ERIC BÉLANGER Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada ANDRÉ BLAIS Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada BRUNO CAUTRÈS Director, Bangue des Données Sociopolitiques, University of Grenoble, France ERIC DUBOIS University of Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne, France ROBERT ELGIE Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland JOCELYN EVANS Lecturer in Politics, University of Salford, UK CHRISTINE FAUVELLE-AYMAR Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne, France THOMAS GSCHWEND University of Mannheim, Germany BRUNO JÉRÔME Department of Economics, University of Metz, France VERONIQUE JÉRÔME-SPEZIARI Department of Economics, University of Metz, France ANNIE LAURENT University of Lille, France DIRK LEUFFEN University of Mannheim, Germany NONNA MAYER Research Director, CEVIPOF, Paris Institute for Political Studies, France RICHARD NADEAU Professor of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada VINCENT TIBERJ CEVIPOF, France GUY WHITTEN Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas A & M University, USA