John Gerring (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1993) is a professor of Government at University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches and conducts research on methodology and comparative politics. He is co-editor of Strategies for Social Inquiry, a book series at Cambridge University Press, and serves as co-PI of Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) and the Global Leadership Project (GLP).
Tore Wig is a professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. His research interests lie at the intersection between political violence and institutions, mass mobilization and autocratic politics.
Wouter Veenendaal is an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science of Leiden University. His research focuses on the political effects of population size, and he is the author of Politics and Democracy in Microstates (2014) and Democracy in Small States: Persisting Against All Odds (2018).
Daniel Weitzel is a PhD candidate in comparative politics and methodology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the interaction of party and voter behavior and the information environment in multi-party elections.
Jan Teorell is a professor of political science at Lund University. He has twice won the Lijphart, Przeworski, and Verba Award for Best Dataset by the APSA Comparative Politics Section, and he is the author of Determinants of Democratization (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and co-author of Varieties of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2020). His work has appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Democracy, Governance, Political Research Quarterly, and Studies in Comparative International Development. His research interests include political methodology, history and comparative politics, comparative democratization, corruption, and state-making.
Kyosuke Kikuta (PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2019) is an associate professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy at Osaka University. His primary interest is the application of statistical methods and GIS data for better understandings about armed conflict. His articles are published or forthcoming in Journal of Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and others.