Carol Ann Drogus is a retired Professor of Government at Hamilton
College. She is a specialist on Brazil, religion, and women’s
political participation. She taught introduction to comparative
politics for more than twenty years, as well as courses on Latin
American politics, gender and politics, and women in Latin America.
She has written two books and numerous articles on the political
participation of women in religious movements in Brazil.
Stephen Orvis is Professor of Government at Hamilton College. He is
a specialist on sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya in particular), identity
politics, democratic transitions, and the political economy of
development. He has been teaching introduction to comparative
politics for more than twenty-five years, as well as courses on
African politics, nationalism and the politics of identity,
political economy of development, and weak states. He has written a
book and articles on agricultural development in Kenya, as well as
several articles on civil society in Africa and Kenya and is
currently doing research on political institutions in Africa.
Lawrence Mayer is professor of political science at Texas Tech
University. His current research interests include party system
change, especially in the weakening of mainstream parties of the
moderate left and right, and the emergence of populist parties of
identity. His published books include: Comparative Politics:
Nations and Theories in a Changing World (With Burnett, Ogden, and
Tuman), American Public Policy (with Cochran, Carr, and Cayer),
Redefining Comparative Politics, Politics in Industrial Societies
(with Burnett), and Comparative Political Inquiry: A Methodological
Survey. His articles have appeared in Political Science and
Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Comparative Political
Studies, The Western Political Quarterly, Teaching Political
Science, and West European Politics. Frank Thames is assistant
professor of political science at Texas Tech University. His
current research focuses on legislative behavior in post-communist
legislatures and the economic effects of electoral systems. His
journal articles have appeared in Communist and Post-Communist
Studies, Demokratizatsiya, Europe-Asia Studies, Social Science
Quarterly, and Comparative Political Studies. Dennis Patterson
areas of specialization include comparative politics (advanced
societies), politics of Japan/Asia, comparative political economy,
political institutions/election systems, rational choice models of
politics, and security in East Asia. He has published numerous
articles and book chapters on such topics as elections and
electoral influences on policymaking in Japan in journals such as
Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political
Science, World Politics, Women and Politics, and Pacific Focus. He
recently published a co-authored book (with Dick Beason) The Japan
That Never Was: Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood
Country and is currently working on a project that examines the
politics of election system change in comparative perspective.
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