Chair
Patrick Dumont, Australian National University
patrick.dumont@anu.edu.au
Australian National University
School of Politics and International Relations
Copland Building #24
Acton, ACT 2601
Australia
Vice-Chair
Juan Rodriguez-Teruel, Universitat de València
jrteruel@uv.es
Universitat de València
Constitutional Law & Political Science
Sta Maria del Cami 12
La Garriga, Barcelona 08530
Spain
Secretary
Cindy Steenekamp, Stellenbosch University
cindylee@sun.ac.za
Stellenbosch University
Arts and Social Sciences Building, room 647
Cnr Merriman and Ryneveld Street
Stellenbosch 7600
South Africa
Communication officer
Régis Dandoy, Ghent University
regis.dandoy@uclouvain.be
Ghent University
Center for Local Politics
Ghent
Belgium
Officers
Jérôme Heurtaux, IRMC (Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain), Tunisia
Julien Navarro, Université Catholique de Lille, France
Peter Tunkis, Ohio State University, USA
Lars Vogel, University of Jena, Germany
Marion Reiser, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, marion.reiser@uni-jena.de
Simon Scholz, University of Kassel, Germany, simon.scholz@uni-kassel.de
Ilkka Ruostetsaari, University of Tampere, Finland, Ilkka.Ruostetsaari@uta.fi
Advisory Board Members
Heinrich Best, University of Jena, Germany
Maurizio Cotta, University of Siena, Italy
Ursula Hoffmann-Lange, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
Jean-Pascal Daloz, University of Strasbourg, France
Oxana Gaman-Golutvina, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia
John Higley, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jan Pakulski, University of Tasmania, Australia
Background
Recognised as research committee in 1972.
Objectives
Facilitates the research plans and scholarly communication of political scientists whose studies focus on the recruitment and performance of elites in political life; it seeks to undertake the gathering and interpretation of empirical evidence through a variety of research strategies and conceptual approaches. The committee gives priority to comparative analysis.
