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  • The Contributors

Lisa Hilbink is an associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile (2007) and is currently finishing a second book tentatively entitled "Judging for Democracy? Origins and Consequences of Judicial Associationism in Latin Europe and Latin America." She can be reached at hilbink@umn.edu.

Mark S. Manger is an assistant professor of political economy at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs. He is the author of Investing in Protection: The Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements between North and South (2009). His research interests include the political economy of the Asia Pacific region, Japanese political economy, and North-South relations in general. He can be reached at mark.manger@gmail.com.

Sara Wallace Goodman is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently completing a book-length project titled, "Members Only: Mandatory Civic Integration for Immigrants in Western Europe." Her research interests include citizenship and immigration policies, and her work has appeared in various academic journals. She can be reached at s.goodman@uci.edu.

Florian Grotz is a professor of German government and politics at the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany. His research has focused on political institutions and party governments in European democracies. His recent books include Germany after the Grand Coalition (2010; edited with S. Bolgherini) and Regierungssysteme in Mittel- und Osteuropa (2011; edited with F. Müller-Rommel). He can be reached at grotz@uni.leuphana.de.

Till Weber is a postdoctoral fellow at the Humboldt Center for Social and Political Research, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He is the author of several articles on party competition and electoral behavior. His next major project will compare party organization and campaign strategies in the United States and the European Union. He can be reached at till.weber@hu-berlin.de.

Christopher A. McNally is an associate professor of political economy at Chaminade University of Honolulu and a nonresident fellow at the East-West Center. His research focuses on comparative capitalisms, especially the nature and logic of China's capitalist transition. He has edited four volumes, including an examination of China's political economy: China's Emergent Political Economy: Capitalism in the Dragon's Lair (2008). He can be reached at mcnallychristopher@hotmail.com. [End Page ii]

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