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Contributors Murat Akan is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University. His research is on secularism, laicism, religion, and democracy in Turkey and France. His articles have appeared in the British Journal of Sociology, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and Studies in Comparative International Development. He is currently completing a book on politics, religion, and diversity in Turkey and France. László Bruszt is Professor of Sociology at the European University in Florence. His recent studies have focused on the interplay between transnationalization, institutional development, and economic change. His collaborative research with Balazs Vedres studies the impact of EU regional development programs. His research with Gerald McDermott on transnational integration regimes compares the effects of the EU and NAFTA on institutional development in evolving market democracies . His recent articles have appeared in Voluntas, Theory and Society, Journal of Public Policy, West European Politics, and Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Fernando Henrique Cardoso served as president of Brazil for two terms (1995–2003).Before becoming president,he was senator from São Paulo, minister of foreign relations, and minister of finance. Cardoso’s pathbreaking scholarship on political and economic development shaped a generation of thought in Latin America. He established the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Research (CEBRAP), which became an influential think tank both in Brazil and internationally. Currently, he is president of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute in Brazil. 450 Ryan E. Carlin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University.He received his B.A.from the University of Notre Dame in 1999 and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008. Carlin’s research interests include political culture and political institutions and the interplay between them.His most recent work has appeared in Party Politics, Political Behavior, Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, and Public Choice. Douglas Chalmers, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University, has been department chair, dean of the School of International Affairs,and director of the Institute for Latin American Studies. Currently he is executive director of the Society of Senior Scholars at Columbia .He is the author and coeditor of The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America (1997) and coeditor of The Right and Democracy in Latin America (1992). He has written articles about the organization and institutions that link civil society to government in Europe and Latin America. His current project is building an argument for rethinking the institutions of political representation, based on the Schoff Lectures given at Columbia University. Ashley Esarey, Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Alberta, received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University , where Alfred Stepan was a dissertation adviser. He held the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He teaches Chinese politics at Whitman College, serves as Associate in Research at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and is a visiting scholar at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies, China Program. His publications concern political communication and democratization in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. Robert M. Fishman, Kellogg Institute Fellow and Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, is currently writing a book that shows how Portugal’s and Spain’s virtually polar opposite pathways to democ racy in the 1970s generated enduring differences in democratic practice and, as a result, in various other societal outcomes. Fishman’s most recent books are Democracy’s Voices (2004) and (with Anthony Messina) The Year of the Euro (2006). His articles have appeared in World Politics, Contributors | 451 [44.198.169.83] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 16:29 GMT) Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, Comparative Politics, and other journals. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at Yale, where he worked with both Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan. J. Samuel Fitch is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His research focuses on the interrelations among the armed forces,society,and the state in Latin America.He is the author of The Coup d’Etat as a Political Process (1977) and The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America (1998), as well as numerous articles and chapters on comparative civil-military relations, U.S. military assistance programs, and public policy. Edward L. Gibson is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. His most recent...