About the Contributors

Robert H. Bates is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University.

Pablo Beramendi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University.

Carles Boix is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University.

Matthew E. Carnes is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Stanford University.

Helma G. E. de Vries teaches in the Department of Government and Law at Lafayette College.

Raymond M. Duch is Professor in Quantitative Political Science and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Jonathan Eastwood is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington and Lee University.

John Ferejohn is Carolyn S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution Graduate School of Business, and a regular visiting professor at New York University Law School.

Robert J. Franzese, Jr . is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Timothy Frye is Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University.

Barbara Geddes is a Professor of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles.

John Gerring is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Boston University.

Liah Greenfeld is University Professor and Professor of Political Science and Sociology, and Director of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences, at Boston University.

Frances Hagopian is Michael P. Grace II Associate Professor Latin American Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and a Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

Russell Hardin is Professor of Politics at New York University.

Ronald Inglehart is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and President of the World Values Survey Association.

Stathis N. Kalyvas is Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University.

Philip Keefer is Lead Research Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank.

Herbert Kitschelt is George V. Allen Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science, Duke University.

Mark I. Lichbach is Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.

Kenneth M. McElwain is a Post‐Doctoral Fellow, Division of International, Comparative, and Area Studies, Stanford University.

James Mahoney is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Northwestern University.

José María Maravall is Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Juan March Institute, Madrid).

Isabela Mares is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.

Pippa Norris is Director of Democratic Governance at the United Nations Development Programme in New York and the Maguire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard University.

Benjamin Nyblade is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Elinor Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science; Co‐Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University; and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University.

Steven Pincus is Professor of History, Yale University, specializing in early modern British history.

G. Bingham Powell, Jr . is Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

Adam Przeworski is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor in the Department of Politics, New York University.

Shanna S. Rose is an Assistant Professor at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Frances Rosenbluth is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Georg W. Leitner Program in Comparative and International Political Economy at Yale University.

Filippo Sabetti is Professor of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

David Samuels is Benjamin E. Lippincott Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.

Charles Shipan is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Science and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

Hendrik Spruyt is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations and Chair, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University.

Susan C. Stokes is John S. Saden Professor of Political Science, Yale University.

Kaare Strøm is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.

Rein Taagepera is Research Professor, University of California, Irvine and University of Tartu.

Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.

Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.

Ashutosh Varshney is Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Celso M. Villegas is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, Brown University.

Christian Welzel is Professor of Political Science at the Jacobs University Bremen (JUB) and a member of the Executive Committee of the World Values Surveys Association.

Ronald Wintrobe is Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario.

Elisabeth Jean Wood is Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Anne Wren is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin.