John M. Carey
is the Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College, where he was chair of the Department of Government from 2009–2015 and currently serves as a member of the steering committee of the Program in Quantitative Social Science. His research focuses on the design of democratic institutions. His books include Legislative Voting and Accountability(Cambridge 2009) and Presidents and Assemblies (Cambridge 1992, with Matthew Shugart). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Gretchen Helmke
is Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. Helmke’s research focuses on Latin America, political instability, and the rule of law. Her most recent book is Institutions on the Edge: The Origins and Consequences of Inter-Branch Crises in Latin America (Cambridge 2017). She has been a visiting scholar at the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame, the Weatherhead Center for International and Area Studies at Harvard University, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
Brendan Nyhan
is Professor of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Nyhan’s research, which focuses on misperceptions about politics and health care, has been published in journals including the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Medical Care, Pediatrics, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Social Networks, and Vaccine. He is a contributor to The Upshot at The New York Times.
Susan C. Stokes
is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on Democracy at the University of Chicago. She was previously chair of the Yale Political Science Department, President of the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Politics section, and a Vice President of APSA. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has published books and articles about democratization, democratic accountability, economic reforms in Latin America, social movements and police responses in new democracies.