James E. Alt (PhD, University of Essex, 1978) is Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government and director of graduate studies. He is author, co-author, or editor of The Politics of Economic Decline (1979), Political Economics (1983), Advances in Quantitative Methods (1980), Cabinet Studies (1975), Perspectives on Positive Political Economy (1990), and Competition and Cooperation (1999). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including “Partisan Dealignment in Britain 1964-1974” in the British Journal of Political Science, 1977; “Political Parties, World Demand, and Unemployment” in the American Political Science Review, 1985; “Crude Politics: Oil and the Political Economy of Unemployment in Britain and Norway, 1970-85,” in the British Journal of Political Science, 1987; “Divided Government, Fiscal Institutions, and Deficits: Evidence from the States,” in the American Political Science Review, 1994; and “Fiscal Policy and Elections in American States,” in the American Political Science Review, 1998. He is or has been a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Political Studies, American Political Science Review, and other journals, and has been a member of the Political Science Panel of the National Science Foundation. Alt was a Guggenheim Fellow 1997-98.

Muhammet Ali Bas (PhD, University of Rochester, 2007), is an assistant professor of government. His research and teaching interests include international relations, political methodology and applied formal theory, with an emphasis on the formal and quantitative approaches to the analysis of international relations. His current research focus is on the link between regime type and levels of uncertainty in international crises.

Robert H. Bates (PhD, MIT, 1969) is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and a faculty fellow of the Institute for International Development. He was formerly the Henry
R. Luce Professor of Political Science and Economics at Duke, where he was also the director of the Center for Political Economy. He is the author of numerous books, including Markets and States in Tropical Africa (1981); Beyond the Miracles of the Market (1989); Open Economy Politics (1997); Analytic Nannaturs (1998); and Prosperity and Violence (2002). Bates undertook extensive fieldwork in Columbia, Brazil, and several nations in Africa. Among his fields of interest are political economy, including international political economy; political development; and African politics. He recently concluded his service as President of the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and member of the board of the African Studies Association. Bates presently serves as a member of the State Failure Task Force of the United States government and as a consultant at the World Bank.

Eric Beerbohm (B.Phil., Oxford; PhD, Princeton, 2006) is assistant professor of government and social studies. His philosophical and teaching interests include democratic theory, theories of social justice, political ethics, and the morality of public policy. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Democratic Virtues,” which considers the moral division of labor between citizens and lawmakers. His ongoing research includes the methodology of egalitarian theories, political decision-making under moral uncertainty, and individual responsibility for political injustice.

Daniel Carpenter (PhD, University of Chicago, 1996), professor of government and director of the Center for American Political Studies, is an analyst of the development of political institutions, the political economy of regulation, bureaucratic politics, and health policy. His research asks why and how the bureaucratic federal government of the United States has come to derive its current policymaking powers. His book, The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Networks, Reputations and Policy Innovation in Executive Departments, 1862-1928 (2001), advances a theory of bureaucratic autonomy and shows how federal bureaucracies came to occupy new policymaking roles in the early 20th century. The book illustrates how the USDA and the national post office were able to intrude into new policy arenas (such as forest and land conservation, the regulation of lotteries and pornography, food and drug regulation, energy provision, and finance), while other agencies were unable to do so. Carpenter’s answer focuses upon the ability of bureaucratic entrepreneurs to create agency reputations and diverse policy-specific coalitions behind their favored alternatives. Carpenter is currently working on a theoretical, historical, and statistical study of gov-ernment regulation of pharmaceuticals by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He has published several papers on the FDA drug approval process and is in the process of writing a book on FDA drug regulation.

Timothy J. Colton (PhD, Harvard, 1974) is Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies and director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His main interest is Russian and post-Soviet government and politics. He is the author of The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union (1986); Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis (1995), which was named best scholarly book in government and political science by the Association of American Publishers; Growing Pains: Russian Democracy and the Election of 1993 (1998); and Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia; (2000); Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000 (with Michael McFaul, forthcoming). He is currently writing a book on the statecraft of Boris Yeltsin and coordinating a joint project on the post-Communist state. Colton was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a member of the Joint Committee on Soviet Studies of the Social Science Research Council, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and vice-chairman of the National Council for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Research. He is currently a member of the advisory committee of the Kennan Institute, a member of the editorial board of World Politics and Post-Soviet Affairs, and chairman of the international committee of the American Political Science Committee.

Jorge I. Domínguez (PhD, Harvard, 1972) is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and the former director of the Weather-head Center for International Affairs. He is the author or co-author of books including The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict; The Future of Inter-American Relations; Democratic Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean; Technopols: Freeing Politics and Markets in Latin America in the 1990s; Constructing Democratic Governance: Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s; Democratizing Mexico: Public Opinion and Electoral Choices; Insurrection or Loyalty: The Breakdown of the Spanish American Empire; To Make a World Safe for Revolution: Cuba’s Foreign Policy; and Democracy in the Caribbean. A past president of the Latin American Studies Association and past board chairman of the Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities, he currently serves on the editorial boards of Political Science Quarterly, Foro Internacional, Foreign Affairs en español, and Cuban Studies. He was series editor for the Peabody Award-winning Public Broadcasting System tele-vision series, Crisis in Central America. Domínguez’s current research focuses on the international relations and domestic -politics of Latin American countries.

Grzegorz Ekiert (PhD, Harvard, 1991) is professor of government and chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society and social movements, and East European politics and societies. He is the author of The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe (1996); Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Con-solidation in Poland with Jan Kubik (1999); and Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule, co-edited with Stephen Hanson (2003). His papers appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, German Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative Communism, Research on Democracy and Society, Studia Polityczne, Studia Socjologiczne, Encuentro, East European Politics and Societies, Communist and Post-communist Studies, World Politics, and several edited volumes. He is also senior scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and senior faculty associate at the Center for European Studies where he chairs the Workshop on East European Politics and is the editor of the CES Working Paper Series on Central and Eastern Europe.

Margarita Estévez-Abe (PhD, Harvard, 1999) teaches courses on “Japanese Political Economy,” “Rethinking the Welfare State,” and “Comparative Political Economy of Gender.” She was an associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota before joining Harvard. Estévez-Abe’s research interests include Japanese politics and economy, comparative social policy, varieties of capitalism, and gender inequality. Her recent work includes “Forgotten Link? Welfare-Finance Nexus” in Manow and Ebbinghaus eds. Varieties of Welfare States; “Social Protection and Skill Formation” (co-authored with Torben Iversen and David Soskice) in Hall and Soskice eds. Varieties of Capitalism; “Negotiating Welfare Reform” in Rothstein and Steinmo eds. Restructuring the Welfare State: Welfare and the Unwinding of Japan (forthcoming).

Michael Frazer (Ph.D., Princeton University, 2006) is an assistant professor of government and social studies. His research interests focus on early modern political philosophy and its relevance for contemporary political theory. His current book project, “The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Sentiments in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought,” defends a psychologically holistic approach to political reflection through an examination of Enlightenment-era authors such as David Hume, Adam Smith and J. G. Herder. Dr. Frazer has also published articles on Maimonides, Nietzsche and Leo Strauss in such journals as Political Theory and The Review of Politics. He spent the 2006-7 academic year as a postdoctoral research associate in the Political Theory Project at Brown University.

Jeffry Frieden (PhD, Columbia, 1984), Stanfield Professor of International Peace. Monetary and financial relations. Frieden is the author of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987); and Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985 (1991). Among other publications, he is the co-editor (with Barry Eichengreen) of Forging an Integrated Europe (1998), and (with David Lake) of International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth, fourth edition (2000), and (with Ernesto Stein) of Currency Games: Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America (2001).

Claudine Gay (PhD, Harvard, 1998) is professor of government, with research and teaching interests in the fields of American political behavior, public opinion, and race and ethnic politics. Before joining the department, Gay was an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University from 2000 to 2005, and an associate professor from 2005 to 2006. From 1999 to 2000, Gay was a Visiting Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Her research has considered the effects of descriptive representation on citizens’ orientations toward their government, the role of neighborhoods in shaping the racial and political attitudes of Black Americans, and the effects of concentrated poverty on political engagement. Her work has been published in Political Psychology, the American Political Science Review, and the American Journal of Political Science.

Adam Glynn (PhD University of Washington 2006) is an assistant professor of government and a faculty associate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. His research and teaching interests include political methodology, inference for combined aggregate and in-dividual level data, causal inference, and sampling design. His current research involves the use of aggregate data for the correction of biased surveys.

