2021 JOP Editorial Team

The Southern Political Science Association and the Journal of Politics are proud to introduce our new Editorial Team, whose term will officially begin January, 1st, 2021.

Vera Troeger (University of Hamburg, Germany – vera.eva.troeger@uni-hamburg.de):

Vera Troeger is professor of Comparative Political Science at the University of Hamburg. Between 2007 and 2011 she was Director of the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis. Currently she serves as president of the European Political Science Association. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the flagship journal of the EPSA – Political Science Research and Methods, and she will take over as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Politics, one of the top 3 journals in Political Science, in 2020. Her research interests lie at the intersection between international and comparative political economy, labour economics, as well as applied quantitative data analysis and political methodology.

Cameron Thies (Arizona State University, US – CAMERON.THIES@asu.edu):

Cameron G. Thies is Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University.  He has a broad research agenda encompassing foreign policy analysis, conflict processes, and international political economy. He has published in journal outlets such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the European Journal of International Relations, and Comparative Political Studies, among others. He is the former founding co-Editor-in-Chief of Political Science Research and Methods, and Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy Analysis.  He recently served as President of the International Studies Association (2019-20).

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2188752.

Heike Klüver (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany – heike.kluever@hu-berlin.de):

Heike Klüver is Full Professor and Chair of Comparative Political Behavior at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She previously held positions at the University of Hamburg, at the University of Bamberg and at the University of Konstanz. She worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford and received her PhD from the University of Mannheim. Her research focuses on Comparative Political Behaviour, in particular on Political Parties, Coalition Governments and Interest groups. She has published her work amongst others in the American Journal of Political Sciene, in the Journal of Politics, in Comparative Political Studies and at Oxford University Press. Please find further information on her website (www.heike-kluever.com).

Miki Kitilson (Arizona State University, US – Miki.Kittilson@asu.edu)

Miki Caul Kittilson is a Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies and Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation at Arizona State University. Her BA is from Arizona State University, and PhD is from the University of California Irvine. Kittilson’s research examines democratic inclusion from a comparative perspective, often focusing on women’s representation in government and gender differences in political engagement. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, USAID and the AAUW. Kittilson’s most recent book Seeing Women, Strengthening Democracy: How Women in Politics Foster Connected Citizens is co-authored by Magda Hinojosa (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her co-authored work on women on apex courts around the world is detailed at www.womenonhighcourts.com.

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/306759.

Indridi H. Indridason (University of California – Riverside, US – indridi.indridason@politicaldata.org)

Indriði H. Indriðason is Professor of Political Science at the University of California – Riverside.  He received his Ph.D. from University of Rochester in 2001.  Prior to joining UC Riverside, he spent time at Michigan State University, University of Montreal, University of Oxford, and chaired the Department of Political Science at University of Iceland. In his research he uses formal and quantitative methods  and his substantive interests include the politics of government coalitions; the formation of government coalitions, how coalitions are maintained, and how policy disagreements between coalition partners are settled, for example, through the use of coalition agreements and junior ministers.   Other research focuses on various aspects electoral politics, e.g., the use of negative advertisements and campaign sentiment in multiparty elections, primary elections, and coalitional voting.  His research has appeared, e.g., in American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research and Methods, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Patrick J. Egan (New York University, US – patrick.egan@nyu.edu):

Patrick J. Egan, Associate Professor of Politics and Public Policy at NYU, specializes in U.S. political attitudes and behavior, and their consequences for public policy, partisanship and identity. He is author of Partisan Priorities: How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics, and his peer-reviewed research has appeared in journals such as Nature, the American Political Science Review, and the American Journal of Political Science. Egan holds a Ph.D. in political science from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton. Before entering academia, he served as an Assistant Deputy Mayor of Policy and Planning in the office of Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell. He covers presidential elections and primaries for NBC News as an elections analyst with the network’s Exit Poll Desk team.

Sharece Thrower (Vanderbilt University, US – sharece.d.thrower@vanderbilt.edu)

Sharece Thrower is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on how both Congress and the courts constrain the president’s use of various policy instruments such as executive orders, signing statements, rulemaking, and regulatory review. She is also looking into how existing and new federal separation of power theories translate to state-level policymaking by examining gubernatorial executive orders. Her scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. Prior to joining Vanderbilt University, she served on faculty in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh from 2013 to 2016. She received her B.A. from The Ohio State University in 2008 and her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2013. She serves as a co-editor in the field of American Politics, American Institutions, with a particular focus on judicial politics.

Emanuela Ceva (Université de Genève, Switzerland – Emanuela.Ceva@unige.ch)

Emanuela Ceva is a Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She specializes in political theory and serves as the editor for that field for the Journal of Politics. Her research interests include theories of justice and value conflict, democracy, political corruption, and the treatment of minorities in a democracy. Her articles have appeared in journals such as The Journal of Political Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, the European Journal of Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice, and The Journal of Social Philosophy. She is the author of Interactive Justice (Routledge 2016) and co-author of Is Whistleblowing a Duty? (Polity 2018). Her co-authored book The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions is forthcoming with Oxford University Press (with Maria Paola Ferretti). She received her M.A. in political philosophy from The University of York and her PhD in political theory from The University of Manchester. Prior to her arrival in Geneva, she worked for the University of Pavia in Italy and held visiting positions around the world in Belgium, Canada, the US, Jordan, Germany and the United Kingdom.