Amie Kreppel
​(University of Florida)
Amie Kreppel is a Jean Monnet Chair and the founding Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (JMCE) at the University of Florida. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research interests are Comparative Politics, European Politics, the European Union, Political institutions and Legislatures.
Ana Catalano Weeks
(University of Bath)
Ana Catalano Weeks is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Comparative Politics at the University of Bath. She holds a PhD in Government from Harvard. Weeks's research interests include gender and politics, political representation, and political parties, with a regional concentration in Western Europe. Her book, Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy, is coming out with CUP's Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics series in July of 2022. Weeks's research has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, European Political Science Review, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, and Politics & Gender.
Miguel Maria Pereira
(University of Southern California)
Miguel Maria Pereira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California.
His research focuses on inequalities in political representation and the behavior of political elites in established democracies, with a focus on causal inference. He is also interested in questions on women and politics, corruption, policy diffusion, and attitude formation. Pereira's work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Experimental Political Science, and Electoral Studies, among others.
Joshua Tucker
(NYU)
Joshua Tucker is a Professor of Politics at NYU and co-director of NYU Center for Social Media and Politics. Currently, Tucker's work focuses on the effects of network diversity on tolerance, partisan echo chambers, online hate speech, the effects of exposure to social media on political knowledge, online networks, protest, and polarization, disinformation and fake news, how authoritarian regimes respond to online opposition, and Russian bots and trolls.
Kaare Strøm
(UC San Diego)
Kaare Strøm is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego. His interests include political parties, coalition theory, European politics, and the institutions of parliamentary democracy. He is a Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences and also a Fellow of the Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies.
Michael Laver
(NYU)
Michael Laver is Emeritus Professor of Politics at NYU. His main research interests are analytical, computational and empirical accounts of political competition and decision-making.
Christopher Wratil
(University of Vienna)
Christopher Wratil is Assistant Professor at the Government Department, University of Vienna. His research interests are in democratic representation, political behavior and public opinion, with a special focus on politics in the European Union. Wratil studies how citizens form their political views towards and in response to democratic politics, and if, when, and how political elites adopt these views in their legislative behavior. He is also interested in new advances in quantitative methods in the areas of survey experiments, text analysis, multivariate measurement, and time-series-cross-section analysis.
Shane Martin
(University of Essex)
Shane Martin holds the Anthony King Chair in Comparative Government at the University of Essex where he also serves as the Deputy Head of Department in the Department of Government. Martin's research focuses on legislative organization and in particular on how electoral incentives shape representatives' preferences, the internal structures of parliaments, executive oversight and the production of public policy. He maintains a strong interest in Irish politics. ​He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies.
Thomas Saalfeld
(University of Bamberg)
Thomas Saafeld is the Chair of Comparative Politics and the Director of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of Bamberg. His research focuses on legislative organization and behaviour, coalition government and political representation in European democracies. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies.
Ulrich Sieberer
(University of Bamberg)
Ulrich Sieberer is the Chair of Empirical Political Science at the University of Bamberg. His research is in the field of comparative politics with a geographic focus on Europe. He is particularly interested in institutional change in parliaments and governments, political parties, legislative studies, coalition research, and judicial politics.
Stefanie Bailer
(University of Basel)
Stefanie Bailer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Basel. Her research interests include parliamentarism in particular decision making by parliamentarians, party group discipline, careers, international decision-making and negotiations in particular in the EU and other negotiations.