Heather StollHeather Stoll is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds an MPhil in politics from the University of Oxford and an MS in statistics and PhD in political science from Stanford University. She s a 1996 Harry S. Truman Scholar and a 1997 British Marshall Scholar. Her Stanford dissertation, on which this book is loosely based, was the co-recipient of the Seymour Martin Lipset Award for the best comparative politics dissertation in 2005. She has published a number of articles in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Party Politics and West European Politics. Read More Read Less