Peter A. Hall (MPhil, Oxford; PhD, Harvard, 1982) is Harvard College Professor and Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, and director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is an editor of Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage; The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations; Developments in French Politics I and II; European Labor in the 1980s, and is the author of Governing the Economy as well as over forty articles on European politics, policy-making, and comparative political economy. He serves on the editorial boards of many journals, on the executive committee of the Council of European Studies, and on the advisory boards of several European institutes. He is currently working on the methodology of political science, the contribution of institutional analysis to the study of political economy, and the political responses to international integration in post-war Europe.

D. Sunshine Hillygus (PhD, Stanford University, 2003), associate professor. Her research and teaching interests include American political behavior, campaigns and elections, political organizations, and information technology and society. Her current research examines campaign effects and voter decision-making in US presidential elections. Hillygus’s work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, IT & Society, and several edited volumes. She is currently finishing a book, The Anatomy of Census 2000: Conducting the US Census in a Society of Declining Cooperation and Political Polarization (under contract, Russell Sage Foundation), co-authored with Norman Nie and Kenneth Prewitt.

Michael J. Hiscox (PhD, Harvard, 1997), is professor of government. He teaches international political economy in the department and in the social studies program, and he is a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Hiscox was an assistant professor of political science at UCSD from 1997 to 2001. He published International Trade and Political Conflict in 2001, and he has written several articles on political economy, trade, industrialization, and globalization. He is currently working on High Stakes: The Political Economy of US Trade Sanctions. Hiscox’s most recent papers have addressed questions concerning factor mobility and structural adjustment within economies, trade adjustment assistance policies, the measurement of barriers to trade, determinants of foreign investment flows, and the size of nations.

Jennifer Hochschild (PhD, Yale University, 1979), joint appointment in the Department of African and African American Studies. She also has lectureships in the Kennedy School of Government and at the Graduate School of Education. Hochschild studies the intersection of American politics and political philosophy—particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration—and educational policy. She also works on issues in public opinion and political culture. Hochschild is the author of The American Dream and the Public Schools (2003); Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (1995); The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation (1984); and What’s Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice (1981). She is a co-author or co-editor of other books. Her current project is tentatively entitled Madison’s Constitution and Identity Politics. Hochschild is the founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, a fellow of the -American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former vice-president of the American Political Science Association, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation, and a member of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey. She served as co-chair of the Program Committee for the annual convention of the APSA in 1996. She has received numerous fellowships and awards and has served as a consultant or expert witness in several school desegregation cases, most recently the case of Yonkers Board of Education v. New York State. Before coming to Harvard, Hochschild taught at Duke, Columbia, and Princeton Universities.

Stanley Hoffmann (Doctorate of Law, University of Paris, 1953), the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor. He has been the chairman of Harvard’s Center for European Studies from its creation in 1969 to 1995. Hoffmann was born in Vienna in 1928. He lived and studied in France from 1929 to 1955; he has taught at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, from which he graduated, and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. At Harvard, he teaches French intellectual and political history, American foreign policy, post–World War Two European history, the sociology of war, international politics, ethics and world affairs, modern political ideologies, and the development of the modern state. Among Hoffmann’s publications are Decline or Renewal? France Since the 30s (1974); Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy since the Cold War (1978); Duties Beyond Borders (1981); Janus and Minerva (1986); and The European Sisyphus (1995); The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (1997); and World Disorders (1998); and he is co-author of The Mitterrand Experiment (1987); The New European Community (1991); and After the Cold War (1993). His Tanner lectures of 1993, on the French nation and nationalism, were published in 1994. Hoffmann is working on a book on ethics and international affairs.

Nahomi Ichino (PhD, Stanford, 2006) is an assistant professor. Her research and teaching interests include African politics, development, and comparative political institutions, with particular emphasis on political parties and electoral politics. She is currently engaged in research on intra-party politics and the development of political parties in Nigeria, electoral intimidation and violence, and regional/ethnic conflict in West Africa. She is a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and previously held a fellowship at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Torben Iversen (PhD, Duke University, 1995), professor of government and faculty associate at the Center for European Studies. Comparative political economy, electoral politics, and applied formal theory. Author: Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomic and Wage Bargaining, and co-editor of Unions, Employers and Central Bankers: Macroeconomic Coordination and Institutional Change in Social Market Economies (both Cambridge 1999). He has previously written about European voting and party behavior, and his new book manuscript explores the intersection between social protection, production, and democratic institutions. He is the author or co-author of articles in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Public Choice, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and World Politics, as well as several edited volumes.

