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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Robert Barr is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Mary Washington. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Barr has published numerous articles on populism and the politics of decentralization in Latin America. His current research concerns the sources and implications of contemporary political dissent. Maxwell A. Cameron is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and specializes in comparative politics (Latin American) and international political economy. He authored Democracy and Authoritarianism in Peru and coedited The Making of Nafta: How the Deal Was Done, as well as many other books on similar subjects. Professor Cameron has published articles on democracy, trade liberalization , debt bargaining, and development. He is currently writing a book on democracies lacking checks and balances as manifested in Peru, Guatemala , Venezuela, and Russia. Julio F. Carrión is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Carrión’s work focuses on the analysis of public opinion in Latin America. His research has been published in edited books as well as in Comparative Political Studies and other journals. He is currently working on a book project dealing with issues of public opinion and governability in the Central Andes. Catherine M. Conaghan is Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University , Canada. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University and specializes in Andean politics. Her books include Restructuring Domination: Industrialists and the State in Ecuador and Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes. Her most recent book, Fujimori ’s Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere, provides an extensive account of the Fujimori presidency. Henry Dietz is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Dietz’s holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and his contributors 346 major areas of interest include Latin American politics, third-world urban politics, poverty and politics, comparative methodology, and survey research. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Urban Poverty, Political Participation, and the State: Lima, Peru, 1970– 1990. He is currently conducting research on the impact of socioeconomic inequality on democratic consolidation in Latin America. Philip Mauceri is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Northern Iowa. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University , and his research interests include constitutional reform, presidential politics, ethnic conflict, and state-elite relations in the Andean region. Among his publications are Militares, insurgencia y democratizacion en el Peru, 1980–88 and State Under Siege: Policy Making and Development in Peru. He is also the coauthor of Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, and Reform, among other books. Cynthia McClintock is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. A foremost authority on Peruvian politics, Professor McClintock has authored and edited many books, including Revolutionary Movements in Latin America: El Salvador’s fmln and Peru’s Shining Path. Professor McClintock was president of the Latin American Studies Association in 1994 and 1995. She was also a member of the American Political Science Association Council from 1998 to 2000. David Scott Palmer is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and specializes in the analysis of U.S.–Latin America relations. He served at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department as Chair for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and as a Dean of the School of Area Studies. Professor Palmer has published many scholarly articles on Latin America and Peru. His many books include The Shining Path of Peru. Kenneth M. Roberts is Professor of Government at Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and researches comparative politics with a focus on Latin America. He is the author of Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru and has published widely in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, World Politics, and International Security. [18.191.46.36] Project MUSE (2024-04-18 07:14 GMT) contributors 347 Gregory D. Schmidt is Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984, Professor Schmidt has published extensively on Peruvian politics and institutions . He has contributed...

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