by Austin Horng-En Wang Darrell Carter a Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USAb Department of Political Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USAAustin Horng-En Wang is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received his doctoral degree in political science from Duke University in 2018, his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009, and master’s degree in Public Administration in 2012 from National Taiwan University. His research and teaching interests focus on voting behavior, East Asia, and political psychology. His research examines the relationship between temporal discounting and political participation through survey and experiments in the U.S., Taiwan, and Ukraine. His ongoing and sponsored research projects explore the long-term effect of political repression and attitude toward war in East Asia. His research articles had published in several journals such as Political Research Quarterly, Electoral Studies, Asian Survey, and Social Science Research. He also has written book chapters about voting advice application and party politics in Taiwan. His comments on Asian politics had appeared in Washington Post, The National Interest, and Huffington Post, among others.Darrell Carter is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. He received his doctoral degree in political science from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 2024, his master’s degree in Political Science from Iowa State in 2018, and his bachelor’s degree in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles, in 2010. His research interests include East Asian politics, international organisations, authoritarianism, and international political economy. His research includes Chinese influence on Taiwan politics, authoritarianism and institutionalization in regional international organisations, and international organisation succession. He examines the effect of institutional design on the operation, failure, and replacement of international organisations.

by Chanchal Kumar Sharma a Professor of Political Science, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, Indiab German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg, GermanyChanchal Kumar Sharma is Professor of Political Science at Central University of Haryana, India, a visiting India Fellow at the Institute of Asian Studies, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, and a Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, U.K. He sits on the editorial board of Regional and Federal Studies (Routledge, U.K.). His research focuses on the political economy of federalism, party system, economic reforms, paradiplomacy and crisis/conflict management in multi-level systems. Recent articles have appeared in Publius: the Journal of Federalism, Public Administration, Territory, Politics, Governance, the International Political Science Review, Contemporary Soth Asia, India Review, Indian Politics and Society. His research has been funded by the GIGA (Hamburg), the Leverhulme Trust, U.K., and ICSSR (India).

by Claire Timperley Claire Fitzpatrick Eva Neely a Political Science and International Relations, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealandb Communications, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australiac School of Health, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandClaire Timperley is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her teaching and research interests include the politics of Aotearoa New Zealand, gender politics, feminist political theory and critical pedagogy. She has co-edited the major textbook on Aotearoa New Zealand politics: Government and Politics in Aotearoa New Zealand (Oxford University Press 2021) and co-authored the Historical Dictionary of New Zealand (Rowman & Littlefield 2024).Claire Fitzpatrick is a Communications Lecturer at Edith Cowan University. She specialises in Political Communications and has extensive experience deploying mixed methods to understand how social media networks enable and constrain political behaviour, with a particular emphasis on how deliberative democracy enables the pursuit of individual, activist and regulatory goals. Her reflexive approach to teaching draws on her own interdisciplinary research at the intersections of politics and media, gender and race, and social movements in civil society.Eva Neely is a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion at Victoria University. Her research sits at the intersection of motherhood, embodiment, place and health. She is interested in developing knowledge through innovative (post)qualitative methodologies and theorising on more-than human mother-baby-assemblages, seeking approaches to health promotion rooted in social and reproductive justice.

by Sam Crawley Ralph Chapman a Political Science and International Relations Programme, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealandb School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandSam Crawley is a political science researcher and teaching fellow at Te Herenga Waka / Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in the politics of climate change. He recently completed a Whiting a Postdoctoral Fellowship comparing different aspects of climate opinion in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia. Sam also works on broader aspects of public opinion, political behaviour, comparative and New Zealand politics.Ralph Chapman is an environmental economist with particular interests in climate policy across transport, energy, housing and cities. He helped negotiate the 1997 Kyoto Protocol for New Zealand. He has been director of environmental studies at Te Herenga Waka VUW, and remains an adjunct professor. He has also shared receiving the Rutherford medal and the PM’s science prize.

by Suze Wilson School of Management, Massey University,Te Kunenga Ki Purehuroa, Aotearoa/New ZealandSuze Wilson is a leadership scholar whose work examines issues of power, identity, gender, ethics, discourse, practice/s, context, character, communication and crisis as they pertain to leadership and its development, as well as the history of leadership thought, informed principally by Foucauldian discourse analysis and historiographic methods of inquiry

by Peter Skilling Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New ZealandPeter Skilling is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at Auckland University of Technology. His current research encompasses economic inequality, political discourse and the emotional dimension of sustainability work.

by Willy Jou School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, JapanWilly Jou is an associate professor of political science at Waseda University. His current research focuses on public opinion in east and southeast Asian countries. His articles have been published in Asian Survey, British Journal of Political Science, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, European Journal of Political Science, International Political Science Review, and Parliamentary Affairs, among other journals.

by Yong Jae Kim Political Science and International Studies, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI, USAYong Jae Kim is an associate professor of political science and international studies as well as diplomacy and global security program at Hawaii Pacific University. His research interests are party politics, political behavior, political institutions, East Asian politics, research methods, and national security.

by Ae sil Woo Political Science, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, USAAe sil Woo studies decision-making institutions in autocracies, identifying how autocrats manage institutional inclusion and procedural exclusion of the opposition. She has been teaching her findings in an undergraduate course, How to Be an Autocrat.

by Catherine Bolzendahl Hilde Coffe a School of Public Policy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USAb Department of Political, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath, Bath, UKCatherine Bolzendahl is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Director of the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. Her research is focused on support for gender equality in political and social realms.Hilde Coffé is Professor in Politics at the University of Bath. Her main research interests include public opinion, political behaviour and gender and politics.