The Politics of Legislative Debates
Edited by Hanna Back, Marc Debus, and Jorge M. Fernandes
Author Information
Hanna Back, Professor of Political Science, University of Lund,Marc Debus, Professor of Political Science, University of Mannheim,Jorge M. Fernandes, Assistant Research Professor, University of Lisbon
Hanna Bäck is a Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. She received her PhD from Uppsala University, and has previously held a position at University of Mannheim. Her research mainly focuses on political parties, legislators, governments, and cabinet ministers in parliamentary democracies. She has published extensively on these topics, for example in journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Political Science Research and Methods. She is the co-author of the book, Parties, Parliaments and Legislative Speechmaking (Palgrave Macmillan).
Marc Debus is Professor of Comparative Government at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He studied Political Science, Sociology, History and Methods of Empirical Social Research at the Universities of Marburg and Mannheim and received his PhD from the University of Konstanz in 2006. His research interests include political institutions, in particular in multilevel systems, and their effects on the political behavior of voters and legislators, as well as party competition, coalition politics and decision making within parliaments and governments. His publications appeared, amongst others, in the Journal of Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, Public Choice, West European Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Jorge M. Fernandes is Assistant Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Jorge received his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence. His main interests are representation, electoral systems, legislatures, political parties, and party competition. He has published extensively on these topics in inter allia, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Party Politics. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics.
Contributors:
Eduardo Aléman, University of Houston
Lennard Alke, SciencesPo, Paris
Hanna Bäck, University of Lund
Markus Baumann, Goethe University Frankfurk
Andreas Blätte, Uni Duisburg-Essen
Jack Blumenau, University College of London
Sylvain Brouard, SciencesPo, Paris
Royce Carroll, University of Essex
Christopher Cochran, University of Toronto
Marina Costa Lobo, University of Lisbon
Roberta Damiani, University College of London
Marc Debus, University of Mannheim
António Dias, University of Lisbon
Keith Dowding, Australian National University
Alejandro Ecker, University of Mannheim
Jorge M. Fernandes, University of Lisbon
Nikolaos Frantzeskakis, Michigan State University
Elena Frech, LMU
Chen Friedberg, Israel Democracy Institute
David Gelman, data scientist
Daniela Giannetti, University of Bologna
Jean-François Godbout, University of Montreal
Niels Goet, InsperaAS in Oslo
Analía Gómez Vidal, Inter-American Development Bank
Max Goplerud, University of Pittsburgh
Fernando Guarnieri, University of Rio de Janeiro
Agnar Freyr Helgason, University of Iceland
Alexander Herzog, Clemson University
Bjørn Høyland, University of Oslo
Simon Hug, University of Geneva
Indriði H. Indriðason, UC Riverside
Michael Jankowski, University of Oldenburg
Marcelo Jenny, University of Innsbruck
Yanis Kartalis, University of Lisbon
Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, University of Iceland
Michael Laver, New York University
Patrick Leslie, Australian National University
Tom Louwerse, University of Leiden
Eric Magar, ITAM, Mexico
Kamil Marcinkiewicz, University of Hamburg
Juan Pablo Micozzi, ITAM, Mexico
Slava Jankin Mikhaylov, Hertie School of Governance
Wolgang C. Müller, University of Vienna
Jochen Müller, University of Greifswald
Moritz Osnabrügge, University of Durham
Simon Otjes, University of Leiden
Andrea Pedrazzani, University of Milan
Corentin Poyet, University of Tampere
Sven-Oliver Proksch, University of Cologne
Christian Rauh, WZB, Berlin
Tapio Raunio, University of Tampere
Edalina Sanches Rodrigues, ISCTE-IUL
Olivier Rozenberg, SciencesPo, Paris
Iñaki Sagarzazu, Civis Analytics, Texas
Nara Salles, UFJF, Brazil
Marc Sanjaume, University Pompeu Fabra
Fabiano Santos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Jan Schwalbach, University of Cologne
Allan Sikk, University College of London
Jonathan Slapin, University of Zurich
Daniel M. Smith, University of Harvard
Miriam Sorace, University of Kent Canterbury
Martin Soto Paya, University of Santa Fe
Martin G. Søyland, University of Oslo
Christian Stecker, University of Darmstadt
Marija Taflaga, Australian National University
Andrew J. Taylor, North Carolina State University
Or Tuttnauer, University of Mannheim
Joan-Josep Vallbé, University of Barcelona
Sebástian Vallejo Vera, University of Houston
Jason Vandenbeukel, University of Toronto
Priit Vinkel, Head of the State Electoral Office, Estonia
Michael Wahman, Michigan State University
Liam Weeks, University College Cork
David Willumsen, University of Innsbruck
Miguel Won, University of Lisbon
T. Murat Yildirim, University of Stavanger
