GABRIELE ABELS Professor of Comparative Politics and European Integration at the Department of Political Science at the University of Tübingen, Germany SARA CLAVERO Senior Research Fellow at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, UK YVONNE GALLIGAN Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen's University Belfast, UK AGNÈS HUBERT Official of the European Commission. ANNICA KRONSELL Associate Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden BIRGIT LOCHER Professor of International Relations and Gender Studies at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tübingen, Germany JOYCE MARIE MUSHABEN Professor of Comparative Politics and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA ELISABETH PRÜGL Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland MARIA STRATIGAKI Assistant Professor and Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the Department of Social Policy, Panteion University, Greece ANNA VAN DER VLEUTEN Associate Professor of European Integration at the Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands ALISON E. WOODWARD Research Professor at the Institute of European Studies and co-director of the Center for Gender Studies and Diversity Research at the Free University of Brussels (VUB, Belgium)