Notes on Contributors
| Date | 01 December 2008 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2008.00767.x |
| Published date | 01 December 2008 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Notes on Contributors
José Alemán is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University.
His work focuses on the comparative study of democratic institutions with a
particular focus on the reform of labour market policies and institutions in new
democracies. He is also interested in democratisation, democratic consolidation
and social science methodology.
Christine Arnold is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science,
University of Maastricht. Her primary research interest is the constitution-
building process in the European Union,with a particular focus on the impact of
domestic structures on the outcome of European negotiation. Her research
interests include political responsiveness and public opinion. Methodologically,
she uses information classification techniques, adapted from information retrieval
and graph theory in computer science. This enables the automated analysis of
large corpora of hundreds of thousands of documents and thus helps uncover
patterns and causality in decision-making processes on the domestic level and the
EU level.
Stephen J. Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education in the
Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, Institute of Educa-
tion, University of London. His main work is in the field of ‘policy sociology’: the
use of sociological theories and methods to analyse policy processes and out-
comes. His specific research interests focus upon social class and education, and
the effects and consequences of the education market in a variety of respects
including: the impact of competition on provider behaviour;the class strateg ies of
educational choosers; the participation of private capital in education services;and
the impact of ‘perfor mativity’ on academic and social life. He is editor of the
Journal of Education Policy, a member of the Academy of Social Sciences and a
Fellow of the British Academy. His most recent books are: Education plc: Private
Sector Participation in Public Sector Education (Routledge, 2007); and The Education
Debate: Politics and Policy in the 21st Century (Policy Press, 2008).
Anthony Michael Bertelli is Associate Professor in the Departments of Political
Science and Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia, USA.
He is also Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. His
research interests lie in the political economics of public administration, applied
formal theory and research methods. He is the author of Madison’s Managers:
Public Administration and the Constitution ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
and numerous articles on public administration and bureaucratic politics.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2008.00767.x
POLITICAL STUDIES: 2008 VOL 56, 970–972
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