The Contributors

Valerie Bunce is a professor of government and chair of the department at Cornell University. She is the author of Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State (1999). Her current research focuses on how the design of multinational states affects both the quality of democracy and the patterns of interethnic cooperation and conflict.

David Bradley is a policy analyst for the Keystone Research Center, the Pennsylvania affiliate of the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001.

Evelyne Huber (formerly Evelyne Huber Stephens) is a professor of political science and director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has written on the politics of reform, ranging from installation of formal political democracy and widening of political inclusion to establishment and adaptation of different social policy regimes, comparing cases within and across Latin America and Western Europe. She is the editor of Models of Capitalism: Lessons for Latin America (2002) and coauthor (with John D. Stephens) of Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets (2001).

Stephanie Moller is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation examines the impact of state and economic structures on household income in the United States.

François Nielsen is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published articles on historical trends and international comparisons of inequality in the distribution of income that have appeared in various journals. He is currently doing research on inequality in collaboration with Art Alderson and with the coauthors of this article.

John D. Stephens is a professor of political science and sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is coauthor (with Evelyne Huber) of Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets (2001) and (with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Evelyne Huber Stephens) of Capitalist Development and Democracy (1992). His current research is on the impact of marketizing reform on social policy in Latin America, Iberia, and the Antipodes.

Isabela Mares is an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. She is the author of The Politics of Social Risks: Business and Welfare State Development (forthcoming) and of various articles in journals and edited volumes.

Kimberly J. Morgan is an assistant professor of political science at George Washington University and is currently a participant in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research program at Yale University. She has published articles on child care, parental leave, and gendered perspectives on welfare regimes, and is now completing a manuscript on the politics of child care in advanced industrialized states.

Lowell W. Barrington is an assistant professor of political science at Marquette University and senior associate at Eurasia Group (New York). He is the author of recent articles on ethnic relations and views of ethnic Russians in Ukraine and Kazakhstan and the editor of the book Nationalism after Independence (forthcoming). He is currently working on a book entitled, "National Identity versus International Organizations."

Erik S. Herron is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas. He has published numerous journal articles on postcommunist politics. He is currently working on projects related to elections and party systems in the post-Soviet region.

Brian D. Silver is a professor of political science at Michigan State University (East Lansing). He is a specialist on the politics, ethnic relations, and demography of the region of the former Soviet Union, as well as on the comparative study of political culture. His current work includes a major longitudinal study on Civil Liberties versus Security: American Public Opinion after the 9/11 Terrorist Attack.