ANDRE BLAIS Professor, Department of Political Science, Universite de Montreal, Canada TED BRADER Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, USA THOMAS BRAEUNINGER Professor of Political Economy and Academic Director of the Graduate School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany THOMAS GSCHWEND Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany JENS GROssER Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Florida State University, USA MARC HOOGHE Professor of Political Science, University of Leuven, Belgium and Visiting Professor, Universities of Mannheim, Germany and Lille, France THOMAS KALWITZKI Junior Lecturer, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany JANA KELLER MA student in Social Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany JEAN-FRANCOIS LASLIER Senior Member of the French National Center of Scientific Research KAMIL MARCINKIEWICZ Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Social Science Methodology, University of Oldenburg, Germany SOFIE MARIEN Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Foundation Flanders, (FWO)University of Leuven, Belgium MICHAEL F. MEFFERT Assistant Professor in Political Psychology and Political Communication, Department of Political Science, Leiden University, the Netherlands HEIKO RAUHUT Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology, Swiss Federal Institute of Science and Technology Zurich, Switzerland NICOLAS SAUGER Associate Research Professor, Centre d'etudes europeennes, Sciences Po, Paris, France SUSUMU SHIKANO Professor of Political Methodology, University of Konstanz, Germany MICHAEL STOFFEL Researcher, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany KARINE VAN DER STRAETEN IDEI Researcher and member of the Toulouse School of Economics, France JOSHUA A. TUCKER Professor of Politics at New York University, USA FABIAN WINTER Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany JONATHAN WOON Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA