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          Onsel Gurel Bayrali

obayral1@binghamton.edu 

PhD Candidate, Political Science, ������Ƶ

Bayrali's research focuses on the intersection of public policy and comparative politics, particularly within decentralized systems. He explores the influence of party organizations on the motivations of incumbents to collaborate and share risks, especially in times of crises.

     Mallory E. Compton

mallory.compton@exchange.tamu.edu 

Assistant Professor, The Department of Public Service and Administration, Texas A&M University, The Bush School of Government & Public Service

Dr. Compton’s research and teaching interests include bureaucracy and public governance, public policy, comparative political economy and social welfare policy. Her writings have been published in a range of journals including the Journal of Politics, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management, Public Administration, and Public Management Review.

     Peter Gerbrands

p.gerbrands@uu.nl 

Post Doctoral Researcher, Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University School of Economics; Applied Economics, Utrecht University/������Ƶ

His main research interests are agent-based simulation, social network analysis, complex systems, big data analysis, statistical learning, and computational social science. He applies his skills primarily for policy analysis, especially related to tax compliance and tax morale. In October 2020, he was recruited for a postdoc position at Utrecht University School of Economics where he will setup a data infrastructure with information on Dutch companies, the FIRMBACKBONE project.

       William B. Heller

wheller@binghamton.edu 

Associate Professor, Political Science, ������Ƶ

Dr Heller specializes in the effects of legislative and constitutional institutions, focusing in particular on how decision-making structures and processes affect politicians' ability and willingness to influence policy making in advanced industrialized parliamentary systems. He also has an abiding interest in the policy-making effects of such constitutional structures as bicameralism and federalism. Professor Heller's current research focuses primarily on how parties adapt to legislative institutions. In recent work, he has examined party switching by sitting legislators, government agenda setting in Italy, and the possibility of achieving cooperation in large groups of selfish actors.

     Timothy Hellwig

thellwig@buffalo.edu  

Professor, Political Science, University of Buffalo

Dr Hellwig’s interests are in the areas of comparative political economy, political behavior, political parties, and research methods. His work examines the implications of changes in post-industrial economies for policy preferences, voting decisions, and political representation.

       Ekrem Karakoc

ekarakoc@binghamton.edu 

Professor, Political Science, ������Ƶ

Dr. Karakoç is specialized in Comparative Politics with a focus on comparative political economy and democratization. He has focused on the determinants and consequences of economic inequality on political institutions and behavior. He has also been working on globalization and immigration. His new research projects examine the intersection of religion and ethnicity in the Middle East context.

     Daniel B. Magleby

dmagleby@binghamton.edu 

Associate Professor, Political Science and Economics, ������Ƶ

Dr. Magleby’s research interests focus on American political institutions particularly Congress, parties, and polarization. He joined the Binghamton faculty in the fall of 2013 and teaches courses on the United States Congress, the presidency, parties and interest groups in American politics.

     Michael D. McDonald

mdmcd@binghamton.edu

Professor, Political Science, Binghamotn University

Dr. McDonald is interested principally in questions about political representation. He is currently working on two book projects. One investigates the role of political parties in the translation of public concerns into public policies in Western democracies; another reports and evaluates political parties' policy position taking in election manifestoes.

       Kim Maslin

maslin@hendrix.edu 

Bill and Connie Bowen Odyssey Professor, The Department of Politics, Hendrix College

Dr Maslin’s research interests lie in political theory, epistemology, feminist politics and research methods. 

     Scott Morgenstern

smorgens@pitt.edu 

Professor, Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Morgenstern is a Professor of Political Science, and has been at the University of Pittsburgh since 2005. He served as the Director of Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies from 2014-2018. His research focuses on political parties, electoral systems, and legislatures, with a regional specialization in Latin America.

     Ekaterina Rashkova-Gerbrands

e.rashkova@uu.nl 

Associate Professor, Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht School of Governance and Management, Utrecht University/������Ƶ

Dr Rahskova-Gerbrands’s research interests lie in the study electoral and party systems, the strategic behavior of political actors, and representation. She is interested in how institutions shape decisions and therefore outcomes. She studies party system development, electoral and party regulation and representation, with a focus on gender and immigrants. Her current research interests include the political integration of non-citizen residents in host countries, as well as the connection of national political parties to their diaspora abroad.

     Mitch Sanders

mitchsanders@melioraresearch.com 

Partner, Meliora Research (Rochester NY)

Dr. Sanders conducts market research for private sector and academic clients.  From 2017 to 2021 he was Director of Survey Research for Bright Line Watch.

     Olga Shvetsova

shvetso@binghamton.edu 

Professor of Political Science and Economics, Scientific Director of COVID-19 Policy Response Lab, ������Ƶ     

Dr. Shvetsova’s research focuses on determinants of political strategy in the political process. Broadly stated, these include political institutions that define the “rules of the game” and societal characteristics that shape goals and opportunities of the participant players. Her work belongs in the fields of constitutional political economy and institutional design.

     Reidar Staupe

reidar.staupe-delgado@uit.no 

Department of Technology and Safety,Faculty of Science and Technology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway

Reidar Staupe is a member of research group “Risk, Crisis, and Societal Security” (RCSS)

      Julie VanDusky-Allen

JulieVanDuskyAllen@boisestate.edu 

Assistant Professor, Political Science, Boise State University

Dr. VanDusky-Allen’s research within comparative politics focuses on formal and informal institutions, political parties, legislative organization, political participation, and support for and satisfaction with democratic outcomes. Dr. VanDusky-Allen is also a member of a collaborative research team that examines government responses to COVID-19 throughout the world. Within international relations, Dr. VanDusky-Allen’s research focuses on how US troop deployments influence host-state defense spending.

     Andrei Zhirnov

a.zhirnov@exeter.ac.uk 

Lecturer, Politics, University of Exeter 

Dr Zhirnov is a quantitative political scientist working in the field of Comparative Politics, specifically the comparative studies of political institutions and the comparative studies of electoral systems. He is a member of the project titled “Populism’s Roots: Economic and Cultural Explanations in Democracies of Europe (PRECEDE).”