Contributors
- Contributors
Michael E. Allison is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Scranton. His teaching and research interests involve the study of civil war and civil war resolution. He is currently focusing on the transition of former armed opposition groups to political parties in Latin America and the developing world.
Enrique Desmond Arias is an assistant professor of government at John Jay College of the City University of New York. His research focuses on security and politics in developing societies, currently with a multicity study of community police reforms in Latin America. His latest book is Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security (2006), an examination of the politics of crime and violence in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. He has written articles published in Latin American Politics and Society, Qualitative Sociology, and the Journal of Latin American Studies.
Lucia Dammert is a sociologist and the director of the Program on Security and Citizenship at FLACSO, Chile. She has worked in academic institutions in the United States and Argentina and in the Chilean Interior Ministry. Her articles and books on public safety, police, and community participation include Security and Police Reform in the Americas (with John Bailey, 2006) and Ciudad y seguridad en América Latina (with Gustavo Paulsen, 2005).
Scott Desposato is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. His general research interests include democratic institutions, campaigning, mass behavior, and political methodology. His latest project examines the determinants and impacts of negative campaigning across different institutional settings. His published research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Analysis.
Mala Htun is an assistant professor of political science at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family Under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies (2003) and articles in Perspectives on Politics, Latin American Research Review, and Politics and Gender, among other publications. She is currently writing a book on the politics of representing women and ethnic and racial minorities in Latin America and worldwide. In 2006–7 she is a Council on Foreign Relations International [End Page iii] Affairs Fellow in Japan and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo.
Mary Rose Kubal is an assistant professor of political science at St. Bonaventure University. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on social service decentralization and citizen participation in Chile. She has since expanded this project to focus on intergovernmental relations and to compare the politics of decentralization policy in Chile to other Latin American cases.
Mary Fran T. Malone is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on democratization in Latin America and examines how institutional change influences citizens’ attitudes during the transition from authoritarianism to democracy. Her recent writing has appeared in the Bulletin of Latin American Research, the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and edited volumes.
Timothy J. Power is University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies and a fellow of St. Cross College at the University of Oxford, where he is also a member of the Department of Politics and International Relations. His most recent book is Exporting Congress? The Influence of the U.S. Congress on World Legislatures (with Nicol C. Rae, 2006). He is the current president (2004–6) of the Brazilian Studies Association and a member of the LAPS Editorial Board.
Lucio R. Renno is an associate professor at the Center for the Study of the Americas, University of Brasília. He is co-editor (with Gláucio Ary Dillon Soares) of Reforma política: lições da história recente (2006). His articles have been published in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Revista de Sociologia e Política, Journal of Legislative Studies, Dados-Revista de Ciencias Sociais, and Electoral Studies.
Corinne Davis Rodrigues is an associate professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department and associate researcher at the Center for Studies in Criminality and Public Safety (CRISP) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Her current...
