The Contributors
- The Contributors
Thomas B. Pepinsky is an associate professor of government at Cornell University. He studies the social, historical, and institutional foundations of comparative and international political economy, with a special focus on Southeast Asia. His most recent book, Beyond Oligarchy: Wealth, Power, and Contemporary Indonesian Politics, was coedited with Michele Ford. He can be reached at pepinsky@cornell.edu.
Deniz Aksoy is an associate research scholar in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Her research focuses broadly on comparative political institutions and political violence. Current projects show how attacks by terrorist groups and counterterrorist actions by governments respond to the timing of elections. Her work has been widely published. She can be reached at daksoy@princeton.edu.
David B. Carter is the Charles G. Osgood University Preceptor and an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. His research explores territoriality and conflict, and the roles violent nonstate actors play in international relations and in states’ domestic politics, in addition to other topics. His current projects explore the role of historical boundary precedents in the emergence of territorial disputes, how border institutions affect trade flows, and how violent nonstate actors strategically choose tactics in anticipation of the state’s response. His work has been widely published. He can be reached at dbcarter@princeton.edu.
Joseph Wright is an associate professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University. He studies comparative political economy with a particular interest in how international factors, including foreign aid, economic sanctions, human rights prosecutions, and migration, influence domestic politics in autocratic regimes. His coauthored book with Abel Escriba-Folch, Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival, is forthcoming. He is currently working on a second book project, “How Dictatorships Work,” with Erica Frantz and Barbara Geddes. He can be reached at josephgwright@gmail.com.
Christian Houle is an assistant professor of political science at Michigan State University. His main research interests focus on the comparative politics of developing countries. He is particularly interested in topics related to democratization and democratic consolidation, political instability, inequality, redistribution, and social mobility. He can be reached at houlech1@msu.edu.
Prerna Singh is Mahatma Gandhi assistant professor of political science and international studies and a faculty fellow in the Watson Institute at Brown University. In 2015–16 she is also a junior scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and coconvenor of the Brown-Harvard-mit Joint Seminar in South Asian Politics. Her research interests include the comparative political economy of development, especially the politics of welfare and public health; identity politics including ethnic politics and nationalism, and gender politics; and state-society relations and the politics of South Asia and East Asia. Singh’s publication include, as author, How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India (2015), and, as coeditor, Handbook of Indian Politics (2013). She can be reached at prerna_singh@brown.edu.
Thandika Mkandawire is chair in African Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the former director of both the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (unrisd) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (codesria). A widely published author, Mkandawire’s research interests include development theory; economic development and social policy in developing countries; and the political economy of development in Africa. He can be reached at t.mkandawire@lse.ac.uk. [End Page ii]
