POLITICSCONTRIBUTORS & SOCIETY

Contributors

Lucio Baccaro ([email protected]) is a senior research officer at the Interna- tional Institute for Labour Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, and an assistant pro- fessor of labor and human resource policy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio (on leave). His previous research has appeared in the European Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations Journal, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Economic and Industrial Democracy, and Stato e Mercato. He is presently completing a book manuscript based on his doctoral dis- sertation at MIT, examining the anomalous coexistence in the Italian political economy of neocorporatist patterns of policy making and democratic decision- making procedures within unions. Karen Beckwith ([email protected]), a professor of political sci- ence at the College of Wooster, Ohio, is the author of various articles on women, political parties, and social movements in the United States and West Europe and is a coeditor of the forthcoming Women’s Movements Facing the Reconfigured State. Her current research focuses on women’s movements and labor movements in Britain and the United States. Richard Biernacki ([email protected]) is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His current research, conducted as a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, extends the analysis pub- lished in this issue to the commodification of the labor of professional writers in eighteenth-century Europe. An overview of his comparison of the com- modification of intellectual and manual work appears in “The Social Manufac- ture of Private Ideas in Germany and Britain, 1750-1830” in Jahrbuch des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin 1998/99, 221-46. Bo Rothstein ([email protected]) is August Röhss Professor in political science at Göteborg University in Sweden. He received his Ph.D. from the Univer- sity of Lund in 1986 and worked at the Department of Government at Uppsala University from 1986 to 1995. He has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Wash-

POLITICS & SOCIETY, Vol. 29 No. 2, June 2001 171-172 © 2001 Sage Publications, Inc. 171 172 POLITICS & SOCIETY ington in Seattle. Among his publications are The Social Democratic State: The Swedish Model and the Bureaucratic Problems of Social Reforms (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996) and Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare State (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His most recent article is “Trust, Social Dilemmas and Collective Memories,” pub- lished in the Journal of Theoretical Politics (2000). Javier Astudillo Ruiz ([email protected]) is an assistant professor of political science at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, Spain, and a doc- toral-member of the Juan March Institute of Madrid in Spain. He is author of Los Recursos del Socialismo: Las cambiantes relaciones entre el PSOE y la UGT, 1982-1992 (1998). Astudillo Ruiz was a Fulbright scholar and visiting fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University during 1998-2000.