Gaspare M. Genna is an Associate Professor of Political Science at The University of Texas at El Paso. His work is found in International Politics, Journal of European Integration, Comparative European Politics, Latin American Perspectives, Journal of Developing Societies, International Interactions, International Political Economy, and European Union Politics and numerous book chapters. He is an associate editor of Politics & Policy, Senior Research Fellow at the TransResearch Institute, and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies, United Nations University.

Taeko Hiroi is Associate Professor of Political Science at The University of Texas at El Paso. Her research areas are democratic political institutions, democratization, legislative politics, electoral systems, corruption, and comparative and international political economy. She is particularly interested in the issues of governability, quality of democracy, accountability, and representation.

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