The Contributors

Alasdair R. Young is a lecturer in the Department of Politics, University of Glasgow. His books include Extending European Cooperation: The European Union and the "New" International Trade Agenda (2002) and, with Helen Wallace, Regulatory Politics in the Enlarging European Union (2000). His current research focuses on the implications of wto dispute settlement for national regulatory autonomy.

Karl Ove Moene is a professor of economics at the University of Oslo. He is the coauthor (with Michael Wallerstein and Robert Flanagan) of Trade Union Behavior, Pay Bargaining and Economic Performance (1993). He is currently working with Wallerstein to investigate the effects of wage equality on the distribution of income, unemployment, and economic growth.

Michael Wallerstein is a professor of political science at Northwestern University. He is the coauthor (with Karl Ove Moene and Robert Flanagan) of Trade Union Behavior, Pay Bargaining and Economic Performance (1993). He is currently working with Moene to investigate the effects of wage equality on the distribution of income, unemployment, and economic growth.

Carles Boix is an associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His books include Political Parties, Growth and Equality (1998), L'Obertura Catalana (2002), and Democracy and Redistribution (2003). He is currently working on a new book manuscript entitled, "The Birth of Party Democracy," which explores the political conditions that led to the emergence of the party systems and electoral institutions of advanced democracies at the turn of the twentieth century.

Susan C. Stokes is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and director of the Chicago Center on Democracy. She is the author of Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America (2001) and the editor of Public Support for Market Reforms in New Democracies (2001). She is currently doing research into political clientelism and vote buying.

Octavio Amorim Neto is an assistant professor of political science at the Graduate School of Economics at the Getulioi Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro. He is currently writing a book on cabinet formation in presidential democracies.

Gary W. Cox is a professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. His latest book is Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution (2002). His current projects include various analyses of agenda power in the world's legislatures.

Mathew D. McCubbins is a professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. His most recent books include The Democratic Dilemma (1998) and Stealing the Initiative (2001). Among other things, he is currently working on Legislative Leviathan Revisited (forthcoming), as well as on a new comparative project on legislative agenda control.

Richard Price is an associate professor of political science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Chemical Weapons Taboo (1997) and coeditor of The United Nations and Global Security (forthcoming). He has written numerous articles on the origins and impact of international norms and constructivist international relations theory.