Michelle R. Garfinkel University of California-Irvine   Department of Economics 3151 Social Science Plaza University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA 92697 USA   mrgarfin@uci.edu   http://orion.oac.uci.edu/~mrgarfin/       Primary Research Focus: Political economy, conflict   JEL Areas: E0 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General H0 : Public Economics: General