Contributors
- Contributors
Atul Kohli is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. His recent books include Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability (1991) and a coedited volume (with Joel Migdal and Vivienne Shue), State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World (1989). He is currently writing a book on the role of governments in the industrialization of four developing countries—South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria.
Peter Evans is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book, which examines the role of the state in Brazil, Korea, and India, is entitled Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation (1995).
Peter J. Katzenstein is Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Norms and National Security: Japan’s Police as Agents of Nonviolence (forthcoming). His current work focuses on regionalism in Asia and Europe.
Adam Przeworski is Professor of Politis and Economics at New York University. He is a coauthor of Sustainable Democracy (forthcoming). He is working on a book on democracy and development, which applies empirically the ideas presented here.
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph is William Benton Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Director of the South Asia Language and Area Center at the University of Chicago. She is coauthor of The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India (1967, 1984, 1996) and of In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (1987), and she is coeditor of Transnational Religion, the State, and Global Civil Society (forthcoming). Her current comparative project problematizes state formation in Europe and Asia.
James C. Scott is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science at Yale University with a joint appointment in anthropology. He is a director of the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale. He is the author of The Moral Economy of the Peasant (1976), Weapons of the Weak (1985), and Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (1990), and is working on a book examining the sources of notable “development disasters,” tentatively entitled State Simplifications.
Theda Skocpol is Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. She has published widely on the politics of U.S. social policy-making, past and present, and is the author of the prize-winning Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (1994) and Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective (1995). She is currently writing about generational conflicts in U.S. social policy and studying twentieth-century attempts at health care reform.
Gabriella Montinola is Assistant Professor of Politics at New York University. Her current research interests include corruption, interest representation, and economic development in the Third World.
Yingyi Qian is Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University and National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is currently working on several research projects in the economics of organization and institution with applications to transition economies, particularly China’s.
Barry R. Weingast is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on the political foundations of markets and economic development in both modern and historical contexts.
Kenneth M. Roberts is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. He is currently writing a book on democracy and the transformation of the left in Chile and Peru.
David A. Baldwin is Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies and a member of the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. He recently edited Key Concepts in International Political Economy (1993) and Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate (1993).
