Edited by Jacques Thomassen, Professor of Political Science, University of Twente

Jacques Thomassen is a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main research interests are in democratic theory, political representation, electoral behaviour and legitimacy. He is author and editor of numerous publications including The European Voter (Oxford University Press 2005), The Legitimacy of the European Union after Enlargement (Oxford University Press 2009), and (with Peter Mair) Political Representation and European Union Governance. He was a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Michigan, Harvard, Mannheim, the Australian National University and the European University Institute in Florence. He is a co-founder of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). He is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Twente

Kees Aarts is Professor of Political Science and Scientific Director of the Institute for Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS) at the University of Twente.
Julian Bernauer is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Berne, Switzerland.
André Blais is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal and holds a Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies.
Diana Burlacu is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin and former Marie Curie Fellow in the Electoral Democracy Training Network at Central European University, Budapest.
Eric Chang is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University.
Yun-han Chu is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University.
Harold Clarke is Ashbel Smith Professor in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex.
Russel Dalton is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.
Delia Dumitrescu is a Postdoctoral Fellow associated to the Multidisciplinary, Opinion and Democracy Group at University of Gothenburg.
Nathalie Giger is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Political Science, University of Zürich.
Sören Holmberg is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of Gothenburg.
Pedro Magalhães is a Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of ULisbon, one of the Founders of the Portuguese Election Study, and a Member of the Planning Committee of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.
Mark Peffley is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.
Robert Rohrschneider is Sir Robert Worcester Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas, Lawernce, USA.
David Sanders is Professor of Government and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Essex.
Hermann Schmitt holds a Chair in Electoral Politics at the University of Manchester and is Research Fellow of the MZES and Professor at the University of Mannheim.
Shane Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
Marianne Stewart is Professor in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Jacques Thomassen is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Twente.
Gábor Tóka is Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest.
Carolien van Ham is a Postdoc Researcher at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Electoral Integrity Project at the University of Sydney.
Adrian Vatter is Full Professor of Political Science and Director at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Berne.
Steven Weldon is Associate Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.
Bernhard Wessels is Deputy Director of the Research unit Democracy and Democratization at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Professor at Humboldt University Berlin.
Paul Whiteley is Professor of Government and Director of the Centre for Electoral Studies at the University of Essex.
Wen-Chin Wu is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Center for East Asia Democratic Studies at National Taiwan University.