The Contributors

John R. Oneal is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and will spend spring term 2000 as a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. He is the author (with Bruce Russett) of Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations (forthcoming).

Bruce Russett is Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Director of United Nations Studies at Yale University. He is the author (with John R. Oneal) of Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations (forthcoming).

Strom C. Thacker is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University. He is the author of Big Business, the State, and Free Trade: Constructing Coalitions in Mexico (forthcoming). He is currently conducting research on the polities of bilateral and multilateral aid and on neoliberalism and democracy in Latin America.

Deborah J. Yashar is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1990s (1997) and of articles and chapters on political regimes, social movements, and ethnic politics. She is currently writing a book that examines the intersection of democracy, citizenship, and indigenous movements in Latin America.

Katrina Burgess is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She has published several articles on union politics in Spain and is coeditor (with Abraham F. Lowenthal) of The California-Mexico Connection (1993). Currently she is completing a book manuscript on party-union relations in Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela and is beginning a new comparative project on the adaptive capacities of mass-based parties faced with crises of representation.

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