.
