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  • The Contributors

The Contributors

Cathie Jo Martin is a professor of political science at Boston University and currently holds a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She serves on the strategic advisory council of the Danish National Institute for Social Science Research and holds a visiting scholar position with the Copenhagen Business School. She is the author of Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy (2000), Shifting the Burden: The Struggle over Growth and Corporate Taxation (1991), and articles appearing in numerous journals. She conducts her research in the areas of employers and social policy. She can be reached at cjmartin@bu.edu.

Kathleen Thelen is a professor of political science at Northwestern University. She is also a permanent external member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, and a senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is the author of How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan (2004). She is also coeditor, with Wolfgang Streeck, of Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (2005). She is currently working on two projects: a book on the politics of coordination in coordinated market economies and an edited volume, in collaboration with James Mahoney, on historical-institutional approaches to institutional change. She can be reached at thelen@northwestern.edu.

Susan D. Hyde is an assistant professor of political science and international and area studies at Yale University. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the causes and consequences of internationally monitored elections. She can be reached at susan.hyde@yale.edu.

Kathleen Collins is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is author of Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia (2006). She has been named a Carnegie Scholar and McKnight Land-Grant Professor for her research on political Islam in the former Soviet Union. She can be reached at colli433@umn.edu.

Moises Arce is an associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of Market Reform in Society: Post-Crisis Politics and Economic Change in Authoritarian Peru (2005). His current research examines the changing basis of antigovernment mobilizations against economic liberalization in Latin America. He can be reached at arcem@missouri.edu.

Paul T. Bellinger, Jr., is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His dissertation examines the effects of market transitions on labor's ability to organize and bargain collectively in Latin America. He can be reached at ptbhwb@ mizzou.edu.

Peter H. Solomon, Jr., is a professor of political science, law, and criminology at the University of Toronto. His books include Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin (1996) and Courts and Transition in Russia: The Challenge of Judicial Reform with coauthor Todd Foglesong (2000). He has also written numerous articles on legal reform in postcommunist countries. He is an active participant in judicial reform projects, including the Canada-Russia Judicial Partnership and the Canada-Ukraine Judicial Cooperation Project, both funded by the Canadian International Development Agency. He can be reached at peter.solomon@utoronto.ca.

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