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Coping with Globalization: cross-national patterns in
domestic governance and policy performance
1. Globalization 2. Political science
1. Chan, Steve II. Scarritt, James R.
ISBN 0 7146 5378 0(cloth)
ISBN 0 7146 8312 4 (paper)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Coping with globalization: cross-national patterns in domestic governance and policy
performance / edited by Steve Chan and James R. Scarritt.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0 7146 5378 0 (cloth) ISBN 0 7146 8312 4 (paper)
1. Globalization. I. Chan, Steve. II. Scarritt, James R.
JZ1318.C685 2002
320.9c21
2002073775
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Notes on Contributors
Ross E. Burkhart is an assistant professor of political science at Boise State University. His research interests include cross-national democratization patterns, comparative political economy, human rights, and comparative public policy. His publications include articles in the American Political Science Review, European Journal of Political Research,and the Journal of Politics, as well as a forthcoming article in the Social Science Journal.
Steve Chan is a professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research addresses issues pertaining to military conversion, democratic peace, foreign policy decisions, international political economy, and the Asian newly industrializing countries. His most recent book, co-edited with A. Cooper Drury, is Sanctions as Economic Statecraft, published by Macmillan Press.
Karen Ferree is a PhD candidate in government at Harvard University. Her research interests include the political economy of elections; race and ethnicity; African politics (with a special focus on South Africa); and broad themes of economic and political development. Her contribution to this volume is part of a broader research project with Robert Bates and Smita Singh that examines economic development, political institutions, and civil conflict in Africa. In addition to this project, she is currently finishing her dissertation, which explores the question of how ethnic polarization shapes patterns of party behavior in South Africa.
Ronald D. Gelleny is an assistant professor at California State University at Fullerton. He is finishing his PhD at Binghamton University. His areas of research interest include European integration, globalization, political economy, and political behavior. His work has appeared in European Union Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and Political Research Quarterly.
David A. Leblang is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests address issues of international financial markets broadly and especially the relationship between political information and market volatility. He is currently examining why politicians defend an exchange-rate peg in the face of a speculative attack. His prior work has appeared in a number of journals, including the British Journal of Political Science, the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, and International Studies Quarterly.
Susan M. McMillan earned her PhD in political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and then took a position as assistant professor at Penn State University. She also has taught at the Ohio Wesleyan University and the Ohio State University. She is currently a senior researcher with Educational Data Systems in Morgan Hill, CA. Her publications include articles in Comparative Political Studies, International Interactions, and Mershon International Studies Review.
David L. Richards is an assistant professor of political science at Missouri Southern State College. His research interests include political violence, democratic institutions, measurement, and economic globalization within the context of government respect for human rights. His work in these areas has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Social Science Quarterly, and several edited volumes.
Nita Rudra recently received her MA in economics and PhD in political economy and public policy from the University of Southern California. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the University of California San Diegos Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the University of Southern Californias School of International Relations. Her research deals with the effects of international market forces on domestic politics, particularly with respect to labor policies and welfare spending.
James R. Scarritt is a professor of political science and faculty research associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author or co-author of articles appearing recently or forthcoming in British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Interactions, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics and of a forthcoming book on Zambia. His research interests include African and comparative ethnopolitics, democratization, and human rights, and the effects of globalization on all of these topics.
Smita Singh is a scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and a PhD candidate in government at Harvard University. She is currently working on a research project with Robert Bates and Karen Ferree that explores the interrelationships between economic performance, political transitions, and civil conflict in African countries in the post-World War Two period. Her chapter in this volume is part of this larger project. In addition to the political economy of African countries, Singh studies economic and political development in Southeast Asia. Her dissertation explores how the strategic organization of business communities structures the politics of economic policy-making in Nigeria and Indonesia.
Tables and Figures
TABLES
Models of development: East Asia, ca. 1980s
Models of political economy: APEC, ca. 1990s
Models of political economy: East-Central Europe, ca. 1990s
Models of political economy: Western Hemisphere, ca. 1990s
Mean globalization score by world region
Mean globalization score by world-system position
