by Matthew Gibbons Political Science and International Relations Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandMatthew Gibbons has been working on research projects on voting and non-voting and on social media at Victoria University of Wellington. He has also taught two undergraduate courses at Victoria. Matthew’s PhD was on election manifestos and government expenditure, and was made possible by a University of Waikato postgraduate scholarship.

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by Christopher A. CooperUniversity of Ottawa, School of Political Studies, Ottawa, CanadaChristopher A. Cooper is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of At the Pleasure of the Crown: The Politics of Bureaucratic Appointments (UBC Press). Professor Cooper’s research examines the tenets of the Westminster administrative tradition—permanency, impartiality, merit recruitment—and how these have been challenged in the face of adjacent trends such as the advent of social media and the centralization of prime ministerial power. His research has been published in various journals including most recently, the International Journal of Public Leadership and the International Journal of Public Sector Management.

by Ching-Hsing WangDepartment of Political Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, TaiwanChing-Hsing Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. His research interests include research methods, political behaviour, political psychology, public opinion, and Asian politics. He has published in such scholarly journals as Democratization, Electoral Studies, Globalization and Health, International Political Science Review, Party Politics, Social Science Quarterly, The Social Science Journal, and other journals.

by Leo TamamizuPolitical Science Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USLeo Tamamizu is PhD candidate at the Political Science programme, the Graduate Center, City University of New York and a researcher at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). His research interests are armed conflicts, military alliances and social science methods including mixed-method approach.

by Daniel HoGovernment Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UKDaniel Ho is a graduate of Singapore Management University with a double degree in Business Administration (Finance Major) and Social Science (Political Science). He has a cumulative GPA of 3.99 and was the recipient of the Kwek Hong Png Valedictorian Award which is presented to the top graduating undergraduate of the University. During his internship with the Ministry of Trade and Industry, he pursued a research project that examined the disparity in the correlation between the profitability of the firm and wages across sectors in Singapore. He also interned with the Adam Smith Centre to further hone his academic research skills and worked on various projects, including writing course materials for a Business, Government and Society undergraduate course, working on the draft chapters of a Springer textbook on development and gathering cross-sectional data on the entrepreneurial desire in OECD for a working paper (What Can Industrial Policy Do? Evidence from Singapore) which was subsequently published in the Review of Austrian Economics. He wrote his senior thesis on “Asian vs Liberal Democracy: identifying the locus of conflict in the Asian Values Debate”.

by Udi SommerEviatar MataniaNir Hassida School of Political Science, Government and International Relations, Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, and the Center for the Study of the United States with the Fulbright Program, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israelb School of Political Science, Government and International Relations, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelUdi Sommer is John Jay Fall Research Fellow at the City University of New York and Professor at the School of Political Science, Government and International Relations at Tel Aviv University.Eviatar Matania is Professor at the School of Political Science, Government and International Relations at Tel Aviv University and Head of the Masters Program in Cyber and Government.Nir Hassid is a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Political Science, Government and International Relations at Tel Aviv University.

by Luna L. ZhaoSchool of Social Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New ZealandLuna L. Zhao is a PhD candidate in Politics and IR at the University of Auckland. Her doctoral thesis encompasses an interdisciplinary examination of ethnic Chinese New Zealand voters, employing a blend of qualitative and quantitative analysis. Luna's research interests primarily revolve around New Zealand politics, ethnic minority voters, Asian studies, and the dynamics of elections in democratic systems. She has recently published works on Taiwan politics and the 2020 New Zealand General Election.

by Brian C.H. FongCollege of Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, TaiwanBrian C. H. Fong is Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. His research focuses on great power competition, democratisation, and identity politics, producing more than 80 journal articles, book chapters, authored books, and so forth. He is also the lead editor of several international book volumes, including Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition and China’s Influence and the Center-periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific.

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