Leadership
Ken Kollman
Director (2015-) and Research Professor
at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan.
He is also the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research interests include political parties, elections, lobbying, federal systems, and formal modeling.
Allen Hicken
Research Associate Professor
at the Center for Political Studies and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan.
He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research interests include comparative political parties and party systems, political economy and political development.
Daniele Caramani
Professor of Comparative Politics
at the University of Zurich.
His research interests include comparative politics with a focus on the nationalization and Europeanization of electoral politics, political parties and electoral systems, state formation, nation-building and regionalism in a broad cross-national and historical perspective.
David Backer
Research Professor and Research Director
at the Center for International & Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) in the University of Maryland School of Public Policy.
He has specific expertise in African politics, political violence, authoritarian regimes, political development, and survey methodology.
David Lublin
Professor of Government
at the School of Public Affairs, American University. He is an expert on American campaigns and elections, as well as electoral systems, redistricting, and minority representation in the US and other countries.
Julia Lippman
Project Manager
Senior Research Area Specialist at the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan.
Scientific Advisory Board
Daniel Bochsler
Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics (Democratisation)
in the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich. His main research interests include elections, political parties and ethnic politics, with a special focus on young democracies.
John Gerring
Professor of Government
at University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches and conducts research on methodology and comparative politics. He is co-editor of Strategies for Social Inquiry, a book series at Cambridge University Press, and serves as co-PI of Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) and the Global Leadership Project (GLP).
Scott Morgenstern
Associate Professor
of Political Science of the Center for Latin American Studies and the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include comparative legislatures, political parties, and electoral systems.
Thomas Mustillo
Associate Professor
of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. His research concerns political representation, parties and party systems, and democracy. He is particularly interested in understanding highly unstable electoral arenas.
Joel Selway
Associate Professor
of Political Science at Brigham Young University. His research addresses the design of democratic political institutions for ethnically-divided societies. He has analyzed topics as diverse as civil wars, riots, economic growth and public goods provision.
Matthew Shugart
Professor
of Political Science at the University of California Davis, and Affiliated Professor at the University of Haifa. His research interests include electoral systems, political parties, logical modeling, and the electoral and legislative politics of adaptation to climate change.
Heather Stoll
Associate Professor
of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include democratic representation, political parties and party systems, and electoral systems and other political institutions in the advanced industrial democracies.