Peter R. Kingstone (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1994) is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is the author of Crafting Coalitions for Reform: Business Preferences, Political Institutions, and Neoliberalism in Brazil, and the author of articles on the sustainability of reform and business-state relations in the Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, and NAFTA: Law and Business Review of the Americas. He is currently at work on a comparison of privatization and pension reform in Latin America.
Timothy J. Power (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1993) is an assistant professor of political science at Louisiana State University. He is the author of the forthcoming Elites, Institutions, and Democratization: The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil, and his articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Party Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs. He was a visiting professor at the University of Braslia in 1994, and is currently the contributing editor covering Brazilian politics for the Handbook of Latin American Studies published by the Library of Congress.