Biographical note

RAJEEV BHARGAVA Senior Fellow and Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India MICHAEL BURGESS Professor of Federal Studies and Director of the Centre for Federal Studies, University of Kent in Canterbury, UK JOHN DINAN Professor of Political Science, Wake Forest University, USA HUGUES DUMONT Professor of Constitutional Law, European Law and Legal Theory, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels JAN ERK Associate Professor/Reader in Comparative Politics, University of Leiden, the Netherlands ALAIN-G. GAGNON Professor in the Department of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Quebec and Canadian Studies, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. MONTSERRAT GUIBERNAU Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor, Centre for Global Governance at the London School of Economics and the Department of Sociology of the University of Cambridge, UK RAFFAELE IACOVINO Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada MICHAEL KEATING Professor of Politics, University of Aberdeen, UK JOHN MCGARRY Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University, Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Trudeau Fellow (2011-14) FERRAN REQUEJO Professor of Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain PHILIP RESNICK Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Canada MICHELSEYMOUR Professor of Philosophy, University of Montreal, Canada DAVE SINARDET Professor of Political and Communication Science, Free University of Brussels and Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders, University of Antwerp, Belgium