The Contributors
- The Contributors
Christian Houle is a doctoral candidate in the department of political science, University of Rochester. He is completing a dissertation about the relationship between inequality, economic development, and democracy. He can be reached at choule@mail.rochester.edu.
Cameron G. Thies is an associate professor of political science at the University of Iowa. His current work focuses on state building and the international relations of the developing world. He can be reached at cameron-thies@uiowa.edu.
Andreas Nölke is a professor of political science at Goethe University Frankfurt and program coordinator at the Amsterdam Research Centre on Corporate Governance Regulation (ARCCGOR). He is coeditor of The Transnational Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation (2007) and of Transnational Private Governance and Its Limits (2008). He can be reached at a.noelke@soz.uni-frankfurt.de.
Arjan Vliegenthart is an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Also affiliated with the Amsterdam Research Centre on Corporate Governance Regulation (ARCCGOR), he is currently working on a dissertation that deals with emerging corporate governance systems in the Visegrad Four. He can be reached at a.vliegenthart@fsw.vu.nl.
Johannes Lindvall is a postdoctoral fellow in comparative government at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He can be reached at johannes.lindvall@politics.ox.ac.uk.
Richard Deeg is a professor of political science at Temple University. His publications include Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Banks and the German Political Economy (1999). He has also published numerous journal articles on German and European political economy, financial market change, and federalism. His current research focuses on causes and mechanisms of institutional change in financial systems. He can be reached at rdeeg@temple.edu.
Mary A. O'Sullivan is an associate professor in management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Contests for Corporate Control: Corporate Governance and Economic Performance in the United States and Germany (2000) and is working on her second book, tentatively titled, Bonding and Sharing Corporate America: Securities Markets, Industrial Dynamics and Corporate Enterprise, 1885–1930. She has also published a variety of journal articles on the history and theory of corporate governance, comparative financial systems, and the history of corporate finance and securities markets. She can be reached at mosulliv@wharton.upenn.edu. [End Page ii]
