List of Contributors

Tobias Bach

is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Oslo (Norway). He is a political scientist specializing in executive politics and comparative public administration. His research interests include the selection and de-selection of senior public officials, the politics of public sector reform, organizational decision-making, and the interplay of political control and bureaucratic autonomy. His research has been published in leading journals of the field, such as the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Governance, Public Administration, and Public Management Review.

Hanna Bäck

is Professor of Political Science at Lund University, and has previously held a position as Junior Professor at University of Mannheim. She obtained her PhD from Uppsala University in 2003. Her research focuses mainly on political parties, parliamentary legislatures, and governments, and she has published extensively on portfolio allocation in coalition governments, and on the selection and de-selection of cabinet members. Bäck’s work on governments and portfolio allocation has, for example, been published in European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, Party Politics, Political Science and Research Methods, and Public Choice.

Alexander Baturo

is Associate Professor at Dublin City University. His research is centred on various aspects of comparative democratization, dictatorships, and leadership, particularly presidentialism and personalism. He was Visiting Professor in Leiden University and the Essex University International Fellow. He has published in journals such as Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political Science, and Political Research Quarterly. His book, Democracy, Dictatorship, and Term Limits, was published by University of Michigan Press in 2014 and won the Political Science Association of Ireland’s Brian Farrell book prize in 2015. He is also a co-editor of the Politics of Presidential Term Limits with the Oxford University Press.

Karen Beckwith

is the Flora Stone Mather Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University. Teaching primarily in the areas of political parties, political movements, and women, gender, and politics, she has special interests in the United States and West Europe. Her research has been published in the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and West European Politics, among others; and she is author of Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender, with Claire Annesley and Susan Franceschet (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Donatella Campus

is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on political communication and political leadership. Her recent publications include Women Political Leaders and the Media (2013) and Lo stile del leader. Decidere e comunicare nelle democrazie contemporanee (2016).

Royce Carroll

is Professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Essex, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on comparative politics and American politics. He received his PhD in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, in 2007. His research focuses on comparative politics of political parties, legislatures, and coalitions, as well as the measurement of ideology. Carroll’s publications have appeared in a number of academic journals, including American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Political Analysis, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Carroll is also Co-Director of the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis.

Paul Chaisty

is Professor of Russian and East European Politics at the University of Oxford. His publications include Legislative Politics and Economic Power in Russia (2006) and (co-author) Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Executives in Multiparty Systems (2018), as well as articles in journals such as Electoral Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Government and Opposition, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Post-Soviet Affairs.

Nic Cheeseman

is Professor of Democracy and International Development at Birmingham University. He is co-editor of the collections Our Turn to Eat (2010), The Handbook of African Politics (2013), and African Politics: Major Works (2016); the author of Democracy in Africa: Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform (2015); and the co-author of Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Executives in Multiparty Systems (2018) and How to Rig an Election (2018).

Jack Corbett

is Professor in Politics at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Being Political: Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands (University of Hawaii Press, 2015); Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma: Humanitarian Aspirations Confront Democratic Legitimacy (Routledge, 2017); and co-author of Democracy in Small States: Persisting against All Odds (Oxford University Press, 2018); and The Art and Craft of Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He has also co-edited two volumes, and sixty articles and book chapters.

David Doyle

is Associate Professor of Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He is Fellow of the Latin American Centre at Oxford and Fellow of St Hugh’s College. He works on issues related to political economy and political institutions. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal or Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies, among others.

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.

Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon

is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. She received her PhD from the University of Arizona in 2000. She is currently working on a project examining women’s representation in high courts around the world which builds on her prior work examining the representation of women in presidential cabinets. Her work also examines the role of local governments in federal and decentralized systems. She is the co-author of Women in Presidential Cabinets and editor of Representation: The Case of Women (both with Oxford University Press), and has published articles in a wide range of journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Politics and Gender, Politics, Groups, and Identities, and Publius: the Journal of Federalism.

Klaus H. Goetz

holds the Chair in Political Systems and European Integration at the Department of Political Science, University of Munich, Germany. He previously taught at the London School of Economics and the University of Potsdam. His most recent book is Managing Money and Discord in the UN: Budgeting and Bureaucracy (with R. Patz; Oxford University Press, 2019). He has been co-editor of West European Politics since 2000.

