David Altman is an Assistant Professor at the Political Science Institute of the Catholic University of Chile and Editor of Revista de Ciencia Política. He works on comparative politics with an emphasis on executive-legislative relations in Latin America, quality of democracy, E-Government, democratic institutions, public policy, and governability. His work has appeared in Electoral Studies, Party Politics, Democratization, International Review of Public Administration, Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Política, and Cuadernos del CLAEH.

Lisa Baldez is an Associate Professor of Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. Her book, Why Women Protest: Women’s Movements in Chile (Cambridge University Press 2002) examines the conditions under which women mobilize on the basis of their gender identity. Her current research focuses on gender and selection procedures for legislative candidates.

Felipe Botero is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arizona.

Daniel Buquet Corleto is a Professor of Political Science at the Instituto de Ciencia Política of the Universidad de la República in Uruguay. His main academic focus is electoral reforms in Latin America. He is also a consultant in public opinion and elections and political analyst in different mass media. He is co-author of the book Fragmentación Política y Gobierno en Uruguay: ¿Un Enfermo Imaginario? and several articles in books and journals published in Uruguay and abroad.

Roderic Ai Camp is the Philip McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College. His special interests include Mexican politics, comparative elites, political recruitment, church-state relations, and civil-military affairs. The author of numerous articles and twenty books on Mexico, his most recent publications include: Politics in Mexico, the Democratic Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2003), Mexico’s Mandarins, Crafting a Power Elite for the 21st Century (University of California Press, 2002), and Citizen Views of Democracy in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001).

John M. Carey is an Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on relations between executives and legislatures in presidential systems, on legislative organization, and on the effects of electoral ambition on political behavior. In addition to various journal articles and book chapters, his books include Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics, and Executive Decree Authority (both with Matthew Shugart), Term Limits in the State Legislatures (with Richard Niemi and Lynda Powell), and Term Limits and Legislative Representation.

Daniel Chasquetti is a Professor of Political Science at the Instituto de Ciencia Política of the Universidad de la República. His main academic focus is party systems, electoral systems and governmental coalitions in Latin America. He is also a consultant in public opinion, elections and legislative affairs, and political analyst in different mass media. He is co-author of the book Fragmentación Política y Gobierno en Uruguay: ¿Un Enfermo Imaginario? and several articles in books and journals published in Uruguay and abroad.

Brian F. Crisp is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona. His research on Latin American democracies has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Fulbright. In addition to Democratic Institutional Design: The Powers and Incentives of Venezuelan Politicians and Interest Groups (Stanford University Press, 2000), his recent work has been published in The American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Miguel De Luca is a Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. His primary research interests include governmental institutions and processes, political parties and electoral systems, and local politics. He has published several journal articles and chapters on the functioning of Argentine democratic institutions.

Maria Escobar-Lemmon is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. One aspect of her research focuses on the increased opportunities for citizen participation and representation created by decentralization. She is also involved in cross-national research on the impact of electoral rules on personal vote seeking and career trajectories. Recent articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Latin American Research Review, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism.

Mark P. Jones is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. His research focuses on the manner in which electoral laws and other political institutions influence party systems, elite and mass political behavior, and representation. His recent publications have appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, and Party Politics.

Joy Langston is a Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico City. She specializes in political parties in Latin America, particularly in Mexico. Lately, she has published in such journals as Comparative Political Studies and Latin American Politics and Society.

Marilia Mochel is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Florida International University.

Juan Andrés Moraes is on the faculty of the Instituto de Ciencia Política, Universidad de la República.

Erika Moreno is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa.

Scott Morgenstern is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University. His primary interests involve Latin American politics, with emphases on executive-legislative relations, electoral systems and political parties. He is author of Patterns of Legislative Politics: Roll Call Voting in the United States and Latin America’s Southern Cone (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and co-editor of Legislative Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2001). His work has also appeared in Comparative Politics, Party Politics, The Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Patricio Navia is an Adjunct Professor and Outreach Coordinator at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. His most recent articles have appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Democracy, and Foreign Policy. His book El Chile Post Pinochet will be published by Random House-Mondadori in Santiago in March 2004.

Timothy J. Power is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida International University and president-elect of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). He is the author or co-editor of several books on Brazilian politics, including The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil (Penn State University Press, 2000) and Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000). Forthcoming articles will appear in Comparative Political Studies (2004) and Journal of Politics (2005).

David Samuels is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in Latin American politics and the comparative study of political institutions, with particular emphasis on Brazilian politics, electoral systems, political parties, legislatures, and federalism. He is the author of Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and articles that have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, The Journal of Politics, The British Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Democracy, Latin American Politics and Society, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Peter Siavelis is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Hultquist Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University. He is the author of The President and Congress in Post-authoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidation (Penn State Press, 2000), and various articles and book chapters on Chilean electoral and legislative politics.

Steven L. Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Troy State University in Alabama. He is the contributing editor on Colombia to the Library of Congress’s Handbook of Latin American Studies, and his most recent publication is a forthcoming article in Political Terrorism and Democratic Development (Northeastern University Press).

Michelle Taylor-Robinson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. Her work focuses on the comparative study of legislatures and how the performance of legislative institutions influences the prospects of democratic consolidation. She is co-author (with Gretchen Casper) of Negotiating Democracy and has published in journals such as the Journal of Politics, Women and Politics, and Electoral Studies.