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  • The Contributors

Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. He is the coauthor, with Frances Rosenbluth, of Women, Work, and Politics (2010); and author of Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare (2005) and Contested Economic Institutions (1999). Iversen has published widely on comparative politics and political economy. He can be reached at tiversen@gov.harvard.edu.

David Soskice is School Professor of Political Science and Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He gave the 2013 Federico Caffè Lectures in Rome on knowledge economies. His books include Macroeconomics: Instability, Institutions, and the Financial System, coauthored with Wendy Carlin (2015). His current research, with Torben Iversen, is on advanced capitalism. Soskice was president of the European Political Science Association from 2011–13, and he is a fellow of the British Academy. He can be reached at d.w.soskice@lse.ac.uk.

Paasha Mahdavi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science and an M.S. candidate in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently writing a dissertation on the relationship between petroleum and governance as mediated by oil-related institutions. In addition, he is developing new Web-based approaches to collecting data on oil elites for use in statistical network analysis. In August 2015, Mahdavi will join the faculty of Georgetown University as an assistant professor of public policy. He can be reached at paasha.mahdavi@gmail.com.

Ryan Grauer is an assistant professor of international affairs in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He studies the sources and uses of military power in the international political arena and is completing a book on organizational drivers of martial capability in combat. He can be reached at grauer@pitt.edu.

Mircea Popa is a lecturer in politics with quantitative research methods in the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom. His research looks at institutional persistence and change, especially in regard to corruption. He can be reached at mircea.popa@bristol.ac.uk.

Elizabeth Carlson is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and the Program in African Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She studies political behavior and the political economy of development in Africa’s new democracies. She can be reached at ecc13@psu.edu. [End Page ii]

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