The Contributors

Xinyuan Dai is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently working on two projects: one on compliance with international agreements and the other on the effects of democratic institutions on foreign policy.

Frank Alcock is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Duke University, a Belfer Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a research fellow of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change project. His dissertation is on the evolution of property rights in North Atlantic fisheries, and he is a contributing author to and coeditor (with Ron Mitchell, William Clark, and David Cash) of a forthcoming volume on global environmental assessments.

M. Victoria Murillo is an associate professor of political science at Yale University. Her book Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (2001) analyzes union-government relations in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela during the implementation of market-oriented reforms. She is currently working on privatization and regulation of public utilities and on the politics of policy-making in Latin America.

Jonathan Rodden is an assistant professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is coeditor of Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints (forthcoming) and is currently revising a book manuscript on federalism and fiscal discipline. His current research focuses on distributive politics, inequality, and the political economy of federalism and decentralization, especially in Europe and the Americas.

Erik Wibbels is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Washington. He is currently revising a book manuscript on the relationship between federal politics and market reforms in the developing world. His recent publications focus on the political economy of federalism, the effect of global markets on tax policy in Latin America, and intergovernmental politics in Argentina.

Crawford Young is an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has served as a visiting professor in Uganda, Congo-Kinshasa, and Senegal. He is the author of several books devoted to African politics and comparative cultural pluralism, including Politics in the Congo (1965), The Politics of Cultural Pluralism (1976), Ideology and Politics in Africa (1982), and The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective (1994). His most recent book (coedited with Mark Beissinger) is Beyond State Crisis: Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective (2002).