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92Studies from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has been a Visiting
Scholar at the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences, Washington Univer-
sity in St. Louis, the Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Madrid,
the University of California in Santa Barbara and the University of California in
Berkeley. He taught a course on “Economics of Institutions” at Charles Univer-
sity in Prague, at Comenius University in Bratislava and at the University Roma
Tre. He has published many papers on institutional analysis in various journals, in-
cludingEconomic Modelling,Journal of Institutional Economics,Ocean & Coastal
Management,Marine Policy,Environmetrics,El Trimestre Económico,Brazilian
Journal of Political Economy,Política y Gobierno,Revista Española de Investiga-
ciones Sociológicas,Revista de Estudios PolíticosandRevista Española de Ciencia
Política. He has written several books and co-edited a volume on the Great Reces-
sion.
[email protected]Daniel Kselmanis a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the
Social Sciences, Juan March Institute (Madrid). His research employs both game
theoretic and econometric modelling to study the impact if political institutions and
political party organizations on a variety of contemporary political phenomena, in-
cluding but not limited political corruption, legislative instability, and democratic
accountability. He is also a student of modern Turkish politics, and has written on
Turkish political institutions and party organizations.
[email protected]2 Biographies of Contributors
James Adamsis Professor of Political Science at the University of California at
Davis. He studies voting behavior, parties’ election strategies, and political represen-
tation in Western Europe and the United States. His research, which encompasses
both spatial models of party competition and empirical analyses of parties’ policy
programmes, has appeared inthe American Political Science Review,the American
Journal of Political Science,the Journal of Politics,Political Analysis, andPublic
Choice.
[email protected]Luz Marina Ariasreceived her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
Her research focuses on the political economy of economic and political develop-
ment, and in particular on the mechanisms behind institutional change and con-
tinuity. Her work has centered on the indigenous origins of colonial labor in the
Americas, and on the origins of centralized fiscal capacity in Latin America. She
has received fellowship positions from the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the
University of California in San Diego and the Center on Democracy, Development