The Contributors
- The Contributors
Noam Lupu is an assistant professor and Trice Faculty Scholar in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests are in comparative political behavior and political representation, with a focus on parties and partisanship, class and inequality, and redistribution. His book, Party Brands in Crisis, will be published in 2015. He can be reached at lupu@wisc.edu.
Irfan Nooruddin is an associate professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Coalition Politics and Economic Development 2011. He can be reached at in62@georgetown.edu.
Nita Rudra is an associate professor of government at Georgetown University. Her research interests include the distributional and policy impacts of globalization as they are mediated by politics and institutions, the political foundations of different welfare regimes, and the causes and effects of democracy in developing nations. She is the author of Globalization and the Race to the Bottom Paradox in Developing Countries: Who Really Gets Hurt? 2008. She can be reached at nr404@georgetown.edu.
Egor Lazarev is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, Columbia University, and a research fellow at the International Research Laboratory on Political Demography and Social Macro-Dynamics, RANEPA, in Moscow. His research focuses on the issues in political psychology, ethnic politics, and religion. Currently he works on the political role of Sufi Islam. He is the corresponding author and can be reached at el2666@columbia.edu.
Anton Sobolev is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a researcher at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He works on politics of collective action in autocracies, and his current research and publications center on factors of mass protest with a special focus on geography and technology. He can be reached asobolev@ucla.edu.
Irina V. Soboleva is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, New York, and a research fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Her recent research and publications explain the controversial effect of political protest on individual participation in authoritarian regimes. She is working on a coauthored project on the Russian protests of 2011–12. She can be reached at is2486@columbia.edu.
Boris Sokolov is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, St. Petersburg State University, and junior research fellow at the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics (LCSR Russian Government Grant No. 11.G34.31.0024). His current work includes projects entitled, “Voting for Radical Right Parties in Europe: A Two-Part Mixed-Effects Model” and “Ressentiment and Growth of Anti- Americanism in Russia.” He can be reached at bssokolov@gmail.com.
Jan Rovny is an assistant professor of political science at Sciences Po, Paris, and a researcher at the University of Gothenburg. He studies patterns of party competition in Western and Eastern Europe, exploring the issues that political parties contest across the continent and the strategies that different parties follow, as well as the ensuing behavior of voters. He can be reached at jan.rovny@sciencespo.fr.
Amanda Lea Robinson is an assistant professor of political science at the Ohio State University. Her current research focuses on how group identification, both ethnic and national, impacts interethnic trust and cooperation in diverse settings, as well as the social and political implications of ethnic group segregation in sub-Saharan Africa. She can be reached at robinson.1012@osu.edu. [End Page ii]
