The Contributors
- The Contributors
David D. Yang is a visiting fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He has contributed articles to various scholarly journals and edited volumes on East Asian politics as well as on research methodology. He is completing his Ph.D. thesis entitled, "The Social Basis of the Third Wave: Class, Development, and the Making of the Democratic State in East Asia." He can be reached at dyang@princeton.edu.
Michael Bernhard is an associate professor of political science at Penn State University. He is the author of The Origins of Democratization in Poland (1993) and Institutions and the Fate of Democracy (2005). He is currently working on projects on the survival of democratic regimes and the weakness of postcommunist democracy. He can be reached at mhb5@psu.edu.
Ekrem Karakoç is a doctoral candidate at Penn State University. He is interested in questions of how economic and social reform in postcommunist states affect the functioning of democracy in the region. He can be reached at ekarakoc@psu.edu.
Ahmet T. Kuru is an assistant professor of political science at San Diego State University. In 2008 he will be a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion at SIPA, Columbia University. He is completing a book manuscript based on his dissertation, "Dynamics of Secularism: State-Religion Relations in the United States, France, and Turkey," which was the recipient of APSA's 2007 Wildavsky Award. He can be reached at akuru@mail.sdsu.edu.
Jason Brownlee is an assistant professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization (2007). His current research addresses domestic and international attempts at democratization. He can be reached at brownlee@gov.utexas.edu.
Amitav Acharya is a professor of global governance and director of the Governance Research Centre at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. His recent books include Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective (coedited with Alastair Iain Johnston) (2007). He is currently working on a book entitled, "Whose Ideas Matter: Norms, Power and Institutional Change in Asian Regionalism." He can be reached at a.acharya@bristol.ac.uk.
