Contributors
- The Contributors
Giovanni Capoccia is a professor of comparative politics in the Department of Politics and IR, and Fellow of Corpus Christi College at Oxford University. He is the author of Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe (2005). He is currently completing a comparative project on extremism and fundamental freedoms in Western Europe. He can be reached at giovanni.capoccia@politics.ox.ac.uk.
R. Daniel Kelemen is an associate professor of political science at Rutgers University and is a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study (2007–8). He is author of The Rules of Federalism: Institutions and Regulatory Politics in the EU and Beyond (2004) and coeditor (with Keith Whittington and Gregory Caldeira) of The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics (2007). He is currently writing a book on the judicialization of public policy in the European Union. He can be reached at dkelemen@polisci.rutgers.edu.
Patrick J. McDonald is an assistant professor in the department of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is completing a book manuscript that examines how liberal market institutions constrain war in the international system. He can be reached at pjm438@gov.utexas.edu.
Kevin Sweeney works for the United States Department of Defense. His areas of interest are international conflict and cooperation and political methodology, and he has published a number of scholarly articles on these topics. He can be reached at kevinswe@gmail.com.
Steven E. Finkel is the Daniel Wallace Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh and, jointly during 2005–8, professor of applied methods at the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin). He has published widely in the areas of political participation, democratic attitudes, and voting behavior. Since 1997 he has conducted numerous evaluations of the effectiveness of U.S. and other donors’ civic education programs in developing democracies. He can be reached at finkel@pitt.edu.
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán is an associate professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America (2007). He is currently working on a book (coauthored with Scott Mainwaring) on the waves of democratization in Latin America. He can be reached at asp27@pitt.edu.
Mitchell A. Seligson is the Centennial Professor of Political Science and a fellow of the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt University. He is the director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), which conducts the Americas Barometer surveys. He can be reached at m.seligson@vanderbilt.edu.
Wendy Hunter is an associate professor in the department of government at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Eroding Military Influence in Brazil: Politicians against Soldiers (1997) and several more recent articles on social policy issues in Latin America. She is currently writing a book on the evolution of the Workers’ Party in Brazil. She can be reached at whunter@mail.la.utexas.edu.
Scott Straus is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His book, The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War (2006) won the Award for Excellence in Government and Political Science from the Association of American Publishers in 2006. He can be reached a sstraus@wisc.edu.
