The Contributors
- The Contributors
Lars-Erik Cederman is a professor of international conflict research at ETH Zürich. He is the author of Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve (1997), the editor of Constructing Europe's Identity: The External Dimension (2001), and the coeditor (with Mathias Albert and Alexander Went) of Systems Theories of World Politics (forthcoming). He can be reached at lcederman@ethz.ch.
Luc Girardin is a senior researcher at the International Conflict Research group of ETH Zürich. His current work focuses on bridging the gap between real-world cases and theoretical computational models of the emergence of conflicts. He can be reached at girardin@icr.gess.ethz.ch.
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch is a professor in the department of government, University of Essex, and a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO. He is the author All International Politics Is Local: The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization (2002) and coauthor (with Michael D. Ward) of Spatial Regression Models (2008). He can be reached at ksg@essex.ac.uk.
Torben Iversen is a professor of political economy at Harvard. He is the author of Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare (2005) and Contested Economic Institutions (1999), coauthor (with Frances Rosenbluth) of Patriarchy Explained: The Rise and Fall of Gender Inequality (forthcoming), and coeditor (with Jonas Pontusson and David Soskice) of Unions, Employers and Central Bankers (2000). He is currently working on a book-length project with David Soskice on the political representation of economic interests in historical perspective. He can be reached at iversen@fas.harvard.edu.
David Soskice is a research professor of comparative political economy at Oxford University, a senior research fellow of Nuffield College, and a research professor in the Political Science Department at Duke. He is the author with Robert Flanagan and Lloyd Ulman of Unionization, Economic Stabilization and Incomes Policies (1983), with Wendy Carlin of Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain (1992), and Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (2006), and coeditor with Peter Hall of Varieties of Capitalism (2001). He is currently working with Torben Iversen on a book-length project on the political representation of economic interests in historical perspective; with Nicloa Lacey on the comparative political economy of crime and punishment; and with Wendy Carlin on the political economy of macroeconomics and the financial crisis. He can be reached at david.soskice@politics.ox.ac.uk.
Matthew M. Taylor is an assistant professor of political science at the University of São Paulo. His research interests include judicial politics, corruption, and the political economy of development. He is the author of Judging Policy: Courts and Policy Reform in Democratic Brazil (2008). He can be reached at taylor@usp.br.
Vivien A. Schmidt is a professor of European integration and director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University. Her publications in comparative politics and political economy include Democracy in Europe (2006), The Futures of European Capitalism (2002), and (coedited with Fritz W. Scharpf ) Welfare and Work in the Open Economy (2 vols., 2000). She is currently finishing a book on European political economy and an article on the relationship of discursive institutionalism and historical institutionalism. She can be reached at vschmidt@bu.edu.
Desmond King is a professor of American government at the University of Oxford and is a fellow of Nuffield College. His publications in American political development and comparative political economy include The Liberty of Strangers (2005) and Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the U.S. Federal Government (2nd ed., 2007). Forthcoming publications from his [End Page ii] Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship project on the American state include (coedited with Lawrence Jacobs) The Unsustainable American State (2009). He can be reached at desmond.king@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.
Robert C. Lieberman is a professor of political science and public affairs at Columbia University. His publications include Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (1998) and Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective (2005), as well as numerous articles on American political development, race and politics, and the welfare state. He is currently working on a history of affirmative action in the United States. He...
