Welcoming our new PDY editors

We are very excited to announce new additions to our editorial team for the Political Data Yearbook and its online version, PDY:interactive. Incumbent editor Thomas Mustillo is joined by Raul Gomez, who takes over from Alistair Clark, and Michelangelo Vercesi, who replaces Maurits Meijers for a year, after which Maurits will return.

Raul Gomez
University of Liverpool

Raul Gomez (PhD EUI) is Senior Lecturer (associate professor) in Comparative Politics at the University of Liverpool. His research interests lie at the intersection between comparative political science and sociology, with a particular emphasis on electoral behaviour, political parties and public opinion.

His work has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Party Politics and West European Politics, among other outlets.

Michelangelo Vercesi
Leuphana University Lüneburg

Michelangelo Vercesi is Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Leuphana University Lüneburg and elected member of the executive board of the International Political Science Association's Committee on Political Sociology (IPSA RC06/ISA RC 18). Michelangelo's research focuses on comparative government, political elites and leadership, and party politics.

He is author, together with Ferdinand Müller-Rommel and Jan Berz, of 'Prime Ministers in Europe: Changing Career Experiences and Profiles' (Palgrave Macmillan).

A heartfelt thank you to our outgoing editors

Our editors play a key role not only in the success of their respective publications but in shaping the direction of the discipline through the research they help publish and wider organisational initiatives and activities they lend their time and expertise to.

We would therefore like to take the opportunity to extend a formal thank you to our outgoing editor Alistair Clark, and also to Maurits Meijers, who we look forward to working with again upon his return to the PDY. Their work has contributed tremendously to the quality, reputation, and advancement of the PDY, and we wish them the very best in their endeavours.