Contributors

Carlos Barrera is Professor at the Department of Public Communication of the University of Navarra, Spain. Kees Brants is director of the MA programme in European Communication Studies and senior fellow at the Amsterdam School of Communnications Research, both at the University of Amsterdam.

Arnold S. de Beer is emeritus professor in the Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Hedwig de Smaele is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders (Belgium) and lecturer in Politics and Mass Media at Ghent University, Department of Communication. Roberto Espíndola is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Acting Director of the Centre for European Studies, where he also directs the Marie Curie Training Site on Europeanisation. Natalya Krasnoboka is a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Ming-Ying Lee is a Ph.D candidate in Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.

Ian McAllister is a professor of political science in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

Ellen Mickiewicz is professor of political science and director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism at Duke University.

Sarah Oates is a lecturer in politics at the University of Glasgow and has written extensively on the Russian mass media and elections.

Gary Rawnsley is Senior Lecturer in Politics, and Director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, University of Nottingham.

Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck is Professor of Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Katrin Voltmer is Senior Lecturer of Political Communication at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Silvio Waisbord is Senior Program Officer at the Aacdemy for Educational Development, Washington D.C.

Herman Wasserman, D.Litt. is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism of the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and deputy editor of Ecquid Novi - SA Journal for Journalism Research.

Stephen White is Professor of International Politics and a member of the School of Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Ricardo Zugasti lectures in Spanish Political System at the School of Public Communication, University of Navarra, Spain.