Rudy B. Andeweg, editor
Rudy B. Andeweg is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Leiden University.

Robert Elgie, editor
Robert Elgie (1965–2019) was Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies at Dublin City University since 2001, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy since 2017. After receiving his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1992 he held university positions in Loughborough, Limerick, and Nottingham. He was a founding editor of the journal French Politics and review editor of Government and Opposition. Robert has published numerous books and articles on semi-presidentialism and political leadership from a comparative perspective, and on French politics.

Ludger Helms, editor
Ludger Helms is Professor of Political Science and Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Innsbruck. He has previously been Senior Research Professor in the Department of International Relations at Webster University and held visiting fellowships around the globe, including Harvard, Barnard, UC Berkeley, CEU, LSE, pg xviLUISS, and the University of Tokyo. He serves on the editorial board of several major journals, such as European Political Science, Government and Opposition, and The Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. His research interests focus on comparative political institutions, political elites, and executive politics and leadership. He is the author of some 150 scholarly publications in those fields.

Juliet Kaarbo, editor
Juliet Kaarbo is Professor of International Relations and Chair in Foreign Policy at the University of Edinburgh. She is founding co-director of Edinburgh’s Centre for Security Research. Her research focuses on political psychology, leadership and decision-making, group dynamics, parliamentary political systems, and national roles, and has appeared in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Political Psychology, West European Politics, Cooperation and Conflict, Foreign Policy Analysis, Journal of International Relations and Development, and Leadership Quarterly. In 2012, Professor Kaarbo published Coalition Politics and Cabinet Decision Making: A Comparative pg xviiAnalysis of Foreign Policy Choices (University of Michigan Press) and in 2016 she co-edited Domestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International Relations (Routledge). She is Associate Editor of the journal Foreign Policy Analysis, since 2013 and the 2018 Distinguished Scholar of Foreign Policy Analysis in the International Studies Association.

Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, editor
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. He is affiliated Professor at the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), University of California, Irvine and held positions at the Free University of Berlin, the University of New South Wales, the University of Miami, the University of Düsseldorf and at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Over the past thirty years, he has published numerous books and peer reviewed journal articles on political executives, party government, and party systems in Western democracies.