Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen

Contributors

Contributors Sonu Bedi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. Traci Burch is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation . In addition to race and ethnic politics, her research interests also include American social policy and criminal justice. Jennifer L. Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, and a Professor of African and African-American Studies. She also holds Lectureships in the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education. She is the coauthor , with Nathan Scovronick, of The American Dream and the Public Schools (Oxford University Press, 2003), and the author of Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1995) as well as other books and articles. Gregory A. Huber is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University , where he is also a Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Center for the Study of American Politics. Courtney Jung is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department at The New School for Social Research. She is the author of Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition (Yale University Press, 2000). Her forthcoming book, Democracy and Indigenous Rights: A Preface to Critical Liberalism, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. She is also the author of a number of journal articles on political identity and liberal democratic theory. David R. Mayhew is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University . He is the author of Congress: The Electoral Connection (Yale University Press, 1974), Divided We Govern (Yale University Press, 1991), 279 Shapiro_pp279-282 7/17/07 3:14 PM Page 279 America’s Congress (Yale University Press, 2000), and Electoral Realignments (Yale University Press, 2002). Philip Pettit teaches Political Theory and Philosophy at Princeton University , where he is L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values. His recent books include Republicanism (Oxford University Press, 1997), A Theory of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2001), Rules, Reasons and Norms (Oxford University Press, 2002), and Penser en Societe (PUF, 2004). He is the co-author, with Geoffrey Brennan, of Economy of Esteem (Oxford University Press, 2004); and a co-author, with Frank Jackson and Michael Smith, of a selection of papers entitled Mind, Morality and Explanation (Oxford University Press, 2004). A new book, Made with Words: Hobbes on Mind, Society and Politics, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Andreas Schedler is a Professor of Political Science and the Head of the Department of Political Studies at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. He has most recently edited Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006). Mark R. Shulman is Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs and International Affiliations and an Adjunct Professor at Pace Law School. He has published widely in the fields of history, law, and international relations. Robert G. Shulman is the Sterling Professor (emeritus) of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale and is presently a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology. He formed the Magnetic Resonance Center at Yale and had been the Head of Biophysics Research at Bell Telephone Laboratories before coming to Yale. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the Institute of Medicine and is presently working on the limits, philosophical and experimental , of brain/mind studies. Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. He has written widely on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. His most recent books are The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences (Princeton University Press, 2005) and, with Michael Graetz, Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (Princeton University Press, 2005). 280 Contributors Shapiro_pp279-282 7/17/07 3:14 PM Page 280 Susan Stokes is John S. Saden Professor of Political Science at Yale University . Her most recent book is Democracy and the Culture of Skepticism: Political Trust in Argentina and Mexico (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006), co-authored with Matthew Cleary. Elisabeth Jean Wood is Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She...