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Erica R. Gould is working towards her Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, USA. She is working on a dissertation on the International Monetary Fund and a paper on post-war Germany and Japan. She completed her undergraduate at Cornell University, USA, from which she graduated magna cum laude with distinction in all subjects.
Florence Haegel is a tenured research assistant in the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques and is working in the CEVIPOF (Center for studies on French political life). She also teaches at the the Institut d'tudes politiques des Paris. Her current research focuses on political attitudes and activities in an urban context and on political parties (mainly rightwing). She has published a book Un maire Paris , Paris (Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1994).
Louk Hagendoorn chairs ERCOMER, the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, and is professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on the social psychology of inter-group relations, political psychology and cross-cultural studies. Recent publications include: European Nations and Nationalism (edited with G. Csepeli, H. Dekker and R. Farnen, Ashgate, in press) and The Perception of Russians (coauthored with H. Linssen and S. Tumanov, forthcoming).
Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania is professor of sociology and head of General Sociology in the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Warsaw University, Poland. She has held many visiting professorships in the USA and Europe. Publications include: 1 authored, 1 co-athored, 1 edited and 2 co-edited books, the most recent being Nation-Power-Society (edited with J. Raciborski, Warsaw: Scholar, 1996); 25 articles in English, and over 50 in various Polish publications. Her research focuses on comparative studies of value systems, national identity, nationalism and ethnic stereotypes. She is a member of the 'Democracy and Local Governance' international research programme steering committee, and head of the Polish group for the European Values Study.
Shervin Nekuee graduated in sociology from Utrecht University where he is working towards his Ph.D. He is also conducting an extended survey, to be completed in 2000, on prejudice towards migrants in the Netherlands. He is particularly interested in the development of explanatory models for prejudice and ethnic exclusion. He contributes to the public debate with articles in policy journals and newspapers. His most recent publication is: 'Subjective well-being, discrimination and cultural conflict: Iranians living in the Netherlands' in Social Indicators (with M. Verkuyten, 1999).
Pierangelo Peri lectures in methodology and techniques for social research in the School of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy. He has worked extensively in the field of cultural studies, mass media research, and racial prejudice with particularattention to methodological issues. Recent publications include: 'Italy: an Imperfect Union', in European Nations and Nationalism (Ashgate, in press).
Peer Scheepers is associate professor of sociology and special professor of social prejudice in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on (longitudinal trends regarding) ethnic prejudice and discrimination as well as on political and religious attitudes and behavior.
Paul Sniderman is professor of political science, Stanford University, California, USA (1969-). He has received numerous academic awards, including the American Political Science Association's Gladys M. Kammerer award for best political science publication in the field of US national policy (1998), the Gustavus Meyers Center award for outstanding book on the subject of human rights (1994), the International Society of Political Psychology's Harold D. Lasswell award for distinguished scientific life-time contribution to the study of political psychology (1998), and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Prize (1992). He is the author of numerous publications, the most recent of which include The Outsider (with P. Peri, T. Piazza, and R. di Figuerido, in press), Reaching Beyond Race (with E.G. Carmines, 1997), and The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality and Legitimacy in Liberal Democracy (with J.F. Fletcher, P.H. Russell, and P.E. Tetlock, 1996).
Genevive Verberk tutors and conducts research in the Department of Methodology, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. After graduating cum laude in sociology she completed her doctorate in 1998 on attitudes towards ethnic minorities. Her research focuses on the conceptualisation and measurement of the unfavorable attitudes that members of the ethnic majority have towards ethnic minorities, as well as investigating the causes and consequences of these attitudes.
Jrgen R. Winkler lectures in political sociology, political systems and comparative politics at the Institute of Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. His main interests are elections, party systems, political extremism and comparative research. Recent publications include: Sozialstruktur, politische Traditionen und Liberalismus (1995), Rechtsextremismus (with J. Falter and H.-G. Jaschke, 1996), and Jugend, Politik und Rechtsextremismus in Rheinland-Pfalz (with S. Schumann, 1997).