Dennis C. Grube

is Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Girton College. He has previously held faculty posts at the University of Tasmania and Griffith University, and remains an adjunct at both. His research interests focus on political and administrative leadership, and the role of political rhetoric in public policy in both contemporary and historical contexts. He is the author of Megaphone Bureaucracy: Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of the New Normal (Princeton University Press 2019), Prime Ministers and Rhetorical Governance (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), and At the Margins of Victorian Britain: Politics, Immorality and Britishness in the Nineteenth Century (I.B. Tauris 2013).

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, LUISS, 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.

Margaret G. Hermann

is Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Hermann has been President of the International Society of Political Psychology and the International Studies Association as well as editor of Political Psychology and the International Studies Review. Among her books are Describing Foreign Policy Behavior; Political Psychology: Issues and Problems; and Leaders, Groups, and Coalitions: Understanding the People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking. Her journal articles and book chapters include ‘Using Content Analysis to Study Public Figures’; ‘Transboundary Crises through the Eyes of Policymakers’; and ‘Leadership and Behavior in Humanitarian and Development Transnational Non-Governmental Organizations’.

Magna Inácio

is Associate Professor in the Department of the Political Science at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, in Brazil. She is currently carrying out research on presidents and presidencies with focus on the dynamic of multi-party cabinets, executive–legislative relations, and internal organization of the executive branch. Her research interests include coalition governments, the institutional presidency, and parliamentary elites in Brazil and Latin America. She has co-edited the books Legislativo Brasileiro em Perspectiva comparada (with Lucio Rennó); Elites Parlamentares na América Latina (with Anastasia, Mateos, and Mendes); and published articles in several journals such as Presidential Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Brazilian Political Science Review, and America Latina Hoy.

Indriði H. Indriðason

is Professor of Political Science at the University of California—Riverside. He received his doctorate from the University of Rochester in 2001. His research focuses on coalition politics, cabinets, campaign strategies, and elections. It has appeared (among others) in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research and Methods, and Comparative Political Studies.

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 Analysis 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.

Christopher Kam

is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He received his doctorate from the University of Rochester in 2002. He writes on the historical development and internal dynamics of parliamentary government. He is the author of Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government (Cambridge, 2009) and a past co-editor of the Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Direnç Kanol

is Associate Professor of Political Science at Near East University, Cyprus. He teaches courses in comparative public policy, comparative governance, research methods, institutions and policy-making in the EU, and interest groups and lobbying. His primary research interest is the comparative study of interest groups and lobbying. He has published many articles on this topic in journals such as Business and Politics, European Journal of Government and Economics, Interest Groups and Advocacy, Journal of Contemporary European Research, Journal of Public Affairs, and Public Integrity.

Jonathan W. Keller

is Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at James Madison University. He received his PhD in Political Science from The Ohio State University in 2002. His research focuses on foreign policy decision-making, political psychology, international security, and US foreign policy. His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Psychology, Foreign Policy Analysis, Journal of Peace Research, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and elsewhere.

Corinna Kroeber

is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political and Communication Sciences at the University of Greifswald (Germany). Her research focuses on political careers and parliamentary representation, and addresses barriers for the inclusion of women and immigrants into politics. She has published on these and related topics in several peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of European Public Policy, the European Journal of Political Research, Government and Opposition, and Representation.

Matthew Laing

is Lecturer and Research Fellow in Politics and Leadership at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia. He received his doctorate from the Australian National University. His work focuses on leadership, policy and political development, with a particular interest in the interactions between time, history and political leadership. His current project is the forthcoming textbook Political Leadership: An Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan 2020).

Jody LaPorte

is Tutorial Fellow at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, where she holds the Gonticas Fellowship in Politics and International Relations. She received her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research centres on the dynamics of politics and policy-making in non-democratic regimes, with a regional focus on post-Soviet Eurasia. Her work has appeared in Comparative Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, Political Research Quarterly, Slavic Review, PS: Political Science and Politics, and the Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology.

Natasha Lindstaedt

is Professor of Government at the University of Essex, where she also serves as the Deputy Dean of Education for Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara (2002). She specializes in authoritarian regimes, corruption, and failed states, and has written several books on these topics including Dictators and Dictatorships, The Politics of Dictatorships, Failed States and Institutional Decay, and a forthcoming book titled Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes. Professor Lindstaedt has consulted for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia, the European Union External Action Service and IDEA International. Because of her work on dictatorships she has been featured as an analyst on CNN, BBC World, BBC News, the BBC Breakfast show, Al Jazeera, Sky News, and France 24 News. Professor Lindstaedt enjoys teaching modules in the areas of International Development and Comparative Politics.

