Emilie van Haute - Green Parties in Europe

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Lynn Bennie is Reader in Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen. Her research interests span the areas of elections and political parties, political participation and Green politics. She has published books and articles on the membership of the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and the Scottish National Party.

Roberto Biorcio is Professor of Political Science at the University of Milano Bicocca. His research interests are in political participation, social movements, parties and electoral behaviour. His recent books include Politica a 5 stelle: Idee, storia e strategie del movimento di Grillo (Feltrinelli, 2013), La rivincita del Nord: La Lega dalla contestazione al governo (Laterza, 2010) and Sociologia politica: Partiti, movimenti sociali e partecipazione (Il Mulino, 2003)

Niklas Bolin is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall. His research interests include political parties, party system change and parliamentary government with a special focus on Scandinavia. Previously he has published in journals like West European Politics and Scandinavian Political Studies .

Nathalie Brack holds a PhD in Political Science from the Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and was Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford between 2013 and 2014. She is currently FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Cevipol (ULB). Her research interests include the European Parliament, political representation, party politics and legislative studies as well as Euroscepticism. She recently published Euroscepticism at the supranational level: The case of the untidy right in the European Parliament, Journal of Common Market Studies , 2013, 51(1).

Dr Sebastian Bukow is Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat a.Z.) at the Institute of Social Science, Heinrich-Heine-University Dsseldorf (Comparative Politics; Chair: Prof Dr Thomas Poguntke). He is Research Fellow at the Dsseldorf Party Research Institute (PRuF) and spokesman of the standing group political parties of the German Political Science Association (DVPW, AK Parteienforschung). His research interests are party organisations, party systems and parliaments.

Caroline Close holds a PhD in Political Science from the Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She is currently FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Centre dEtude de la Vie Politique (Cevipol). Her research interests include political representation, party politics and factionalism and legislative studies.

Pascal Delwit is Professor of Political Science at the Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and member of the Centre dEtude de la Vie Politique (Cevipol). His research interests include political parties and electoral processes in Europe. He recently edited Les Partis Politiques en France (Editions de lUniversit de Bruxelles, 2014) and published PTB: Nouvelle Gauche, Vieille Recette (Editions Luc Pire, 2014).

Martin Dolezal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Government, University of Vienna. He has published on various aspects of party competition, electoral behaviour and unconventional modes of political participation. Dolezal is coauthor of West European Politics in the Age of Globalization (2008) and Political Conflict in Western Europe (2012).

E. Gene Frankland is Professor of Political Science at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA. His research has focussed on European Green parties, especially the German Greens ( Bndnis 90/Die Grnen ). He is coeditor/coauthor of Green Parties in Transition: The End of Grassroots Democracy? (Ashgate, 2008) and of the International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics (Routledge, 2002).

Camille Kelbel is a PhD student in the PartiRep project and a member of the Centre dEtude de la Vie Politique (Cevipol), Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Prior to joining the ULB, Camille Kelbel was an academic assistant at the College of Europe, in Bruges. Her PhD dissertation deals with candidate selection processes for European elections. Her other current research interests lie in EU politics, political parties and elections.

Conor Little is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science in the University of Copenhagen. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. He has worked as a Research Associate on the ESRC-funded Climate Policy and Political Parties project in Keele University and as a Teaching Fellow in University College Dublin. His research interests include political parties, political careers, the politics of climate change and Irish politics.

Paul Lucardie is (semiretired) researcher at the Documentation Centre Dutch Political Parties, at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). He coedited, with Benot Rihoux and Gene Frankland, Green Parties in Transition (Farnham: Ashgate, 2008) and, with Gerrit Voerman, Van de straat naar de staat? GroenLinks 19902010 (Amsterdam: Boom, 2010).

Jean-Benoit Pilet is Professor of Political Science at the Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He works mainly on electoral systems, party politics and elections. He has recently coedited (with William Cross) The Selection of Party Leaders in Parliamentary Democracies (Routledge, 2014).

Gareth Price-Thomas recently completed his PhD at the University of Manchester, where he continues to teach. His thesis was a study of the contemporary ideology of Green parties in Britain, France and Germany. He has taught on comparative and European politics, and political economy; and his research interests include Green politics, ideology, political parties of the left and the thought of Antonio Gramsci.

Benot Rihoux is Full Professor of Political Science at the Universit catholique de Louvain (Belgium). His research interests include Green parties, party organisations, new social movements, political change, policy processes, configurational comparative methods and QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis). He has published extensively on Green parties (among which Greens in Transition: The End of Grass-Roots Democracy? , Ashgate, ed., with E. Gene Frankland and Paul Lucardie, 2008) and configurational comparative methods/QCA.

Emilie van Haute is Lecturer at the Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a member of the Centre dEtude de la Vie Politique (Cevipol). Her main research interests include party membership, intraparty dynamics, participation, elections and voting behaviour.