Contributors

LARS CHR. BLICHNER is Associate Professor at the Institute for Administration and Organisational Research, University of Bergen.

DEIRDRE CURTIN is Professor of International and European Governance at Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University.

ABRAM DE SWAAN is Distinguished Research Professor of Social Science at the University of Amsterdam.

KLAUS EDER is Professor of Sociology at the Humboldt University Berlin, where he teaches comparative macrosociology with particular emphasis on the sociology of culture and communication as well as the sociology of collective action.

ERIK ODDVAR ERIKSEN is Professor of Political Science at ARENA, Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo.

FRANCOIS FORET is Lecturer in Political Science at the Free University of Brussels.

MARIA HELLER is Director of the Institute of Sociology and vice-dean for international relations of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest.

ULRIKE LIEBERT is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies at the University of Bremen.

ÁGNES RÉNYI is Chair of the Department of History of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest.

ANDY SMITH is Research Director at the National Foundation for Political Science (FNSP) at the University of Bordeaux.

PAUL STATHAM is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bristol and Director of the Centre for European Political Communications.

HANS-JÖRG TRENZ is Research Professor at ARENA, Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo.