Robert Adcock. Senior Professorial Lecturer, Department of Global Inquiry, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the School of International Service, American University. Adcock has worked in the fields of political theory, methodology, and concept analysis. He has written on the comparative method, interpretive methodologies, concept formation, and measurement, along with studying the history of political science in the US.

Ruth Berins Collier. Heller Professor of the Graduate School, University of California Berkeley. Her research has explored popular participation, labor politics, and political regimes, based on comparisons encompassing Latin America, Africa, and Europe. Recent projects have focused on Uber regulation in the US and the US crisis of democracy in comparative perspective.

Jennifer Bussell. Associate Professor, Political Science and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. She studies the political economy of development, democratic representation, and governance, principally in South Asia and Africa. She recently completed a major project, centrally focused on India, which analyzed the implications of citizen-state relations for public service delivery.

Sarah Chartock. Associate Professor of Political Science, The College of New Jersey. Her research analyzes political institutions, social movements, and the politics of race and ethnicity in Latin America. Her work on ethnodevelopment explores participatory policy that targets marginalized ethnic groups, with a focus on identity and self-management.

Lee Cojocaru. He holds a PhD from Boston University, 2015. Cojocaru is an independent scholar who has conducted research for projects based at Boston University, University of Texas Austin, and University of Oslo. He has played an active role in two major, collaborative research initiatives: Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) and Political Leaders through Time (PLT).

David Collier. Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Collier’s substantive work has analyzed Latin American politics, and he has had a deep involvement in research and teaching on concepts and concept analysis. Through numerous publications, as well as several decades of training, and collaborating with, graduate students at UC Berkeley, he has created a large community of discussion focused on the formation and application of concepts.

Michael Coppedge. Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on democratization, Latin America, and quantitative and multi-method research, and he argues for the complementarity of large- and small-N analysis, and of quantitative and qualitative methods. Coppedge is co-Principal Investigator of the Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem), and he uses V-Dem data to analyze dimensions of democracy and international influences on democracy.

Thad Dunning. Robson Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. His substantive research on Latin America, Africa, and India has focused on ethnic voting, the consequences of political representation for minority groups, the role of intermediaries in distributing benefits in clientelist systems, and the consequences of natural resource wealth for democracy. His methodological writings explore causal inference, natural experiments, and the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods.

Zachary Elkins. Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin. Elkins publishes widely in the fields of comparative politics, methodology, and public law, with a focus on Latin America and the origins and consequences of constitutional design. He co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project and has developed software for the systematic analysis of constitutions and other canonical documents.

John Gerring. Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin. Gerring’s research has focused on American political parties, governance, the comparative analysis of democracy, and methodology. He is co-editor of the American Political Science Review, co-editor of the book series Strategies for Social Inquiry at Cambridge University Press, and co-Principal Investigator of Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem).

Fernando Daniel Hidalgo. Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research analyses the political economy of elections, campaigns, and representation in developing democracies, especially in Latin America, with a particular focus on informal institutions. Hidalgo’s methodological interests encompass the statistics of causal inference and the application of machine learning techniques to new forms of political data, such as images and text.

Marcus Kurtz. Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University. His research and teaching encompass comparative politics, democratization, and the political economy of development, with a focus on Latin America and South Africa. Current research explores the role of the state in economic development, the cross-national measurement of state capacity, the relationship between natural resource wealth and national political regimes, and the effects of property rights on inequality and development.

Jody LaPorte. Gonticas Fellow and Director of Studies for PPE, Oxford University. Her research focuses on the politics of nondemocratic regimes, with central attention to the countries of post-Soviet Eurasia. She is interested in how domestic and foreign pressures – including patterns of corruption, the legacies of communism, and contemporary political institutions – shape political outcomes. She also works on methods, exploring the use of qualitative data to evaluate causal claims.

Benjamin Lessing. Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago. Lessing studies “criminal conflict” – organized violence involving armed groups that do not seek formal state power, such as drug cartels, prison gangs, and paramilitaries. Lessing directs the Criminal Governance in Latin America project, currently generating estimates of the number of people living under gang rule in the region.

Steven Levitsky. Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. His research has included a focus on democratization and authoritarianism, political parties, and informal institutions in Latin America. A comparative study of revolution and dictatorship analyzed fourteen cases from diverse regions, and two recent books explored the crisis of democracy in the US.

Danielle N. Lussier. Associate Professor of Political Science, Grinnell College. She studies democratization, political participation, and religion and politics, with expertise on post-communist Eurasia and Indonesia. Topics include mass political behavior in Russia, religious practice and political engagement in Indonesia, political Islam, and analysis of critical junctures in research on post-communism.

James E. Mahon, Jr. Woodrow Wilson Professor of Political Science, Williams College. Mahon teaches courses on political economy, comparative politics, Latin American politics, US–Latin America relations, and Cuba. He has authored works on taxation and financial flows in Latin America, political economy, and comparative social inquiry. His current research examines fiscal politics and the reform of the state in Latin America.

Andra Olivia Miljanic (née Maciuceanu). Instructional Assistant Professor and Faculty Director of the MS in Global Business Leadership, Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. Her work focuses on industrial relations. In research on Brazil and Mexico, she explored the contrasting transformation of political parties, trade unions, and the labor movement in the post-1990 period.

Simeon Nichter. Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California San Diego. His research on clientelism explores the political voice of poor and marginalized populations in emerging democracies, with central reference to Latin America. He examines how politicians offer material benefits to the poor in exchange for political support, and investigates how individuals’ vote choices affect subsequent access to services.

Jason Seawright. Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University. He has written about multi-method research, addressing issues such as case selection, concept formation, and combining qualitative methods with experiments. His substantive interests centrally focus on representation, especially in contexts of democratic decline. Currently, he is studying the networks of right-wing extremism that enabled the Congressional invasions of January 6, 2021, in the US and January 8, 2023, in Brazil.

Scott Straus. Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. He is currently Chair of Political Science at Berkeley. He studies political violence, human rights, and postconflict politics, with an empirical focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a leading specialist in the conceptualization and empirical analysis of genocide, having played a key role in shaping that field of research.

Kurt Weyland. Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin. Weyland’s research focuses on democratization and authoritarian rule, on social policy and policy diffusion, and on populism in Latin America and Europe. He has drawn on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including insights from cognitive psychology, and has done extensive field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Venezuela.