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Wim van Oorschot is Professor of Social Policy at the Department of Sociology of Leuven University (BE). His research and teaching regard the sociological and cultural analysis of welfare states and social policy. He is co-founder and honorary president of ESPAnet, the Network for European Social Policy Analysis, initiator and director of EDAC, the European Data Centre for Work and Welfare, and Honorary Professor at the Centre for Comparative Welfare Research CCWS of Aalborg University, Denmark. Wim van Oorschot published on poverty, local social policy, welfare state legitimacy, solidarity and equity in social protection, social capital and informal solidarity in European welfare states, the history of social security, disability benefits, activation of unemployed people and on occupational welfare arrangements. At present his research focuses on the relationships between culture and welfare. His recent work is mostly based on national and international survey data (European Values Study, European Social Survey), and an important part is funded through external contracts. He has carried out studies commissioned by the European Commission, the national governments of The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and the UK, and various welfare institutes. As a social security expert he is a consultant for various organisations and institutions.

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Prof. Sona N. Golder promovierte im Jahr 2004 an der New York University. In ihren vergleichenden Studien nimmt sie die Interaktion zwischen politischen Eliten und dem institutionellem Reglement in den Blick und orientiert sich u.a. an der Frage, wie politische Institutionen Koalitionsverhandlungen und vergleichbare politische Aushandlungsprozesse beeinflussen. Ihre aktuellen Forschungsarbeiten fokussieren den Themenbereich des Vortrages, d.h. die Formierung und die Stabilitätsbedingungen der Regierungsbildung. Sie ist die Autorin von The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation (Ohio State University Press, 2006) und Mitautorin von Principles of Comparative Politics (CQ Press, 2nd Edition 2012, 1st Edition 2009). Ihre Aufsätze sind u.a. erschienen in American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies und Political Analysis.

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Philipp Henze ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter des Lehrstuhls für Mikroökonomik am Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Kiel. Er promoviert dort im Rahmen des Internationalen Promotionsprogrammes „Quantitative Economics“.