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Contributors richard c. crook is a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He has published extensively on comparative political systems and administration in West Africa and South Asia and particularly on decentralization and democratization. His most recent book is Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa: Participation , Accountability, and Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1998), with James Manor. george gray-molina is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Bolivian Catholic University’s Public Policy Graduate Program. He is currently doing research on pro-poor politics, popular participation, and social exclusion. He holds a D.Phil. in Politics from Nuf‹eld College, Oxford University, and a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. john harriss is Professor of Development Studies at the London School of Economics and former Dean of the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. Much of his research has been in and on India. He is the author of Capitalism and Peasant Farming: Agrarian Structure and Ideology in Northern Tamil Nadu (Oxford University Press, 1982) and the joint author of Reinventing India: Economic Liberalization , Hindu Nationalism, and Popular Democracy (Polity, 2000). He was the coeditor of Sociology of “Developing Societies”: South Asia (Macmillan, 1989) and The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development (Routledge, 1995). He is currently a managing editor of the Journal of Development Studies. ronald j. herring is Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, where he is the John S. Knight Professor of International Relations and Professor of Government. His earliest academic interests were in agrarian relations, and he is the author of Land to the Tiller: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia (Yale University Press, 1983). Recent work has included issues of state property rights in nature and the politics of genetic engineering. His edited volume Carrots, Sticks, and Ethnic Con›ict: Rethinking Develop285 ment Assistance (with Milton Esman) was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2001. peter p. houtzager is a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and co-coordinator of the IDS Program in Law, Democracy, and Development. He has taught at Stanford University and St. Mary’s College in the United States. His work on the relationship between collective action and institutional change has appeared in Theory and Society, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and the Journal of Development Studies. His book Remaking Authority and Collective Action in Brazil is currently under review. marcus j. kurtz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. His research interests center on the role of rural politics in national regime outcomes. His work in this area has appeared in Politics and Society, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Journal of Latin American Studies, and Theory and Society. His book manuscript Free Market Democracy? The Sectoral Foundations of National Politics in Chile and Mexico examines the relationship between market-based economic strategies and national democratic regime formation. mick moore is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He was Visiting Professor at MIT from September 1994 to December 1995. During 1996–2000, he was the convenor of two large research programs on poverty located at the IDS and was extensively involved in preparing background material on the politics of poverty for the World Bank’s World Development Report, 2001–2002: Attacking Poverty. He is now Director of the Centre for the Future State at IDS. He has extensive ‹eld research experience in Asia and is the author of two books and numerous book chapters and articles on the political and institutional dimensions of economic policy and performance in developing countries, antipoverty policy, and governance in “the South.” joan m. nelson is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution and Scholar in Residence at the School of International Service, American University. Her primary research interests are the politics of economic reforms and the interactions between market-oriented reforms and democratization in middle- and lowincome countries. Her current work focuses on the politics of social sector reforms in rapidly evolving national and international contexts. She has taught at MIT, the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies, and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Among her publications are Transforming Post-communist Political Economies (coeditor with Charles Tilly, National Academy Press, 1998); Intricate 286 Contributors [3.147.103.202] Project...

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