List of Authors List of Authors Aurel Croissant is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is author of Politische Transformation in Südkorea (1998), and a forthcoming book on post-transitory development of democracy in the Philippines, Korea and Thailand(2002). Together with Wolfgang Merkel, Hans­Juergen Puhle, Peter Thiery, and Claudia Eicher he has written a two-volume book entitled Defective Democracy (forthcoming 2002). Jeffrey Gallup, a longtime American diplomat, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Cambodian Institute of Human Rights in Phnom Penh. His diplomatic career has enabled him to study democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, Haiti and West Africa. He has been a visiting fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Development(United States) and has written frequently for various journals on elections, human rights and democratization. Orathai Kokpol is a Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration at the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, Thailand. She has a B.A. in Political Science from Thammasat University, an M.Sc. in Public Administration and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto. Lim Hong Hai is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. His interest in and writing on Malaysian politics centre on the theme of power centralization and executive aggrandizement, and the effects they have on public administration and governmental performance generally. He teaches mainly in the school’s MPA programme and is currently researching the relationship between civil servants and politicians in Malaysia. Kassie Neou is the Director of the Cambodian Institute of Human Rights and Vice-chairman of Cambodia’s National Election Commission. He has been a well-known advocate of human rights following his and his compatriots’ suffering at the hands of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. He has published many articles and has been invited to speak at many international gatherings over the years. He received the Refugees International award in 1989, was one of Human Rights World’s Heroes for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in 1989 and was acknowledged by the United Nations Association of the United States for his advancement of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in 1991. 369