MARCO BÜNTE Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Asian Studies, German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, Germany. PAUL W. CHAMBERS Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science, University of Heidelberg, Germany and faculty member of Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand YOUNGHO CHO Doctoral student at the Department of Political Science in the University of Missouri, USA AUREL CROISSANT Director of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg, Germany ALLEN HICKEN Associate Professor at Michigan University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies, UC San Diego, USA PARUEDEE NGUITRAGOOL Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg, Germany CHONG-MIN PARK teaches political science at Korea University Seoul. BENJAMIN REILLY Director of the Centre for Democratic Institutions, Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. ROLAND RICH Executive Head of the United Nations Democracy Fund. JÜRGEN RÜLAND Holds a chair in Political Science at the University of Freiburg, Germany DOH CHULL SHIN Chair Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, USA MARK R. THOMPSON Professor of Political Science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany CHRISTOPH TRINN Teaches Comparative Politics and Conflict Studies at the Institute of PoliticalScience, University of Heidelberg, Germany ANDREAS UFEN Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany. PHILIP VÖLKEL Teaches Comparative Politics and Asian Politics at the Institute of Political Science, University of Heidelberg, Germany