Patrick Emmenegger is Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy at the University of St. Gallen. His research focuses on the political economy of welfare and skills, labour market regulation, industrial relations, democratization, state building, the politics of taxation, and institutional theory. Flavia Fossati is Assistant Professor for Inequality and Integration Studies at the University of Lausanne and at the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research (CIR-LIVES). Her research interests include social and immigration policies, deservingness and welfare state chauvinism, and survey experiments. Silja Häusermann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Zurich. She studies welfare state politics and party system change in advanced capitalist democracies. She directs the ERC-project 'welfarepriorities' and is the co-director of the UZH University Research Priority Programme 'Equality of Opportunity'. Yannis Papadopoulos is Professor of Swiss Politics and Public Policy at the Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne and a member of the Laboratory for Analysis and Public Policy. His research concentrates on recent developments in Swiss policy-making and on the broader implications of governance transformations for accountability and democracy. Pascal Sciarini is Professor of Swiss and Comparative politics and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Geneva. His main research topics are decision-making processes, direct democracy, Europeanization, and electoral behaviour. Adrian Vatter is Full Professor of Political Science (Swiss Politics) at the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern. His research explores Swiss politics, federalism, direct democracy, consensus democracy, sub-national politics, and comparative public policy.