Alastair Iain Johnston (PhD, University of Michigan, 1993), the Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs. Socialization in international institutions, the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and ideational sources of strategic choice, mostly with reference to China and the Asia-Pacific region. Author: Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (1995), and articles on socialization theory, strategic culture, army-party relations in China, ancient Chinese military thought, and Chinese nuclear and arms control -policies.

Gary King (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984) is the David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University. He also serves as director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center, as senior science advisor to the World Health Organization, and as a member of the steering committee of the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences. He was elected president of the Society for Political Methodology and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a visiting fellow at Oxford. King has won the Gosnell Prize (1999 and 1997), the American Statistical Association’s Outstanding Statistical Application Award (2000), the Donald Campbell Award (1997), the Eulau Award (1995), the Mills Award (1993), the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (1998 and 1993), the American Political Science Association’s Research Software Award (1992, 1994, and 1997), the Okidata Best Research Software Award (1999), and the Okidata Best Research Web Site Award (1999), among others. King is author and co-author of more than seventy-five journal articles and four books, including A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data; Unifying Political Methodology: The Likelihood Theory of Statistical Inference; and, with Robert Keohane and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. He has also written several widely used public domain statistical software packages that implement methods he has developed. King has served on the governing coun-cils of the American Political Science Association, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, and Midwest Political Science Association, on sixteen editorial boards, and on several National Research Council and National Science Foundation panels. His homepage can be found at http://gking.harvard.edu.

Steven Levitsky (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1999) is associate professor
of government and social studies at Harvard University. His primary areas of research include political parties, informal institutions, and political regimes and regime change in Latin America. He is author of Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (2003) and has published articles on party organization, party change, and democracy in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Latin American Studies, Party Politics, World Politics, and Studies in Comparative International Development. He
is currently engaged in research on the emergence and trajectories of competitive authoritarian regimes in Africa, Central Europe, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union.

Roderick MacFarquhar (PhD, London School of Economics, 1981) is the Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science. He is the former director of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. MacFarquhar’s publications include The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals, The Sino-Soviet Dispute, China under Mao; Sino-American Relations, 1949-1971; The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao; the final two volumes of the Cambridge History of China (with the late John Fairbank); The Politics of China 2nd Ed: The Eras of Mao and Deng; and a trilogy, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. He was the founding editor of The China Quarterly, and has been a fellow at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Royal Institute for International Affairs. In previous personae, he has been a journalist, a TV commentator, and a member of Parliament. He is working on a book on the Cultural Revolution.

Harvey C. Mansfield (PhD, Harvard, 1961), William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, studies and teaches political philosophy. He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism and in favor of a Constitutional American political science. He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and as a translator of Machiavelli and of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. His current research is a book on manliness. He was chairman of the government department from 1973-1977, has held Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, and has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center. He has hardly left Harvard since his first arrival in 1949, and has been on the faculty since 1962.

Lisa Martin (PhD, Harvard, 1989) is professor in the Department of Government. She previously taught in the political science department at the University of California, San Diego. Fellowships she has received include the Guggenheim Foundation, MacArthur- Foundation, and Hoover Institution. Her major research interests involve international institutions and cooperation, domestic institutions and international cooperation, the international financial institutions, and the political economy of tourism. Her most recent book, Democratic Commitments: Legislatures and International Cooperation, focuses on the impact of legislative involvement on bargaining and implementation of agreements in the United States and the European Union.

Jens Meierhenrich (DPhil, Oxford, 2002), assistant professor of government; joint appointment, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies; Faculty Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Project on Justice in Times of Transition at Harvard Law School. A Rhodes Scholar, he is the author of On Guilt (forthcoming), The Legacies of Law (forthcoming), and The Invention of Law (forthcoming) as well as several articles and book chapters on comparative and international law and politics. Former Carlo Schmid Fellow, Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague; previously worked with Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

Glyn Morgan (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1998) is associate professor of government and social studies. His research and teaching interests include contemporary political philosophy, the history of political thought, and classical social theory. He recently completed a book manuscript tentatively entitled Nationalism, Sovereignty, and Political Membership. Morgan’s current research focuses upon liberalism, human rights, and the issues raised by European -integration. He previously worked as a radio journalist.

Eric Nelson (AB ’99; PhD, Trinity College, Cambridge, 2002), assistant professor of government. History of republican political theory, the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. Author: The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2004); articles in Political Theory, The Historical Journal, Milton Studies, and The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (forthcoming). He is currently editing Hobbes’s translations of the Homeric poems for The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, and plans a study of early-modern attempts to understand the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution. Nelson is also a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.