The Contributors
- The Contributors
J. Ernesto López-Córdova is Senior Country Economist for Mexico at the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics, firm productivity and performance, and access to finance. He can be reached at joselc@iadb.org.
Christopher M. Meissner is an associate professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His current research interests are international trade costs, international capital flows, financial crises, and economic growth. He can be reached at cmmeissner@ucdavis.edu.
Lisa Blaydes is an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. She is currently completing a book manuscript on elections and distributive politics in Egypt. She can be reached at blaydes@stanford.edu.
Drew A. Linzer is an assistant professor of political science at Emory University. His current research examines elections, ideology, and public opinion around the world. He can be reached at dlinzer@emory.edu.
Daniel Ziblatt is an associate professor of government and social studies and a faculty associate at the Minda De Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is author of Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (2006). He is working on a book on the historical development of democracy, tentatively entitled, "The Long Transition." He can be reached at dziblatt@fas.harvard.edu.
Lyle A. Scruggs is an associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Sustaining Abundance: Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies (2003). He currently works on indicators of social policy reform in OECD countries and on a project examining the impact of political institutions on environmental pollution control. He can be reached at lyle.scruggs@uconn.edu.
James P. Allan is an assistant professor of political science at Wittenberg University. He works on comparative social policy and has coauthored several papers and scholarly articles on elections and party system change in the Canadian province of Québec. He can be reached at jallan@wittenberg.edu.
Kent Eaton is an associate professor of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Politics beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America (2004) and Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies: Argentina and the Philippines in the 1990s (2002). His current research focuses on the resurgence of territorial conflict within Latin American countries. He can be reached at keaton@ucsc.edu.
