Patrice C. McMahon is Director of the University Honors Program and Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

Paula M. Pickering is Richard S. Perles Professor of Government and Faculty Affiliate of the Global Research Institute at William & Mary, USA.

Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.