Dirk Berg-Schlosser is director of the Institute of Political Science at Philipps University in Marburg.Raivo Vetik is director of the Institute of International and Social Studies at Tallinn Pedagogical University.
JEAN BLONDEL is Professional Fellow at the European University Institute and Visiting Professor at the University of Sienna. FERDINAND MÜLLER-ROMMEL is Professor for Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of LÜneburg, Germany. DARINA MALOVA is Professor of Political Science at the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.