Associate Professor
Princeton, 1997

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Office: 3375 Bunche Hall
Phone: (310) 267-5409
Fax: (310) 825-0778
E-mail: mlross@polisci.ucla.edu

Mailing Address:
UCLA Department of Political Science
4289 Bunche Hall
Box 951472
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472

Curriculum Vitae

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Field:

Comparative Politics

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Notes:
Michael Ross studies a range of issues that concern the developing world; he has a special interest in political economy, natural resource issues, democratization, and the states of Southeast Asia. His book Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia was published in 2001 by Cambridge University Press, in their Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions series. His current work includes research on the problems of states that have an abundance of natural resources (the “resource curse”); the breakdown of authoritarianism in Indonesia; Indonesia's conflicts in Aceh and Irian Jaya; and the influence of taxation on democratization.

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