Åsa Bengtsson PhD is professor in political science at Mid Sweden University and
currently works as Academy Research Fellow at the Department of Political
Science, Åbo Akademi University. She is a member of the Finnish National
Election Studies steering group and collaborates on several comparative research
projects, including the Comparative Candidate Study and The True European Voter.
Her research focuses on political opinion and behaviour with a specific interest
in attitudes towards political processes, preferential voting patterns, roles of
representation, economic voting and minority politics. Bengtsson has published
books, edited volumes and articles in, among others, European Journal of
Political Research, West European Politics, Journal of
Elections, Public Opinion and Parties and Scandinavian Political
Studies.
Kasper M. Hansen PhD is professor in political science with special
responsibilities in applied quantitative methodology at the University of
Copenhagen's Department of Political Science. His research focuses on applied
research in democracy, political behaviour (particularly voting behavior) and
public opinion. Hansen has published a number of articles in The European
Journal of Political Research, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties,
Public Choice, Electoral Studies, International Journal of Public Opinion
Research, Scandinavian Political Studies, Public Administration, Politica,
Økonomi & Politik, and Metode & Data. Hansen is part of the team
conducting the Danish National Election Study. At present, he is principally
involved in a large voter turnout research project and in an electoral campaign
project. See www.kaspermhansen.eu
Ólafur Þ Harõarson PhD is professor of Political Science at the Faculty of
Political Science, University of Iceland. His research focus is on electoral
behaviour, public opinion, and democracy. He has been the principal investigator
of the Icelandic election study from its beginning in 1983, and takes part in
international projects, including the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
(CSES), and the True European Voter. Harõarson has published books, book
chapters and journal articles, e.g. in Electoral Studies and European Journal
of Political Research. He sits on the Executive Committee of the ECPR.
Hanne Marthe Narud PhD (died July 2012) was professor of political science at
the University of Oslo. Her main research focus was on coalition behaviour,
political recruiting, and voting behaviour. She published articles in
Comparative Sociology, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral
Studies, West European Politics, Scandinavian Political Studies, Party Politics,
Journal of Legislative Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics and Acta
Politica, in addition to numerous contributions to books in Norwegian and
English. She also wrote a book with Henry Valen on political representation in a
multiparty system. She was frequently used as commentator on Norwegian politics
in the news media.
Henrik Oscarsson PhD is professor in electoral studies at the University of
Gothenburg. His research focus is on representative democracy, opinion
formation, voting behaviour and political methodology. Oscarsson is research
director of the SOM Institute at UoG and head of the Swedish National Election
Studies programme (SNES). He has published numerous monographs, edited volumes,
book chapters and articles (in Scandinavian Political Studies and Party
Politics) on democracy, public opinion, political behaviour and social
science methodology.
