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About the authors Tim Bale is a graduate of Cambridge, Northwestern, and Sheffield universities. He began his teaching career at Sheffield, before moving on to Victoria University of Wellington and then Sussex University, before moving to Queen Mary University of London in 2012. For four years Tim was the co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research s annual Political Data Yearbook. In 2008 he won the Political Studies Association s Bernard Crick Prize for Outstanding Teaching and in 2011 he received its W.J.M. Mackenzie prize for his book The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron. He has published articles on various aspects of party politics in a number of journals and is also the author of European Politics: a Comparative Introduction, the third edition of which was published in the spring of 2013. His latest monograph is The Conservatives since 1945: the Drivers of Party Change. Ingrid van Biezen is Professor of Comparative Politics and Chair of the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University. She is a co-editor of Acta Politica, the official journal of the Dutch Political Science Association and a former co-editor of the EJPR Political Data Yearbook and the ECPR series Studies in European Political Science (Routledge). She is the author of Political Parties in New Democracies (Palgrave 2003) and Financing Political Parties and Election Campaigns (Council of Europe 2003), and the editor of On Parties, Party Systems and Democracy: Selected Writings of Peter Mair (ECPR Press 2014). Between 2008 and 2014 she was the Principal Investigator on two large-scale research projects on the legal regulation of political parties funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and the European Research Council. Jaco van den Brink is an attorney-at-law at Bouwman Van Dommelen advocaten (The Netherlands). He completed his Bachelor s of both Law and History at Utrecht University. Afterwards, he obtained a Master s degree in Law at Leiden University, with a focus on Legal Philosophy. In 2012, he attended a Master s Programme in Political Philosophy.
280 about the authors In the meanwhile, he has been conducting research into philosophical approaches of constitutional rights. Fernando Casal Bértoa is a Research Fellow and co-director of the Centre for Comparative and Political Research at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham (UK). Previously, he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. He studied Law at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) and Political Science at the University of Salamanca (Spain). After specializing in Eastern and Central European Studies at the Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland), he obtained his PhD at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). His work has been published in Party Politics, Government and Opposition, the International Political Science Review, South European Society and Politics, and East European Politics. Wojciech Gagatek is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. He received a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, and previously an MA in Political Science and an MA in Law from the University of Warsaw. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Zurich. His main research interests and academic publications focus on the political system of the European Union (with a particular interest in the European Parliament), democracy and political representation in the EU and comparative political parties. Imke Harbers is assistant professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam and a research fellow at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (Cedla). Her research focuses on subnational political institutions, decentralization and democracy, with a regional emphasis on Latin America. She holds a PhD from Leiden University and has been a visiting fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her work has appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Political Studies, Party Politics, Government & Opposition and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. Matthew Ingram is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York. His research examines justice sector reforms and judicial behavior, as well as the political geography of violence, primarily in Latin America. He holds a law degree (J.D. 2006) and a Ph.D. in political science (2009), both from the University of New Mexico. His work has been published
about the authors 281 in Comparative Politics, Government and Opposition, and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, as well as in edited volumes and policy reports. Prior to joining the faculty at the University at Albany, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame Richard S. Katz is Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Johns Hopkins. He was co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research (2006-2012), and of the EJPR Political Data Yearbook (1996-2006). His books include A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems (Johns Hopkins University Press 1980, 2006), Democracy and Elections (Oxford University Press 1997), How Parties Organize: Adaptation and Change in Party Organizations in Western Democracies, ed. with Peter Mair, (Sage 1994), Handbook of Party Politics, ed. with William Crotty (Sage 2006), The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy, ed. with William P. Cross, (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research and chair of the OSCE/ODIHR Core Group of Experts on Political Parties. Ruud Koole is full professor of political science at Leiden University (since 2006). He studied history at the University of Groningen and political science at the Institut d Études Politiques in Paris. He wrote his thesis (1992) on the organization of Dutch political parties between 1960 and 1990. He publishes and teaches on the functioning of political parties, the legitimacy of political institutions, the constitutional and political system in the Netherlands and Dutch political history. In the past, he has been the Director of the Documentation Center on Dutch Political Parties of the University of Groningen (1981-1989) and the Chairman of the Dutch Labour Party (2001-2005). Since 2011, he is also member of the Senate of the Netherlands. Hans-Martien ten Napel is an Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he is also Research Fellow of the Leiden Law School. Since 2008, he has also been a senior researcher at the School of Human Rights Research. Before his transfer to the Law Faculty, he taught at the Department of Political Science, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. His current fields of expertise include Dutch parliamentary democracy, political rights, freedom of
282 about the authors religion, the Dutch Constitution, and church-state relationships. Recently he has been awarded a Research Fellowship in Legal Studies at the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton University, which enables him to be in full-time residence for the academic year 2014-2015. Remco Nehmelman is full professor of Public Institutional Law, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His fields of interest concern Constitutional Law, more specifically Constitutional Political Law (e.g. Political Parties Law) and Law for Lower Governmental Organizations (e.g. Municipalities). He is also a member of the Dutch Council of Public Administration, an advisory body of the Dutch Government and Parliament. Daniela R. Piccio is a post-doctoral Research Associate at Leiden University. Her research and teaching interests include political participation, political representation, comparative party politics and party (finance) regulation. She obtained her PhD at the European University Institute of Florence with a dissertation titled Party Responses to Social Movements: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and the Netherlands. Her work has appeared in South European Society and Politics, Representation, the International Political Science Review, as well as in several edited book volumes. Ekaterina R. Rashkova is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research interests lie in electoral and party systems and the strategic behaviour of political actors, including party regulation and gender equality. She is the co-founder of the Comparative Politics Research Group Innsbruck (www.cprg.at) and co-editor of Gender Politics and Party Regulation (special issue of Representation, 2013) and Contested Legitimacy: Paradoxes in the Legal Regulation of Political Parties (special issue of the International Political Science Review, forthcoming). Her work studies both new and established democracies and has appeared in Comparative European Politics, Party Politics and Political Studies, as well as several edited books. Maria Spirova is Senior Lecturer of Comparative Politics and International Relations in the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University, Netherlands. She has published on issues related to party development, minority policy, ethnic politics and Europeanization in the post-communist world. She is the author of Political Parties in
about the authors 283 Post-communist Societies: Formation, Persistence and Change (Palgrave McMillan, 2007) and co-editor of Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies (with Petr Kopecký and, Peter Mair, OUP, 2012). Her research has appeared in Party Politics, West European Politics, EJPR, Electoral Studies, East European Politics, Comparative European Politics, Europe-Asia Studies and Communist and Post-communist Studies.