David Farrell is Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. Professor Farrell has published extensively in the field of parties, electoral systems and parliamentary representation (particularly focused on the European Parliament), including most recently, The Australian Electoral System, published in 2006. He is currently updating his best-selling textbook, Electoral Systems: A Comparative Introduction.
Roger Scully is Reader in Political Science and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Dr Scully has published extensively on the politics of the European Parliament, and more generally on issues of political representation. He is author of Becoming Europeans? Attitudes, Behaviour and Socialisation in the European Parliament (OUP, 2005).