Mariana Llanos

is Lead Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies, in Hamburg, Germany, and the head of the Accountability and Participation research programme at the same institution. She has been conducting comparative research on the political institutions of Latin America, with a special focus on Argentina and Brazil for many years, and has published several books and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Her most recent research interests include the institutional presidency, presidential term limits, impeachments and impeachment threats, and the relationship between courts and the elected branches. Her newest projects examine the impact of presidential term limit reforms on political regime developments in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa and institutional innovations for social participation in the decision-making processes of Latin American courts. These projects are funded by the German Research Foundation.

Pedro C. Magalhães

is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He does research on public opinion, voting behaviour, and judicial politics. He has published on those topics in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, the European Journal of Political Research, Experimental Economics, Electoral Studies, Political Psychology, and many others; and in volumes published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and others.

Brendan McCaffrie

is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra. His research focuses on political leadership, political participation and public policy. He recently co-edited From Turnbull to Morrison: Understanding the Trust Divide, and is an associate editor of the journal Policy Studies.

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.

Fortunato Musella

is Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Naples Federico II. He has served on the Italian National Council and on the Editorial Board of the Italian Political Science Review. He is currently a member of the Executive Board of Federica WebLearning, Center for Innovation and Dissemination of Distance Learning, and Principal Investigator for the research of national interest entitled Monocratic Government: The Impact of Persononalisation on Contemporary Political Regimes (Prin 2019–21). His main research interests include the study of government, presidential politics, political parties, and concept analysis. Among his recent publications the volumes Political Leaders beyond Party Politics (Palgrave, 2017), Il Governo in Italia. Profili costituzionali e dinamiche politiche (ed.; il Mulino, 2019), and seventy book chapters and articles published in journals such as European Political Science Review, Representation, Contemporary Italian Politics, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Quaderni di Scienza Politica.

Yee-Fui Ng

is Senior Lecturer in Law at Monash University. She researches in the areas of political integrity and the law, as well as the interaction between public law and politics. Yee-Fui is the author of The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System (Routledge, 2018) and Ministerial Advisers in Australia: The Modern Legal Context (Federation Press, 2016), which was a finalist for the Holt Prize. She has previously worked as Policy Adviser at the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Senior Legal Adviser at the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, as well as Manager at the Victorian Department of Justice.

Diana Z. O’Brien

is Albert Thomas Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rice University. Her research and teaching focuses on the causes and consequences of women’s political representation in established democracies and across the globe. She has published articles on these topics in journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Politics & Gender, and Comparative Politics.

Gianluca Passarelli

is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political Sciences, Sapienza University, Rome. He is also member of Italian National Election Studies. His main research interests concern: presidents of the Republic, political parties, electoral systems, elections, and electoral behaviour. His recent publications include Preferential Voting Systems (Palgrave 2020); The Presidentialization of Political Parties (2015). His articles appeared in Party Politics, Political Geography, Representation, French Politics, and Political Studies Review. He is co-editor of the ‘Presidential Politics’ book series (Palgrave), and convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on “Presidential Politics”.

Timothy J. Power

is Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil (2000) and co-author of Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Executives in Multiparty Systems (2018); and his articles have appeared in the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, Electoral Studies, and many other journals.

Catherine Reyes-Housholder

is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES) and Associate Researcher at the Institute for Social Science Research (ICSO) at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. She researches presidency and gender primarily in Latin America. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Comparative Politics, Politics Groups and Identities, Latin American Politics and Society, and the Journal of Politics in Latin America. She also has written book chapters on women, gender, and executive politics for several edited volumes. She won the 2017 Best Dissertation prize awarded by the American Political Science Association’s Women and Politics section.

R. A. W. Rhodes

is Professor of Government (Research) and Director of the Centre for Political Ethnography at the University of Southampton, and Adjunct Professor, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He is the author or editor of forty-two books including, most recently Networks, Governance and the Differentiated Polity. Selected Essays, Volume I. (Oxford University Press, 2017), Interpretive Political Science. Selected Essays, Volume II (Oxford University Press, 2017), and the Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science (with Mark Bevir; Routledge 2015). He is Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK). In 2015, the ECPR awarded him their biennial Lifetime Achievement Award for his ‘outstanding contribution to all areas of political science, and the exceptional impact of his work’.

