Editors Emmanuelle Avril is professor of contemporary British politics and society at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. She is a member of the Centre for Research on the English-Speaking World (CREW, EA 4399) and the director of the Centre de Recherches en Civilisation Britannique (CREC), a research group devoted to the study of contemporary political and social issues in Britain. Her specialist subject and the topic of her doctorate, articles, and books is organizational change and mobilization within the British Labour Party, which has come to include a study of the impact of new technologies on party membership and activism. Other aspects of her research include ideology, the rhetoric of political images, and creativity in political research. Her publications include Comprendre la Grande-Bretagne de Tony Blair: bilan d’une alternance politique (2001); Du Labour au New Labour de Tony Blair. Le changement vu de l’intérieur (2007); Les élections législatives britanniques de 2010 (2011). Christine Zumello is professor of contemporary American politics and society at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. Her research focuses on the interactions between politics and finance in the United States and the ways they inform – or deform – democracy and representation. This includes research on consumer finance, financial literacy, virtual spaces of representation/participation, new technologies, and the governance of organizations. She has authored and co-edited several books and scholarly articles, L’Intermediation en question. Finance et Politique aux Etats-Unis (2011); Egalité-Inégalité(s) dans les Amériques (2008); Voter dans les Amériques (2005); and L’entrepreneur et la dynamique anglo-saxonne (Economica, 2003). She has also completed archival historical research on early credit card history in the United States, published in the Business History Review (2011).
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Géraldine Castel is a senior lecturer at the University of Grenoble 3. Her research interests include the history of the British political parties, political communication, and use of ICTs in the political field. After focusing on such practices by the British Conservatives in recent years, she is now working on a parallel project involving the French UMP during their 2012 presidential campaign. She has published several scholarly articles, more particularly in Observatoire de la Société Britannique (2010) and in La Revue LISA/LISA e-journal (2012). Toby Coop is director of New Technology with NLM Development. Trained formally at Xerox in business leadership skills, coaching, mentoring, and high performance teamwork, he has had 12 years of sales, marketing, supply chain, and management experience with leading US and UK high-tech organizations and software houses. Since 2001 he has worked as an independent consultant specializing in virtual worlds, executive coaching, and organizational innovation. Toby Coop has also taught at France’s top business school HEC (at undergraduate and MBA level) and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University. He has won awards for work with Shell in building virtual worlds for Gamechanger/innovation teams and for developing Virtual Leadership Training using multiplayer online games. He has undertaken extensive research and run executive-level workshops on applied social technologies and serious gaming for Computer Science Corporation and Philips Design. Cécile Doustaly is a senior lecturer in British Studies and member of the CICC (Civilisations et identités culturelles comparées) at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, Greater Paris. Her multidisciplinary research now centres on cultural policies in Britain since the 1990s from a comparative perspective. In 2011, she jointly organized with Warwick University and the Rodin Museum an international conference, The Arts in Times of Crisis, from which a selection of papers is being edited. In 2012, she obtained a fellowship from the French Embassy in London and the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies (Warwick) to carry out research on French and British cultural policy models. She was awarded the 2013 France-Stanford grant with the Anthropology Department, Stanford University, for the collaborative project ‘The Conservation of Historic Cities and Sustainable Development’, which will entail the organization of two conferences in 2013.
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Régine Hollander is an associate professor at Université PanthéonAssas, Paris 2. She teaches financial English in a master’s program in banking and finance. She is a member of CERVEPAS (a research centre on the economies of English-speaking countries) at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in – Paris, and her research is focused on finance, SMEs, and ethnic entrepreneurship in the United States. Jennifer Lees-Marshment is based in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland. She is a leading researcher in political marketing with interests in democracy and political leadership as well. Her books include Political Marketing and British Political Parties (2nd edition, 2008), Political Marketing: Principles and Applications (2009), Global Political Marketing (2010), The Political Marketing Game (2011), and The Routledge Handbook of Political Marketing (2012). Dr Lees-Marshment is currently working on a new project on integrating public input into political leadership. See www.lees-marshment.org for details. Vincent Michelot is professor of American Politics at Sciences Po Lyon. His research and teaching focus primarily on American institutions and elections. A frequent lecturer at the University of Virginia, he is the author of two essays on the US presidency and of a series of articles on topics ranging from inter-branch dialogue to federalism and the financing of elections. He is currently working on a history of the right to vote from the Warren Court’s formulation of the ‘one person, one vote’ principle to the 2008 election of Barack Obama.
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Nathalie Duclos is a senior lecturer in Scottish and British politics at the University of Toulouse, France. She is the author of La dévolution des pouvoirs à l’Ecosse et au pays de Galles, 1966–1999 (2007). She has also published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on Scottish politics, dealing with topics such as devolution, Scottish nationalism, Scottish party politics, the Scottish parliamentary model, a political representation of women.
James Morone is professor of Political Science at Brown University. He has been on the faculty of Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Bremen (in Germany). His first book, The Democratic Wish, was named a ‘notable book of 1991’ by the New York Times and won the Political Science Association’s Kammerer Award. His Hellfire Nation: the Politics of Sin in American History was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Professor Morone has been president of the New England Political
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Susan E. Scarrow is professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Houston, Texas, USA. She is a comparativist whose teaching and research focus primarily on European parliamentary democracies. Her current research interests include the organizational development of political parties, comparative political finance, and the spread of direct democracy. She is the author of Perspectives on Political Parties: Classic Readings (2002) and Parties and their Members (1996), and is co-editor (along with Bruce Cain and Russell Dalton) of Democracy Transformed? (2003). Her articles have also appeared in such journals as Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, and The European Journal of Political Research. She serves on the editorial boards of Party Politics and West European Politics. Roseline Théron is a senior lecturer at the University of Lorraine. She holds a PhD in British cultural studies and has work experience in public transport, marketing management, tourism, and secondary and higher education. Her research interests include London, urban and regional planning policies in Britain, and business history. Her publications include scholarly articles published in La Revue des Deux Mondes (2011); L’Observatoire de la Société Britannique (2010); and Un service public dans la tourmente: les mutations de la culture d’entreprise au sein de London Transport/Transport for London, 1981–2006 (2008). Jean-Baptiste Velut is assistant professor in American Studies at MarneLa-Vallée University. His dissertation was titled ‘Free or Fair Trade? The Battle for the Rules of American Trade Policy from NAFTA to CAFTA’ (2009). He has published several articles on US foreign economic policy and globalization debates in the United States. His current research focuses on contemporary progressive movements (antiglobalization, Occupy Wall Street, consumer activism, etc.).
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Science Association and the Politics and History section of the Political Science Association. He writes regularly for The London Review of Books, The American Prospect Magazine, and The New York Times.
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