Our Team
Co-Leads
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 Professor at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan.
He is also an 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 Director of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) and Research Professor 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 and Chair 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
Senior Research Specialist at the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan. She is the project manager for THEA.
Scientific Advisory Board
Daniel Bochsler
Associate Professor in Political Science at Central European University, and full Professor of Political Science at the University of Belgrade. His main research interests include elections, political parties and ethnic politics, with a special focus on young democracies.
Amy Catalinac
Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University. She is a scholar of electoral systems, distributive politics, and the politics of contemporary Japan.
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).
Erik Herron
Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University. His research focuses on political institutions, especially electoral systems.
Scott Morgenstern
Professor, Political Science and Center for Latin American Studies at 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.
Gilles Verniers
Researcher at CERI Sciences Po, Paris. His research focuses on a prosopography of India’s political class, questions of political representation, and the intersections between electoral politics, state, and local governance in India.
Lauren Young
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at UC Davis. Her main research agenda is on election violence, including how it affects voter behavior and how elites strategize and organize violent elections.