The Contributors
- The Contributors
Joanne Gowa is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University. Her most recent book is Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace (1999). She can be reached at jgowa@princeton.edu.
Raymond Hicks is the project manager for the History Lab at Columbia University. His research interests include trade policy and monetary policy. He can be reached at rh2883@columbia.edu.
Carlo Koos is a senior research fellow in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. He is interested in the empirical study of gender in the context of conflict, peace building, and development. His current research focuses on the sociopolitical legacies of conflict-related sexual. Methodologically, he combines statistics and field research in South Sudan, Nigeria, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He can be reached at carlo.koos@uni-konstanz.de.
Fernando Bizzarro is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research examines the causes and consequences of political institutions, especially political parties. His dissertation studies the origins of party-based regimes globally. He has published on Latin American and Brazilian politics. He can be reached at fbizzarroneto@g.harvard.edu.
John Gerring is a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches and conducts research on methodology and comparative politics. He is an editor of the book series Strategies for Social Inquiry (2012) and serves as a co-pi of the Varieties of Democracy project. He can be reached at jgerring@austin.utexas.edu.
Carl Henrik Knutsen is professor of political science at the University of Oslo. His research interests include the economic effects of institutions and the determinants of regime change and stability. His current research project concerns the economic effects of various political institutions, collecting historical data from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Knutsen is a co-pi of the Varieties of Democracy project. He can be reached at c.h.knutsen@stv.uio.no.
Allen Hicken is the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan. He studies political parties, institutions, political economy, and policymaking in developing countries, with a focus on Southeast Asia. He is the author of Building Party Systems in Developing Democracies (2009); editor of Politics of Modern Southeast Asia: Critical Issues in Modern Politics, (2010); and coeditor, with Erik Kuhonta, of Party and Party System Institutionalization in Asia (2014). He can be reached at ahicken@umich.edu.
Michael Bernhard is Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair in Political Science at the University of Florida. His work centers on questions of democratization and development globally and in the context of Europe. Bernhard's research agenda includes the role of civil society in democratization, institutional choice in new democracies, the political economy of democratic survival, and the legacy of extreme forms of dictatorship. His most recent book, Twenty Years after Communism: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration (2014), was coauthored with Jan Kubik. He can be reached at bernhard@ufl.edu. [End Page i]
Svend-Erik Skaaning is professor of political science at Aarhus University. His research interests include the conceptualization, measurement, explanation, and consequences of democracy and the rule of law, and he has published on these issues. Skaaning is a co-pi of the Varieties of Democracy project. He can be reached at skaaning@ps.au.dk.
Michael Coppedge is professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Democratization and Research Methods (2012) and Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela (1994), and has published on democratization, research methods, and Latin American political parties and elections. Coppedge is a co-pi of the Varieties of Democracy project. He can be reached at coppedge.1@nd.edu.
Staffan I. Lindberg is a professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg. He is author of Democracy and Elections in Africa (2006), editor of Democratization by Elections: A New Mode of Transition? (2009), and...
