GABRIEL BADESCU Associate Professor of Political Science at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaILDIKÓ BARNA Research Assistant at Eötvös Loránd University, HungaryKAREN S. COOK Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology and the Cognizant Dean of the Social Sciences at Stanford University, California, USAGYÖRGY CSEPELIÖ Professor of Sociology at the Eötvös University, HungaryALEXANDRA GERBASI Ph.D candidate at Stanford University, California, USAALENA V. LEDENEVA Reader in Russian Politics and Society, University College, London, UKANTAL ÖRKÉNY Professor of Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University, HungaryKATHARINA PISTOR Associate Professor of law at Columbia Law School, New York, USAVADIM RADAEV Professor of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, RussiaERIC R. W. RICE Sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, USAMARTIN RAISER Director for Country Strategy and Analysis at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, UK ALAN ROUSSO Senior Political Counsellor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, UKFRANKLIN STEIN Political Analyst at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, UKMÁRIA SZÉKELYI Professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology of Eötvös Loránd University, HungaryERIC M. USLANER Professor of Government at Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, USAFEDERICO VARESE University Lecturer inCriminology at the University of Oxford, UKVADIM VOLKOV Chair of the Sociology Department of the High School of Economics, St. Petersburg Branch, RussiaCHRISTOPHER WOODRUFF Associate Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific States at University ofCalifornia, USACHENGGANG XU Lecturer (tenured in 1998) in the Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
