William Daniel is Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, where he serves as the Deputy Director for the REPRESENT Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy. William’s research is focused on how the individual backgrounds and identities of politicians and political elites inform their behaviors, particularly in European legislatures and political parties. More broadly, he is interested in how the process of European integration has changed national political systems in Europe.

He is currently leading a project on French legislative candidates and their behaviour of social media that is funded by the Digital Society Project. William's monograph, Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead through Brussels? was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. Additional research has appeared in JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, European Union Politics, Party Politics, Journal of European Integration, The Journal of European Public Policy, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Research & Politics, and Politics & Gender.

Andrea Aldrich is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Her research examines the representation of women, exploring the conditions that encourage women’s political leadership and the consequences of women in power within political parties and legislative institutions.

The cornerstone of her research is the multifaceted role political party institutions play in shaping representation focusing on how the internal organization of parties promote women to positions of political power and how party structures interact with system-level political institutions. She is an expert on party politics in both Western and Eastern Europe and the European Union. Her research has been published in Party Politics and Politics & Gender, among others.

Before arriving at Yale, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Houston with the Political Parties Database, a visiting scholar at Texas A&M University, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, and a former co-chair of the Parties Research Network for the Council for European Studies.