Mona Lena Krook is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St Louis, USA. She is author of Quotas for Women in Politics (2009) and co-editor of Women, Gender, and Politics (2010).
Fiona Mackay is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her most recent book is Women, Politics and Constitutional Change (co-authored 2007). She and Mona Lena Krook are founders and co-directors of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network (www.femfiin.com).
