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Buffett Center Faculty & Fellows Colloquium
Indonesia’s 2014 National Elections

Jeffrey Winters, Political Science, specializes on oligarchs and elites spanning a range of historical and contemporary cases, including ancient Athens and Rome, medieval Europe, the United States, as well as Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines. He is the author and co-author of several books, including the award winning Oligarchy. His research, publications, and teaching focus on the areas of comparative and international political economy, as well as comparative politics generally. Important themes in his work also include state-capital relations, capital mobility and the structural power of investors, the World Bank, human rights, authoritarianism, and democratic transitions in post-colonial states. He has conducted extensive research in the region of Southeast Asia. Winters is the founder and Director of the Buffett Center’s Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) program: www.edgs.northwestern.edu.