The Contributors
- The Contributors
Alexander Lee is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His dissertation focuses on the role of caste in Indian politics. He can be reached at amlee@stanford.edu.
Herbert Obinger is a professor of comparative public and social policy at the University of Bremen's Center for Social Policy Research. He is coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State (2010) and coauthor of Transformations of the Welfare State: Small States, Big Lessons (2010). He can be reached at hobinger@zes.uni-bremen.de.
Carina Schmitt is research fellow in political science at the Collaborative Research Center Transformations of the State (TranState) at the University of Bremen. Her current research focuses on comparative public policy and quantitative comparative methods. Schmitt has published on civic engagement in Latin America and on convergence of oecd welfare states. She can be reached at carina.schmitt@sfb579.uni-bremen.de.
Philipp Rehm is an assistant professor of political science at Ohio State University. His work is located at the intersection of political economy and political behavior. He explores the causes and consequences of income dynamics (such as income loss, income volatility, and risk exposure), both at the microlevel and at the macro-level. He can be reached at philipp.rehm@gmail.com.
Philip Roessler is a senior research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He is currently finishing a book on the internal politics of civil war onset in sub-Saharan Africa. He can be reached at philip.roessler@politics.ox.ac.uk.
Jillian Schwedler is an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is author of Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (2006) and, most recently, editor (with Laleh Khalili) of Policing and Prisons in the Middle East (2010). Schwedler is currently finishing a book manuscript tentatively titled "Protesting Jordan: Space, Law, Dissent." She can be reached at jschwedler@polsci.umass.edu. [End Page ii]
