Hutchcroft has research and teaching interests in comparative politics and Southeast Asian politics. He has written extensively on Philippine politics and political economy, as well as on the politics of corruption, and is the author of Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines (Cornell, 1998). In his current book project, “The Power of Patronage: Capital and Countryside in the Twentieth-Century Philippines,” he analyzes central-local relations in the Philippines from the early American colonial period through the Local Government Code of the 1990s. Hutchcroft is also active in organizing an international workshop in Manila in July 2005, the goal of which is to provide comparative, theoretical, and historical insights that can contribute to debates over political reform and constitutional revision in the Philippines (for more details, see http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/conf2005/politicalreform.htm).