Ingrid van Biezen is Professor in Comparative Politics. She studied at Leiden University, from which she also received her PhD. She has subsequently worked at the University of Birmingham and has been a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and a research fellow at Yale University and the University of California, Irvine.
Lisa Disch is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She specializes in contemporary continental political thought, paying particular attention to feminist theory, political ecology, and theories of democracy in both the US and France. Her current research includes a project on political representation that seeks to reconcile the insight that acts of representation neither merely reflect constituencies nor originate with them but, rather, mobilize them with the expectation that representative democratic government must be government “by” the people. She is also at work on a project on the reciprocal influences of contemporary French and American political theory.
Alfio Mastropaolo is full professor of Political Science at the University of Turin. His research themes are: political élites, political parties, antipolitics, democracy. His last book is: Is Democracy a Lost Cause? Paradoxes of an Imperfect Invention, Ecpr Press, Colchester, 2012.
Petra Meier is Professor in Political Science at the University of Antwerp, co-chair of A*, the Antwerp Gender&Sexuality Studies Network, and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on how inequality gets (re)produced, and on what contributes to fostering equality in a sustainable way. She looks into the (re)presentation of gender (dynamics and relations) in politics and policies; studies dimensions of democracy and innovative conceptualizations of representation; electoral systems, their degree of inclusiveness, design and gender quotas; the inclusiveness of public policies, their framing, discursive constructions and design; the gendering of public policies, especially through gender impact assessment and discursive practices; and issues of inequality in multi-level systems as well as dynamics of exclusion in political spaces and how this shapes power relations. For publications please see https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/petra-meier/publications/
Catherine Moury is Associate Professor of Political Science, and the director of the Phd Program of the Department of Political Studies at the NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is Associate Editor of the European Political Science Review. Her research focuses on comparative politics and institutional change in the European Union. She has published in the American Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, among others.
Michael Saward is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. A former Head of Politics at the Open University, he has published widely on contemporary democratic theory and, in recent years, the theory of representation.
Michel Troper is professor emeritus of public law at the University of Paris-Nanterre, where he taught constitutional law and legal theory. In particular, he developed a “realist theory of legal interpretation”, critical of the dominant dogmatic approaches to legal fact. He has also developed, with others, a “theory of legal constraints” which seeks to understand the law from the point of view of the strategic behavior of actors.
Mark E. Warren is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, where he held the Harold and Dorrie Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy. Warren’s research focuses on contemporary democratic theory and democratic innovations, including a project entitled Participedia, which uses a web-based platform to collect information about democratic innovations around the world. He is currently President-Elect of the American Political Science Association, and will serve as President for 2023-24.