Mark Schafer

is Professor of Security Studies at the University of Central Florida. He is a political psychologist working in the field of international relations. Schafer received his PhD from Arizona State University in 1994 and spent seventeen years at LSU before coming to UCF in 2011. His research interests include groupthink, the operational code, and psychological correlates of foreign policy. Schafer has published his research in journals such as Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Political Psychology. His two most recent book projects are: Groupthink vs. High Quality Decision Making in International Relations (Columbia University Press, 2010; co-authored with Scott Crichlow), and Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis (Routledge, 2011; co-edited with Stephen G. Walker and Akan Malici).

Petra Schleiter

is Professor of Comparative Politics at University of Oxford (St Hilda’s College) and Fellow of the Constitution Unit at University College London. Her research focuses on the comparative effects of political institutions—including constitutions and party systems. She is interested in the implications of these institutions for governments (their formation, duration, and termination) and political outcomes such as the survival of democracies, political corruption, and electoral accountability. She has published in leading academic journals including the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Studies, Party Politics, Government and Politics, Parliamentary Affairs, Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, and the Political Quarterly.

Gary Smith

is an Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow in the University of Central Florida’s Department of Political Science, where he received his PhD in 2018. His research interests include: elite decision-making, foreign policy analysis, inter- and intrastate conflicts, and political leadership. His collaborative research is published (or forthcoming) in African Affairs, PS: Political Science & Politics, Politics, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis, and The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Political Science.

Anna Sunik

was Associate Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute of the GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies (Hamburg). She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Heidelberg. Her dissertation focused on the foreign policy of Middle East monarchies. Her research interests are in the fields of International Relations, the politics of the Middle East, and autocratic regimes.

Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson

is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. She received her PhD from Rice University in 1990. She is currently working on a project with funding from the National Science Foundation to study mass public attitudes about women as leaders, and much of her research studies representation of women in executive and legislative branches of government. She is the author or co-author of books published with Oxford University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, and the University of Pittsburgh Press; and has published articles in a wide range of journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Politics and Gender, and Journal of Legislative Studies.

Ingeborg Tömmel

is Professor Emeritus in International and European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Osnabrück (Germany). She held positions at the Free University of Berlin and the Radboud University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and was Visiting Professor in Canada and Egypt. She is holder of the Diefenbaker Award of the Canadian Council for 2005/6. Her research focuses on the political system of the EU, European governance and policy-making, policy implementation in the member states and political leadership in the EU. Recent publications include: Innovative Governance in the European Union (with Amy Verdun) (Lynne Rienner, 2009), The European Union: what it is and how it works (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), and a Special Issue on Political Leadership (Journal of European Integration, 2017) (with Amy Verdun).

John Uhr

is Professor of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. His publications include the recent book Performing Political Theory (Palgrave 2018) and Prudential Public Leadership (Palgrave, 2015). Among his co-authored books are Leadership Performance and Rhetoric (Palgrave, 2017); and several co-edited books, including Elections Matter (Monash University Publishing, 2018), Eureka: Australia’s Greatest Story (The Federation Press, 2015), Studies in Australian Political Rhetoric (ANU Press, 2014), How Power Changes Hands (Palgrave, 2011), and Public Leadership (ANU Press, 2008). Earlier books include Deliberative Democracy in Australia (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Terms of Trust: Arguments over Ethics in Australian Government (UNSW Press, 2005).

Georg Vanberg

is Ernestine Friedl Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Duke University. His research focuses on political institutions, including courts, legislatures, and coalition governance. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics, among others. He is the author of Parliaments and Coalitions (with Lanny Martin, Oxford University Press) and The Politics of Constitutional Review in Germany (Cambridge University Press).

Michelangelo Vercesi

is Research Associate in Comparative Politics at the Center for the Study of Democracy of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Previously, he was Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Milan. He studied and held research positions in Austria, Germany, the Uk, and Italy, where he obtained a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pavia. His research focuses on comparative government, political elites, and party politics. On these topics, he has published in journals such as Regional & Federal Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, Representation, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, European Politics and Society, Government and Opposition, and in edited books.

Kai Wegrich

is Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at the Hertie School in Berlin (Germany). His research interests are in the comparative study of executive politics, policy innovation, and regulatory reform. Recent publications include The Governance of Infrastructure (OUP; co-edited with Genia Kostka and Gerhard Hammerschmid) and The Blind Spots of Public Bureaucracies and the Politics of Non-Coordination (Palgrave; co-edited with Tobias Bach).