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Macarena Ares is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department of the University of Barcelona and part of the WelfarePriorities project at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on social class politics, distributive conflict over welfare policies, and corruption voting.
Larry M. Bartels is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law and May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. His books include Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2nd ed.), Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (with Christopher H. Achen), and Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe.
Michael Becher is Assistant Professor in the School of Global and Public Affairs at IE University in Madrid. His research on political economy and comparative politics focuses on issues related to accountability, (unequal) representation, and the design of political institutions. His work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, and the Journal of Politics, among others.
Nicholas Carnes is Professor of Public Policy and Sociology in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is the author of White-Collar Government and The Cash Ceiling.
Charlotte Cavaillé is Assistant Professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She received a Ph.D. in government and social policy from Harvard University. Her research examines the dynamics of popular attitudes toward redistributive social policies at a time of rising inequality, fiscal stress, and high levels of immigration.
Katherine J. Cramer is Natalie C. Holton Chair of Letters & Science and Virginia Sapiro Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Visiting Professor at the Center for Constructive Communication at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. She is the author of The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker.
Marta Curto-Grau is General Director of Economic Analysis in the Catalan government. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Barcelona and has written about economic history, public economics, and political economy. She was a postdoctoral scholar at Heidelberg University and a Marie Curie Fellow.
Mads Andreas Elkjær is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and at Nuffield College. His research interests include political representation, inequality, and redistribution, and more broadly comparative politics and political economy.
Lea Elsässer is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Münster and the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. From 2013 to 2017, she was a doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. Her work focuses on representational inequality along class lines.
Aina Gallego is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Barcelona and a research associate at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies. She has worked on inequalities in political participation, attitudes toward corruption, and the characteristics of political elites, among other topics.
Jacob S. Hacker is Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. An expert on American politics and policy, he is the author or coauthor of more than a half-dozen books, numerous journal articles, and a wide range of popular writings. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, a Robert A. Dahl Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and a recipient of the Robert Ball Award of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Silja Häusermann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. She studies welfare state politics and party system change in advanced capitalist democracies. She directs the European Research Council (ERC) project “WelfarePriorities” and is the codirector of Equality of Opportunity, the University of Zurich Research Priority Programme.
Svenja Hense is a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, where she works in the ERC-funded project Polarization and Its Discontent. Before joining the team in Frankfurt, she was a research associate at the University of Osnabrück and the University of Münster.
Timothy Hicks is Associate Professor of Public Policy at University College London. He is a political scientist who studies “developed democracies” and is currently engaged in research projects relating to the politics of economic inequality, the politics of austerity, and political economy and the media.
Torben Iversen is Professor of Political Economy in the Government Department at Harvard University. His research interests lie at the intersection of comparative political economy, electoral politics, and applied formal theory. He is the coauthor of five books, including (with David Soskice) Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century.
Alan M. Jacobs is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, working in the fields of comparative political economy, political behavior, and qualitative and multimethod causal inference. His research interests include the relationship between economic inequality and democratic accountability, the politics of public goods provision, and models of causal inference.
Noam Lupu is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of LAPOP Lab at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Party Brands in Crisis and coeditor of Campaigns and Voting in Developing Democracies (with Virginia Oliveros and Luis Schiumerini).
Ruben Mathisen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. His research focuses on political inequality, in particular the policy influence of affluent citizens and its consequences in established democracies.
J. Scott Matthews is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University. He specializes in the study of voting and public opinion in established democracies, with a focus on the impact of political information on policy attitudes and evaluations of government performance.
Mikael Persson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. His research revolves around political representation, political behavior, and public opinion.
Yvette Peters is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen in Norway. She is Principal Investigator of The Politics of Inequality, a Trond Mohn Foundation Starting Grant. She has received the Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prize and the François Mény Prize. Her latest book is Political Participation, Diffused Governance, and the Transformation of Democracy.
Paul Pierson is John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he serves as Director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of American Democracy and as Co-Director of the multiuniversity Consortium on American Political Economy. His research focuses on American political economy and public policy.
Jonas Pontusson is a research-active Emeritus Professor at the University of Geneva. Before moving to Geneva in 2010, he taught at Cornell University and Princeton University. He has published extensively in the domains of comparative political economy and comparative welfare states, focusing on labor markets, trade unions, partisan politics, and income inequality and redistribution. From 2017 to 2023, he directed a research program funded by the European Research Council on political inequality and the politics of inequality in advanced industrial states.
Wouter Schakel is a postdoctoral fellow in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the political economy of democratic representation and has appeared in Socio-Economic Review, the European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, and Politics & Society.
Daniel Stegmueller is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. His research interests include the genesis of political preferences, the political economy of inequality and representation, and the role of religion in politics. He is a coauthor, with David Rueda, of Who Wants What? Redistribution Preferences in Comparative Perspective.
Sam Zacher is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Yale University, studying the politics of redistribution and the climate crisis. He is the coeditor of The Trouble magazine on climate-left politics.

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