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341 About the Contributors Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Scarcity, Conflict, and Cooperation. Mayling Birney is a Wilsom-Cotsen Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Daniela Donno is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Steffen Ganghof is Professor of Comparative Politics at Potsdam University in Germany. He is the author of The Politics of Income Taxation. Michael J. Graetz is Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law at Yale University and author of Death by a Thousand Cuts: the Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Ian Shapiro) and True Security: Rethinking Social Insurance. Christopher Howard is the Pamela Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy and The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States. Jana Kunicová is a consultant with the World Bank, focusing on the issues of public-sector governance and institutional reform in Europe and Central Asia. She has published articles in the British Journal of Political Science, Party Politics, and edited volumes. Woojin Lee is Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His most recent book, coauthored with John Roemer and Karine van der Straeten, is Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution: Multi-Issue Politics in Advanced Democracies. 342 About the Contributors Isabela Mares is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University . She is the author of The Politics of Social Risk and of Taxation, Wage Bargaining and Unemployment. Nicoli Nattrass is Professor of Economics and Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her books include The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa; Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Anti-Retrovirals in South Africa; and, with Jeremy Seekings, Class, Race and Inequality in South Africa. John Roemer is Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University. His most recent books are Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution (coauthored with Woojin Lee and Karine van der Straeten) and Democracy, Education and Equality. Kenneth Scheve is Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author, with Matthew Slaughter, of Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers. Jeremy Seekings is Professor of Political Studies and Sociology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His books include The UDF: A History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983–1991 and, with Nicoli Nattrass, Class, Race and Inequality in South Africa. 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. His most recent books are Containment : Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror, The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences, and Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Michael Graetz). David Stasavage is Associate Professor of Politics at New York University. He is the author of Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688–1789. Peter A. Swenson is Saden Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of Fair Shares: Unions, Pay and Politics in Sweden and West Germany and Capitalists against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden. ...

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