WilWilliam M. Downs is the associate dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, an associate professor of Political Science, and the co-director of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy at Georgia State University. He is the author ofnbsp;Coalition Government, Subnational Style: nbsp;Multiparty Politics in Europe’s Regional Parliamentsnbsp;and has published research articles on political parties, electoral behavior, legislative institutions, and extremism in such journals asnbsp;Parliamentary Affairs,nbsp;West European Politics,nbsp;Electoral Studies,nbsp;Government & Opposition,nbsp;Journal of Contemporary European Studies,nbsp;Contemporary… Politics, andnbsp;Perspectives on European Politics and Society. Downs has held a Fulbright research fellowship in Belgium, been a research fellow at Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and served as a visiting faculty member at Aarhus University in Denmark.