Ireneusz P. Karolewski is Professor of Political Theory and Democracy Research at Leipzig University.

Aleksandra Sojka is a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences at the University Carlos III in Madrid.

Soetkin Verhaegen is Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, and part of the Legitimacy in Global Governance research program.